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To: Sam who wrote (223576)	3/11/2007 2:20:55 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Either way, the pardon is a must for Mr. Bush. He needs Mr. Libby to keep his mouth shut. Cheney's Cheney knows too much about covert administration schemes far darker than the smearing of Joseph Wilson Rich is in the fever swamps here. Not only is he clinging to the discredited notion that Libbey was "smearing" Joe Wilson (unless you just accept that "to smear" = "to criticize" when the target is a Democrat) but he's just positive that Libbey is covering for some deep dark Cheney scheme. What, for crying out loud? Libbey is supposed to have committed perjury to save Cheney being exposed for...WHAT? Has anybody even got a theory? The only thing Rich puts forward is promulgating the Iraq war policy, "tarted up" (to borrow a phrase) in the most sinister possible light. Well Cheney did promulgate the Iraq War policy. But that was a policy that the administration was legally entitled to promulgate however little Mr. Rich likes it. He should be careful about wishing for the criminalization of politics. The same way the New York Times should have been careful about wishing for a special counsel to investigate Mr. Libbey. They made a scourge for their own back; every reporter is now much more likely to get called in the next such investigation and threatened with jail. And the next administration prosecuted for its politics may be a Democratic one.