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Wednesday, January 24, 2007 12:00 AM

Scooter's tragic innocence

Why my friend Scooter Libby is loyal to Bush, Cheney and an arrogant administration whose values are not his own.
By Nick Bromell

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  • Thursday, January 25, 2007 09:59 AM

    Libby's tragic innocence

    A telling excerpt from Nick Bromell's defense of Libby is this one:

    "The book tells the story of a young man just like Scooter, a man with the humility to bow before a master warrior and undertake a life of apprenticeship to figures mightier than himself."

    But the ultimate aim of apprenticing oneself to a master warrior is to become a warrior oneself. That he did not become one leaves the reader with but one conclusion: Libby is a sycophant. Nothing more. Every anecdote in the article points to this conclusion.

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