Word came through today that Scooter Libby was found guilty in four of the five charges lev­eled against him, includ­ing the most severe ones.

• Libby Guilty of Lying in C.I.A. Leak Case

To be com­pletely honest, I’m pretty sur­prised that he was actu­ally found guilty. Fitzgerald’s case seemed solid to me, but prov­ing beyond a rea­son­able doubt about whether or not it was pos­si­ble to forget some­thing is a tough call. I thought for sure that Libby was going to get off when the jury asked for clar­i­fi­ca­tion from the judge about what ‘reasonable doubt’ actu­ally meant. Basi­cally, the jury was given the task of read­ing someone’s mind.

I’m happy that finally some sort of jus­tice is being lev­eled against this admin­is­tra­tion. In my mind, we haven’t seen an admin­is­tra­tion this full of crooks since this guy.

It’s really unfor­tu­nate that Fitzger­ald sounds like he’s not going to take this case any fur­ther (read: Cheney and Rove). Even though I believe (given the cov­er­age of the trial) that Libby is guilty, I feel like he is just a low-​level guy who was obvi­ously tasked to pro­tect those above him. I say give him two medals: one for loy­alty, and one for stu­pid­ity. Then send him to prison.