Dear Judge Walton

Having read many of the character letters on behalf of Scooter Libby by individuals known for their singular lack of character, I have serious concerns...

Libby loves his kids. Joseph Bottum, First Things editor, remembers, "It was always hard to get him out in the evening: He refused to turn the children over to the babysitter until he'd read them to sleep, which made it 9:00 before he could join us …" Emily Ashman recollects, "I know he attends their soccer games even when they are held out of town."

In fact, Libby's good with everybody's kids. Scott Ramminger calls him "someone I unfailingly trust my children with." Republican political strategist Mary Matalin writes -- in a letter also signed by her husband, James Carville -- that Libby went out his way to provide Halloween festivities to the Cheney grandchildren once. She also mentions how her own daughters call him "Mr. Scooter" and simply cannot attribute "the facts" of the court case to that person. "What further justice could be served by additional devastation to them and the many other children who love Scooter?"

That "Mr. Scooter" is too creepy not to go directly to jail.

Sincerely,

Atta J. Turk
Iowa Society of Bad Touch Avoidance
Mamie Eisenhower Drive
Boone, Iowa