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... So as much as I dislike the war in Iraq, as much as I dislike President Bush, as much as I expect that I would dislike Mr. Libby if I ever met him, I feel that he should not have had to face a perjury trap: the choice between prison for lying, or prison for his role in a set of transactions that the press regards as not merely O.K. but sacrosanct. In fact, if journalists had a more reasonable view about this, the reporters whom Mr. Libby tried to peddle this story to would have said, “Look, outing C.I.A. agents is bad and we are not going to help you do it anonymously.” I bet that today, commuted sentence and all, Mr. Libby wishes they had done just that.

Well he manages to hit all the lib talking points only to come to a tortuous conclusion that Libby was screwed. He even has a closet admission that Libby did not even violate the C.I.A. disclosure law. Bascially a bit of crying over his loss of administration sources now that it might involve the leaker going to jail and the leakee being obligated to divulge their sources.