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2007-07-05
- Next, A Libby Pardon by The Seattle Times
- GOP Senators Who Voted For Clinton Impeachment Dead Silent On Libby by Bob Geiger: Sam Brownback was incensed about Clinton's office dalliance, but thinks Libby should be pardoned for his role in the betrayal of his country
2007-07-04
- The High Cost of Libby’s Silence by Amy Goodman
- I Accuse You, Mr. Bush... by Keith Olbermann (Related: George W. Bush)
- Memo to the Media: Libby Outrage is Not Confined to "the Left" by Arianna Huffington
2007-07-03 Scooter’s partial pardon... and so begins the "Pardon Tsunami" by David Brin: discusses again several possible explanations for Bushco's apparent belief that they can get away with this sort of thing indefinitely, including the Scudder scenario (Possibility #2). (With reader comments.)
2007-07-02 L33T Justice: The Bush administration has found the gaming "exploit" in the US's system of government.
2007-06-05 GOP Candidates Weigh in on Scooter Libby Pardon

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2007-07-03
- Bush Libby move angers Democrats
- Bush not ruling out Libby pardon

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+If you have to do it, you might as well do it right.
-[[category:events]][[George W. Bush]]'s presidential [[wikipedia:Commutation of sentence|commutation]] of [[Scooter Libby]]'s jail sentence was one of the more brazenly corrupt actions of an already brazenly [[corruption in the Bush administration|corrupt administration]], publicly revealing a glimpse of its deep [[hypocrisy]].
-Bush's statement that he believes "the prison sentence given to Mr. Libby is excessive" flies directly in the face of the administration's repeated claims of punishing those who do wrong and upholding the principles of [[freedom]] and [[democracy]], as well as Bush's own sworn oath to defend the [[US Constitution]]; it is clear that such accountability only applies to those who are not under the [[Bush II administration|Bush administration]]'s protective wing, and "freedom" has an implicit "(for us)" attached.
-When [[Bill Clinton]] [[Clinton's bad behavior|lied under oath]] about his personal life, the [[Republican (US)|Republican]] majority went to the ends of the earth trying to prosecute him for it (and failed, because he told the truth where it was relevant). When [[Lewis Libby|One of their own people]] lied under oath about the [[Plame affair|betrayal of a man's wife]] &ndash; a betrayal which caused her life to be endangered, revealed a classified secret (her identity as an undercover agent) to enemy states and possibly risked the revelation of other secrets (if she were captured as a result) &ndash; said betrayal made in sheer childish revenge (at best) for her husband's failure to stick to the party line &ndash; the [[neoconservative]]s calling themselves "Republicans" get in line to call for forgiveness and compassion.
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