Posted on 02/17/2009 7:03:52 AM PST by Arec Barrwin
Ex-VP Dick Cheney outraged President Bush didn't grant 'Scooter' Libby full pardon
BY THOMAS M. DEFRANK DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF Updated Tuesday, February 17th 2009, 8:36 AM
WASHINGTON - In the waning days of the Bush administration, Vice President Dick Cheney launched a last-ditch campaign to persuade his boss to pardon Lewis (Scooter) Libby - and was furious when President George W. Bush wouldn't budge.
Sources close to Cheney told the Daily News the former vice president repeatedly pressed Bush to pardon Libby, arguing his ex-chief of staff and longtime alter ego deserved a full exoneration - even though Bush had already kept Libby out of jail by commuting his 30-month prison sentence.
"He tried to make it happen right up until the very end," one Cheney associate said.
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One of the jurors was Tim Russert's neighbor and knew him socially.
Thomas M. DeFrank is a HardBall regular with Chris Mathews, was constantly bashing Bush & Cheney. I would NEVER believe whatever this guy writes about anyone.
This may be true...but why would Libby not want a pardon? Bush should have pardoned him.
Commie propaganda trash.
The Democrats wanted to keep the focus on anyone other than Joseph Wilson, Valerie Plame and the shadow government.
You’re right about the border agents, but I also heard it about Libby at the same time that his sentence was commuted. The question was asked at the time—why not a full pardon? That was the answer that was put forth. Again, who knows?
I’m with Cheney on this one too.
The effect is the same, he is not in jail, but with the commutation he can still fight to truly clear his record.
Bush actually did right and God knows I love Chaney but Scooter needs to be allowed to clear his name via the courts. It will remove the asterisk from his name in the history books
Your talons may be sharp but your brain is DU-LL.
To compare Klintoon's actions to Libby's is to compare a nuclear weapon with an M-80.
Richard Armitage was the leaker, no crime was committed because the bitch was not covert, and fitzy knowing this early on, continued his witch hunt to smear the Bush administration.
With klintoon the FBI had DNA PROOF, with Libby, firtzy had the potato-head with his version.
What was it he perjured himself on? Listening to the case, it appears he had a different recollection than Tim Russert about a conversation they had. for all the smoke produced by the prosecutor, it appears that was his case.
You want him to lose his life for that? How is that the same as Clinton?
I would love to hear what it was he did to earn his perjury conviction, if there is more, please enlighten me if you can. And be specific.
All the qualities of a dog except loyalty.
I believe Cheney had a good deal of input during the first administration;
However all the failures of the second administration were bush's alone.
It was an act of perjury. Plain and simple. Why are we running around in circles trying to play moral relativisim tag with his offense? Thats what libs do. You think I belive that such an accomplished lawyer and well-connected administration confidant like Scooter Libby, discovered Valerie Plame’s CIA status though Tim Russert? Really? Sounds abit far-fetched?
I am outraged too.
bttt
Libby did not “lie under oath.” After who knows how many rounds of questioning and questions being asked in different ways, two of his answers were different. It is the pure, nonsensical creation of a criminal offense by a prosecutor looking for some way to make his job seem legitimate. He had his “culprit” before any of the investigation began. The fact that Bush did not grant a full pardon to Libby is disgraceful. Inexcusable. But then 8 years of the “lesser of evils” occupying the White House resulted in exactly 3 good things: tax cuts, the war in Iraq being prosecuted and two strong constructionists elevated to the Supreme Court. (Of course Bush had to be forced into the nominations of Roberts and Alito.)
The problem was that Libby gave Fitzgerald & the Grand Jury too much cooperation. Perjury traps are an easy thing for an ambitious prosecuter to get somebody on when they have an otherwise ‘weak’ or ‘complicated’ case to make.
Fitz will probably nail a couple of Obama people with the same gambit.
This is exactly the way I remember it. At the time of the commutation, Libby was still in the appeals process.
IIRC, it was sometime later that Libby dropped the appeal due to finances. This could be why VP Cheney now wanted the pardon.
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