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"A Long Hard Road"

Teresa Nielsen Hayden suggests no one waste too much sympathy on Scooter Libby:

. . .the VRWC deliberately saw to it that many of Clinton's loyalists left government service with their personal finances in shambles. No White House in history has ever been so mercilessly prosecuted, nor so thoroughly exonerated, as the Clinton administration. It'll take a long hard road and years of misery before I'll feel sorry for the likes of Scooter Libby.

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There are prisoners in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo and, Lord God Almighty, in the United States itself, who are never going to get a hundredth part of the fairness, conscientiousness, and scrupulous regard for the sanctity of the law, that Scooter Libby will be able to take for granted as he conducts his defense. What we do know is that a significant fraction of those prisoners were scooped up semi-randomly. They've gotten no mercy. And all along, Libby's been up to his ears in the counsels and actions of the administration that deprived those prisoners of freedom, justice, and in some cases their lives.

There's more at the link; it's the best example of a refusal to accept the false equivalence of the Clinton "scandals" I've seen in years. She also suggests reading what Paul Begala has to say on the subject.

Yep. Shed no tears for Scooter.