The reason he gave for commuting scooters sentence was that the sentence was too "Excessive" And yes, he had every right to commute his sentence. The question is this. Scooter was sentenced according to FEDERAL guidelines, by a republican judge. So will Bush try and change the sentencing guidelines, and then commute the sentences of the other few hundred people convicted of the very same crimes? It seems to me that if its excessive for 1 person convicted by a jury of his peers, then it must be excessive to EVERYONE convicted by a jury of his/her peers. Will Bush do the right thing and change the sentencing guidelines and commute the other sentences of those convicted of this crime? Or was Scooter special?
2007-07-05 05:05:18 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Sorry, i meant perjury, not fraud!
2007-07-05 05:07:49 · update #1
Of course not. Republicans are all very big on law and order. But they don't believe those laws apply to themselves. Nixon, Reagan, and both Bushes were big law-and-order types whose administrations were filled with corruption and lawlessness.
Hell, Fred Thompson was even in a TV program called Law and Order! When he was a US senator, Thompson went on record over and over during the Clinton impeachment saying that Clinton should be impeached, convicted and jailed for perjury and obstruction of justice. Yet he led the campaign to collect contributions for Scooter Libby's defense for the very same crime!
Obviously there is a long list of 'crimes' that are only illegal if Democrats do them. Republicans are above the law.
2007-07-05 05:12:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
If you check Scooter Libby was convicted of impeding a Federal Investigation and Perjury. Fraud and Conspiracy weren't among the charges he was convicted of. Kind of the same things Clinton did about his relationship with Lewinsky, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" statement meets those same two crimes. As far as Presidents changing sentencing, again look at Bill Clinton. His Pardon list when he left office was one of the longest in Presidential History. President Bush, however said that crimes need to be punished and refused to "Pardon" Libby, but agreed that Prison Time for lying, on top of a $250,000 fine and three years probation was a little excessive. And in the real world very few people go to PRISON for perjury and as far as impeding a senate judiciary investigation, very few are in positions to do that and those that have committed that crime (IE Clinton, both of them, (Don't forget about Whitewater and Hillary's Law firm)) rarely suffer criminal consequence.
2007-07-05 05:18:24 · answer #2 · answered by Jim 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it had more to do with the particular case against Libby than it did with the overall guidelines. Due to the circumstances surrounding the agent involved, the disclosing of her identity was not a crime. If no crime was committed, there should not have been an investigation at all. If there wasn't an investigation, there wouldn't be a cause to charge him with obstruction of justice or perjury.
2007-07-05 05:13:10 · answer #3 · answered by Truth is elusive 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes,Bush will change the commuted sentence to full pardon! This is the only change he will complete!
2007-07-05 06:41:21 · answer #4 · answered by nytwist 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-08 05:38:51 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope.
However, I'll bet Bush is sorry that he appointed that judge, hoping he'd be tough on crime.
Looks like Bush didn't really want him to be tough on crime.
2007-07-05 05:08:39 · answer #6 · answered by ? 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
the president has every legal right to do what he did. but as usual with this guy i think he should have pulled his head out of his a-- and taken a few deep breathes before commiting to his decision to do it.
2007-07-05 05:10:39 · answer #7 · answered by 1oldone 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
only for members of the Bush Administration
2007-07-05 05:09:10 · answer #8 · answered by truth seeker 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Remember how he ran as a "compassionate conservative"? No compassion for Iraq, none for New Orleans, none for our wounded veterans lying in filthy conditions in military hospitals...but here at last we see compassion. And you thought he was a liar..............
2007-07-05 05:08:41 · answer #9 · answered by jxt299 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
scooter was special..he'll be even more special when he gets his full pardon..before he gets disbarred
2007-07-05 05:09:06 · answer #10 · answered by UMD Terps 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋