"When’s the last time you saw any politician or bureaucrat with any real power frog marched off to jail?"
His powers and position were subjective but Scooter Libby's offense was pure bullscat. For him to go to jail and valerie plame to skate was an injustice.
It helps to cover the dirt after the fact as well, which Leftwood is always good at, I mean in that movie Valerie & dirtbag hubby are all-Amerikan heroes, dontchyaknow?