Scooter didn't skate. He just had his prison sentence commuted. He still has to pay huge fines and he most likely cannot practice law anymore. He will also be on probation for two years.
Bush should have just pardoned Libby. He was completely railroaded in a political witch hunt.
The guy that leaked the name of the Democrat CIA agent to Robert Novak was NEVER charged with anything. They knew his name from day one of the investigation.
There was no crime that occurred to warrant the Special Counsel and grand jury investigation. If there was a crime, Richard Armitage would have been charged, but he wasn't. Why is that? Is it because Armitage was a liberal? He was the "so-called leaker", so if there was a crime, he should have been charged. Ironically, Libby used to be Richard Armitage's lawyer.
Libby should not have to go to jail for not remembering conversations he had with reporters. No fucking way. Tim Russert's testimony under oath to the grand jury was no less shaky then Libby's recollections. How come Tim Russert was not charged with lying for not having a good memory of certain conversations? I think we all know the answer to that.
Tim Russert was involved in all of this up to his eyeballs. His wife is a hot shot editor at Vanity Fair Magazine. I'm sure everyone recalls that when the Democrats first made an issue of this after Robert Novak's column, Valerie Plame and her husband appeared in a big spread in Vanity Fair. Like Tim Russert had nothing to do with any of this complete political bullshit story and witch hunt from the beginning. Bullshit.
This guy Libby was railroaded from the get go. Bush should have just pardoned him.
None of this should ever have happened in the first place. The entire scenario was a travesty of justice and politically motivated prosecutorial misconduct.
People who say Libby should have gone to jail usually either don't know a damn thing about the entire case or are just partisans themselves who wish to criminalize politics.
This entire case was a complete miscarriage of justice from the beginning.