The link in my previous post is thanks to a new blog: No Caption Needed. It is both a book
I should probably add this:
(This isn’t breaking news so we may have covered it earlier, but I don’t recall seeing it here.)
This morning, “Orin Kerr noted”:http://volokh.com/posts/1183395435.shtml that a three-judge panel had declined delay jail time for Scooter Libby. In an early “comment”:http://volokh.com/posts/1183395435.shtml#237628 on the thread, I said:
bq. Now we’ll see whether Libby has enough leverage to get a pardon before he goes to jail, or whether he’ll have to wait. Seeing as Bush’s ratings are permanently in the toilet, and he probably doesn’t think Libby didn’t anything wrong anyway, a pardon might well be forthcoming.
And as things turned out this afternoon, “it certainly didn’t take long to come forth.”:http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/washington/AP-CIA-Leak-Trial.html?hp Bush commuted Libby’s sentence. (Not a pardon, so we still get to call him a convicted criminal — at least till January 2009, when I imagine a full pardon will be dispensed. But the bottom line is, no jail time for Scooter.) Well done good and faithful servant, I suppose.