Nice!
President Bush spared former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby from a 2 1/2-year prison term in the CIA leak case Monday, stepping into a criminal case with heavy political overtones on grounds that the sentence was just too harsh.
Bush’s move came hours after a federal appeals panel ruled Libby could not delay his prison term in the CIA leak case. That meant Libby was likely to have to report to prison soon and put new pressure on the president, who had been sidestepping calls by Libby’s allies to pardon the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney.
"I respect the jury’s verdict," Bush said in a statement. "But I have concluded that the prison sentence given to Mr. Libby is excessive. Therefore, I am commuting the portion of Mr. Libby’s sentence that required him to spend thirty months in prison."
Grab some popcorn people and watch heads explode across our liberal MSM tv channels. Going to be some fun tonight!
This is just outstanding. Lets recap, a case about the outing of a CIA deskjockey who sent her husband off with the sole purpose of harming the President’s policy became a perjury case against a Cheney aide. Perjury not even related to the outing mind you since everyone now knows who did in fact out her….cough Armitage cough….but no matter. Libby gets some dates wrong and BAM! Lets send him to prison for 3 years. This case was a political railroad job from the beginning so why shouldn’t more politics be brought into it?
It’s not like Clinton ever pardoned terrorists right?
Just last week, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, speaking on the first anniversary of the deadly U.S. embassy bombings in Africa, vowed to wage an all-out war against terrorism. This week, President Clinton turned that promise into a joke by offering to commute the justifiably harsh prison sentences of 14 FALN terrorists, including the wife of its bomb-maker mastermind, the notorious William Morales.
He offered and then did in fact commute their sentences.
So we should feel bad because this good man was commuted. I don’t think so.
I can hear it already….the popping noise of heads exploding from the CNN office in New York…..Yippeee!
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Did some dumpster diving tonight at DU and found the liberal dems are on the absolute brink of explosion over this clemency for Libby.
HotAir has the clip of Olberman talking to Joe Wilson going into full froth mode.
Hey Curt
Ya want a laugh go follow that trackback link to this post and read the bios of the group posters there.
Hint , bring a lot of tin foil with you, you may need it.
Feel the absolute outrage of Hillary. Hmmm … what about Bill’s raft of pardons and sentence commutations when he left office??? That’s right, a different standard applies.