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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-17-08 05:00 PM
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If you or I had done what the White House did we would be in Jail
If you or I had done what the White House has done on the e-mail tape case we would be in jail or
out on bond. Think about it. Minutes before a Fed. Judge's court order to produce evidence in criminal
case were supposed to be produced or the White House would have been in violation of the law "they"
say, "Sorry, but it looks like we destroyed the evidence that your Honor, told us to produce months ago.

The judge should call in Fred Fielding, White House Consul, and tell him that a bailiff from his or her court
will be going to back to the White House with you to meet w/ the head archivist and or I.T. person and
find out where the e mail tapes are, take custody of the "destroyed tapes," and to learn about the data
back up systems of the White House. And if he fails to do this the White House will be in contempt of the
court and responsible parties will be subject to arrest by Federal Marshals.

What the White House did was all but tell the Federal Court to "stick it."

p.s. Remember both bush & Cheney hired criminal defense lawyers in 2003 about the outing of Plame.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080116/ap_on_go_pr_wh/white_house_e_mail

White House recycles backup e-mail tapes

By PETE YOST, Associated Press Writer Wed Jan 16, 6:29 PM ET

WASHINGTON - The White House has acknowledged recycling its backup computer tapes of e-mail before October 2003, raising the possibility that many electronic messages — including those pertaining to the CIA leak case — have been taped over and are gone forever.


The disclosure came minutes before midnight Tuesday under a court-ordered deadline that forced the White House to reveal information it has previously refused to provide.

Among the e-mails that could be lost are messages swapped by any White House officials involved in discussions about leaking the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-17-08 05:01 PM
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1. K & R
IMPEACH!
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The Straight Story Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-17-08 05:03 PM
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2. Keep your powder dry....
And don't rock the boat, else we won't win elections.

Let em do anything they want, cause calling them on it loses us votes and makes us look bad.

Etc and so on.

Fear and image seems to be what so much of this is about. Damned sad if you ask me.
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ronbo60 Donating Member (20 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-17-08 05:05 PM
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3. Impeach NOW
For God's sake, start it before the economy sinks further. The Dollar is down against the Euro, the British Pound, Gold...everything. We've all lost confidence in the USA. Unless we take legal action, illegal action will be the new standard.
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4nic8em Donating Member (382 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-17-08 05:57 PM
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4. Of course we wouldn't
be in jail...we'd be hung.
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-17-08 06:41 PM
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5. Yes, that's kinda what a dictatorship does. Declare itself
above the law either through word or actions. The opposition becomes either the law in stopping them or subservient to the dictatorship. There is no middle. One cannot be both against dictatorial rule and subservient to it.
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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-17-08 06:49 PM
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6. case in point
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-17-08 07:04 PM
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7. Yikes
:hide:

Bingo.
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-17-08 07:04 PM
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8. and the amazing thing is that people actually think they'll get
change in a system that refuses to hold a criminal executive accountable

Allowing Bush and Cheney to walk free is nothing more than maintaining the status quo...it's the same old same old...it's "politics as usual"...absolutely no change in that

Allowing them to go free is saying...Yeah, they violated the rights of people and engaged in criminal activity but you need to get over it.

If you respect the Constitution and respect "the people" and their rights, you don't allow a criminal executive to walk free.















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