Why should Libby be pardoned? He committed perjury, just like Clinton did, so let his suffer the consequences. I don’t see the slightest support for giving him a pardon from my fellow conservatives and don’t believe “the base” really finds this to be an issue.
Exactly. Let him go to jail, just like Clinton did.
I’m not convinced Libby committed perjury, even if Fitzgerald could get a jury of 12 Bush-haters to buy his theory that he did. For it to be perjury, it would have to be a conscious lie about a material point, rather than an error of memory, and the whole thing seems to come down to conflicting memories by Libby and Russert of a conversation that neither may have had a clear recollection of. That the judge allowed a friend of Russert’s on the jury (to sway the rest) when Russert’s testimony was the key evidence is an outrage.
..and I think the model for Libby should be Liddy. Like Libby, Liddy had an outstanding public service record (FBI) but, unlike Libby, Liddy took his medicine, never sought letters of support from anyone or a pardon from Nixon. He was the only one in the whole Watergate affair to keep his mouth shut and stand true to his ideals of loyalty. It earned him a ton of respect, fame and eventual fortune. It earned his main detractor today (John Dean) much scorn and ridicule from those who once were GOP friends (his "friends" today are former RAT enemies for whom he dances, puppet-like, and who regard him as a stooge and wouldn't walk across the street to help if they found him face down in a coma). I believe that will also be the fate of Joe Wilson eventually. Libby has been a crybaby about the Plame matter.