I smell the start of a new political movement.
I remember reading the interviews with the jurors and being impressed with how thoughtful they seemed to be (for jurors).
He lied, as the jury found. He lied to investigators. So what if the underlying crime was never charged? We had a guy resign the Presidency for lying/covering up about a stupid crappy petty burglary (for which one or two people may have served time – I forget whether Liddy was charged with burglary – but that’s almost irrelevant).
And – Libby is a lawyer. Just as I was happy to see Clinton sanctioned by the Arkansas Bar (ultimately meaningless for him, but at least symbolic), I think it is important that any lawyer, who surely knows better, be shown no mercy for INTENTIONALLY LYING in the course of criminal investigations or judicial proceedings of any sort.
Because once one of Clinton’s people has confessed to jaywalking it is instantly acceptable for one of Dubya’s people to commit murder.
Not been paying attention for the last six and a half years, David?
-Joe
I was getting worried. It actually took us seven posts to put Bush in the “damned if he does, dammed if he doesn’t” category! Though we’d never get there.
He’s either a no good bastard because he’ll cheat the justice system by pardoning him. Or he’s a no good bastard because he leaves him in jail. Maybe he’ll wait until the end of the term to pardon him, and he can be a no good bastard for both!
This case exists purely to make both sides of the Clinton fracas look silly.
As far as I can tell, Fitzgerald didn’t charge anyone because it came down to him having to prove that people in the Bush administration had leaked the name deliberately to cause harm to the United States, and such state of mind/intention cases are extremely hard to prove against rich people.
I don’t know if the title is serious, but the answer is clearly “no”.
I mean, think about it. They guy was tried and convicted while his own political party held sway over the executive and legislative branches of the government. The prosecutor and the judge in the case were Republican appointees (maybe even Bush appointees, I don’t remember the details). He was found guilty by a jury of his peers. End of story.
Libby had almost every advantage one would expect a political prisoner not to have had. The idea that he’s a political prisoner is nonsensical.
oh yeah, I forgot and I’m a slow learner. That’s the problem with getting old. 
He doesn’t give a damn about Scooter Libby. If he could leave Scooter to rot if he thought he could put all the blame on him, but no one really believes that. Leaving Scooter in is an admission that the administration did something wrong, and Bush’s supporters won’t stand for that.
However, Bush’s non-supporters–a much bigger group these days–won’t like it. It would be one thing if he could toss it in with the usual raft of end-of-term pardons, but out by itself it would be big news. My guess is that he will pardon him, but he’ll wait until the last possible minute before he reports to jail.
The important thing is we all agree he’s a no good bastard. Everyone’s free to pick their own individual reason for believing it.
Yet again, John Mace says just what I was gonna. Curse you!