Bush's courage to do what is right in the face of popular opinion was on display at its best on Monday with his decision to commute the 30-month prison sentence of former Vice Presidential Chief of Staff Lewis "Scooter" Libby.Juicy quotes on Hillary and Obama. Entire audio here.
Not only was the punishment meted out for Libby's perjury conviction "excessive" as Bush so described, the prosecution of Libby by Chicago's very own Patrick Fitzgerald, who served as special prosecutor in the case, was a politicized star chamber proceeding.
Fitzgerald sailed into Washington on the tailwinds of liberal, anti-war bloviations about an illegal Bush administration conspiracy to blow the cover of CIA agent Valerie Plame for the alleged purpose of discrediting Plame's husband, former Ambassador Joe Wilson, a vocal, if not accurate, critic of the War on Terror in Iraq.
After hauling one journalist to jail and intimidating others into divulging their sources (I thought liberals were categorical defenders of a free press?) what Fitzgerald found instead was that Libby was not the leak, that no such conspiracy was afoot, and, most importantly, that no law was broken relative to the disclosure of Ms. Plame's identity.
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