Who's Going to JUDGE SCOOTER??? (Find Out Here)

The Libby Judge
By Jeff Berman

Scooter is scheduled to be arraigned on Thursday. His case has been assigned to the Honorable Reggie Walton whom this President nominated to his seat on the DC District Court and who was appointed to Executive Branch and DC Superior Court posts by 41. Given these Bush connections, it's understandable that some have questioned Judge Walton's independence.

Let me do my part to lay those concerns to rest.

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Whatever the source, Scooter apologists can be sure he'll be treated as innocent until proven guilty. Those already prepared to convict him can be sure that Scooter won't get a pass thanks to any political connections. And those who are most concerned that the rule of law is upheld can take comfort that a fair and balanced judge -- in the real senses of those words -- is handling the case.

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http://www.tpmcafe.com/story/2005/11/1/14336/5172

All I can say is COOL! I hope this guy is for real.

He's very, very good, and it was Ronald Raygun who first appointed him to the bench, the DC Superior Court.

This guy is a straight-shooter. Libby's lawyers won't find anything to bitch about with Walton.

So don't count them chickens quite yet.

when sibel went before him in case against the fbi gaging her on orders from the AG...

so how do you think he will deal with classified info coming out of the plame case??

wanna bet he keeps media out????????????????

of course that stills the story doesn't it??

fly

Sorry. Didn't have my coffee this morning or some other lame excuse. I should've read your post more closely.

onenote

n/t

Tries to put in context all of the different cases with AIPAC, Sibel Edmonds, and Libby's case going to Walton.

http://www.antiwar.com/deliso/?articleid=7856

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November 1, 2005
The War Party Is Down, but for How Long?
by Christopher Deliso
balkanalysis.com

In a political landscape that had until recently seemed unremittingly bleak, in which a small and all-powerful group of politicians could rule at will with no regard for either the truth or the nation's best interests, prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's five-count indictment of top Cheney aid I. Lewis Libby fell like a sledgehammer on a once-unbreakable edifice dedicated to overweening arrogance and the acquisition of power at all costs.

As the Seattle Times said of Fitzgerald, "his five-count indictment Friday of Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff proves the system is working." And about time. In July 2004, commenting on her own stymied attempts to bring the truth to light, former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds decried "a broken system, a system abused and corrupted by the current executive, a system badly in need of repair."

Through his tenacity and single-minded determination to get to the bottom of the Plame leak and forged-documents affair, Patrick Fitzgerald seems to be doing the necessary repairs. We can only hope that the judge set for the next stage of the trial – Reggie Walton, the same judge who dismissed Sibel Edmonds' case on the grounds of allegedly protecting "certain diplomatic relations for national security" – doesn't reprise his performance there. Ms. Edmonds lamented that Walton obstructed her petition by "sitting on this case with no activity for almost two years."

The judge is a double-Bush appointee; he served as associate director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy in the President's Executive Office and senior White House adviser for crime under Bush 41, while he was appointed by 43 as a D.C. district judge in 2001. While Walton's track record shows that he "has no qualms ruling against government agencies," what will be his answer if the government resurrects the "state secrets" smokescreen used so effectively to silence Edmonds?

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