March 7, 2007 | Read Time: 1 minute
For those who feel that I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby was wrongly convicted Tuesday in his much-publicized trial over a CIA leak, the anonymous blog Don’t Tell the Donor points to ways to support his cause.
The blog includes a link to the Web site for the Libby Legal Defense Trust.
“I can tell you that we also believe in Scooter’s innocence and will continue to fight this fight until the fight is won,” U.S. Ambassador Mel Sembler writes on Mr. Libby’s fund raising site. “Scooter is a good man and a distinguished public servant who has been wrongly accused.”
Don’t Tell the Donor, however, is skeptical about whether donors should be sending their cash to defend Mr. Libby.
“It seems to me if you are donating to the Libby Defense Fund you are either wasting your money or paying a scape goat for keeping his mouth closed,” the blogger writes.
The blog, instead, encourages those who are sympathetic to Mr. Libby’s cause to donate to a charity, such as Human Rights Watch, which is campaigning to give convicted felons — as Mr. Libby will be, barring an appeal — the right to vote.
