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Give Scooter a Jail Break

One group's rooting for probation as the man who wouldn't snitch is sentenced

By Mary Papenfuss, Newser Staff

Posted Jun 5, 2007 7:10 AM CDT

(Newser) – With Scooter Libby facing sentencing today for perjury in the Valerie Plame affair, Salon's Joseph Cooper asks his English class at the Webster Correctional Institution in Connecticut what punishment they would impose. The student cons go for probation, on the grounds that Libby's only crime... Read full story »

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