RADIO TIDBITS

WW was complaining again about how the press doesn't report on the good things that are happening in Iraq and one is tempted to ask, "Yeah, like what, bitch?" After wasting 10s of billions of dollars on reconstruction, including handing out bricks of 100 dollar bills, Iraq's infrastructure is still worse off than before our invasion.

Brit Hume was a guest and what he had to say about the Libby trial was very interesting considering how much a "rule of law" conservative he is when it comes to Democrats misbehaving.

(from Lexis-Nexis)
FOX NEWS SUNDAY 9:00 AM EST
January 28, 2007 Sunday
Fox News Sunday Roundtable
Chris Wallace, Brit Hume, Mara Liasson, Bill Kristol, Juan Williams

(Excerpts)

HUME: Juan, all that may be so or may not be so. However, it is almost inescapable to conclude that this vaunted prosecutor, who is a very impressive man, Patrick Fitzgerald, labored long here, long after he knew who the original leaker was that he was assigned to find and track down, and brought forth a mouse.

HUME: We are in the midst of a not-very-serious case. What we're in the midst of is charges brought against somebody for crimes alleged to have been committed after the investigation began and in the course of the investigation. The investigation produced no crime.

WILLIAMS: OK, so what you want to charge is prosecutorial misconduct.

WALLACE: Wait, wait. No, Mara, go ahead.

LIASSON: Perjury is a crime.

HUME: Poor discretion.

WALLACE: And if you're a federal prosecutor and you believe that a witness has lied to FBI agents and to a grand jury repeatedly, it's a crime.

HUME: It is a crime, Chris. And prosecutors every day are presented an array of instances in which they can see a crime. They prosecute a few of them. It is what is called prosecutorial discretion. It is a critical part of the job, which charges to bring and which charges not to bother with. Here, clearly, when you look at the scope of what he was supposed to be investigating, is a case where he brought forth something not very major.

Libby is a pretty fat mouse:

I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby
Lawyer / Political Figure
Born: 22 August 1950
Birthplace: New Haven, Connecticut
Best known as: Dick Cheney's chief of staff, 2001-2005

I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was chief of staff and national security advisor to U.S. vice president Dick Cheney from 2001 until 2005. Known in the media as "Dick Cheney's Dick Cheney," Libby is a behind-the-scenes Washington insider who is associated with influential foreign policy experts called "neo-cons" (neo-conservatives), a group whose post-Cold War strategy focused on the military supremacy of the United States and the political re-structuring of the Middle East.

In addition to practicing law, he has worked in government since 1981, when he joined Paul Wolfowitz (his former professor at Yale) at the Department of State under President Ronald Reagan. During the administration of George H.W. Bush Libby worked for the Department of Defense, but during the Clinton years he worked with the U.S. House of Representatives and was the managing partner of the law firm Dechert, Price and Rhoads (1995-2001).