Reactions to the Libby trial.....

Some interesting reactions to the Libby trial:

Weekly Standard editor Fred Barnes is calling for a pardon! Surprise!

Joe Wilson, on Keith Olbermann, thinks the administration can save face by not pardoning Libby, and letting future administrations decide whether he should be pardoned.

The Washington Post (normally a good source), sadly, allowed their op-ed page to be dominated by right-wing talking points, downplaying the importance of the verdict, and the trial in general. ThinkProgress debunks it all!

Joe Wilson's initial response to Bush and Cheney: "Why did you out my wife?"

Fitzgerald on the case, and White House hack Dana Perino explaining that "no comment" will be the administration's reaction!

Brit Hume and Robert Novak blame it all on Richard Armitage obscuring the fact that Rove and the Bush administration were running a smear campaign against Wilson, because Plame picked Wilson to go to Niger for the Bush administration. We learned of the smear campaign during the Libby trial itself.

One of the jurors from the Libby trial stated "Libby was a fall guy!"

It is going to be up to Congress to re-open the initial investigation into the outing of Valerie Plame. We confirmed during the trial that the administration ran a smear campaign against Joe Wilson. The question now is, "Was outing Plame part of the smear campaign?" I won't count on the Congress to do this; they are so soft that they won't even give America a strong Iraq war resolution! Instead, we get a watered down resolution, with waivers for Bush!