Scooter Libby Justice

Glenn Greenwald

A restoration of the rule of law — meaning an end to immunity for high-level political officials who commit crimes — was a central prong of the Obama campaign.  Those who called for a pardon of Lewis Libby — even on the oh-so-clever “progressive” political grounds concocted by Bauer — were as antithetical to that pledge could be.  Yet here is that pro-pardon Washington lawyer now being named as White House counsel.

Then again, one of the few positions more expressive of “Scooter Libby justice” than calling for a pardon of Libby himself is the view that all high-level Bush officials should be immunized from prosecution — even those who committed grievous war crimes and other serious felonies — because it’s more important that we “look to the future” than it is to apply the rule of law equally. If immunity for high-level war criminals — and for lawbreakinng telecoms — isn’t “Scooter Libby justice,” what is?

Viewed that way, Bauer will seem to fit in well in his new position.

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  1. I told you this was probably bad.

    • Heather on November 14, 2009 at 13:06

    Did Craig have a statement on why he resigned?

  2. A method used so that the participant can’t be used or commented on in an “on going investigation”.

    By not pardoning scooter libby and delaying it to the last bit it could be used as a means of blackmailing the individual into staying shut.  I bet libby got a chat somewhat like this from cheney  “If you cooperate with the president, Libby, we will sweep this under the rug.  If you don’t, then have fun in jail.”.  

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