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Yesterday our President decided to ignore the rule of law and defy a Republican appointed Judge's wishes by commuting the prison sentence of the convicted felon "Scooter" Libby. He was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice in a case involving our national security. Did he lie to hide the involvement of our Vice President and the President's former chief of staff Mr. Rove? Did the administration reveal the identity of a covert CIA operative, Valerie Plame? Did they do this in order to allow them to pursue the their goal of invading Iraq, deposing Saddam and securing their oil resources for American oil interests regardless of the fact that Iraq had NOTHING to do with 9/11? Is this an act of treason? We may never know thanks to Scooter and his willingness to lie and deceive federal investigators and the grand jury hearing the evidence. This much we know is fact; he lied and tried to hinder a federal investigation seeking the truth.

On his decision to commute Libby's prison sentence President George W. Bush says, "Others point out that a jury of citizens weighed all the evidence and listened to all the testimony and found Mr. Libby guilty of perjury and obstructing justice. They argue, correctly, that our entire system of justice relies on people telling the truth. And if a person does not tell the truth, particularly if he serves in government and holds the public trust, he must be held accountable."
The preceding statement was released by President George W. Bush on July 2, 2007 and published in the International Herald Tribune found on this website address
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/07/03/america/02libbytext.php

I think it is high time to do exactly that what our President has asked us to do... hold the liars in our Administration accountable. It can start with Congress and the Senate following through with the investigations involving warrant less wire tapping, illegal constitutional signing statements, dissemination of top secret documents and information to further political gains, manipulating intelligence and making false statements that lead us to war in Iraq,  and on and on and on. Now even though subpoenas have been issued by Senator Leahy and the Senate Judicial Panel the President has flaunted "executive privilege" in claiming he is not bound by those subpoenas.

We cannot allow this. Our Senators and Congressmen should be obligated to issue the contempt charges required to get this Administration to pony up the documents to allow the investigations to proceed. As I have been told personally that wire tapping should only bother those that have something to hide I would suggest that if this Administration should not be concerned about these LEGAL subpoenas if they have been acting within the law and have nothing to hide. Our President and those that work for him won't even agree to testify under oath in this regard!

The time has come to ask that our legally elected officials do their job and start holding Bush and company responsible for their actions. If they have committed crimes and misdemeanors, which seems apparent, they need to answer to congress and if convicted serve their sentence, ALL of it. Just as it was imperative for some to insist that Ms. Paris Hilton serve her sentence for driving on a suspended license regardless of harsh it may have appeared to others; Scooter needs to do his time for obstructing a federal investigation involving national security leaks that at theworst may have jepordized ALL of our lives and at the very least has ruined America's image in the rest of the world.

Please don't wait. Act today. Your representatives need to know that no person is above the law. Too many of you have just said, "No surprise" and are willing to let it slide AGAIN. Well, when is it time to start caring? When is it time to arrest the thugs that are destroying our way of life, disregarding the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocents, dismantling our government, violating the constitution and that are selling it all to us as justified based on lies and fear mongering? You need to tell our representatives to do their job and hold this Administration accountable NOW, not later.  To Howard Dean and the Democratic Party, it is clear that Democrats won in November because we, the people you represent, have had it with this war, this President, his administration and the Republican controlled Senate and House that have allowed this to go on for so long without any concern for the constitution. Mr. Dean, today you asked me for money because of President Bush's decision to let Scooter walk and I told you I will start sending you money when those Democrats elected in November and our incumbent Democrats start doing the job you were elected to do, including oversight of this administration. To my Democratic Representatives, you were elected to do something about it so start now or get out of the way and let real leaders step in to do the dirty work required to set our country back on track and provide legal government. NO President, Democrat or Republican, should have this much power!

Please feel free to send this to anyone you think still cares. The line starts here for those that refuse to take it anymore. To paraphrase our President, I say to those willing to support, defend, obstruct, lie or otherwise conspire to protect this Administration's illegal and immoral actions that disregard the constitution. You are either with us or against us!

Thanks,
Christopher L. Hintz
PCO Renton 11-0975