you aren't comparing being involuntarily "outed" to voluntarily (under mutually agreed upon parameters) sharing your story with Vanity Fair?

I'm not sure exactly who would be "gunning for" Wilson/Plame except Bush-Cheney-neocon fanatics.... oops.

actually as a warning ... "don't fuck with me or I'll make you a household name, endanger your spouse (and family) and end her career" is probably pretty effective.

y'think?

If Bush wanted to completely silence LIbby, he would have commuted the entire sentence, but he commuted only the prison portion. If Libby wanted to strike a deal with the prosecutor by talking, he still has plenty of opportunity to do that.

Your thesis really carries no weight in light of that.

You're boring.

Who gives a fuck about what Clinton did blah blah blah. See? I can't even finish the sentence, it's so boring.

Get off your loop. Obviously, you think the country is better for what Bush did. It is an act that makes you proud to be an American. You don't think, as most postings have said, that it is incredibly self-serving that the man who stands to benefit most by Libby's actions — and he was found guilty; even Bush admits that — is also the man who gives Libby a get out of jail free card?

That doesn't bother you? Really. That's just fine and dandy with you? A convicted man goes free; you're happy about that? If Clinton had done it, would it be fine with you? Would you care to explain why you are so pleased with Bush's actions right now rather than handing out another childish "Clinton did blah blah blah?"

That's all. That's it. Explain why you think this is a proud day for America, please.

the Bush family is in the long tradition of guilded-age criminals, who fatten up at the public trough, along with their friends, and make sure no-one is ever held accountable.

Just change around a few names and this sounds just like the Kennedys. Look into how Joseph Kennedy made his millions some time.

People being people, living under a self-imposed code of morality and ethics, backed by an unseen almighty god, will do what people have always done: proclaim one thing and do another.

Were some Dems hypocritical? Sure. Were some Reps hypocritical? Definitely. So what? Just because we have had hypocrites in the past means we should stop calling out violations of laws? If so, why bother with the laws? Why don't we just amend the Constitution by nulling it out?

This same set of unrealistic guidelines says something to the effects of (and I'm paraphrasing since I don't recite something mindlessly), "let he who is without sin cast the first stone." Well. That pretty much rules out -- oh -- everyone on this planet. To claim exception is, depending on how literal you want to take that sacred text of yours, by definition, to be hypocritical.

So let's just clear the air here: we're all hypocrites. We all claim to be more saintly than we know we are. We all expect more from others than we do ourselves. How we each deal with this discrepancy within us defines us and is, for the most part, between ourselves and our conscience.

Accusing another of hypocrisy is a pointless exercise.

Now comes the second part of my post: checks. Accepting the fact that we're all hypocrites. We need to check each other (just not ourselves). When you see a Dem violating the law, by all means, do what you can (theoretically lawfully but we've seen exceptions) to convict him. Conversely, when we see a Rep violating the law, we should do the same. I am doing it. We are doing it.

With this back-and-forth of checks and balances, suggested by the establishment of the three (not four as the vice president suggests) equal branches (what this chief executive evidently doesn't believe in), it is hoped that we collectively keep our inherent hypocrisy from ruining us. Unfortunately some of us fell asleep at the wheel and/or cower to intimidation for the fear of being labeled as unpatriotic (oh don't get me started), we didn't do what we were supposed to do, and we're in this mess now. We are trying to make up for it by raising enough hell as to wake our sleeping representatives to do their jobs.

So don't expect us to stop doing what we're doing by calling our attitude and efforts hypocritical. You bet it is. And when it's your turn to check on us (in a year or so), we'd expect you to do the same.

Strange (or now that I think of it) not so really strange, that this irksome character would name himself after a real historical figure . . . a kind of Roman Benedict Arnold, so to speak. Ol' Titus, a brave man by some accounts, but a turncoat, traitor, or whatever you may want to label him. Hmmm.

When those who "outed" Valerie Plame don't even get a judicial "slap on the wrist", why should "Scooter" Libby wear prison uniform?

http://osi-speaks.blogspot.com/2007/07/though-premature-bushs-commutation-of.html#links

—When those who "outed" Valerie Plame don't even get a judicial "slap on the wrist", why should "Scooter" Libby wear prison uniform?

Umm, because he was convicted, and wearing a prison uniform is supposed to be what convicted criminals wear? Because that has been the fate of millions of convicted Americans that have come before him?

Really, now. Are you truly this dense?

Support Our CIA. What does that sound like?

...at this point in time if Bush pardoned Osama Bin Laden.

Absolutely nothing surprises me anymore with this manchild coward, nothing.

From Wikipedia:

Titus Pullo was one of the two Roman centurions of the 11th Legion mentioned in the personal writings of Julius Caesar. The other soldier mentioned was Lucius Vorenus; they appear in Caesar's Commentarii de Bello Gallico, Book 5, Chapter 44.

Pullo and Vorenus were fierce rivals for promotion to primus pilus, the most senior centurion in a legion. Both distinguished themselves in 54 BC when the Nervii attacked the legion under Quintus Cicero in their winter quarters in Nervian territory. In an effort to outdo Vorenus, Pullo charged out of the fortified camp and attacked the enemy, but was soon wounded and surrounded. Vorenus followed and engaged his attackers in hand-to-hand combat, killing one and driving the rest back, but lost his footing and was himself soon surrounded. Pullo in turn rescued Vorenus, and after killing several of the enemy, the pair returned to camp amid applause from their comrades.

Sounds like a kickass hero to me.