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Originally Posted by djnemo65
According to this article the case has a good chance of being overturned on appeal so why not just let that run it's course? I assume by the thread title you are one of those calling on President Bush to issue a pardon right?
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The reason I would support a pardon,as oppossed to letting the wheels of justice turn at their leisurely pace, is that Patrick Fitzgerald and Judge Walton seem determined to send Libby to jail before his appeals, which as Hitchens points out are strong on the merits, are allowed to be heard. He could spend three years in jail before an appeals court finally gets around to throwing his conviction out, which they certainly should.
Fitzgerald should have put a stop to this as soon as he realized Valerie Wilson was not covered by the Identities Protection Act. He didn't in my opinion for two reasons:
1. The press would have turned their venom on him and accused him of covering up, and
2. Prosecutors exist to prosecute people. There is saying among their tribe that goes something like, "Anyone can convict a guilty man, but you have to be a really good lawyer to convict someone that's innocent." Witness Mike Nifong.
Meanwhile Dick Armitage is already on his third martini.