Bush may have worried that sitting in prison, Libby might pen a nonfiction of his White House years

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Martha Stewart, Li'l Kim lacked a lobby like Libby's

By Eugene Robinson
The Washington Post
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070712/A_OPINION0608/707120322/-1/A_OPINION06
July 12, 2007 6:00 AM
Let's put this in perspective.

Martha Stewart is convicted of conspiracy, making false statements and obstruction of justice, and soon she's decorating a prison cell.

Li'l Kim is convicted of perjury before a grand jury and conspiracy, and off to the big house she goes.

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When Scooter Libby is found guilty of perjury before a grand jury, lying to FBI investigators and obstruction of justice - basically the same crimes that got Stewart and Li'l Kim locked up, and miles beyond anything Hilton ever did - George W. Bush intervenes to save Libby from the indignity of spending a single night behind bars.

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It's true the Libby affair pales beside other abuses of power - the war in Iraq, intrusive domestic surveillance, secret CIA prisons, Guantanamo Bay, torture "lite" and whatever else Bush and Cheney have done to the Constitution that we don't know about yet.

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Then again, Bush might have worried that sitting in prison, with time on his hands, novelist Libby might turn his pen to a nonfiction memoir of his White House years.

"High Crimes and Misdemeanors" would have been a good working title.