Ed Weaver Is A Nitwit 3.17.07

There was more bologna in this week's column than an Oscar Mayer processing plant.

Scooter Libby
Let's talk about the Scooter Libby trial again. Mr. Weaver just can't understand that a crime must have been committed or a jury wouldn't have found him guilty. That's the way it works in America. I didn't hear right-wing pundits defending President Clinton. They caught him lying under oath because they couldn't get him on the infidelity. Same thing here. It makes me so angry that the Republicans have set such presidence since they took control of Congress in 1992 but now they are howling when the Dems are doing it. Sorry, Charlie, you should have thought about that before. Now you gotta lie in the bed you made. Sleep comfortably.

Part of his argument is that the verdict was somehow tainted by someone that shouldn't have been allowed on the jury. Speaking of jurist Denis Collins:

...he's a Beltway journalist and recent member of the Washington Post newsroom...Also, Collins is a friend and backyard barbecue neighbor of NBC's Tim Russert, one of the prosecution's chief witnesses.

If, indeed, this guy was a bad person on the jury for Libby, it was his attorney's responsibility to remove him. It's called voir dire. Look it up.

Ed Weaver keeps carping on the fact that Ms. Wilson wasn't covert:

It doesn't mean she was at that time covered by the Intelligence Identities Protection Act.

Honestly, I don't have time to look this up but I'll take the word of the Director General of the CIA since he's probably a lot more up to speed on such matters than I am. And in case you think his statements may be partisan, he was appointed by none other than the current President Bush.

During House hearings, it was revealed that CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden recently told Reps. Waxman and Silvestre Reyes that there was no doubt Victoria Plame Wilson was covert. [Emphasis mine.] Gen. Hayden expressed clearly and directly, “Ms. Wilson was covert.” Wilson was asked to respond to the specific claim, made by Victoria Toensing and others, that she had lost her covert status because she “had not been stationed abroad within five years.” They asked, “During the past five years, Ms. Plame, from today, did you conduct secret missions overseas?” She answered, “Yes I did, congressman.” Period.

Ed Weaver needs to listen to testimony given under oath instead of getting his so-called facts from right-wing talk radio and Fox News. News Flash: Rush Limbaugh is an idiot.

Alberto Gonzales
Next topic is the whole Alberto Gonzales mess. The problem here is that this guy has an allegiance problem. He's supposed to represent the country, not stay in bed feeding grapes to the Bush/Cheney cabal.

Honestly, I don't like the whole notion of political appointees in such important positions as U.S. attorneys no matter who does it. I don't so much care that Bush fired them, or that Clinton, Bush 1, and Reagan did, too. I think the whole thing is wrong. We need the most qualified people in this positions, not the most politically aligned.

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Ed Weaver's column appears every Saturday in The Record newspaper in Troy, NY. I'd say he's a right-wing conservative, but all indications are that he's even whackier than that. His views are so skewed, and based in a reality that I don't even recognize, that I think he sees the world through fun house mirrors, only it isn't funny. He's proof of the theory that hindsight is 20/20, only his vision is 20/100...20 for those things that support his views, 100 for those that don't.

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