Is Libby a special case? If not, others should go free, too

Link Interesting the double standard created by Bush's comments justifying the commutation. Pardons and commutations are clearly exceptions, but I wonder that any explanation is ever given for them since they are usually given at the end of a President's term. Everyone understands those pardons to be helping out friends and political allies. Yes, even then, issuing too many of these to 'true' criminals can give a black mark to Presidents, including Bill Clinton, who handed a bunch of them out in his last days. But Bush spoke about how Libby's sentence was too harsh in trying to justify his immediate commutation before Libby could serve even a day in jail. Why even bother justifying it? There isn't any reasoning to justify it. It's a complete conflict of interest. There isn't one rational law for friends of Bush and another for everyone else.

Lies, lies, lies and hypocrisy.

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NewsHour discussion

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Another Times article talks about how sparing Bush had been on pardons and commutations before Libby's commutation.