News came late yesterday that President Donald Trump is likely to pardon I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby. It’s years overdue.

Scooter Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff, was indicted in 2005 and convicted of “perjury,” “obstruction of justice,” and “making false statements” in 2007. Libby was the first and only victim of special counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald’s mission—to find the source who had “outed” CIA officer Valerie Plame to journalists. Fitzgerald had been named special counsel by none other than Deputy Attorney General James Comey.