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CONTEXT Instead of going for a full-fledged pardon, President Bush commuted Scooter Libby's sentence, leaving the fines and criminal record intact but keeping him out of prison...
CONTEXT Clinton notoriously issued 140 pardons on his last day in office, including one to tax evader Marc Rich--whose lawyer at the time just happened to be Scooter Libby...
...Lewis "Scooter" Libby isn't going to jail, but he still has to cough up a $250,000 fine, serve two years of supervised release and live with his conviction for perjury and obstruction of justice - unless they're overturned on appeal...
President Bush's commutation of Scooter Libby's prison sentence on Monday will fuel speculation that others at the White House helped coordinate the leak of Valerie Plame's identity as a CIA officer in 2003. But politically the move makes sense...
...continue into the matter. In a recent deposition at the House Committee on government oversight, staffers asked Karl Rove's former executive assistant what she knew about the Valerie Plame leak case. After a little thought, the assistant, Susan Ralston, said she had a "vague recollection that [Rove] and Scooter Libby talked about this subject often." Comments like that only strengthen the impression that Libby's obstruction of justice - and Bush's commutation - have left important questions unanswered in the case...