Libby to be sentenced today.

UPDATE 2: The Smoking Gun has some of the letters written in support of Libby. I recommend reading all of them, but I've found the one from Paul Wolfowitz to be the most fascinating, with a few interesting tidbits tossed in that I had never heard of before... like the fact that Libby once helped Richard Armitage defend himself against libelous accusations made against him, while Libby was in private practice.

UPDATE: Well, that was fast. Right after I clicked "submit," I checked on Drudge and learned that Libby was sentenced to 30 months. Guess the judge liked Fitzgerald's analysis better than the probation office's. Well, I still think Libby has a chance on appeal.

Scooter Libby will be sentenced today, likely to somewhere between 15 to 37 months in a federal prison. The probation office has recommended 15 to 21 months. Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has asked for a much steeper sentence, 30 to 37 months. Libby's lawyers are asking for probation. Just to keep things interesting, I'll go on record predicting an 18 month sentence, right in the middle of the recommendation from the probation office.

You'll want to be sure and follow Just One Minute for the Libby sentencing. Tom Maguire has been the go-to blogger on this case from the beginning, and has looked very closely at all the relevant sentencing documents, as I noted recently here.

I haven't covered the Libby case extensively, but I have touched on it once or twice. I do recommend my post Armitage, Novak, Plame, Wilson, and the Never-Ending Questions, which tries to get to the bottom of the Armitage aspect of the mystery, why he leaked and why he didn't tell anybody about it for so long. I had fun skewering the New York Times' coverage of the case with NY Times, Tweedledum or Tweedledee? I also had straight-forward coverage of Libby's conviction in Libby Guilty on 4 of 5 charges.