corruption

The permanent Republican majority:
Part one: How a coterie of Republican heavyweights sent a governor to jail

11/26/2007 @ 11:28 am

Filed by Larisa Alexandrovna and Muriel Kane - rawstory.com

What if Libby Was Black or Mentally Retarded?
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by Bob Cesca, originally appeared on The Huffington Post

Scooter Libby's sentence was "excessive," President Bush said.

In other words, two-and-a-half years in jail for perjury is just way, way over the line in a case in which the White House and Scooter Libby undermined national security; exposed a CIA agent's cover; and potentially damaged this agent's covert operation to track unaccounted-for nuclear material (loose nukes) -- all orchestrated by the vice president and Libby to sucker punch Ambassador Joe Wilson.

So the president all but pardoned Libby by commuting his prison sentence.