Thursday, July 05, 2007
Bush Commutes Libby’s Prison Sentence
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.
Republican Patterico says : You do the crime, you do the time. The jury said Scooter Libby did the crime. He should do the time. The Republican Party is going to pay a huge, huge price for this.
Republican Orin Kerr says: I find Bush’s action very troubling because of the obvious special treatment Libby received. President Bush has set a remarkable record in the last 6+ years for essentially never exercising his powers to commute sentences or pardon those in jail. I don’t know if Bush has ever actually used his powers to get one single person out of jail even one day early. If there are such cases, they are certainly few and far between. So Libby’s treatment was very special indeed.
I hardly need to specify what the Democrats say.
The fact seems to be that the problem arose over the Valerie Plame case, involved in a matter intended to justify Bush's then proposed actions in Iraq, which seem to have been ill planned and to the direct disadvantage of USA, Islamist politics aside.
IMO: This really does leave the international impression of a lame duck President feebly quacking his last quacks. Bush is obviously a nice, folksy chap - Lompoc for him.
Republican Patterico says : You do the crime, you do the time. The jury said Scooter Libby did the crime. He should do the time. The Republican Party is going to pay a huge, huge price for this.
Republican Orin Kerr says: I find Bush’s action very troubling because of the obvious special treatment Libby received. President Bush has set a remarkable record in the last 6+ years for essentially never exercising his powers to commute sentences or pardon those in jail. I don’t know if Bush has ever actually used his powers to get one single person out of jail even one day early. If there are such cases, they are certainly few and far between. So Libby’s treatment was very special indeed.
I hardly need to specify what the Democrats say.
The fact seems to be that the problem arose over the Valerie Plame case, involved in a matter intended to justify Bush's then proposed actions in Iraq, which seem to have been ill planned and to the direct disadvantage of USA, Islamist politics aside.
IMO: This really does leave the international impression of a lame duck President feebly quacking his last quacks. Bush is obviously a nice, folksy chap - Lompoc for him.
# posted by uv : 3:39 AM
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