Pardon Me, Please
July 3rd 2007 02:52
President Bush has finally broken down and given Lewis "Scooter" Libby a well deserved break. Remember Scooter? He's the guy who couldn't remember the exact details of a meaningless conversation from a year or two before. He's the one the "Special Prosecutor" finally managed to nail for lying to the FBI when they couldn't find anything he'd done wrong. He wasn't the one who "leaked" the name of Valerie Plame (the "secret agent" who wasn't one, remember her?) She wasn't a covert agent and her name was already public (after she was mentioned in the Washington, D.C. book of Who's Who and did a magazine article, picture included, with her husband, Joe Wilson.) When the "Special Prosecutor" couldn't find any crime, he convinced a jury of morons that forgetting was the same as lying and Scooter was sentenced to huge fines and years in prison.
President Bush commuted his sentence today. He didn't drop the fine, just the jail time. I think he should have given Scooter Libby a full pardon. When Bill (the Zipper) Clinton pardoned a terrorist, nobody said anything. When he pardoned a criminal or two, it was O.K. When Sandy Burger (or Burglar, to be more accurate) stole documents and destroyed several from the archives, he got a nasty little spat on the wrist. But Scooter Libby was a Republican and therefore an acceptable target for for an Inquisition. The punishment didn't even come close to fitting the non-existent crime.
If this story doesn't have the traditional happy ending, at least it's an improvement.
President Bush commuted his sentence today. He didn't drop the fine, just the jail time. I think he should have given Scooter Libby a full pardon. When Bill (the Zipper) Clinton pardoned a terrorist, nobody said anything. When he pardoned a criminal or two, it was O.K. When Sandy Burger (or Burglar, to be more accurate) stole documents and destroyed several from the archives, he got a nasty little spat on the wrist. But Scooter Libby was a Republican and therefore an acceptable target for for an Inquisition. The punishment didn't even come close to fitting the non-existent crime.
If this story doesn't have the traditional happy ending, at least it's an improvement.
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