{"id":6680,"date":"2006-02-22T11:06:27","date_gmt":"2006-02-22T16:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=6680"},"modified":"2006-02-22T11:06:27","modified_gmt":"2006-02-22T16:06:27","slug":"libbys-unreliable-track-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/libbys-unreliable-track-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Libby&#8217;s unreliable track record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scooter Libby&#8217;s friends have gotten together to create <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scooterlibby.com\/\">ScooterLibby.com<\/a> in order to help the former White House aide pay for a legal defense now that he&#8217;s under indictment for perjury and obstruction of justice.<\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of opportunities for mockery here &#8212; indeed, some make it pretty easy. Right there on the top of the home page there&#8217;s a quote from Dick Cheney praising Libby as &#8220;one of the most capable and talented individuals I have ever known,&#8221; which seems like odd praise given the circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>But my favorite angle is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/02\/21\/AR2006022101850.html\">this one<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Libby Legal Defend Fund opened a Web site yesterday and reported its advisory committee has raised $2 million since it began in November. <strong>The names of donors are not being disclosed<\/strong>. (emphasis added)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If Scooter Libby could be trusted not to disclose confidential names, he wouldn&#8217;t be in this mess now. An undercover CIA agent? That name can be shared with reporters. Donors to his legal defense fund? Sorry, that&#8217;s confidential.<\/p>\n<p>The irony is rich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scooter Libby&#8217;s friends have gotten together to create ScooterLibby.com in order to help the former White House aide pay for a legal defense now that he&#8217;s under indictment for perjury and obstruction of justice. There are plenty of opportunities for mockery here &#8212; indeed, some make it pretty easy. Right there on the top of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}