From M.J. Rosenberg at TPM Cafe we get an article decrying Richard Cohen’s belief that Libby should be pardoned because there was no underlying crime.
His main point is that since there was “no underlying crime,” lying to the grand jury about it was no crime either.
What’s funny is that Rosenberg goes on to reinforce exactly what Cohen was saying.
No underlying crime!
Scooter Libby was a key part of a group of government officials who lied this country into a war that has cost us 3500 soldiers and destroyed a foreign country.
It is a war we have lost and which we will be paying for decades hence.
Hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of people will never get over the losses they suffered as a result of Scooter (and his buddies’ war). It is sad that Scooter is, at this point, the only one facing jail time. Feith, Perle and the whole bunch should be brought up on charges.
So let me get this right. He disagrees with Cohen’s position that there was no underlying crime to commit perjury on and as his evidence he doesn’t cite any evidence. Rather, he spews BDS vomit all over the place.
I’m sure he’d agree with the statement that Clinton’s impeachment was just, not because he lied to a grand jury, but because he bombed an aspirin factory in Sudan.