Scooter Gets Convicted

tag: Scooter Libbey Conviction

So Scooter (I still can't over that nickname. I imagine a colorful beany with a propellor on his head) Libbey gets convicted on four counts of, basically, obstructing justice by lying about what he knew and when he knew it. One of the jurors said they felt bad about the conviction, but the prosecution's evidence was overwhelming.

The most interesting thing, of couse, is not that this little snake got caught being a little snake, it's that a presidential administration would engage in the deliberate outing an officer of the CIA to get some payback for getting caught in a lie. As far as I'm concerned, that's treason and somebody should hang, literally. But what do you expect from former Nixon administration officials? Dirty politics, of course.

No doubt, Scooter will get pardoned by Bush. He's got nothing to lose with a 29% approval rating. Sure, the Grand Old Party will be a little miffed, since it makes them look bad for the '08 presidential election, but if they do it now, nobody in America will remember by that time. We have VERY short attention spans.

Now, what was I talking about......????