if it says ‘guilty, guilty, guilty’ on the label, label, label…

I heard an interview on the way home with Mike Isikoff, Newsweek investigative reporter and co-author of Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War. He and the NPR talking head were smiling through the radio about the verdict in the Libby trial, and talking about what the case did (and didn’t) clear up.

Melissa Block (the NPR-type-person) was asking why there hadn’t been any further prosecution for the leaking of the Plame-name.

It is NOT ILLEGAL to name a CIA operative unless they are classified as covert. It wasn’t nice, it wasn’t wise, it was short-sighted; but it was not illegal.

And where do the people crying for crucifixions here get off? The crime that led to a conviction was lying to a grand jury. Didn’t Pres. Bill do the same thing?

As soon as the word “guilty” was out of the jury foreman’s mouth, Harry I-didn’t-throw-millions-in-government-contracts-to-my-brother Reid was calling on the President to pledge to not pardon the Scootster – all in the name of restoring the peoples’ trust in their government.

Hate to tell you, Harry, but there are many sins on both sides of the aisle. Restoring trust in government is going to require that everybody come clean…and I don’t see that happening.