Bush on Libby: "I'm pretty much going to stay out of it until the course..."

[dajoki]

Chicago Tribune
http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/news_theswamp/2007/03/libby_pardon_bu.html

Originally posted: March 8, 2007
Libby pardon? Bush waiting to say
Posted by Mark Silva at 6:15 am CST

For all the unlicensed talk about a presidential pardon for Lewis "Scooter'' Libby, President Bush is the one licensed player who hasn't had much to say about the subject.

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While Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney convicted of lying in a federal probe of a CIA leak, appeals his guilty verdict on four counts, Bush says: "I'm pretty much going to stay out of it until the course -- the case has finally run its final -- the course it's going to take.''

On the eve of his trip to Latin America, Bush gave an interview to Univision, the Spanish-language American television network. Bush, who leaves this morning for Brazil, had this to say to the questions of Enrique Gratas of Univision, who interviewed the president in the basement Map Room of the White House yesterday:

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QUESTION: Thank you. Some senators, one in particular, Mr. Kennedy, is suggesting that you would pardon him. What's your idea?

THE PRESIDENT: Oh, I think -- as I say, there's an ongoing legal matter. There's a lot of -- if you listen carefully, the lawyers are talking about different avenues to approach this particular case. And so I'm pretty much going to stay out of it until the course -- the case has finally run its final -- the course it's going to take.

[AndyA]

1. Bush will pardon Libby if he needs to.

And he'll do it at a time where it won't hurt GOP candidates in 2008. It's a done deal. You can make book on it.

[knowbody0]

2. of course you are

case course protocol!

[tridim]

3. I'll fire anyone who leaked -> I'll "take care" of anyone who leaked ->

I'll "take care" of anyone who broke the law -> I'm pretty much going to stay out of it.

Did I get that progression right?

[rodeodance]

4. Where is his OUTRAGE at all the LEAKS??????????

[niyad]

5. can this cretin EVER speak a single, coherent sentence??

[tridim]

6. Only when he's talking about death and destrution. n/t

[louis-t]

7. He said "stay....the course" again.