Here's a perfect quote from Andrew Sullivan: What we have witnessed is a president's contempt for the justice system and rank favoritism for a friend and acolyte. It fatally undermines the very concept of equal treatment under the law. It is the mark of a monarchy, not a republic.
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So, do you think Libby blackmailed Cheney into getting Bush to commute his sentence?
Could it be that Libby told Cheney that if he didn't walk free, he would make a deal with the prosecutor to get his sentence reduced by fingering Cheney? I recall right up to the trial his lawyer claimed they'd mount a vigorous defense defense and call Cheney as a witness, but then suddenly during the trial - they didn't call Cheney, they didn't even try very hard to defend Libby.
And then right before Libby was about to go to jail, before he said "Wait, Mr. prosecutor, I will co-operate now if you help me and tell you about Cheney" - here comes the get-out-of-jail free card.
Is that what he needed to get a pardon from Bush? The ability to tell a prosecutor something that will get Cheney put in jail?
Interesting thoughts... I wouldn't doubt any of that for a minute. I'm more likely to believe that this was the plan from the outset, and the rest of it was just posturing.
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