Appeal will take, what, six to eight months?

Assuming he loses on appeal, he would have to report to jail in January 2008? I don't see Bush pardoning him before the very end of his term, so he'd be looking at a year in jail IF Bush pardons him, which I think he will.

The money will be raised for Scooter obviously for the fine and his life after jail will be more than fine, he'll be a Wingnut folk hero.

Of course, in the rest of the world, he'll be disgraced which matters.

I think he did this all for Cheney as do most all of you of course.

Even if he decides against bond pending appeal, he still has to deal with the voluntary surrender issue.

In a nation that prides itself on living by the rule of law, Mr. Libby should have been tried for treason.
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Mr. Libby - along with Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Doug Feith, Stephen Hadley, Condi Rice and a slew of others - was an instrumental member of the cadre that sold the American people an outrageous raft of lies regarding the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
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The lies promulgated by Mr. Libby led directly to the deaths of 3,185 American soldiers and the wounding of between 47,000 and 53,000 more soldiers. This amounts to between a third and a fourth of the entire active combat force of the United States military.

The lies promulgated by Mr. Libby led directly to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians, the maiming of thousands more, and the creation of a sectarian civil war in that nation whose effects will be generational in impact.

--Scooter Libby: A Damned Lucky Man

It's no victory, but at least one of these bastards will reap what he helped sow...a taste of prison nation. The waste of cash is a drop in the bucket, they'd only waste it someplace else anyway, like in the ONDCP budget.

The Probation Department also found that at least a few departure grounds were present.  Had the judge just found one for 2 points, Libby would have been in the split sentence range of 10 months (5 and 5.)

  To an extent this is unavoidable as everyone has his own concept of "justice" but courts have to apply laws that apply universally. However, this does not excuse the willful failure of Congress for 20 years now to ignore the CONSISTENT and WIDESPREAD deviations from most people's ideas of justice the guidelines create.

Fitz: Wanted your honor to make aware of one thing. 30 months on obstruction. Just wanted to point out, if your honor was trying to correspond, one would be lower and one would be higher. By our read on false statements would have a 6, would mean guidelines range for false statement is 0-6 months, on other hand, perjury counts, level 14, but your honor found intereference enhancement, perjury 24-30 months.

Walton: I was under the impression it was all counts.

Fitz: if we do not litigate now, I'd like to make sure it's on the record that a level 17 would be range of perjury counts, in light of your honor's ruling, false statements would be 0 to 6, we were not as clear as we should have been.

Walton: does probation agree with those assessments?

Walton: I'm going to stay the sentence at this point until Probation has had a chance to break down sentence, until next Wednesday.

Probation: In original calculation, we grouped all four counts, that changes the calculations, and prosecutor is correct that it lowers level for some accounts.

Walton: I'll stay until Probation does the new calculations.

I will be getting a copy of the transcript of the sentencing hearing tomorrow, and will report back then.