Lewis "Liar, Liar" Libby

Given the judge's willingness to proselytize on the virtue of "not do[ing] anything that might create a problem", one wonders why Libby was even convicted. Now, THAT's a problem.

Let's take extenuating circumstances into account.

Mr. Libby has spent the most recent part of his career faithfully serving the lyingest presidential administration since, well, the last administration.

He is married. A socially-induced state of self-denial and deception. [Thank you, Mr. Kubrick.]

He has children. A force-authority dependent relationship of hypocrisy and outright lies.

He's a lawyer, and made a huge amount of money defending extraordinarily wealthy people who also lied.

There's so much more juice on Wikipedia, I'll let you explore (and be shocked) yourself.

He's a founding member of the Project for the New American Century. Need I say more?

If I were LL's lawyer, I'd probably vote to fry him, but then, what a dangerous precendent to set! Actually convicting white collar criminals who defraud the public welfare through ruthless and underhanded politics?

Sounds like business as usual in DC to me.

Tell me again, why is he the only one up for a conviction?