Usually I agree with Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz on Israel and nothing else. Well, now Dershowitz and I agree on the fate of Lewis Libby too.

This was entirely a political case from beginning to end. Libby's actions were political. The decision to appoint a special prosecutor was political. The trial judges' rulings were political. The appellate court judges' decision to deny bail was political. And the President's decision to commute the sentence was political. But only the President acted within his authority by acting politically in commuting the politically motivated sentence.

I hope this isn't part of a trend. If I keep agreeing with Dershowitz, then something's surely wrong with one of us.