can't say I'm surprised.

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time posting in political threads in the lounge...

Whaddhe do?

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WRONG. This pardon is just wrong. This is the most crooked administration ever.....

Lied under oath in a Federal investigation.

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Actually, lied in the CIA leak investigation. Remember a while back when that female CIA covert agents real identity was leaked...yeah..he's your boy. However, the Bush's have a long history of pardoning their playahs BUT, Clinton pardoned over 100 peeps in his 8 years. Forget all the other BS an administration does, this is the bad stuff IMO. Pardoning should not be possible, it is simply a way of protecting your friends from the courts of the land.

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The federal judge who oversaw I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's CIA leak trial said Thursday that he received threatening letters and phone calls after sentencing the former White House aide to prison.

"I received a number of angry, harassing mean-spirited phone calls and letters," U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton said. "Some of those were wishing bad things on me and my family."

Walton made the remarks as he opened a hearing into whether to delay Libby's 2 1/2-year sentence. He said he was holding the letters in case something happened but said they would have no effect on Thursday's decision. (Time.com: Why so tough on Libby?external link)

Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, argues that he shouldn't have to report to prison until his appeals have run out. (Watch what led up to Libby's sentence Video)

Walton has said he's not inclined to grant that request. But even if he rules that way, it is unlikely Libby would be taken away in handcuffs. Rather, it would lead to more maneuvering in Libby's legal fight.

Libby's newly formed appellate team -- Lawrence S. Robbins and Mark Stancil -- are standing by. If Libby loses Thursday, his lawyers have said they will ask an appeals court for an emergency order delaying the sentence. Because one of the issues in the appeal is whether Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald had the authority to charge Libby, defense lawyers also could ask the Supreme Court to step in.

Then there is the pardon question.

Libby's supporters have called for President Bush wipe away Libby's convictions. Bush publicly has sidestepped pardon questions, saying he wants to let the legal case play out.

If Bush were to decide to issue a pardon, a delay would give him more flexibility to pick a time that makes the most political sense.

Bush's father pardoned former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and five others in the Iran-Contra arms and money affair on Christmas Eve 1992.

President Clinton pardoned more than 100 people on his way out the White House door, including former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros and Whitewater scandal figure Susan McDougal.

After a monthlong trial, jurors found in March that Libby lied to investigators about how he learned that Valerie Plame, the wife of an outspoken war critic, worked for the CIA, and whom he told.

Libby maintains his innocence and says any misstatements were the result of a bad memory, not deception.

To win a delay of his sentence, Libby's lawyers would have to show there was a good chance they could overturn the conviction on appeal.

Attorneys argue that, during trial, they were unfairly prohibited from discussing the classified issues that were weighing on Libby's mind at the time of the leak and from questioning witnesses that could have helped his case.

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Actually, the Lil'Scoot got a commutation, which differs from a pardon.
A commutation provides for the probation and fine and, potential loss
of his law license. His prison time is commuted...course, his appeal
could toss all of the above, but I doubt that will happen.

Commutations usually come during one's time being served, not before.

Dubya felt the sentence was too harsh and pulled the commutation
card. Wonder where Cheney, the Prince of Darkness, fit into this one?

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This was teh Rove's doing.

Eric, Wagner, thanks for the info, but I had my tongue firmly in my cheek. There's people that have been dead for a decade that know what "Scooter" was convicted of.

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If that's the case, then how do you explain this:

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"Most" indeed...

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Exactly! The hypocrite dummycraps know the main-stream media will not expose them for what they are, so they can freely spout their garbage to the liberal masses. Bill Clinton did no wrong to these morons....

"This is exactly the kind of politics we must change so we can begin restoring the American people's faith in a government that puts the country's progress ahead of the bitter partisanship of recent years." — Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.
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"Only a president clinically incapable of understanding that mistakes have consequences could take the action he did today. President Bush has just sent exactly the wrong signal to the country and the world." — former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C.
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"The Constitution gives President Bush the power to commute sentences, but history will judge him harshly for using that power to benefit his own vice president's chief of staff who was convicted of such a serious violation of law." — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.
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"This commutation sends the clear signal that in this administration, cronyism and ideology trump competence and justice." — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y.
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"The president said he would hold accountable anyone involved in the Valerie Plame leak case. By his action today, the president shows his word is not to be believed." — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.

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