Opinion pieces are, by their very nature, usually somewhat biased. However, even by that standard, this is an amazing tissue of outright lies. Plame's covert status was not in doubt or there would have been no basis for the criminal investigation. This was "justice gone awry" only in that Libby and his cohorts succeeded in covering up enough to obstruct investigation of the original crime--which is what he was convicted of. And that only he got caught when there were undoubtedly others involved. While the illegal act that sparked the investigation was certainly over a political difference of opinion, the charges against Libby are for breaking the law--not for his opinions on the Iraq war, or anything he did to further it. The ... More »

My gawd, what a piece of tripe. This is a passionate letter pleading for President Bush to pardon Scooter Libby, who was convicted of obstructing justice and perjury, as a result of obstructing Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation into the Bush Administration's conspiracy of deliberately outing Valerie Plame's secret status as an undercover CIA agent, thus destroying her career and putting her international contacts at risk. The author makes one valid point: "Mr. President, the one defining mark of your own moral outlook is the distinction between friend and foe" But as the recent hearings on the federal prosecutor firings have made clear (Fitzgerald, by the way, was on the firing list), what this means to the White House is ... More »

Open letter from Fouad Ajami, a well known professor at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, asking for a pardon to Scooter Libby. Well worth reading.

This op-ed is completely devoid of good journalism. Fouad is obviously trying to distract the reader into changing the context of Scooter's trial from one of lying to the grand jury to some tenuous connection to the War in Iraq with which it has nothing to do. He did the crime, he should do the time. Oh, I see, he's a friend of dubya so he should be let go.