What an excuse...pardon Libby so he can practice law and continue lying. Wow!

Seriously? SERIOUSLY? "Undoing a measure of injustice.."? I think the 'measure of injustice' is that this dirtbag isn't in prison right now.

whichever Pollard is in jail for selling our secrets to the Israelis.

I assume it is 'Jon'. I don't know why I came up with 'Scott'.

My apologies.

is a traitor & should rot in jail.

Happy Hannukah, Realname et. al.

A top Republican internet strategist who was set to testify in a case alleging election tampering in 2004 in Ohio has died in a plane crash. Mike Connell was the chief IT consultant to Karl Rove and created websites for the Bush and McCain electoral campaigns. He also set up the official Ohio state election website reporting the 2004 presidential election returns.

Connell was reportedly an experienced pilot. He died instantly Friday night when his private plane crashed in a residential neighborhood near Akron, Ohio.

Michael Connell was deposed one day before the election this year by attorneys Cliff Arnebeck and Bob Fitrakis about his actions during the 2004 vote count and his access to Karl Rove's e-mail files and how they went missing.

http://www.alternet.org/election08/114674/republican_it_guru_for_rove_and_mccain_warned_of_sabotage%2C_dies_after_crashing_his_plane_--_was_set_to_testify

"See, I wasn't particularly thinkin' 'bout pardonin' Mister Libby, until I reckonnized that the good people of Amurrica are clamorin' for him to be treated fairly. My thanks to the good people at the Wall Street Journal for helpin' me see that justice was did."

Makes perfect sense to me....

At the time that Bush commuted Libby's sentence he said that he Agreed with the verdict but disagreed with the sentence.

Has anyone asked him what has been done to obtain the obstructed Justice and correct the lies told under oath?

Seriously, this was Bush handing us his own head on a silver platter. He said he agreed that justice had been obstructed and yet refused to take action to correct this.

Libby can be pardoned in exchange for a complete and truthful cataloging of the 5 W's of the CIA Agent Scandal. Outside of that, let him burn.

Although the man is most often a fool, Bush was smart to commute Libby's sentence rather than pardoning him. Why? If pardoned then Libby would be free to talk, but with his sentence commuted it could be reinstated if Libby does say anything. By commuting Scooter Bush and his ilk kept Libby's yap shut.

It seems to believe that the law is only for scum (that would be us). The Noble, Selfless Elites who have plundered and ruined our country should be immune!

WSJ, the only injustice here is that Libby isn't serving time, along with Addington, Cheney, Yoo, Bush, Rumsfeld and the other torturing, warmongering chickenhawk war-criminals that have ru[i]n[ed] our country for the last 8 years. We executed some high ranking Japanese and Germans for less.

...just like Bush Sr did for Cap Weinberger. Nobody reads the papers on Christmas.

The only "measure of injustice" inflicted on Scooter was that he was the only one Fitz managed nail.

It's news to me that felons can't practice law. Most bar admission committees outside the south would probably not admit a perjurer, pardoned or not. That is not the same as saying that the felony conviction makes it illegal to practice law.

I don't what DC's laws are, but usually felons can vote.

It's unlikely that Scooter lives in DC. I understand that most of the DC political class lives in Virginia.

Virginia is one of the states that has permanent disenfranchisement for all felony offenders. (Which is stupid, but there it is.)

The real scandal in the Plame affair was the fact that by outing Plame as a covert agent, the Administration put every one of her foreign contacts in danger of being tortured and killed.

And they did this for purely political advantage.

And then Scooter Libby lied about it, to investigators, was tried, and convicted by a jury of his peers.

All of this is immaterial to the Wall Street Journal, who apparently believes that no member of the Administration should be punished for betraying our friends, our allies, and national security.

Sez it all, don't it?

Dear Wall Street Journal...

Fuck you. Seriously.

Well, I can't put it any better than that.

Apparently George Bush is not the only one living inside the bubble. It looks like the WSJ editorial board is in there with him. Do they really think that the majority of the American people think that "Scooter" Libby got screwed?

It appears, more and more every day, that many conservatives don't live in the real world. In the real world, people like Sarah Palin and "Joe the Plumber" are considered embarrasing dumb-asses. That's true even here in the South, even here in red country.

I hope the WSJ gets its way, and Bush pardons Libby. (Who cares about Libby anyway?) Then, bolstered with that triumph, they will continue their dilusional ranting, and prove to more an more people every day, that they are not serious, and therefore not to be taken seriously.

"We don't believe convicted felons should be punished (when they're Republicans)."

If Mr. Libby was pardoned, he could not assert his 5th amendment rights when being grilled by future congressional committees, etc.

All the money he paid out for his legal defense will be made up as a 'Senior Wanker' at the Scab Foundation (or whatever they call Scailfe's BS panderers nowadays).

I don't what DC's laws are, but usually felons can vote. It depends on state law. Also, it's news to me that a law license is required to lobby or become a conservative think tank "scholar".

Fuck you. Seriously.