Richard Cohen of the Washington Post hits the Scooter Libby prosecution issue nail on its head.

With the sentencing of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Fitzgerald has apparently finished his work, which was, not to put too fine a point on it, to make a mountain out of a molehill. At the urging of the liberal press (especially the New York Times), he was appointed to look into a run-of-the-mill leak and wound up prosecuting not the leaker -- Richard Armitage of the State Department -- but Libby, convicted in the end of lying. This is not an entirely trivial matter since government officials should not lie to grand juries, but neither should they be called to account for practicing the dark art of politics. As with sex or real estate, it is often best to keep the lights off.

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The thing I find remarkable is the irrationality of the left that cheered the Libby prosecution for no better reason than they hate half the citizens of this country and our elected leaders. While decrying the Patriot act, Guantanamo and other infringements of civil rights, an obvious political prosecution was no problem--highlighting the obvious--the left has no principles, just friends and enemies--a thoroughly medieval sensibility.