Moyers On Libby's "Killer Lie"

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Bill Moyers gets it right on Libby, as he usually does. Look for this tonight on the Journal.

"..It is well known that I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby-once Vice President Cheney’s most trusted adviser-has been sentenced to 30 months in jail for perjury. Lying. Not a white lie, mind you. A killer lie. Scooter Libby deliberately poured poison into the drinking water of democracy by lying to federal investigators, for the purpose of obstructing justice...

"..One Beltway insider reports that the entire community is grieving-”weighted down by the sheer, glaring unfairness” of Libby’s sentence.

And there’s the rub.

None seem the least weighted down by the sheer, glaring unfairness of sentencing soldiers to repeated and longer tours of duty in a war induced by deception. It was left to the hawkish academic Fouad Ajami to state the matter baldly. In a piece published on the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal, Ajami pleaded with Bush to pardon Libby. For believing “in the nobility of this war,” wrote Ajami, Scooter Libby had himself become a “casualty”-a fallen soldier the President dare not leave behind on the Beltway battlefield..."

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http://www.lightupthedarkness.org/blog/

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