Bush commutes Libby sentence

[Jester]

She was still classified as "covert" and for the ignorant masses she may have been, but she was known within the world intelligence community as an operative since her first outing back in the 1980's iirc by the Soviets.

Hm. I'd not heard that angle, with the Soviets involved. From whence does this come?

I just feel that taken to the next level we will have show trials and need to have Amnesty International on letter writing campaigns for political prisoners within the US.

... I'm confused. Scooter libby obstructs justice and perjures himself, and is sentenced to an entirely reasonable 30 months for those crimes. That doesn't exactly sound like a step away from show trials and political prisoners. If anything, a reasonably functional justice system is being impeded in its task by political interference.

And, IIRC, you already have Amnesty International writing to your government asking them to release the prisoners held at Guantanamo wihtout due process.

-Jester