I just run out of words

[sigma7]

President Bush commuted the sentence of former aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby Monday, sparing him from a 2 1/2-year prison term in the CIA leak case.

And here I thought the administration couldn't get more brazen. Wow. You do have to give them points for their sheer contempt for the rule of law.

Comments

[iamstillthemoon.livejournal.com]

Didn't Clinton do that a bunch before he was taken out of the White House?

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Pardons, yes; pretty much every president does at the end of his term.

Commuting the sentence of one of the executive's own staffers who outed a CIA covert agent in retaliation for her husband's stance against the administration's falsified data for waging war? Clinton did many things, but not that. This gives the executive de facto untouchable agents capable of going to any length to attack, intimidate or silence its critics -- or those merely attached to its critics -- without any form of oversight or accountability.

[iamstillthemoon.livejournal.com]

I don't see the big deal.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Then I'm truly sorry for you.

[iamstillthemoon.livejournal.com]

Probably because I didn't understand half of what you said.