Bush commutes Libby sentence

[Occhidiangela]

I agree with you, everything this guy says is for the purpose of securing the midwest farmers votes.....and he succeeded very well in doing that.
Of course I'm also agreeing that he is not the finest specimen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDrq0LNrh-A

But about this Libby pardon: I don't want to start discussing which president pardonned the most people and which of those pardon were unfair. So just to be sure that what I heard about this case is correct:

A weapons inspector found that there was absolutely no proof of there being any WMDs in Iraq, so the reason given by the Bush government to invade Iraq was a lie. The guy tells this to the press and as revenge Libby leaks the name of teh guy's wife to the press and states she is a secret agent for the CIA...and for this reason would be in danger.
If this is true I find this very very heavy stuff and a pardon is completely misplaced.

Not a pardon, a commuting of the sentence, though its effect is to primarily keep Scooter out of jail (and I expect, quiet.) There is a legal difference, of significane of Libby ever wants to practice law again.

He is still, it seems, got a felony on his record, and due to pay a $250,000 fine. I am guessing that the Five Million a guy named Fred Thompson helped to raise, via contributions from neocon friends, for Libby's trial defense may have something like that left over to cover Scooter's debts.

So, all said and done, he gets a felony conviction, probation, serves no time.

Bob Dylan once observed that in America, "justice is a game." Of course it is, see the OJ Simpson trial.

Occhi