Submitted by Robert Morris, Mar 7, 2007 11:51

You conclude your editorial by saying, " President Bush's failure to halt the prosecution of Libby has costs to the presidency itself. . . . Appointing a special counsel was supposed to have made this distraction go away, but the effect instead has been to aggravate the situation. The president's best move would be to exercise his absolute and unfettered bedrock constitutional prerogative of a pardon."

The purpose of this prosecution wasn't to make the distraction go away. It was to allow a jury of his peers to ascertain if Mr. Libby was lying, and to punish him appropriately if he was. The former has happened. And now that it has, you want to wipe out the verdict because it's politically inconvenient? I thought this administration stood for Law and Order. Should that be read, "only politically convenient Law and Order?" You'd better be careful, or you might be taken for a liberal . . .

Yours from Robert Morris

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