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"The indictment merely demonstrated that the cliche' about the cover-up being worse than the crime is especially true when there was no crime to begin with". That's what John Tierney said in Saturday's NYT about Scooter Libbey's indictment by Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald for lying .
When prosecutors couldn't get Martha Stewart for insider trading they nailed her for lying to a cop. Judith Miller went to jail for not giving up the source (Libby) of a story she didn't write. And now Libby is indicted for lying about who fingered a non secret CIA agent, a non criminal act. The real crime is being a grown man named "Scooter". He should have a dignified handle like "Chip".
Yes, Chip is much more dignified. It has that certain je ne sais quoi.