Bush commutes Libby sentence

[kandrathe]

I agree that it is an abuse of justice to simply throw out a special prosecutor like an attack dog, and hope he brings back a corpse. Judicial resources should be directed to where they matter, not to irrelevancies, and certainly not to ridiculous things like people's sex lives.

We agree then. It was stupid to pursue Mr. Clinton's sex life, and it was stupid to pursue the firing of people in the Clinton Whitehouse travel office. Justice would have been equally served by allowing the investigative reporters free license on those. But of course, without an "independant counsel" left wingers would never believe the muck on Clinton when it was revealed. Still it was a waste of US taxpayer money. Whitewater, while politically motivated was clearly an illegal fraudulent act, but luckily the Clintons convinced their friends and partners to take the fall for them. This current brewhaha about the US attorney firings is another politically motivated hachet job. While, the Clinton firing of ALL 100 of the US Attorneys (including the ones investigating him) were never questioned.

Now regarding Mr. Libby, here is another quote which is a summation of what I beleive;

The Fitzgerald indictments are an embarrassing confirmation of the old Washington rule that, when special prosecutors can't prove a crime, they indict the target for obstructing the investigation. Far from being typical behavior, indicting suspects for nothing more than false statements or perjury is a vice largely restricted to special prosecutors and independent counsels. . . He did not prosecute Bush administration officials or journalists under the rarely invoked law he was originally appointed to investigate--the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, which forbids the knowing disclosure of the identity of a covert government agent. He did not invoke a broader provision that makes it a crime to disclose classified information--a statute that, if it were regularly enforced, would criminalize what most national security reporters do every day. . . . But the idea that Fitzgerald should be praised for the charges he didn't bring is absurd. "An Indefensible Indictment," The New Republic, 11/4/05)

I call shenanigans!