Why does ‘Fredo, who did so much to obscure the legal ground and permit Cheney’s worst abuses, “merit” so little support when his underlings (including Sampson, Goodling and von Spakovsky) received so much?

Why is ‘Fredo so expendable? Because he’s Latino and he’s lumped into the Right’s discriminatory anti-immigration basket? Because the Right has so much dirt on him and those he cares for that they are cocksure he won’t spill any beans?

Look how hard Cheney worked to garner support for Scooter Libby, a close confidante for decades. Imagine how much easier it would be for a top prosecutor to roll ‘Fredo and get him to turn state’s evidence? Or is he so easily rolled, his “integrity” so besmirched, his public lies and contradictory that the Right is confident his testimony wouldn’t hold up? Even if it didn’t hold up in court, his disclosures could help keep the Right from the White House or Congressional majorities for another election cycle or two.

The TImes should be called to account someday. I recall in a much earlier tribute to Teddy Kennedy, before his death, the largely laudatory quotations from the senator’s colleagues were interrupted with another, that of Anne Coulter, calling TK a drunken, fat slob… under the guise of ‘balance’ the Times saying he also ‘has his critics.’ This was not criticism, it was pure vitriol.