I certainly appreciate that there are a number of people who are “more guilty” and guilty of much more serious breaches of the public trust than Scooter Libby. Richard Armitage is one of these.

However, as 70% (or more) of Americans understand, Scooter Libby knowingly helped to cover up those crimes. One reason we don’t have Richard Armitage in manacles is Scooter Libby.

Libby was a public servant. But when it came down to brass tacks, he decided to cover for the criminals around him rather than serving the public interest.

Perhaps it is unfair of me to conflate “participating in treason,” and “actively seeking to conceal, aid, and abet treason after the fact.” Of course, you’ll note that I didn’t say Libby was “guilty of treason,” but rather “guilty in… treason.” Not to split hairs, but I think we can agree that Scooter got nailed by a probe seeking to discover some very high crimes, indeed.

That just makes ring shallow your claims to want to see justice served; all you want is something, anything criminal hung on GWB or at least Cheney, if you can’t get Bush.

Your letter to GWB was very well-written and I agree with most of what it said - but to state that “a man has been found guilty in precisely that treason” is just intellectually dishonest. Many of “the base” may not know the difference, but an intellectually honest discussion of the case and the commutation of the sentence must acknowledge that Libby did not leak Plame’s identity, nor was he ever accused of that.

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