How can anyone argue that there is a justification for pardoning Scooter Libby?

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1597658,00.html

Michael Kinsley fleshed out one of many arguements for pardoning Scooter Libby at time.com (link above). I have a huge problem with the idea of this even being considered.

The fact that Scooter Libby lied to the FBI is why he potentially could be going to jail. Kinsley suggests that the real issue is that the laws are unfair, because Libby had to chose to lie to the FBI as it was a better option than having to potentially face jail time for exposing a government spy.

To me this seems pretty simple. He made his choice.

How is this different from the criminal who violates his bond and gets arrested?

Scooter Libby was part of a heinous act that I personally feel was traitorous in intent. My only regret is that Karl Rove and Dick Cheney are not also looking at jail time.

Sean Hannity of Fox News ran a show that said basically, why is Scooter Libby looking at Jail time when there is a scummy democrat who has gotten away with worse?

That is horrible logic! Does that mean that we should let a pedophile go free because an alleged killer like OJ didn't do time?

The law doesn't catch everyone. When it does function properly, we shouldn't monkey with the results.

Scooter Libby may be a great individual with a pure heart. That really doesn't matter. He did a vile thing and then tried to avoid being punished for it. His efforts to avoid being punished have him facing Jail time.

This isn't a tradgedy.




I do also want to add that I do fully realize Bush will pardon Libby. The corruption of that administration makes this a forgone conclusion. They will protect their own.

I am merely angry that people would throw out that he should be pardoned. I am angry that Bush's base will get up in arms and insist Bush Pardon libby because a man they belive is moral got caught trying to lie his way out of trouble. I did not hear anywhere near this level of outrage from that chunk of the Republican base when the 2 border patrol agents were sent to Jail for doing their job.

Unlike Libby who twice was party to things that clearly were not patriotic, honest, or respectable, Compean and Ramos were attempting to capture a drug smuggler as part of their job. Then the drug smuggler cuts a deal with the US goverment and we bring charges against our agents that land them both in jail.

Pardons? You want to bring up Libby as "deserving" of a pardon 2 months after you largely ignored these guys in backing your president's decision to ignore conressional and public pressure to pardon these guys? To say that is like telling jokes at a funeral. It is offensive, unwelcome, and ill-timed.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52545

I consider what was done to Plame to be a traitorous act to a US citizen so loyal she was willing to spy for us. The actions of Libby, Rove, and Cheney in this and other matters are disgusting and totally lacking morality. IMO.

The strong words of Democrat Harry Reid demanding Bush not pardon Libby are sadly likely political show. Some Democrats are attemping to draw in the media and use it to further underscore the corruption of the bush regime and the republicans in general when Bush does pardon Libby. (I am not going to say "the corruption of the Republicans by association", because the majority of the Republicans in Congress bought into Bush wholeheartedly and were an active part of the whole Bush machine in the last 6 years. If you make the bed, you should lie in it.)

http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/41518

I wish, as lawyer Williams Hughes writes in the article above, that the words of Harry Reid were the start of a movement to begin proceedings to impeach Dick Cheney, but the reality is the Democrats are too cautious to take action at this point. Some in the democratic camp are happy to allow the Bush regime to continue a slow bleed on the popularity of the republican party in the hopes of winning the big prize --- the presidency and strong majorities in the house and senate so they can proceed to ramrod in their initiatives like the republicans did for the last 6 years.

I wish instead of trying to take their turn and become the corrupt all-powerful party, they would instead settle for having a slight edge and instead do one of the functions of their jobs --- attacking governmental corruption.