Bush commuted Libby’s jail sentence today; apparently lying to and obstructing the FBI in a national security investigation is only worthy of a fine. As much as this is great news for Scooter, how much does it suck to be Judith Miller today? She willingly went to jail for 85 days to protect Libby. In fact, she went above and beyond the call of duty (cf., Matthew Cooper) as Libby had signed a waiver for Miller to testify but Miller was worried that the waiver had been “coerced.” So she stayed in jail until Scooter called her personally and told her to testify. And now Libby, who actually perpetrated the crimes, gets off with probation.
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Want to ask @PublicDebt if the Fed Gov't ever refinances the public debt, but apparently they don't respond to tweets.
1 day agoKrugman uses his much larger stage to point out what I was tweeting re Romney on Wed. Thanks PK! http://t.co/yeFoiRK7
1 day agois hoping that @ezraklein will elucidate whether "someone else gained" the $2b that JPMorgan lost http://t.co/iGefo4wN
3 days agoI bet $10,000 that Romney can't point me to who "gained" in JPMorgan's $2bil mark-to-market loss http://t.co/iGefo4wN
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