Raw Story: Pardoning Libby is a slam dunk...He needs Libby to keep his mouth shut

[PhilipShore]

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March 10, 2007

According to New York Times columnist Frank Rich, it isn't a question of if President Bush will pardon a former White House aide convicted last Tuesday on charges of lying and making false statements but when. Rich calls the prospects of a pardon occurring a "slam dunk" proposition, which is a mocking reference to words that former CIA chief George Tenet reportedly used before the invasion of Iraq to describe the existence of WMD that were never found.

"Even by Washington's standards, few debates have been more fatuous or wasted more energy than the frenzied speculation over whether President Bush will or will not pardon Scooter Libby," Rich writes in Sunday's paper. "Of course he will."

Excerpts from Rich's column:
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Either way, the pardon is a must for Bush. He needs Libby to keep his mouth shut. Cheney's Cheney knows too much about covert administration schemes far darker than the smearing of Joseph Wilson. Though Libby wrote a novel that sank without a trace a decade ago, he now has the makings of an explosive Washington tell-all that could be stranger than most fiction and far more salable.

[rwenos]

1. Jan. 20, 2009, 11:40 a.m. EST

Bush's term ends at noon that day. The pardon will be the last document he signs as President.

We've already seen the rushes. Jed Bartlett pardons Tobey at 11:40 a.m. on Inauguration Day, before Matt Santos takes the Presidential oath of office. The pardon power passes from Bush to the next President at noon that day.

Only 682 days from today, and counting.

[noamnety]

2. Seen on an Army Post this week

Guess when Libby will get Pardoned, Win a Free Tee-Shirt

My husband spotted that at the AFGE office. :)