Once again the conservatives got it wrong regarding Libby

[Heath Hatcher]

Read this letter to the editor published by the paper I read the Pittsburgh Post Gazette

Political hit job


Once again, the PG in its editorials ("The Libby Outrage: Bush Sinks Lower by Commuting a Felon's Sentence," July 4) shows its left slant. President Bush's pardon of Scooter Libby has little in comparison with what President Clinton did upon exiting the Oval Office.

Mr. Libby is still responsible for the $250,000 fine plus the probation. His actions were not severe to the point of Marc Rich's in that Mr. Libby did not feel the need to leave the country. Only after the pardon from Mr. Clinton was Mr. Rich able to return to the United States. Big campaign donations bought him the full pardon.

As for justice being done, many would hardly call the Libby trial justice. The trial took place in Washington, D.C., which more than overwhelmingly votes Democratic. If a Democratic presidential candidate receives less than 80 percent of the D.C. vote, he dropped the ball.

If Mr. Libby's trial and sentence represent justice, then justice has fallen into the gutters in this country. The entire trial was nothing more than a modern-day political hit job that should leave everyone in fear.


ANTHONY BUZARD
Cranberry


Oh poor Libby, he's a millionaire lawyer and got to pay a $250,000 fina and serve probation oh poor you. Seriously $250k to Scooter is nothing but chunk change same with probation. No matter how you spin it it's hardly a sentence because he's not in jail and he still gets to walk the streets a free man. And I still don't get how Marc Rich has anything to do with pardons. Rich never worked for Clinton and he sure as hell wasn't involved with leaking the name of a CIA officer.

[calimary]

1. But that's what they do for a living -get things wrong.

[DeadElephant_ORG]

2. "Clinton did it - only worse" is so TIRED !

[razzleberry]

3. M.R. was a traitor, for money .n/t