Obama won't release letterrevealing administration backed freeing of Lockerbie bomber

[The Infidel]

Barack Obama faces rising pressure to publish Lockerbie bomber release letter | UK news | The Guardian

"Scottish officials say US memo giving grudging support to freeing Abdelbaset al-Megrahi undermines president's criticisms"


Wow, what a surprise!

This administration is a joke

 

[Epsilon Delta]

You should ask Wikileaks to try and find it.

 

[HerewardTheWake]

The Scots screwed up, but as they lost people and it was over their turf it is their decision.

Irrespecitve of how misguided it was

 

[Yurt]

the letter is locked away with his original b/c

 

[The Infidel]

the letter is locked away with his original b/c

Please dont get that started.








Can you say Kenyan


Back on topic

 

[Epsilon Delta]

They just released it:

Lebaron Letter

-- The United States is not prepared to support Megrahi's release on compassionate release or bail. We understand that Scottish authorities are ensuring that Megrahi receives quality medical treatment, including palliative care, while incarcerated. The United States maintains its view that in light of the scope of Megrahi's crime, its heinous nature, and its continued and devastating impact on the victims and their families, it would be most appropriate for Megrahi to remain imprisoned for the entirety of his sentence. This was the understanding and expectation at the time arrangements were made for his trial in Scottish Court in the Netherlands, were he or his confederate to be convicted and their appeals upheld.

-- Nevertheless, if Scottish authorities come to the conclusion that Megrahi must be released from Scottish custody, the U.S. position is that conditional release on compassionate grounds would be a far preferable alternative to prisoner transfer, which we strongly oppose.

-- If a decision were made by Scotland to grant conditional release, two conditions would be very important to the United States and would partially mitigate the concerns of the American victims' families. First, any such release should only come after the results of independent and comprehensive medical exams clearly establishing that Megrahi's life expectancy is less than three months. The results of these exams should be made available to the United States and the families of the victims of Pan Am 103. The justification of releasing Megrahi on compassionate grounds would be more severely undercut the longer he is free before his actual death.

-- Second, the United States would strongly oppose any release that would permit Megrahi to travel outside of Scotland. We believe that the welcoming reception that Megrahi might receive if he is permitted to travel abroad would be extremely inappropriate given Megrahi's conviction for a heinous crime that continues to have a deep and profound impact on so many. As such, compassionate release or bail should be conditioned on Megrahi remaining in Scotland.

-- Again, while we are not able to endorse the early release of Megrahi under any scenario, we believe that granting compassionate release or bail under the conditions described (i.e. release with a life expectancy or less than three months and with Megrahi remaining in Scotland under supervision) would mitigate a number of the strong concerns that we have expressed with respect to Megrahi’s release.

Well, there you go.

Got it from here: U.S. Publishes Diplomatic Correspondence on Lockerbie Convict’s Release - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com

 

[The Infidel]

Mark Levin Show Audio Rewind

 

[The Infidel]

Mark Levin earlier tonite:
"The fact is.... this was a lie from beginning to end... it wasnt about oil it wasnt about justice This was a sell out to a certain part of the world.
The president & the prime minister at the time, it was extrememy unpopular at the time. They were trying to make their bones. This is the greatest injustice I have seen in a long long time, and make no mistake about it, the president was involved with it. His administration was involved with it.
If they had said ABSOLUTELY NOT, it wouldnt have happened, but they gave a knod and a wink."

How can we trust this administration on anything?

 

[edthecynic]

Mark Levin Show Audio Rewind

Gee what a surprise, America hating POS Levin lying about Obama again! NOT!!!

 

[edthecynic]

Mark Levin earlier tonite:
"The fact is.... this was a lie from beginning to end... it wasnt about oil it wasnt about justice This was a sell out to a certain part of the world.
The president & the prime minister at the time, it was extrememy unpopular at the time. They were trying to make their bones. This is the greatest injustice I have seen in a long long time, and make no mistake about it, the president was involved with it. His administration was involved with it.
If they had said ABSOLUTELY NOT, it wouldnt have happened, but they gave a knod and a wink."

How can we trust this administration on anything?

What kind of a worthless piece of human excrement is Levin to lie so easily so coldly to his audience? What kind of a man does this? A Man who doesn't give a damn about anyone. A man on a mission to destroy America from within.

The United States is not prepared to support Megrahi's release on compassionate release or bail. ...
we are not able to endorse the early release of Megrahi

 

[xotoxi]

They just released it:

Lebaron Letter

-- The United States is not prepared to support Megrahi's release on compassionate release or bail. We understand that Scottish authorities are ensuring that Megrahi receives quality medical treatment, including palliative care, while incarcerated. The United States maintains its view that in light of the scope of Megrahi's crime, its heinous nature, and its continued and devastating impact on the victims and their families, it would be most appropriate for Megrahi to remain imprisoned for the entirety of his sentence. This was the understanding and expectation at the time arrangements were made for his trial in Scottish Court in the Netherlands, were he or his confederate to be convicted and their appeals upheld.

-- Nevertheless, if Scottish authorities come to the conclusion that Megrahi must be released from Scottish custody, the U.S. position is that conditional release on compassionate grounds would be a far preferable alternative to prisoner transfer, which we strongly oppose.

-- If a decision were made by Scotland to grant conditional release, two conditions would be very important to the United States and would partially mitigate the concerns of the American victims' families. First, any such release should only come after the results of independent and comprehensive medical exams clearly establishing that Megrahi's life expectancy is less than three months. The results of these exams should be made available to the United States and the families of the victims of Pan Am 103. The justification of releasing Megrahi on compassionate grounds would be more severely undercut the longer he is free before his actual death.

-- Second, the United States would strongly oppose any release that would permit Megrahi to travel outside of Scotland. We believe that the welcoming reception that Megrahi might receive if he is permitted to travel abroad would be extremely inappropriate given Megrahi's conviction for a heinous crime that continues to have a deep and profound impact on so many. As such, compassionate release or bail should be conditioned on Megrahi remaining in Scotland.

-- Again, while we are not able to endorse the early release of Megrahi under any scenario, we believe that granting compassionate release or bail under the conditions described (i.e. release with a life expectancy or less than three months and with Megrahi remaining in Scotland under supervision) would mitigate a number of the strong concerns that we have expressed with respect to Megrahi’s release.

Well, there you go.

Got it from here: U.S. Publishes Diplomatic Correspondence on Lockerbie Convict’s Release - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com

It doesn't looks like we supported his release.

 

[The Infidel]

Mark Levin Show Audio Rewind

Gee what a surprise, America hating POS Levin lying about Obama again! NOT!!!

Mark Levin earlier tonite:
"The fact is.... this was a lie from beginning to end... it wasnt about oil it wasnt about justice This was a sell out to a certain part of the world.
The president & the prime minister at the time, it was extrememy unpopular at the time. They were trying to make their bones. This is the greatest injustice I have seen in a long long time, and make no mistake about it, the president was involved with it. His administration was involved with it.
If they had said ABSOLUTELY NOT, it wouldnt have happened, but they gave a knod and a wink."

How can we trust this administration on anything?

What kind of a worthless piece of human excrement is Levin to lie so easily so coldly to his audience? What kind of a man does this? A Man who doesn't give a damn about anyone. A man on a mission to destroy America from within.

The United States is not prepared to support Megrahi's release on compassionate release or bail. ...
we are not able to endorse the early release of Megrahi

Gee what a surprise.... looks like I am on the RIGHT path.

 

[edthecynic]

Mark Levin Show Audio Rewind

Gee what a surprise, America hating POS Levin lying about Obama again! NOT!!!

What kind of a worthless piece of human excrement is Levin to lie so easily so coldly to his audience? What kind of a man does this? A Man who doesn't give a damn about anyone. A man on a mission to destroy America from within.

The United States is not prepared to support Megrahi's release on compassionate release or bail. ...
we are not able to endorse the early release of Megrahi

Gee what a surprise.... looks like I am on the RIGHT path.

Thank you for admitting that destroying this great country that you hate is the "RIGHT path."

 

[jeffrockit]

The Scots screwed up, but as they lost people and it was over their turf it is their decision.

Irrespecitve of how misguided it was

There were people from all over on that flight, not just Scottish. We may never fully know the backroom deals that were struck to release a terrorist but I feel certain there were.

 

[bucs90]

I'm not sure which way to lean on this. On one hand, I don't know that we could've stopped it anyway, and the "official" government response in writing is going to be spin anyway, all politics will do that.

But I can't help but think that the Scots and BP wouldn't have gone through with it had the US been outrageously opposed to it.

Don't know.

 

[edthecynic]

I'm not sure which way to lean on this. On one hand, I don't know that we could've stopped it anyway, and the "official" government response in writing is going to be spin anyway, all politics will do that.

But I can't help but think that the Scots and BP wouldn't have gone through with it had the US been outrageously opposed to it.

Don't know.

Like Infidel, Levin and CON$ in general, you blame America first.

 

[Epsilon Delta]

It doesn't looks like we supported his release.

Yeah I mean, the letter basically states "We don't like it, but it's not like we're going to pull rank on Scotland... Yeah, I mean, it's not like you guys are communistic islamo-fascist terrorists, so we don't really like it, but if you promise to do it with these to stipulations we won't throw a big fuss."

But hey, whatever floats their boat, right?

 

[peach174]

I watched this on c-span in Sept.
Scottish Parliament Discussion on Lockerbie Bomber - C-SPAN Video Library
If you dont' want to watch the whole 41 min. watch it from 24:15, the last 17min.
It was the Scottish Justice Secretary(Kenny MacAskill) who released him. Quote"It was my decision and mine alone".
The Scottish Parliment was outraged that he did this, they had voted 73 to 50 to reject his release.