The Dems are angry, the WaPo says this was A Decision Made Largely Alone (imagine that!) and Olbermann throws a snit and calls Pres. Bush “Worst Person in the World”.
As Ed said,
The President just enraged his base by attempting to push a deeply unpopular immigration bill through the Senate. He could regain a lot of that ground with a commutation of Libby’s sentence
And so he did.
Me, I would have commuted the sentence to exactly what Sandy Berger got for illegally removing highly classified documents from the National Archives and intentionally destroying some of them: $50,000 fine, $6,905 for the administrative costs of his two-year probation, and 100 hours of community service.
Tech norati: Scooter Libby
Fausta, not you too. First Berger is an ex-official. Libby was the vice president’s active chief of staff (I think that was his job). That difference alone cannot be ignored. Second, you seem to imply that if there is one miscarriage of justice (i.e., Berger) there has to be another offsetting one (i.e., Libby). What the judge and jury looked at and decided is irrelevant, right?