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Well, if Sandy Berger’s sentencing was any indication, I expect Jefferson might get a mean look… or possibly a stern talking to (but that might be excessive).

Having lived in Louisiana, I can assure you that Mr. Jefferson was carrying on with business as usual. (No, not all Louisiana politicos are crooks, but an awful lot are.) Given that said bills were marked, and part of a sting operation, I would be more likely to believe him innocent if he were a representative of another state such as Maine, Washington, or Iowa. As it is, we have a corrupt culture in Washington. He deserves a lot of time in federal prison. It’s possible that his only “punishment” might be being the topic of skits on SNL. As it is, none of his colleagues seem too interested in turning against him. Perhaps they have something to hide? It is almost certain that Nancy Pelosi hires illegals to work in her non-union vineyards. She also sells her high-end grapes to non-union wineries.

Have to agree with Maria. Its kind of business as usual. But since he is a Democrat, he will get actual jail time and no pardon from Bush (unlike Scooter). Its still who know in DC. Too bad they don’t go after the sponsors of the Medicare drug bill. Now that was some serious bribe money.

Las Vegas Real Estate Agent is misinformed any way… Libby didn’t do anything, and he only “went down” because the stupid prosecutor knew he had to charge someone with something or the Dems would have rioted in the streets.

Here’s the short version for you LV Real – Plame wasn’t “secret”. She also wasn’t covert, and certainly not covered under the law that was in question throughout the case. Everyone knew that from the get go. So even using the word “leak” or saying “CIA leak case” was misleading the entire time, because her identity wasn’t “leakable”, and the trial wasn’t about “leak” it was about whether Libby lied to investigators. HUGE difference. We also KNOW that the one who did “leak” was State Dept.’s Richard Armitage, a critic of Bush’s Iraq policy. The best part? Fitzgerald KNEW that before the investigation got underway, and the investigation should have ended the day he learned that. But he, especially under pressure from the Dems and MSM was forced to go on this Rove/Libby witch hunt.

In the end, Libby was convicted of not remembering the exact details of a conversation that would have obviously seemed unimportant to him at the time, months after the fact. I’d like to see most people remember what they ate and wore for clothing on any given day more than a week ago! BTW, Russert had the EXACT same memory issue, telling contradicting accounts of the conversation. When you have dozens of brief conversations about things that don’t seem that important at the time, are you really going to remember exactly how they went down many months later? Well Libby didn’t remember, and was convicted of a crime for it, because they couldn’t take anyone down for a “leak”.

Berger on the other hand stole and destroyed classified documents, the contents of which we’re still in the dark about, before testifying before the 9/11 Commission, clearly hiding something the Clintons didn’t want us to find out about, and he got a tiny (for him) fine, and lost his privileges to the archives.

“Maybe he still will?”

Maybe, but I suspect he’s a “drive byer” though… They spit out the MSM propaganda surrounding the Plame situation (I refuse to call it the “leak case”), and when someone presents them with the actual facts surrounding the case, they generally don’t have a whole lot more to offer.

Calling it the “leak case” doesn’t infuriate me as bad as calling what happened in NoLa “Hurricane Katrina” though. Katrina struck New Orleans with weak Category 1 to 2 conditions, and a levees (that weren’te even supposed to “overtop” with anything less than a 3) broke, flooding neighborhoods that could have been evacuated if city and state officials had followed their own plans (i.e. using the buses, etc.), especially after Bush pleaded twice, days earlier, for them to enforce a mandatory evacuation. It didn’t help that Louisiana’s emergency team was awaiting trial for some $65 million in missing federal cash. And then it didn’t help when Gov. Blanco attacked Bush on TV for not sending help, while she was on the other line telling the Red Cross (who was there with supplies) that they couldn’t go to the Super Dome.

Anyway, sorry about that off topic rant, I just get so sick of hearing (even from the most conservative of voices) the “devastation of Hurricane Katrina” “The worst natural disaster”, etc. It wasn’t a “natural” disaster, it was a VERY man made disaster, and the hurricane had VERY little to do with it. Sadly virtually everyone in the country (and world) is under the impression that some massive Cat 5 storm annihilated the city, which couldn’t be further from the truth.

Again, sorry about the off topic rant, but “CIA leak case” reminded me of “Hurricane Katrina” and I couldn’t help myself.