I keep hearing from the Kool-Aide crowd that poor Scooter Libby was railroaded…there was “no underlining crime”! We’ll I’m pretty sure that lying to the FBI and a Grand Jury for us regular folks would be considered a crime. As far as I’m concerned, what Libby did was treasonous. He, being a good Cheney lap dog, outted an undercover CIA agent to punish a Bush critic. Cheney got his scapegoat and Libby fell on his sword of the Dick, this didn’t end the way it should have….but we’ll see what the civil suit Valerie Plame has filed brings up from the muck which is the OVP. 

Jail Time for Scooter Libby

The jail sentence and fine imposed on Scooter Libby, the former chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney, are an appropriate — indeed necessary — punishment for his repeated lies to a grand jury and to F.B.I. agents investigating a possible smear campaign orchestrated by the White House. Although Mr. Libby plans to appeal, as he has every legal right to, the judge ought to send him to jail now as a lesson that such efforts to frustrate justice will not be tolerated.