LEAHY: No, because he’s got a fifth amendment right that he can still do. I mean, this was, actually in my view, a blatant way of guaranteeing that Scooter Libby would not talk about the things that were done, you know, some of the misleading information given out by Vice President Cheney and the president. They led us into this war in Iraq, and they bought his silence. I can understand why the prosecutor was so angry about it.
George Bush commuted Scooter’s sentence rather than pardoning him to Shut. Him. Up. The notion that he did it to “split the difference” and respect the jury’s decision is just absurd. He did it to cover his own tracks, which is exactly why Congress should be looking into the whole matter.
And yes I agree that litttle Scooter's silence was brought by the commuter-in-chief but at the price of Mr. 9%, Bush real boss. Teddy Wells was wrong in his opening arguments to distort the public and the jury in thinking that Libby was the sacrifical lamb for Rove. No, Mr. Wells, Libby was the sacrifical lamb for the mastermind of discrediting former Ambassador Joe Wilson: Dick Cheney!
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