Wall Street Journal reaches out to Bush to "give a full pardon" to "an honest man"...Scooter Libby.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

When President Bush issued holiday pardons for 19 miscreants past and present on Tuesday, former Cheney chief-of-staff Scooter Libby wasn't among them. But with the two year campaign by right-wing pundits, GOP politicos and even Republican White House hopefuls now reaching a crescendo, Libby may yet get his slate wiped clean by the outgoing President. And to be sure, nothing in George W. Bush's past statements would suggest the Plamegate felon won't get the same Weinberger treatment the President's father offered the Iran-Contra crowd this week 16 years ago.

The drumbeat to save Scooter started anew on the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal. While Libby was convicted for perjury and obstruction of justice in the investigation into the retaliatory outing of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame, the Journal portrayed the criminal as martyr and the President's July 2007 commutation of Libby's sentence as a "half measure." Bush, the WSJ argued, should undo the "injustice inflicted" on Libby:

The judgment by a Washington, D.C. jury was more a verdict on the Bush Administration than it was about the confusing facts of Mr. Libby's alleged deceit. The Plame affair was a proxy for the larger political dispute over Iraq, and Mr. Libby became the Beltway sacrifice. By trumpeting his guilt, critics were able to impugn Mr. Bush's policies by insisting the President had "lied us into war"...

...In this dark episode, an honest man became the fall guy in a larger political war over the war. Mr. Libby deserved better -- and Mr. Bush owes it to Mr. Libby, and to future occupants of the White House, to give him a full pardon.

http://crooksandliars.com/jon-perr/begging-libbys-pardon

[HowHasItComeToThis]

1. B.S. TO BE SURE

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[Sarah Ibarruri]

2. I hope by now the U.S. is finally realizing that the Wall Street Journal is a piece of shit nt

[Missy Vixen]

3. If Libby is pardoned, he can testify against Bush and Cheney

Patrick Fitzgerald, are you listening? :evilgrin:

In the meantime, I'm betting Santa isn't bringing poor Scooter a pardon.

Julie

[muntrv]

4. Usually, WSJ gives a reach around to Bush.