OpinionJournal.com has one take on it in their lead editorial “Bush and Libby”.
And here’s a helpful link to a page listing all of Bill Clinton’s pardons (note that Libby wasn’t pardoned). You’ll never scroll more in your online life. The page listing Clinton’s pardons makes it a contender for the longest Web page in the history of the world or at least since his Vice-President Algore invented the now-pernicious-to-liberals Internet. (Note that neither Clinton nor Bush had to pardon Sandy (“9/11 docs down the underpants”) Berger because he wasn’t sent to jail).
FrontPage.com’s Ben Johnson has a good take:
…Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald knew Libby had not been the source of the Plame Leak, and he knew this leak violated no federal laws. He pursued the case anyway, aiming for the vice president but apparently entrapping Libby…
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It also demonstrates the shamelessness of its proponents. Hillary Clinton stated the commutation “sends the clear signal that in this administration, cronyism and ideology trump competence and justice.” Former Clinton appointee Bill Richardson audaciously broadsided those “who obstructed justice and lied to grand juries.” Hillary made no mention of “cronyism” when her husband pardoned Marc Rich, Susan McDougal, and more than a dozen New York terrorists; and both Hillary and Richardson lobbied for Congress to acquit the president of obstructing justice and lying under oath during a court proceeding (more significant than lying to federal investigators).
I liked the Ace of Spades HQ take:
Suggestion: Bush should have reduced the fine to a more reasonable $50,000, which just so happens to be how much [Clinton’s] Sandy Berger was fined for stealing and destroying classified documents [related to 9/11] and lying about it to investigators (he wasn’t charged for the latter, but subsequent revelations has made it clear he did just that).
Making the fine $50,000 would have been more in line with Libby’s transgressions, and it would have made it harder for Democrats to argue against it. The penalty—no jail time, $50,000, probation—would have been so similar to Berger’s that one could scarcely mention it without also mentioning Berger.
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