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Article: 'SCOOTER' LIBBY: PARDON STILL OPTION.(Editorial)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- July 9, 2007
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As if commuting Lewis "Scooter" Libby's 30-month sentence wasn't bad enough, President Bush said last week that a full-on pardon isn't out of the question.
Of course it's not. Why not give a hand to someone who is helping cover up the political motivations behind leaking the name of a CIA agent whose husband happened to be an outspoken critic of the campaign to wage a war on Iraq? And comparing a potential Libby pardon with former President Clinton's pardon of financier Marc Rich is just laughable. As if letting a businessman (whose lawyer, by the way, was Libby himself) off the hook for what amounts to a civil suit is the same as using ...