Reminds me of the story of the funeral of a guy who was a pretty despicable person. The minister asked the people in attendance ( rumor had it they were just there to be sure he was dead <s> ) if anyone could come up to say a nice word about the deceased. Long long pause. "Isn't there anything to be said for this man?" asked the minister. Somebody yelled "His brother was worse!"


>>>Fun fact : Just learned today that when Mark Rich was having his "problems" causing him to go into exile his lawyer was ( wait for it ..... ) Scooter Libby !!
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>>>It's like and Appalachian Wedding/Family Reunion <bg>
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>>This is about as fair and balanced ( hey, this is a Fox forum <g> ) analysis of the whole thing as I've seen ( relax, Mike - it's from CNN )
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>>http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/07/04/unpardonable.politics.ap/index.html
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>Agreed. I have never defended the pardon of Marc Rich and some of the others. (At least one news outlet should use the headline "Pot Calls Kettle Black" in coverage of Pres. Clinton's criticism yesterday of the Libby commutation). But hypocrisy is no excuse for what Bush did. That should be viewed on its own merits, not with a lowest-common-denominator viewpoint that it's OK if someone else did something as bad or worse.
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>Let's say you're on the jury in a murder trial and the defense's argument is "Hey, this is nothing, John Wayne Gacy killed 40 kids." Would you find that persuasive?
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>What I want to find out is whether Valerie Plame was covert or not. She is routinely described in news report as a (former) covert agent but you say she was not. Will post back with whatever I find.