O’Reilly Factor guest host Monica Crowley presided over quite a night on the show tonight, as they got an exclusive with ex-Dick Cheney chief of staff Scooter Libby. It was Libby’s first interview since being convicted on four counts of perjury and obstruction of justice in 2007. As one might expect, Crowley didn’t exactly put Libby through the gauntlet. Libby wisely avoided any harsh attacks that could be easily turned against him – his response to Crowley’s first question of how effective President Barack Obama’s “policy of engagement” with Iran has been (especially regarding dissuading the nation from building a nuclear weapon) was that “it’s useful” to analyze Obama’s stated view as presidential candidate and president-elect “that a nuclear weapon in Iranian hands would be unacceptable.” He ultimately concluded that “if it’s truly unacceptable” for Iran to have a nuclear weapon, that “we have a problem.” He offered a similarly tepid critique of certain aspects of the Bush administration’s Iran policy, saying at times there was “more that might have been done with the Iranian opposition, for example.”
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