A eventual pardon for former VP aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby has not been ruled out by President Bush.
"As to the future, I rule nothing in and nothing out," the president told reporters after visiting wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
Bush said he accepted the jury's decision to convict Libby for perjury and obstruction of justice in the CIA leak case, but the judge's sentencing was too "severe." He said he carefully weighed his decision to keep Libby from serving any prison time.
"I made a judgment, a considered judgment that I believe is the right decision to make in this case," Bush said. "I stand by it."
Like it or not, he lied, and there should be some punishment for that. But three years? Well, Pres. Bush made has made his decision and that's that. It seems pretty straightforward to me but the Dems are pretty ticked off, apparently.
Jesse Jackson wants the president impeached. Right.
Joe Wilson said... ah, who cares?
Amazingly, Sen. Hilary Clinton said this:
"I believe that presidential pardon authority is available to any president, and almost all presidents have exercised it," Clinton told the AP. "This (the Libby decision) was clearly an effort to protect the White House. ... There isn't any doubt now, what we know is that Libby was carrying out the implicit or explicit wishes of the vice president, or maybe the president as well, in the further effort to stifle dissent." Source.
Two words, Senator: Sandy Berger. Ring a bell?
Or maybe we could just analyze the pardons and acts of clemency your husband sold gave.
Now what about those two Border Patrol Agents, Mr. President?
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**UPDATED**: Hot Air also lets the Clinton's have it for their shameless attacks on Pres. Bush and the Libby issue.
Just let the record show that Mr. Clinton is a perjurer who had his license to practice before the Supreme Court taken away. Let the record show that he sold pardons to his rich friends. Let the record show that he’s still a brazen liar. And let the record show that it was his pal Sandy Berger who stole sensitive documents from the National Archives, hid them under a trailer, then took them home and destroyed them to cover up something that the Clintonistas didn’t want going public, and remember that Berger’s actions made the 9-11 Commission’s work incomplete, and we’ll never know what he covered up. And let the country remember the missing Rose law firm billing records that mysteriously turned up in the Clintons’ White House residence, and all the rest of that sordid mess that the Clintons drag around with them like a trailer park full of skeletons wherever they go.
Any questions?
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