Well, honest, Kate, I didn’t set out to be obnoxious, or to provoke. Libby has friends, who are upset at what happened to him, and upset all over again to hear people–me–say they don’t much care. That’s understandable, and I hope my friends would feel the same on my behalf. I’m not a friend of Libby’s though. I don’t know the guy. His plight is just a news story. The wrong that was done to him, assuming one was (which I have willingly assumed), is just one in the welter of injustices, cruelties, and judicial screw-ups that fill my computer screen every day. Duncan Hunter came out with that remark at the debate, I agreed with it, and I went on to compare the likely plights of Libby and the two Border Agents. When state power rolls over little people like Compean and Ramos, my sympathies are stirred. Libby’s not a little person. He’s rich and terrifically well-connected. He’s not going to get beaten up in jail (as Ramos has been). He’ll have plenty of lucrative work opportunities after release. He will, as I said, be all right. I wish the world were free of wrongs, but it isn’t, and never will be. In the scale of wrongs, and consequent suffering, that I read about every day, this one doesn’t seem worth bothering with.