Libby held up his side of the bargine and didn't testify or call Cheney as a witness so why doesn't Bush hold up his side and pardon him?
2007-06-07 04:06:07 · 13 answers · asked by sSuper critic 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
He is going to wait until the end of his term. He will get hell for it though because the rules for issuing a pardon are as follows:
1)Petitioner has to have gone to jail
2)The pardon request has to be made five(5) years after the conviction. This ironically is a fact that Scooter Libby should know considering he was the one who submitted the clemency request for March Rich to President Bill Clinton
Primarily, these are the excuses Bush has used for not pardoning the two Border Patrol agents who were convicted for actually doing their job, which absolutely disgusts me but watch him with no compunction flaut those same rules and standards he holds the Border agents to and pardon someone who lied and obstructed justice about something to do with National Security.
2007-06-07 04:12:26 · answer #1 · answered by thequeenreigns 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suspect that the Republicans already have in motion their means to steal the 2008 election and he wants to leave it up to his Republican successor to pardon Libby.
If the Democrats win the White House; I suspect that he will pardon Libby as a last act of his presidency.
Doing so now might prompt some to construe a pardon now as the payoff for taking the fall and that he knows more about the leak than he’s saying and might prompt some to dig further and possibly find out that the order actually came from him.
tmo.
2007-06-08 16:57:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bush will pardon Libby in January of 2009 just before he leaves office. Scooter will have to live at club fed for just a little while to make it look good. Slap on the wrist and all that sort of thing.
2007-06-07 04:09:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Libby probable gets a pardon, even with being answerable for a extreme crime. while Bush is impeached, Cheney will pardon him. And while Cheney is charged, a clean Republican will pardon him. entire corruption.
2017-01-10 17:59:31 · answer #4 · answered by brintley 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If he pardoned Libby it would look bad for him and just look like cronyism. Remember when Ford pardoned Nixon?
2007-06-07 04:10:15 · answer #5 · answered by ngard000 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He will, when he leaves office. If he did it right now, he knows the political backlash would be unfathomably bad toward the GOP.
When he leaves office, the new President is already elected so it won't be as disastrous to the party.
2007-06-07 04:20:51 · answer #6 · answered by Bush Invented the Google 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Give him more time. I'm sure a pardon will come.
2007-06-07 04:38:32 · answer #7 · answered by MishMash [I am not one of your fans] 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are going to let it go through the appeal process first. See what happens after that.
2007-06-07 04:34:19 · answer #8 · answered by bs b 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bush is too busy not catching Osama bin Laden.
2007-06-07 04:11:39 · answer #9 · answered by Darth Vader 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Bush is a chump and a coward.
2007-06-07 04:14:48 · answer #10 · answered by GrapeMSH 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋