As many of you probably know, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice-President Cheney's former Chief of Staff, was convicted on 4 of 5 counts today.  Essentially, he was convicted of lying and obstruction of justice.  I won't go into the whole details, because you can get great coverage and insight here, and here.  I want to address a couple of other things.  First, is the response of the leaders of the Democratic party.  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid(D-NV) said in a statement, "I welcome the jury's verdict.  It's about time someone in the Bush Administration has been held accountable for the campaign to manipulate intelligence and discredit war critics."  Huh?  Isn't this the same party that refers to the 9-11 commission as gospel?  And isn't the 9-11 commission the group who concluded there was no hyping or manipulation of intelligence before going into Iraq?  Symantecs, I guess.  Then their is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi(D-SF) "This trial provided a troubling picture of the inner workings of the Bush Administration.  The testimony unmistakably revealed - at the highest levels of the Bush Administration - a callous disregard in handling sensitive national security information..."  Excuse me?  Where was madame Speaker's outrage at the New York Times for revealing our "sensitive national security information" of listening into known terrorists making phone calls in or out of our country?  It's getting to the point, where everytime a leading Democrat opens their mouth, they instantly become hypocrites.  My second point is goody, too.  Where is the outrage that Richard Armitage, the man who has admitted to being the original leaker, is going to pay no price?  Special prosecuter Patrick Fitzgerald knew almost immediately that it was Armitage who leaked Valerie Plame's name to Robert Novak.  But, Armitage is clear and fine?  What?  Over three years of taxpayer money to investigate something that was known almost right off the bat, is ridiculous.  That leads to a question.  Should President Bush pardon Scooter Libby?  Yes!  Harry Reid's statement went on to say, "Now President Bush must pledge not to pardon Libby for his criminal conduct."  Really?  Did Reid demand former President Clinton not to pardon Marc Rich, who was one of the justice departments most wanted?  Of course not.  Could the fact that Denise Rich was a major contributor to the party, and the Clinton library, a reason?  Nah, couldn't be.  The President should pardon Scooter Libby (not to mention the boarder agents who were railroaded by our own government, but that's a whole other story).  Oh, yeah, one other thing.  Where is the liberal outrage over Sandy Berger not being given the lie detector he agreed to take?  Symantics, I guess.