Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Equal Justice Under the Law

This has been bothering me for some time now. Scooter Libby may have lied under oath. He may have mislead the grand jury to cover up what he said to whom. That's kind of serious i guess. Is there another crime here? Did he intentionally reveal the identity of an undercover CIA agent? I don't think so, that's not what the indictment says. This guy is facing 30 years in prison. Seems excessive to me, but even if the punishment fits the crime, what about some high profile people who have done worse? We have addressed it many times here on this blog already, but it's worth mentioning again. Sandy Berger was caught red handed stealing classified national security documents from the archives in the middle of a war! He then destroyed those documents, and then he lied about it. Then he admitted it, and got a small fine. Seems like his crimes were a little worse, no? What about Clinton? He lied under oath about his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Then he got caught. No jail time? Libby is facing 30 years, and Clinton got no jail time? What about Berger? Libby is facing 30 years, and Berger didn't even face indictment? Doesn't seem like Equal justice to me.

4 comments:

Jimbo said...

MMmmm berger.

Jimbo said...

Just curious why ya don't have the RSS feed thingamajiggy going on your site...would make reading the updates SO much easier? Pwease...

Rhino-itall said...

whats the rss feed?

Jimbo said...

Check your email soon. ;)