Libby Sentence Commuted: Must There Always Be Hypocrisy?

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President Bush commuted Scooter Libby’s jail sentence yesterday. To be honest, I am not sure what I think about that decision. But lots of the usual suspects predictably wasted no time in flaying Bush for subverting the Constitution and a variety of other sins.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi condemned the president, saying his decision “does not serve justice, condones criminal conduct, and is a betrayal of trust of the American people.”

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