SCOOTER LIBBY
When you remind Democrats that Bill Clinton lied to a Grand Jury and wasn’t indicted they come back with the James Carville mantra that it was only about sex and this is about national security. But the prosecutor can find no national security issue here, just that Libby said that he heard Plame’s name from reporters and not Dick Cheney as his email suggests. And let’s get it straight. Bill Clinton’s lies were a result on his frequent attacks on women not just consensual sex. Monica Lewinsky came to light while investigating Paul Jones harassment complaint. So unless Democrats want to step forward and say that attacking women is peachy, these situations look more similar.
Why did Libby lie? I think he was trying to keep Cheney’s name out of the papers, because although it was no crime for Cheney to tell his own chief of staff, the press doesn’t let such details stop them from exacting their pint of blood. And the press would have known immediately, just like we knew who was being indicted hours before the announcement yesterday.
And speaking of National Security, didn’t Sandy Berger get caught stealing top secret documents? Where were the screaming Democrats a few months ago? Missing documents that made the 9-11 commission report incomplete may have been more meaningful than Libby’s fib.
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