he was convicted in a much bigger case then Clintons, on a natinal security issue,and yes lost his job...becuse he was sent to jail...they kinda had to. And then they made sure he never paid any price for it.
You don't even understand the case at all do you?
The question was who released Valerie Plame name. It wasn't Libby. Moreover, the prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, knew that at the beginning. Robert Novak said this:
For nearly the entire time of his investigation, Fitzgerald knew — independent of me — the identity of the sources I used in my column of July 14, 2003. That Fitzgerald did not indict any of these sources may indicate his conclusion that none of them violated the Intelligence Identities Protection Act.... In my sworn testimony, I said what I have contended in my columns and on television: Joe Wilson's wife's role in instituting her husband's mission was revealed to me in the middle of a long interview with an official who I have previously said was not a political gunslinger. After the federal investigation was announced, he told me through a third party that the disclosure was inadvertent on his part. Following my interview with the primary source, I sought out the second administration official and the CIA spokesman for confirmation. I learned Valerie Plame's name from Joe Wilson's entry in "Who's Who in America." (Italics added.)
So the entire time of the investigation, Fitzgerald knew explicitely that the leak had nothing to do with Libby. That it was Richard Armitage who told Novak, that Joseph C. Wilson's wife was at the CIA.
Now I ask you again, if there was a violation of law, why didn't he go after Armitage? If he knew who leaked the story to begin with, why was Libby even brought to court?
You know, I've explained this whole case to you a number of times, you and ignorantly return to your stupidity like a dog to his own vomit. A fifth grader could figure this out. Why can't you?
This was a political attack, and had nothing to do with violations of law. Libby shouldn't have even been in court, let alone convicted of made up charges.
Oh and by the way, the Federal Jury didn't have all the evidence. The judge explicitely forbid evidence about Plame's status at the FBI. They never even determined if Valerie Plame, who's "undercover code name" was "Valerie Plame", was even considered an undercover operative. Which of course she wasn't, which is why Fitzgerald never called Richard Armitage to the stand, when he's the one who leaked the name.
Nor did they get to cross examine Richard Armitage, which would have exonerated Libby. Nor where they given the documents, that the defense of Libby requested, about Plame's status as a CIA agent... which was 'Analyst', a classification not covered by the Identity Protection Act.
