Washington - Defense lawyers argued Thursday that Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff should serve no time in prison for lying about the leak of a covert agent's identity, on the grounds that he is a selfless, apolitical public servant with an otherwise "exemplary" record.
Lewis "Scooter" Libby's attorneys asserted in a court filing that a federal prosecutor's proposal that their client spend 30 to 37 months in prison is "grossly disproportionate" to the crimes that provoked a jury's guilty verdict in March.
Can this situation get any more ridiculous? Scooter Libby is a selfless Patriot and a dedicated public servant. After spending months fighting a frivolous prosecution, and now having been frivolously convicted, Scooter, if anything, deserves compensation from Valerie Plame for all the time he has had to waste in court. I suggest he sue her for treason as well.
