Re: Bush to commute Libby sentence
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[YES! Great post. Bush's position is NOT that Libby did not commit a crime (notwithstanding all of the brilliant legal minds here who are arguing otherwise), it is that, in his opinion, the sentence was too harsh.
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And your brilliant mind can read others'....oops, it can't. You know what GWB said and did, you don't know what GWB thinks.
A pardon in this situation would be very difficult politically, whether GWB believes there was a crime or not.
On the other hand we KNOW that SB stole and destroyed classfified documents AND lied to Federal grand jury and got a $10,000 fine and 3 year suspension of his security clearance (as if anyone would spend the political capital to put him in a national security position again).
To NOT commute Libby's sentence would have been unconscionable
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