Saturday, October 29, 2005
Scooter Libby
If he did the crime, he should do the time (although the 30 years I'm hearing bandied about seems excessive).
Perjury is no joke. It wasn't when Clinton did it, and it's not now. Clinton perjured himself in an unsuccessful effort to mitigate political scandal. Libby allegedly perjured himself to thwart an investigation of that which itself was not a crime (Valerie Plame had not been undercover within the last five years). I don't see one perjury as being any worse than the other. Clinton skated, but skating for perjury is not a precedent we should extend.
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Perjury is no joke. It wasn't when Clinton did it, and it's not now. Clinton perjured himself in an unsuccessful effort to mitigate political scandal. Libby allegedly perjured himself to thwart an investigation of that which itself was not a crime (Valerie Plame had not been undercover within the last five years). I don't see one perjury as being any worse than the other. Clinton skated, but skating for perjury is not a precedent we should extend.
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// posted by Tex the Pontificator @ 10/29/2005 11:02:00 AM 
