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Well for one… Clinton was the President, and the charges were never pushed beyond impeachment. Second, had Clinton been actually TRIED for his perjury and convicted GORE would have had to pardon him as he would most likely NOT have been the President.

Everything being equal, Clinton being impeached and then dropping any further actions against him is a FAR cry from actually being tried and convicted and pardoned. I would go so far as to say Clinton got off easier than Libby would if he gets pardoned.

Bush and Co do a good job of insulating themselves from any responsibility. He is the perpetual victim of bumbling Execs and having them take the fall for everything from a hastily planned, over optimistic, and shoddily planned decades long war, to fumbling reactions to natural disasters, to crumbling hospitals. Nothing is Bush’s fault, it’s either Bill Clinton, the Democrats, The Media, or inept bureaucrats.

I find it interesting how the fact that Libby lied under oath, a crime last time I checked, does not seem to bother you in the least.

The indignation would work a little better if Fitzgerald hadn’t known almost from the beginning that Armitage was Novak’s source. You see the investigation is generally over when the “who done it� part is solved, but not in this case.

Except that in this case, Fitzgerald in the course of his investigation ran across one of the people (Libby) lying under oath, as such, although having found the person responsible for leaking V. Plame’s name (Armitage, who did so not knowing she was covert) was forced by his conscience and the law to prosecute Libby who demonstrated in through his lying (and obstruction of the investigation) that he had no respect for our laws.

It’s also interesting how quickly you go after Fitzgerald with personal attacks and attempts to discredit him, despite the fact that he is a republican and someone who was just doing his job. Lying under oath is a crime, and is also considered a means of obstructing an investigation as such, Fitzgerald, whether you like it or not had every reason to go after Libby.

The underlying crime that was being investigated was “who outed the identity of a covert operative of the CIA

The indignation would work a little better if Fitzgerald hadn’t known almost from the beginning that Armitage was Novak’s source. You see the investigation is generally over when the “who done it” part is solved, but not in this case. The “substantive” part, Disgusted, was apparently such a flaccid moment for Fitzy (who I’m sure has some bizarre sexual quid pro quo deal with Corn) that he felt compelled to put Judith Miller in the clink for 3 months & ruin Scooter Libby. Well, congratulations, Fitzy, thumb-sucking weirdo, for wasting my tax dollars to justify the “special prosecutor” position.

BTW, Libby’s attorneys were stupid for not putting him on the stand — a white-collar deal like this, always put the defendant on the stand. Bush would be wise to pardon him as soon as possible. But I have no faith in Bush to show any character at all.

The NRO folks are destined for purgatory … forced to watch the Clinton tapes and the Libby tapes over and over and over and over ….

So, Dos, you may believe, but can hardly prove, that there was no underlying crime here. Because, while some lies have been proven beyond a reasonable doubt, there remains the possibility that someone who lied 4 times did so additional times. (After all, the point about which he lied were worth lying about only as part of an effort to conceal something substantive.)

The underlying crime that was being investigated was “who outed the identity of a covert operative of the CIA, an operative that was performing important work in trying to find out everything she could about Iran’s nuclear enrichment program. The investigation was obstructed by Mr. Libby. Even without any charges being filed under the original investigation, his crime was this: He lied under oath and by doing so, obstructed a federal investigation!