"Scooter" Libby

October has come and is about gone. Several items in the news caught my attention but by the time I thought of adding my two-cents, the moments passed. I’ll end the month with comments on the recent indictment of I. Lewis (“Scooter”) Libby.

I am surprised at the number of apologists from the Republican camp who think Mr. Libby should not have been indicted. I’m conservative and support the present administration; I was also disappointed to read about the indictment, but having read it, I can’t condone the alleged lying. Ironically Mr. Libby tried to set the record straight when Mr. Joe Wilson lied about the relevance of his trip to Africa. The moral is they don’t hand out indictments for lying in the pages of the New York Times but they do for telling them in front of a grand jury.