Scooter in the Clink

Nick Gillespie | June 5, 2007

Former Cheney chief of staff Lewis "Scooter" Libby is going to jail for two-and-a-half years "for lying and obstructing the CIA leak investigation."

Details here.

Isn't this right around the time in a second term when this sort of thing happens?

A few months ago, Reason Contributing Editor Mike McMenamin laid into special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. Read all about it here.

And in other politician news, Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.), he of the $90,000 in the freezer fame, has been indicted on 16 corruption charges. More here.