One point of agreement among the jurors seems to have been that Libby's a patsy. When one juror spoke to the press, he expressed this feeling.
Noting that he was the only juror that planned to speak at this time, Dennis Collins offered insight in a post-trial press conference after he and ten fellow citizens found former Vice President I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby guilty of four charges of perjury, obstruction of justice, and making a false statement.
"It seemed like Libby was the fall guy," the jury believed according to Collins.
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"Some jurors commented 'this sucks' for Libby..."
Apparently, the real culprits -- Dick Cheney and Karl Rove -- remain at large. This is not a victimless crime, although some would have you think it is. I flipped over to FOX and saw Brit Hume pushing this bit of BS:
News Hounds:
Well, in this case that's true because Scooter Libby is charged with lying during the course of an investigation that began as an investigation as to how and whether the name of a covert CIA agent had been illegally leaked by a Bush administration official. Well it turned out, of course, indeed the name had been leaked. Whether the woman was covert, Valerie Plame was covert within the meaning of the law, remains at this point, still unclear. Unlikely she was.
This is so ridiculous on its face that I'm surprised that Hume didn't blush when he said it. But I guess shamelessness is a job requirement for working at FOX. If Plame hadn't been a covert operative, the investigation would've died there -- you don't investigate the release of information that's publicly available.
The truth is that the people in this administration go much, much farther in their sense of entitlement than merely believing they're above the law. Like Raskolnikov in Doestoevski's Crime and Punishment, they believe that there is a different set of morals and ethics for history's 'great men.' History travels over the backs of the unfortunate and if it crushes a few, so what? Men of destiny shouldn't be concerned with petty consequences. The lives of the small are forgotten by history and, therefore, worrying about what happens to them is beyond absurd. The gardener doesn't cry when his hoe splits a worm.
Scooter has switched teams -- he used to be one of history's untouchables, now he's a worm.
Luckily, there's a remedy for this sort of thinking -- impeachment...
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