Bush axes Libby’s prison time
President Bush has commuted the prison term of former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, facing 30 months in prison after a federal court convicted him of perjury, obstruction of justice and lying to investigators.
This is just another betrayal of the rule of law by the Bush administration. I’ll readily concede that no underlying crime was committed in the outing of Valerie Plame, although the outing itself was reprehensible. Regardless of Plame’s covert status no government official should be spouting off to the media about the identity of a career intelligence official. So, if no real crime was committed, why would Scooter Libby feel compelled to commit perjury? For whatever reason he choose to lie, he was convicted, and he should serve out the lawfully imposed sentence.
Decisions like this illustrate the fact that the GOP has abandoned their former platform of being the law and order party. Hell, maybe Bush should commute the sentences of Scrushy and Siegelman.
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Or even better, maybe he should commute my sentence of having to live under this damned administration.
Or maybe Congress should.