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The Commutation Of Lewis Libby
Posted by Pejman Yousefzadeh on Tue Jul 03, 2007 at 10:10:50 AM EST
I am basically on board with Tim Noah's arguments, though if Libby's sentence was twice as long as the standard sentence in these circumstances--as Noah points out--then perhaps an argument could be made that the President should have simply cut the sentence in half while leaving the fine in place. Of course, as we all know, there are a number of public officials who paid little to no penalty at all for perjury coughbillclintoncough and it is amusing to see many of the supporters of one of those public officials coughbillclintoncough now say that perjury should be punished fully, completely and even beyond the standard extent of the law.
It wouldn't have shocked or angered me if Libby had to serve his full sentence. I want to make that clear. Perjury is a serious offense and it should be severely punished. But punishments ought to be consistent across the board. It isn't quite fair that Presidents of the United States get away with perjury while aides to a Vice President are forced to take the fall for the sustainability of public laws and ethics.
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