Bush commutes Libby sentence

[kandrathe]

Well, I suspect that if anyone else was close to being indicted...

I'll be more direct. Russert was discovered to be lying on his affidavit to the grand jury, which is perjury, obstruction of justice, yada, yada, yada... Valerie Plame's story changed three different times as to who recommended her husband to do the work in Nigeria. This case was about finding someone who allegedly leaked the identity of a clandestine CIA operative, but it was the prosecutor Fitzgerald that was ordered by the judge to quit leaking court material to the press.

You refuse to acknowledge that the Plame investigation seems to have been a politically motivated attempt to discredit Rove, Cheney and the VP's office, when in fact the investigators knew before the investigation began that it was Richard Armitage (Powell's office in the State Dept) who confessed to be the leaker of Plame to Novak. No, this seems to me to have been a witch hunt, and they didn't stop until they found someone to burn. If Scooter lied, then he lied to his boss first, and then his friends, and then the grand jury. Why would he do that? Why would he maintain that he thought it was Russert who told him of Plame? And, what of the close relationship of Andrea Mitchell close friend (works for Russert at NBC news, wife of Alan Greenspan) to Colin Powell? Could it be that the biggest mouth in Washington (Armitage) was blabbing at one of the functions that Mitchell attended? I said before that Ms. Plame's identity was the worst kept secret in Washington. It seems a stretch to think that perhaps everyone knew at NBC news except Tim Russert, and granted to think that Scooter had to learn it from Russert is also a stretch of the imagination.

Anyway, if Scooter is a witch, there are many more that should burn with him. Looking at the Democrats however, I am astonished by their zealousness in suddenly embracing the rule of law. Funny how vehemently they argued the other side of the equation when it was Bill Clinton twisting in the wind under similar scrutiny or when he was pardoning his 1/2 brother Roger for selling cocaine. Even now, you are arguing that it's acceptable to commit perjury, or obstruct justice when it is merely a case about sexual harassment.

Oh, and by the way... The Jamal argument is fictitious. Show me some evidence that perpetrators in huge numbers are getting slapped with excessive jail time for non-violent offenses. I think it is quite the opposite (at least where I live). The incarceration rate where I live is like 0.17%. The only exception I've seen in excessive sentences is when laws are made to legislate sentencing guidelines, which then sometimes ensnare the wrong people (e.g. mandatory minimum, or 3 strikes laws).