High Crimes and Misdemeanors

25Jul/106

Obama administration effectively signed off on Lockerbie bomber release

FREEDOM!

Well I'm shocked, SHOCKED!, that O! would lie to the public about the regime's role in this:

Correspondence obtained by The Sunday Times reveals the Obama administration considered compassionate release more palatable than locking up Abdel Baset al-Megrahi in a Libyan prison.

The intervention, which has angered US relatives of those who died in the attack, was made by Richard LeBaron, deputy head of the US embassy in London, a week before Megrahi was freed in August last year on grounds that he had terminal cancer.

The document, acquired by a well-placed US source, threatens to undermine US President Barack Obama's claim last week that all Americans were "surprised, disappointed and angry" to learn of Megrahi's release.

Scottish ministers viewed the level of US resistance to compassionate release as "half-hearted" and a sign it would be accepted.

The US has tried to keep the letter secret, refusing to give permission to the Scottish authorities to publish it on the grounds it would prevent future "frank and open communications" with other governments. [empahsis-es.]

High crimes and misdemeanors? Maybe not, but can we call it the usual hypocritical rank dishonesty that we've grown used to with Obama? Yes We Can!

Ace snarks:

But given the choice -- jail or freedom -- the White House chose... freeeeedommm!

Yeah...Too bad they don't seem so committed to freedom here at home.

What do you think about this revoltin' development, kind reader. And what do you think your trust level for the Present-dent's future palavering pronouncements will be?