There’s a queasy appropriateness about the fact that the Libby pardon came down on Bring ’em on day.
Soldiers can be maimed or die and their families decimated for Bush’s bravado, but Scooter Libby can’t be asked to go to jail for destroying an intelligence network because it might upset Mary Matalin’s kids?
Even if you voted for these people, you didn’t vote for this. Please remember it a year from now.
But the nub of it is this:
UPDATE: Emptywheel makes an important point (emphasis added):
“He commuted Libby’s sentence, guaranteeing not only that Libby wouldn’t talk, but retaining Libby’s right to invoke the Fifth.”
So there it is: he’s free to do anything but rat out the people who set him up. Remember LBJ’s old axiom: I never trust a man unless I’ve got his pecker in my pocket.