>>http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/07/02/libby.sentence/index.html
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>Yeah, heck of a thing when somebody will use their power to commute the sentence of a friend. Better the pardons should happen on the last day of office and be paid for in cash ... ( no, I didn't even mention Mark Rich ...)
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>If Scooter Libby deserves 30 months in prison, Sandy Berger should be in Pelican Bay. <s>


I know there will be plenty of nakedly partisan reaction but have to say I am disappointed to hear it from you. Is Libby's sentence being commuted OK because someone else's was worse? It still stinks. This was a giant upraised finger to the judicial system and to the jury that convicted him. (Even though they sympathized with him for being the fall guy). Which, of course, is entirely in character for an administration that thinks it is answerable to no one.