Bush commutes Libby sentence

[Thecla]

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

That's because it wasn't. But I'll agree hypothetically with a couple of statements: If Libby had simply made an honest mistake, instead of deliberately and knowingly lieing to the Grand Jury, then the verdict would be a miscarriage of justice; and if other people had done the same thing, then they should've been prosectuted too. The prosecutor (who had no political bone to pick) clearly decided that neither of these circumstances applied, but you're welcome to hold your own opinion.

Even now, you are arguing that it's acceptable to commit perjury, or obstruct justice when it is merely a case about sexual harassment.

I said no such thing.

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).

Well, I think I'll avoid a general debate about the US justice system. :) But it is hard not to derive some satisfaction from the spectacle of a tough-on-crime president commuting a tough sentence the moment it's given to a member of his own administration.;)