One Wonders if These Men Will Be Friends....
| Thu Jan. 22, 2009 2:15 PM PST
Dick Cheney is ticked at former president Bush for not pardoning Scooter Libby, who was Cheney's right-hand man for many years. He tells the Weekly Standard:
"Scooter Libby is one of the most capable and honorable men I've ever known. He's been an outstanding public servant throughout his career. He was the victim of a serious miscarriage of justice, and I strongly believe that he deserved a presidential pardon. Obviously, I disagree with President Bush's decision."
Cheney was marginalized on a number of topics late in the Bush years. They may not have been friendly for some time...
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Isn't Cheney right about this?
Isn't Libby in fact innocent?
I seem to remember that at the time Libby publically denied being the source of the Plame leak and gave permission for any journalist to name him if that wasn't true. Yet screechy what's-her-face spent months in jail to protect her source. So we know for sure it wasn't Libby.
I'm pretty sure I read this here on MJ.
Obviously Libby agreed to absorb the blame with the assurance that his jail term would be commuted and he would be pardoned later. But Bush ain't the pardoning kind.
I'm sure Cheney has many other means of making it up to Libby.
JG,
We don't know whether Libby was guilty or not of the leak, and we don't know whether anybody else was either, precisely because Libby lied to investigators and obstructed justice.
That's what he was convicted of. And for good reason.
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