This is one of those times.
First, Andrew Sullivan, Proud Endorser of the Racist and Sloppy Bell Curve:
The bottom line for Americans is this: George Bush's friends do not go to jail. Your friends do.And if that didn't make me feel queasy, there is The
This is a very simple matter. Either Libby is subject to the rule of law or not. Bush's action is constitutionally solid but morally and politically indefensible - an act of arrogance born of permanent privilege that still, somehow, even after all these years, manages to shock.
But none of this exonerates the commutation. Perjury is a serious crime. This newspaper argued on behalf of its seriousness in the 1990s, during the Clinton perjury controversy, and today is no different. We'd have hoped that more conservatives would agree. The integrity of the judicial process depends on fact-finding and truth-telling. A jury found Libby guilty of not only perjury but also obstruction justice and lying to a grand jury. It handed down a very supportable verdict.
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