Yep, President Bush commuted Scooter Libby's 30 month jail time sentence. So what? Presidents grant pardons and commutations all the time. It's just that this instance has reeked of partisan politics from the outset. Other presidential pardons have excused some of the scummiest of the scummy. Drug-dealers. Murderers (commuting death sentences to life without parole). Tax evaders (Anyone Remember Marc Rich?).For anyone to claim that the commutation of Libby's sentence turns American jurisprudence on its head is ridiculous. It's par for the course. President Bush just didn't wait to do it on his way out of office.
For more on presidential pardons and commutations granted by President George H.W. Bush and President Bill Clinton, click here.
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