My letter to Judge Walton, Scooter Libby's Judge

June 19, 2007

To: The Honorable Reggie B. Walton
United States District Court
District of Columbia

Re: I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby


Dear Sir,

I am writing this letter in response to the events of the past several months regarding the trial and conviction of “Scooter” Libby for various counts of perjury and lying to Federal investigators, and of the public-relations campaign initiated by those he has lied for to moderate his sentence.

I would request that you throw the book at Mr. Libby. As hard as you can.

The people that Mr. Libby lied for, President Bush, Vice-President Cheney, and/or other very senior administration officials have directly or indirectly orchestrated the destruction of a critical international intelligence-gathering apparatus at a critical time. An apparatus designed to seek out and document nuclear proliferation by secretive, hostile regimes. Something that I got the impression was somewhat important for our national security, seeing as how we invaded Iraq on that basis and are threatening to invade Iran on a similar one.

What those Very Senior Administration officials did by revealing Valerie Plame’s identity was the equivalent of Kenney’s people destroying the Air Force’s fleet of U-2 surveillance aircraft in early 1961. Think about it: a critical intelligence-gathering operation, difficult and expensive to create and difficult and expensive to replace, was deliberately taken out of commission at a critical time during a search for evidence of nuclear weapons. Except Kennedy didn’t want war with Cuba. Cheney’s lust for a war with Iran is well-documented.

If Libby was covering for Very Senior Administration officials that orchestrated the planted thermite devices in the Air Force’s U-2s, everybody would be screaming for his head. Even if nobody died from the destruction of the airplanes. And we do not know if the destruction of the Brewster Jennings organization had caused any American agents to die.

What Libby did was aiding and abetting treason after the fact.

Sir John Harington said, way back in the late 16th or early 17th century, “Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”

Call it what it is. Call it treason.

Thank you for your time, Judge Walton.

Sincerely,




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