Scooter Libby convicted on 4 of 5 counts in CIA leak case.

Scooter Libby took a long fall for this. He was prosecuted for lying to a jury that was investigating a crime, yet no charges came of that. So this conviction basically is only admitting that he lied. It is a pure political conviction. Libby may have lied to the jury, but one must take into consideration that his testimony was given in the case of the Valerie Plame leak, which Richard Armitage had already admitted to. So one must ask, why did he have to testify anyway?

I just hope the investigation keeps going to reveal that the president had told his little henchmen to go after anyone who disagreed with him this way. I just bet that Libby was acting on orders to threaten that woman's family because her husband questioned the statistics that brought about the war in Iraq. It is time that this administration was held accountable for all the lives they have destroyed while trying to surpress the truth.

What is interesting is that in both the Libby Jury and the Martha Stewart Jury was several of the jurers felt that some one had to be punished for the crime they were to have lied about. This is dangerious because if the jury can find you guilty of a crime you that are charged with, based on the fact that another crime was committed by someone else but never convicted. Consider this example. There is an hit and run accident with injurys and property damage. You are questioned because you drive that road almost every day at the time the accident occured. You are questioned by the police and you answer their questions to the best of your ablity. They ask you if you were on the road and you tell them that you were there about 3 hours earlier. Later you are questioned by by the Sheriffs Department and give them the same information except you say that it was a Tuesday night and you worked until 5pm instead of 4pm, so you were on the road about 2 hours earlier than the accident. At the Grand Jury you repeat the same story. The DA showes you a credit card bill and it showes that you stopped at the gas station to fill up and it would put you on the road within minutes of the accident. They never find the person who was involved inthe hit and run. You are charged with lying to the police. During the trial the DA makes a point how bad the accident was and how this person was hurt. The jury convicts you of perjury because the person who was hurt is suffering and some one has to be to blame. Is that Justice?