On July 2, 2007, President Bush granted Scooter executive clemency, thereby commuting Libby’s prison sentence and leaving him with probation and a hefty $250,000 fine.
I don’t really have any problem with Bush’s decision mainly because the whole mess behind Libby’s indictment and conviction was a non-issue to me. But I am happy for Libby and believe that Bush certainly did nothing wrong by his decision. Much worse people than Libby have received pardons and commutations from the President.  Which obviously brings me to the Clintons.
Rebel Yid provides a great summary of all the criminals and deadbeats that Bill Clinton pardoned. But what should irk everyone is the hypocrisy fully apparent in Hillary Clinton when she decries Bush’s decision to commute Libby’s prison sentence. Also pay close attention to Nancy Pelosi’s excoriation of the President’s grant of clemency to a man who, in Rebel Yid’s words, “was charged for lying about a leak that didn’t happen or that he didn’t leak.” This episode can not more clearly show that principles or deeply-held convictions do NOT guide these politicians.
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