Breaking: Bush commutes Libby’s sentence
The Corner has the White House statement. An excerpt:
Both critics and defenders of this investigation have made important points. I have made my own evaluation. In preparing for the decision I am announcing today, I have carefully weighed these arguments and the circumstances surrounding this case.
Mr. Libby was sentenced to thirty months of prison, two years of probation, and a $250,000 fine. In making the sentencing decision, the district court rejected the advice of the probation office, which recommended a lesser sentence and the consideration of factors that could have led to a sentence of home confinement or probation.
I respect the jury’s verdict. But I have concluded that the prison sentence given to Mr. Libby is excessive. Therefore, I am commuting the portion of Mr. Libby’s sentence that required him to spend thirty months in prison.
My decision to commute his prison sentence leaves in place a harsh punishment for Mr. Libby. The reputation he gained through his years of public service and professional work in the legal community is forever damaged. His wife and young children have also suffered immensely. He will remain on probation. The significant fines imposed by the judge will remain in effect. The consequences of his felony conviction on his former life as a lawyer, public servant, and private citizen will be long-lasting.
The Constitution gives the President the power of clemency to be used when he deems it to be warranted. It is my judgment that a commutation of the prison term in Mr. Libby’s case is an appropriate exercise of this power.
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Good decision. I always looked at the whole thing as a sham anyway. Too bad he is still strapped with the fines.
Sorry. I still have a bad taste in my mouth from this whole amnesty push. President Bush is a stubborn coot, and not prone to do ANYTHING the party pushes for. This action breaks from that norm.
My sense is that this is a move to detract attention from his basement-level approval ratings.
And the excessive fines?
Should have been a full pardon, who did Bush bow to?
(Sigh) A firestorm will erupt over this no doubt. It’s a good political move as far as shoring up his base but whether it’s justified by the facts is another question.
Regardless of what you think of the case, the fact is that Libby lied to investigators. Not once but several times. Whether he deserved jail, I am not competent to say. But by that statement, even the President acknowledges his wrongdoing.
Now sit back and watch the left go ballistic.
We need to support the President on this one. He did the right thing in the face of the stiff political winds. This witchhunt against Libby was wrong from the beginning. I only hope that the President pardons him later on. The libs are going to be spitting up their lattes up on this one.
This is a brilliant decision. This means that Libby can still appeal, and that the injustice done by the lower court can still be righted. A full pardon would have taken that away, from what I understand.
Bush should have pardoned the man. It was a political witch hunt and Libby should not have been harmed by the out of control prosecuter. It just goes to show you that the only right you have left is the right to remain silent. Libby should have shut his mouth on the grounds that everything he said would be used against him.
He was railroaded on phoney baloney charges and Bush should have cut him loose so the sicko prosecuters don’t get rewarded.
Libby didn’t do anything wrong. The prosecuter and the entire court system is untrustworthy and shameful. It’s as if Nyquist (sp) had won.
shame shame shame on Bush for deserting a loyal friend..,
So, when is he pardoning the border patrol agents?
“the fact is that Libby lied to investigators”. So said the jury. I am not convinced. Mr. Libby was set up, and indefensibly so. So the left will go ballistic. What else is new?
It’s better than nothing (but not much). The President is just to chicken to do what should have been done.
It should have been a complete pardon and instructions to the Justice Department to investigate the prosecutor for misconduct.
In my view he should be disbarred.
Either a full pardon (maybe that will come at the end of Bush’s term?) or commute the prison term and give him the same fine as Sandy Burgler, at most.
GREAT News!!!
Funny what the left goes ballistic over, huh?
ABC news reports the commutation, but I did not hear them say anything about the fine or probation. They made it sound like Bush just bailed him out. I heard them state that Libby’s sentence was commuted, not a pardon, and admittedly I wasn’t paying full attention, but I heard nothing about the rest.
What MSM bias?
oh no, the good workings of another stellar prosecuting attorney diminished or tossed. 2 out 4 so far…just need J. Sutton and that Billy Joe Earle guy to be reprimanded for their prosecutorial misdeeds.
Speaking of Johnny(Boy) Sutton when will the 2 fine boarder agents be pardoned…huh huh?
No doubt the left WILL go ballistic. To them, I say:
Bill Clinton pardons. Google it.
Rich Moran called it. Obama was first out of the gate to condemn.
…and the dems are already intentionally misleading the public. Conyers released a statement saying that it’s wrong for Libby’s sentence to be commuted pardoned, since he leaked national security information…which would make sense, except for the fact that Libby didn’t leak anything and wasn’t charged for leaking anything. How the dems get a way with straight up lying to the public is beyond me.
Good for Bush! I wish it had been a pardon, but I’ll go with Bush on this one.
I’m just glad he took some action in the face of stiff democratic pressure to do nothing. I agree, Google Clinton pardons.
You won’t hear anything about the Clinton pardons on the main line media. It will be silence.
Great precedent! Now everyone can justify lying to a grand jury and obstructing justice. Along with the Gonzales fiasco, our justice system just took another major hit. So much for setting an example for the world.
It would have been better to issue a full pardon, but the President is taking tippy-toe steps these days. Better than doing nothing.
This is good but not good enough. He should have received a full pardon.
There should be laws against being able to charge people with “process” crimes in an investigation that doesn’t lead to a conviction or even a TRIAL on the core charges that the investigation was set up to investigate.
It was the LEAST Bush could do for Libby – and I do mean THE LEAST!
The whole trial was a fiasco and Fitty should have been on trial by now for abuse of power Nifong-style.
All the witnesses in this case remember things differently and yet the only one charged with perjury is NOT the one with facts to disprove his statements but with Liberals to argue a different version???
Yet of the Liberals who have FACTS to disprove THEIR “bad memories”, not a single one charged with perjury?
That is why so many folks have such high regard for the Judiciary, these days.
SO NOT! -P
The correct move was a pardon. He can’t do anything right…
Who knew “Scooter” was an illegal alien gang member?
It’s better scooter gets amnesty, than 20 million, I guess.
Viva la scooter!
Bush’s poll numbers are going to go up.
BTW does every liberal forget that Armitrage let out the soooooooooooper secret undercover agent’s name? That Fitz knew this but went on a costly witch hunt anyway?
I may be flamed for this, but I cannot in good conscience support this President anymore. As long as three wrongly-prosecuted law enforcement officers (Compean, Ramos (USBP) and Deputy Sheriff Gilmer Hernandez, Rock Springs, TX) languish in prison, no-one should celebrate Pres. Bush pardoning anyone, especially one of his loyalists…I’ve LONG been a Bush supporter, but this one just reeks of cronyism…Let the flaming begin…
I just cruised by MSNBC for a minute. Chris Mathews was blabbing away about the
Libby issue. Boy, what a left wing motor
mouth. He annoys the heck out of me.
Yeah! Hell yeah, Bush! Let’s let that clearly guilty man escape his prison sentence! Good call, good judgment.
I don’t see that Mr. Libby committed any crime. A pardon was called for.
Was there really any doubt that the President was going to make Bush do something for Scooter? After all, the President and Scooter are very tight. That Bush would do the President’s bidding on this was a foregone conclusion.
There are little mini nuclear mushroom clouds throughout LA, Orange and San Diego Counties where the liberals go nuts. Please be careful if you live in those areas because liberals are running out of their homes and cars screaming and cursing.
corona, you’re right. Since you didn’t see a crime, there wasn’t one! Good call!
Compare the prosecution of Libby to what the low life sandy burgalar received as punishment. Fitzgerald is an idiot just like the idiot that prosecuted the border patrol agents.
Let’s start a petition to free the agents – anybody know how?
So, DanMe, You’re their one viewer. Thought I’d never find out who their viewer was.
Should have never been prosecuted . If your going to start putting officials in prison for lies we would have no government.
To echo the comment above. While you have your pen out how about the border patrol agents !!!!
This past Saturday there was a protest outside USA Johnny “Friend of Bush” Sutton’s Offices…
http://ramos-compean.blogspot.com/
I really can’t stomach this whole commutation of Libby’s sentence now. Maybe it’s the Texas cop in me, but I am rabid.
Nothing like a touch of righteousness to make my day!
smalltowngirl said:
Libby may have been set up in the way Clinton was by Ken Starr. The difference is that Clinton lied about a personal matter while Libby lied about a matter of state.
These guys, Bill Clinton, Libby, and the rest, are all lawyers. They know exactly what they’re doing. They have nothing to fear if they tell the truth. Is that too much to ask of our highest government officials?
I love the Republican phrase “perjury trap”, that Bush officials can be “tricked” into committing perjury. All they have to do is tell the truth.
Here’s another one, Mr. President:
http://agentramos.blogspot.com/
Bush does something GREAT, yeah!
GEORGE!!
Just when I think you couldn’t do anything any dumber, you go & do something like this…
AND TOTALLY REDEEM YOURSELF!!
Ha! George is NOT redeemed! He did a good thing by commuting Libby’s prison term, but he fell short of pardoning Libby. He has gone through total HEL* at the hands of the Leftists. This man is a political victim and Bush has only gone halfway towards doing what’s right and just.
Bush has probably done the right thing here. Libby’s sentence was too excessive and is a classic case of a judge taking the law into his own hands and going to far.
The blame for the whole situation lies with the CIA and with Valeria Plame, who insisted that her husband be assigned to the CIA division on the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Plame’s husband, Joseph Wilson, then wrote a purported “tell all” entitled “What I didn’t find in Africa” criticizing the search for WMD in AFrica. It is interesting to note that Wilson was a member of Clintons National Security Council (yeah, the same guys who thought Al-Qaeda was a name for a new action figure), he and his wife have donated to the Presidential Campaigns of Gore and Kerry, and he is an outspoken critic of President Bush and the war in Iraq. Wilson was totally unqualified for the job in Africa, hence the column by Robert Novak that started this mess.
My question to Joseph Wilson and Valeria Plame is, “If you’re so worried about secrecy, why would you leverage your position at the CIA into getting insider information to publish for your own article slamming the Bush administration?”
They really brought this on themselves.
As for Libby, he was convicted largely on the testimony of Tim Russert, who basked in the glory of his own making and continually denied any knowledge of the affair, even though NBC ran a story immediately after the leak of Plame’s name.
Novak (the guy who used Plame’s name), in sworn testimony to the same court, said that no Bush administration official sought him out to reveal information, but that the information was mentioned in passing. He also testified that he was asked not to use Plame’s name in the column, which he did anyway.
Libby was a definite scapegoat for two no-name opportunistic people out to further their own political agenda (Plame and Wilson).
In my opinion, our country is safer without CIA agents and their families operating on a political agenda.
EdDantes
Very well put.
By way of a stark contrast – Clinton’s Jan 20th, 2001 pardon spree (too long to post here!):
Clinton’s Pardon Grants – U.S. Department of Justice
Yet another reason to give the liberals a splitting headache! Perhaps he’ll do a two-for and thrown Tom DeLay into the bucket too?
Is Libby related to Laura’s side of the family? I recall half the felons that Clinton pardoned were related to Hillary or her brother, Hugh, was representing them. But, of course, since Marc Rich was the only high profile bum of note, the media will just pile on Bush X 10.
The ultimate in Republican hypocrisy. Clinton and Libby committed exactly the same crimes. My fellow Republicans felt Clinton should be impeached and attempted to remove him from office. OK, but Libby now deserves a full pardon? Great. Bush just cost us the chance for a comeback in 2008.
Like kissing your sister — Libby is still an unemployable felon who owes HUGE fines — while the LEFT will seethe as much as it would have at a full pardon. If a scammer like Mark Rich can warrant a full pardon, why could not Libby have done so. Rather stingy of Bush in my view.
Bush did exactly the right thing. If he’d issued a pardon at this point the appeals process would have ended and the conviction would have been on Libby’s record for life. This way Libby doesn’t do jail time and can continue his appeals. There’s still time for a pardon later if the appeals are unsuccessful.
You likely didn’t read what Michelle relayed or checked the links. Libby’s sentence was commuted.
Concern duly noted.
Hey Cappig! How about Bush’s complete ‘hanging-out-to-dry treatment” of the Haditha soldiers? If there was ever a void of leadership this was it!
If Bush had to pardn someone, the two border petrol agents deserve the pardon more than anyone else.
Hey Presidente Boosche would you have given him a complete pardon if His Name had been Sanchez Libby! Too little too late….your Amigo Alberto Gonzales(si my Grandparents were illegal) let Clintonista Sandy the Burglar skate!
Por Favor! I can write with an accent as I am the son of legal Hispanic Immigrants…..
Okay. You may have a point there…, but will the President duly pardon him in the end? ….. Time will tell.
Well put!
I have to agree that W has done something right here. If Sandy Burglar gets a $10,000 fine and probation for what he did, well, uh, hmmm.
Having just gone to Kos and DU and having since showered, I can report one interesting thing. They’re comparing Scooter’s treatment to that of Paris Hilton. There’s one problem there; don’t be fooled by this catchy argument. Lying under oath doesn’t carry a high risk of killing anyone. Paris Hilton was imprisoned for driving while suspended, and she was suspended because she was convicted of DUI. Still, most of the public won’t see it that way, and this problem is a tactical error on W’s part.
Back to Libby, I think that suspending his sentence pending exhaustion of appeals would have been more appropriate. Clearly the judge who said that he had no likelihood of appeals success and that he should go to jail was being a bit opportunist; that seems clear from my conservative viewpoint, anyway. Prior to this action, did W have that option?
I’d like to think that Libby’s lawyers could get the appeal moved out of the DC circuit. Nothing fair ever would happen to a Republican there, and one would think that would be an easy case to make.
We read about Bush’s aides resigning to “spend some time with” their “families.”
I wish Bush would do the same thing.
Or, can’t he “commute” the rest of his term?
I think that the commutation was premature and therefore unnecessary. Bush, as holder of executive power, could have delayed Libby’s acceptance into the prison system until the appellate process was completely played out. Hence, Bush will take unnecessary heat.
chsw
Once again pathetic. This should have been a full pardon, period. To praise Fitzgerald for this mess is another example of the stupidity of this administration.
I hope at least one of the candidates in 08 has a pair of malkins.
I don’t know how President Bush could have delayed Libby’s entry in to prison since the appeals court just rejected his request to remain free.
Much as I loathe the neocons, prosecuting Libby after Richard Armitage ‘fessed up to accidental disclosure of Plame seems like a ridiculous injustice despite the letter of the law. Sometimes common sense is required. Some justice (Holmes?)said that laws were never meant to be interpreted so narrowly as to perpetrate an injustice.
Unfortunately, some of the comments here, and a sad majority of the comments on the MSN.com comment site underscore my feeling for some time that America is in deep, deep, very DEEP doodoo. The lack of intelligent thought and expression is astounding. The whole Libby trial was as much of a sham as the Nifong debacle. Should have come out the same. If a bad memory is a crime, most of America would be in jail. Much greater and more grave problems face us and we strain at this “gnat” while swallowing major “camels”. Valery Plame, while a lovely lady, wasn’t a covert agent. Armitage revealed who she was and she had a desk job, right? What a sham. Should have been a full pardon and should have included the two border patrol agents. Get a life, America. Before it’s too late. Jeez. God help us.
I think this was the best he could do for now to keep Scooter out of jail and minimize the political fallout. If the appeals fail, there will be an opportunity for a full pardon around Christmas of ’08. i.e., AFTER the election.
Commutation is good, but a pardon is better. Overturning the conviction in court would be best.
Mr. Libby may continue to exercise his appellate rights. The conviction may be thrown out on appeal, which would make a pardon unnecessary.
Excuse my cynicism, but is the President trying to distract us from something else? Is Putin still in town? What will get buried in the back pages of the newspapers because of the liberal firestorm over the commutation?
I’m surprised at all the cheering for this. I’m happy for Libby and his family, of course, but the commutation struck me as weaselly. The whole sordid affair was Bush’s fault to begin with. He should have ignored all the whining that he appoint a special prosecutor because the end result is always the same: a runaway mash up. Bush should have issued a pardon and called the episode what it was: a misjustice and witch hunt. One can make the case, I suppose, that this lets the appeals process continue and that the pardon is still available if needed, but I have no confidence that it will be forthcoming.
“If the other children jumped off a bridge, would you do it too?”
Common sense from our parents that seems lost on a great many here.
How Sandy Burger and Bill Clinton were treated has nothing to do with how Scooter Libby should be treated. Nothing.
Libby is a convicted felon. He doesn’t deserve a pardon, because he knowingly committed a felony. The fact that he lied about a non-crime doesn’t make the lying a non-felony. For whatever reason, perhaps it was his arrogance, he felt that he didn’t have to play by the same rules that the rest of us play by.
Had the judge given him a fair sentence, I’m guessing that Libby would be going to jail now. The judge, perhaps also in his own arrogance, decided to be vindictive. That’s an injustice.
Bush’s commuting of the sentence is appropriate. Nothing more; nothing less. Libby isn’t innocent, and doesn’t deserve a pardon. Nor does he deserve to get off without a stiff penalty. He broke the law.
How Bill Clinton and Sandy Burger were treated have zero to do with this.
Being a conservative is, in part, about *justice.* Burger walked away from a pretty serious crime. We’re outraged not because he’s liberal, and not because “our guy” isn’t treated the same way; we’re outraged because that’s not JUSTICE. Ditto Bill Clinton. We demanded and were denied JUSTICE.
To demand that “our guys be treated the same way” goes against what we’re supposed to stand for. What we demand is that THEY are treated the same way as we are. Scooter Libby shouldn’t have been pardoned; Sandy Burger – who committed a MUCH more serious crime – should have done time behind bars. THAT would be justice. Bill Clinton should have been placed, like Scooter Libby, on *probation.* THAT would be justice.
Justice was done here, for once. We should be satisfied.
Although I am a liberal Democrat, as some on this site know: I believe it was the correct decision. There was no underlying crime so lying to the grand jury was not worth the time and money of a special prosecutor.
On the other hand, I wonder how many on this site would support it if Pres. Bush was a Democrat?
Why is it that Novack gets a pass? He was the one who published Ms Plame’s name. Just because he knew does not give him the right to publish. Freedom of the press does not include violating current laws.
Bill Maher on the Scotter commutation:
Besides the obvious — that you can’t, as the president claimed, honor the verdict of the jury and then basically overturn it — what was the downside for him? The twenty-something percentage of people who still back him probably know Scooter Libby, most of them socially, and appreciate his pardon; and the rest of the country probably has never heard of Scooter Libby. This is not a country that pays attention to anything complicated, and even has a hard time with the simple. Outside of the bloggers, it’s not something that will upset Joe Sixpack.
And speaking of bloggers, may I take this moment to thank the bloggers and columnists who pointed out that what I said about Dick Cheney earlier this year was in no way parallel to what Ann Coulter said about John Edwards. Gosh, sometimes it seems like the far right just lies blatantly and on purpose. Which brings us back to Scooter Libby…
Perhaps Maher’s statement is funnier if you hear it in person? Or maybe he just likes to come off sounding like a moron?
PARDON THE BORDER AGENTS!!!!!
FREE TOOKIE!
Bill Clinton in the NY times ob his pardons of Marc Rich and Pincus Green:
“A president may conclude a pardon or commutation is warranted for several reasons: the desire to restore full citizenship rights, including voting, to people who have served their sentences and lived within the law since; a belief that a sentence was excessive or unjust; personal circumstances that warrant compassion; or other unique circumstances.
The exercise of executive clemency is inherently controversial. The reason the framers of our Constitution vested this broad power in the Executive Branch was to assure that the president would have the freedom to do what he deemed to be the right thing, regardless of how unpopular a decision might be.”
There you go ,lefties…right from the horses mouth…..or other orifice since it’s Slick Wille….
Well MikeB, we’ve raked Dubya over the coals on a)Dubai, b)Harriett c)Illegal aliens. If I thought Scooter, had actually committed a crime, I would’ve been against his commuted sentence.
Dubya is currently acting like a democrat, so your party assignment is correct.
The Democrats do, every election! Tookie has been registered and voting in every Chicago election since his arrest
Now Wilson and Plame are filing a civil suit in court, according to CNN.
This is just ridiculous and I hope that the frivilous lawsuit gets thrown out.
I’ll reiterate, they brought this on themselves by abusing their positions within the federal government to further their own personal and political agendas!
This Wilson guy is a typical bleeding heart liberal, wanting to blame everyone but himself for his situation.
…and I need to learn to use the link feature. Apologies for the really long link above.
If the American people didn’t want us to cover up our crimes they wouldn’t have elected us. The 2004 election gave us that right and the lefties can go whine all they want about it.
Tookie is dead. He was executed in California a while back.
BTW: Who says Bush is an idiot? This whole Scutter Libby thing was a brilliant move on his part!
Also, did you see the white house press confirence that was on TV earlier today? The white house press is outraged over this.
I love watching Tony Snow work! I’d give anything to have that job, and get to stand up there and put those narrow minded libs in their place like he does. Its really fun to watch!
That should be Michelle’s next job, btw. She would be awesome in that position. She’s fierce, and if would be fun to watch her undress those libs on national television.
One of my favorite things to remind Democrats is that Bill Maher is, objectively, pretty dumb.
George Bush did *not* overturn the conviction, so there is no way to say that he ignored the people’s verdict. in fact, it was the *judge* who ignored the people: their advocate called for a more lenient sentence (which, objectively, was still pretty harsh).
When the people call for a harsh sentence, because their advocate hates Bush, and then the judge goes *even further than the people ask for* and makes a whipping boy of the defendant, who’s ignoring the will of the people? The judge, or the president that is essentially bringing the sentence back in line with the people’s wishes?
Libby’s sentence is STILL on the harsh side of normal, for the crime and for this being a first offense.
Maher’s intellect has always been pretty weak, but at least he had humor. As pointed out here, above, I guess even that has a shelf life…
I have avoided doing this all day,but after reading about St. Cindy on Hot Air,I can’t help myself.Re: Scooter Libby;NO CRIME WAS COMMITTED. Wtf has our country come to that a person can be found guilty of a crime that never happened?
Allow me to amend my first post.A crime was committed.the investigation was a crime.The person guily of a crime isn’t Scooter,its Fitzwhatever
A crime was committed: Libby lied to an investigator. That’s a crime. The fact that he was lying to cover up activities that weren’t criminal just makes him an idiot, not innocent.
You don’t lie to the cops, the DA, a judge, or anyone else who is asking you a question pertaining to a criminal investigation and/or trial. You have the right to remain silent, not the right to make stuff up.
Bill Clinton having sex with Monica Lewinsky wasn’t a criminal offense; lying about it to an investigator was. Same scenario.
RobM1981:
The big difference between this situation and the Clinton situation is that Clinton admitted that he lied.
Libby was convicted of lying by a jury on only circumstantial evidence, not an admission of guilt.
There is still no concrete proof, that I’m aware of, that Libby actually did lie, only the testimony of Tim Russert.
In contrast, Clinton was “acquitted” by the Senate and paid no fines and was sentenced to no jail time, even after he admitted perjury. Where’s the justice in that?
Stop being so polite Mr. President. Hold a press conference, and drop a couple F-bombs like Vice President Cheney did. Here is what I would say.
“I commuted Scooter Libby’s sentence. I did so because I can. For those who criticize this decision, I am the President and you’re not. Deal with it. My predecessor pardoned people for sport and for contributions to his stained library. I did it because it was the right thing to do. This may anger the Jayson Blair Times, but then again, water is wet. Get over it.”
Also, in a world where Bill Clinton and Sandy Berger run free, Scooter almost went to prison. The guy got Nifonged. For those of you who do not know, being Nifonged means being accused of crimes for being caucasian, wealthy, and not politically correct. It is how William “90,000 in the freezer” Jefferson avoids receiving a jail sentence (as of now), but Scooter Libby does not.
http://blacktygrrrr.wordpress.com/2007/07/02/rosie-scooter-dubya-and-monique-huh/
eric