Even I can show some compassion...

Everyone is entitled to a few major mistakes in life and depending at what level you are in a government run by secret and by omission, you're bound to slip up and commit an act of treason by spilling top-secret intelligence to the press at some point. And, everyone deserves a break and the best legal counsel that your wealthy co-conspirators can buy you, so take a moment here and visit (and if you can or cannot afford it, please contribute to) the I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's Defense Fund.