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While Jose Padilla is locked in the U.S. Gulag

President Bush spared former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter'' Libby from a 2-year prison term in the CIA leak case Monday, delivering a political thunderbolt in a highly charged criminal case.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-6753393,00.html


From Information Clearing House

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Bush commutes Scooter Libby's prison term
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6395/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

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Bush nixes jail time for convicted perjurer

Rocky Mount Telegram

07/02/07

President Bush spared former White House aide I. Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby from a 2 1/2-year prison term in the CIA leak investigation Monday, delivering a political thunderbolt in the highly charged criminal case. Bush said the sentence was just too harsh. Bush’s move came just five hours after a federal appeals panel ruled that Libby could not delay his prison term...

http://tinyurl.com/ysod9v


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Reaction to Bush's Libby Decision

The Associated Press reports on reactions to Bush's decision on Monday to commute the sentence of former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, sparing him from a two-and-a-half-year prison term in the CIA leak case. Also, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald released a statement.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/070307K.shtml

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George W. Bush is One Tough Hombre

By Paul Begala

If you're rich and right-wing and Republican, George is a real softie. As George W. Bush demonstrated in giving Scooter Libby a Get Out of Jail Free Card, he is only compassionate to conservatives.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17959.htm



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