King George lets Libby escape prison time

As many of us expected, King George commuted Scooter Libby's sentence for Obstruction of Justice. Libby will serve zero day in the bucket, although the conviction and the fines continue to stand. (For now, until the full pardon later on).

What did Scooter actually do? Lied and misled a grand jury, under oath, during an investigation of the political 'outing' of undercover agent Valerie Plame's identity. In truth, Scooter played a major role in leaking to the press about Plame, blowing her cover, and possibly ruining a source of intelligence on Iranian nukes. To the grand jury, he told self-serving, and administration protecting, lies.

Now the pay back. He gets off without prison. Hmmmm.... seems like a quid pro quo to me. A pay off. A bribe. But Bush has nothing to fear. After all, which U.S. Attroney would come after him?

This is a travesty of the 'no man is above the law' myth.