Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 1591 Editor's Choice: 2
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Judge Walton is now a FISA judge
[Read the article: Joe Klein's stirring defense of Lewis Libby]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://fas.org/blog/secrecy/2007/05/judge_walton_named_to_foreign.html
Judge Walton Named to Foreign Intel Surveillance Court
Judge Reggie B. Walton was appointed to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court by the Chief Justice of the United States effective May 19 . . . His appointment to the Court was confirmed for Secrecy News by Mr. Sheldon Snook, media liaison and assistant to the chief district judge of the D.C. District Court. An updated list of members of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court may be found here:http://fas.org/irp/agency/doj/fisa/court2007.html
Walton's seven year term on the FISC will expire in 2014.
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FISA judges don't give up their day job.
[Read the article: Joe Klein's stirring defense of Lewis Libby]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]and I think they have to leave the FISC if they leave their day job.
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Andy McCarthy and Captain Ed showed
[Read the article: Joe Klein's stirring defense of Lewis Libby]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]that it's quite possible to be a loyal Republican, and to believe that President Clinton should have been impeached and convicted and removed from office, and to believe there should never have been a "Plame Leak" investigation, and to feel that the Plame-Wilson family are icky uggy Democrats, and to feel that Sandy Berger is an even ickier and uggier Democrat whom the Bush administration should have prosecuted for some kind of felony, and to believe that the war in Iraq was necessary, and to support President Bush in Iraq and elsewhere, and to worship Karl Rove, etc. etc. and notwithstanding all that and more besides, yet to find that Judge Walton's sentencing of Libby was fitting and proper.
Because none of that other stuff is a sufficient argument in Libby's defense.
That pair of lonely semi-principled conservative bloggers, Andy McCarthy and Captain Ed, find that, although they dislike the results of the process, they have to respect the process.