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Why did Bush commute Libby’s sentence?
By Ned | July 2, 2007
It wasn’t loyalty, if that’s what you were about to guess. Bush has a history of merrily dumping close associates who have long shown unswerving loyalty to him - look at Rumsfeld. And Libby was nowhere near as close to the Oval Office as Rumsfeld was.
No, I think this all goes back to who actually authorized the leak. It seems to me that if Bush didn’t bail Libby out of prison Libby would probably be talking right now about who told him to leak the information.
Which isn’t to say that now that Libby’s been paid off we still can’t use this opportunity to find out who the real blame lies with. I think Conyers has the right idea here.
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