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Crime and Punishment
By Seth | June 6, 2007
Yesterday, Federal District Court Judge Reggie B. Walton sentenced I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby to 2 and one-half years in prison for lying during an investigation into the outing of a covert CIA operative.
Predictably, the New York Post this morning says PARDON SCOOTER LIBBY. Less predictably, so does Marty Kaplan, though for a much more understandable purpose.
I want American history to possess forever a crystalline illustration of Cheney’s whack-ball theory of the unitary executive exempt from the rule of law.
I want the persistent presidential nullification of the Constitution to be perpetually exemplified by an unambiguous act of unmistakable arrogance.
As it is, President Bush says he feels sorry for Scooter’s family. In typical fashion, Bush’s remorse seems to a result of getting caught, not so much the fact that a covert CIA operative was outed and her anti-WMD work effectively ended. Not “sorry” for the Plame family, it seems.
As Scooter’s legal team makes a last ditch effort to delay his prison term, all eyes are on the White House. We’ll soon learn what Bush meant when he said, “If the person has violated law, that person will be taken care of.”
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