From CQPolitics.com:

At the end of the day, only a journalist went to jail in the CIA leak investigation.

President George W. Bush’s commutation of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby’s jail sentence means that only reporter Judy Miller spent time in the slammer — and that was for protecting Libby, the leaker. The former White House aide let Miller sit in jail for nearly three months last year without revealing to prosecutors that he was the source she was refusing to name.

While Miller was no angel in this matter, she was not convicted of a crime. And Libby goes free despite being convicted and sentenced for perjury and obstruction of justice.

Pretty sad, huh? Jail the watchdogs (though I’m not completely certain Miller can be called a watchdog after protecting Libby and her poor, White House-fed reporting during the lead-up to the war in Iraq) and let the criminals run free. Nice.

As George Bernard Shaw said, “Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.” But do we really deserve this?