Jury Pardons Libby

[PhilipShore]

Huffington Post
03.08.2007

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lawrence-odonnell/jury-pardons-libby_b_42941.html

The President's speechwriters will be quoting last night's MSNBC transcripts when they write the pardon statement for Irve Lewis Libby. The most powerful pardon advocate Libby now has on his side is not the Vice President, not a senator, not a former senator-actor, but juror No. 10, Ann Redington who told Chris Matthews on Hardball, "I don't want him to go to jail." Redington said she would like Libby to get a pardon.

In the next hour, HuffPo's favorite juror, Denis Collins, said on Countdown that he agreed with Redington. "We had a lot of sympathy for Libby," said Collins. "If Mr. Libby was pardoned, I would have no problem with that." Collins went on to say that he thinks Libby is a "a very decent, nice person"--pure gold for the Bush speechwriters.

That does it. With the jury that convicted Libby instantly supporting a pardon, there is no room left for reasonable doubt that Bush will pardon Libby.

[lancdem]

1. I think they know he's covering for others

Hence the sympathy.

[Tempest]

2. The jury said Libby was the scapegoat

And wondered why Rove and Cheney weren't on trial.

[PhilipShore]

3. Libby was just a Patsy

[grasswire]

4. those two jurors became quite the good friends

He said last night that she was "hilarious" and that they had a good time as they sat next to each other in the box. She said that it would be "fun" if Libby was pardoned now. She called herself a "voyeur" caught up in the dramatic story.

Methinks these two are working this. And of course Tweety has a crush on Redington already.

[AndyTiedye]

5. The 2 Repiglican Stalwarts on the Jury Couldn't Deliver a NOT GUILTY Verdict, But

they are doing what they can for the team now.

[Demeter]

6. Disgusting. And They Call Themselves Americans?