Bush 'saddened' by Libby verdict

[many a good man]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6424319.stm

White House official Libby guilty

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Bush 'saddened'

After the verdict, and standing beside his client, who remains free until sentencing, Mr Wells said: "We have every confidence that ultimately Mr Libby will be vindicated.

"We believe he is totally innocent, and did not do anything wrong."

Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald said he was "gratified" by the verdict, but that it was "sad" that "we had a high-level official... who obstructed justice and lied under oath".

US President George W Bush "said that he respected the jury's verdict. He said he was saddened for Scooter Libby and his family," said White House spokeswoman Dana Perino.

But Senate majority leader Harry Reid said: "I welcome the jury's verdict. It's about time someone in the Bush administration has been held accountable for the campaign to manipulate intelligence and discredit war critics."

A member of the jury, Denis Collins, said although jurors decided Libby was guilty they also had a "tremendous amount of sympathy" for him, and thought he might just be "the fall guy".

"Where's Rove?" he asked, referring to Mr Bush's top aide.

[sandrakae]

1. Oh Please, Its called fucking guilt.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Beg to differ with you. Sociopaths don't register guilt.

He's "saddened" that the Libby verdict might lead up to the White House.

[LiberalinNC]

7. * doesn't know guilt let alone how to apolgize....

[MindPilot]

3. If the Libby verdict makes him sad, the coming purge of Bush loyalists

will make him downright depressed.

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. I'm saddened because it wasn't Bush and Cheney

[izzie]

5. Didn't Bush make one of his cocky statements about anyone who

did that? It is hard to recall as he seems to for ever be riding into the 'valley of death' as the great hero. Dragging all us fools with him at that.

[Cha]

6. That and a pardon will keep

libby from paying for his crime..right along with all the crooks in the two bushit regimes.

[many a good man]

8. It's sad that so many others must pay for his crimes

Maybe he just realized that nobody's gonna pardon HIM.

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

9. W thinks the Iraq war is just "a comma in history"....

then Scooter Libby and the Walter Reed scandal are the brackets for the comma.

[B Calm]

10. He's saddened over a damn TRAITOR