The "Libby Letters" are written pleas sent to the judge in the "Scooter" Libby case to go lenient on him, in fact, to not give him any jail time.
They were written by an array of famous and lesser known Washington DC political celebrities from every spot on the political spectrum in both parties.
They basically say that Libby is a good guy and really swell to children.
If there could be this much "bi-partisan" effort made for a solution to the Iraq fiasco, or to save the lives of really good men and women dying over there...
But no. That's politics. This is social circle stuff.
I'm not sure if Libby were a Democrat the effort being made to keep him out of prison would be as "bi-partisan"—but I am sure if anyone in the Clinton White House actually outed a CIA operative and been instrumental in the cover-up of that deliberate exposure of a US "spy" and their family and friends and the other undercover operatives who worked with them, the right-wingers would have called for not just extended prison time, but maybe even the death penalty. After all, it is "war time."
For some solid analysis of the social circle aspect, check out nightlight today.
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well put. This is the kind of stuff that makes people distrust the word "serve". As in serving the nation and the public, as opposed to "using".
Considering that everyone knows that Libby did not out Mrs Wilson it seems that his indictment and conviction are part of the Democrat Witch hunt to get Rove and Bush.
In fact, it has been known for some time that Armitrage was the one who gave Mrs Wilson's name to the press, but no charges have been filed against him.
As you stated, it is a curious thing that after the Dean/Schumer forces leaned on Fitzgerald for indictments that now there is angst for Libby's situation.
Since it is a known fact that a good DA can indict a ham sandwich, Libby stood no chance of winning because he was in a position where he had to prove a negative.
If Mrs Wilson was in fact a covert operative, Armitrage should not only have been indicted, but also convicted and subject to the penalties. But alas, since his name is not Bush, Cheney, Rove or Libby, his apology was accepted with no further action taken.
The Democratic Party is showing itself to be the much raking , do-nothing party that it is.
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