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07/30/07
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The Associated Press: Cheney still backs convicted former aide
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"Vice President Dick Cheney thinks his former chief of staff shouldn't have been convicted in the CIA leak case and that President Bush did right by commuting the jail sentence instead of issuing a pardon. . . . 'I thought the president handled it right,' Cheney said in an interview Monday with Mark Knoller of CBS Radio."
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07/19/07
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The Associated Press: Valerie Plame's Lawsuit Dismissed
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"A federal judge dismissed former CIA operative Valerie Plame's lawsuit against members of the Bush administration Thursday, eliminating one of the last courtroom remnants of the leak scandal. . . . U.S. District Judge John D. Bates dismissed the case on jurisdictional grounds and said he would not express an opinion on the constitutional arguments. Bates dismissed the case against all defendants: Cheney, White House political adviser Karl Rove, former White House aide I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby and former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage."
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07/10/07
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Real Clear Politics, Ed Koch: It's Only Fair To Commute Libby
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"Let me now -- and not for the first time -- rush in where angels fear to tread. I support President Bush's commutation of Scooter Libby's prison sentence. I have never met Mr. Libby. I have not been asked by any of his friends or family to assist him. So why am I taking this step, which is sure to be criticized by many of my friends and supporters? It is because I believe in fairness. To remain silent because speaking out would not be popular is to invite punishment in the world to come."
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07/10/07
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New York Sun Editorial: Libby and the Times
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"The New York Times waited just hours after President Bush commuted the sentence of Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby Jr., before issuing an editorial condemning the president's decision. It puts the paper in the position of favoring a judge's decision to impose a 30-month prison sentence on a person whose main crime, if there was one, stems from his effort to protect his ability to serve as a source for a New York Times reporter. Does the New York Times think its readers have forgotten the tenacious legal and public relations battle the paper fought to prevent the special prosecutor in the case, Patrick Fitzgerald, from wringing from its reporter Libby's name? Or the stream of top executives from the paper who visited the reporter in jail while she was refusing to give up her source?"
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07/08/07
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New York Post Editorial: Unpardonable Hypocrisy
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"White House press secretary Tony Snow didn't mince words last week:
'I don't know what Arkansan is for 'chutzpah,' but this is a gigantic case of it,' he said of criticism by both Bill and Hillary Clinton of President Bush's decision to commute I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby's prison sentence. And that's putting it mildly."
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