One of These Things is not Like the Other
Published by BG on Thursday, June 07, 2007 at 2:12 PM.William Otis - Neither Prison Nor Pardon - washingtonpost.com
A sense of proportionality argues in favor of eliminating Libby's prison term. This was an unusually harsh sentence for a first offender convicted of a nonviolent and non-drug-related crime. Sandy Berger, national security adviser to President Bill Clinton, was not sentenced to prison for sneaking documents out of the National Archives, destroying them and then lying to investigators. For his actions, Berger received no jail time, a fine one-fifth of that imposed on Libby and 100 hours of community service.
$1 and membership in the Junior Truthtellers Association to the first person who can tell me what the difference is between the story behind Berger's penalty and Scooter's, and why the penalties shouldn't be compared side-by-side.
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