Dems to Bush: Don't pardon Libby

CNN.com

"It's about time someone in the Bush administration has been held accountable for the campaign to manipulate intelligence and discredit war critics," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

"Lewis Libby has been convicted of perjury, but his trial revealed deeper truths about Vice President Cheney's role in this sordid affair. Now President Bush must pledge not to pardon Libby for his criminal conduct."

Added House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, "This trial provided a troubling picture of the inner workings of the Bush administration. The testimony unmistakably revealed -- at the highest levels of the Bush administration -- a callous disregard in handling sensitive national security information and a disposition to smear critics of the war in Iraq."

Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said the investigation should go deeper.

"There's a lot more going on here than just this," Dean said on CNN's "The Situation Room."

"We know that the president was not truthful with the American people when he sent us to war," he said. "... We don't know if the president committed a crime or not; it would be interesting to find that out." (Watch Dean tar Bush and Cheney Video) (This was directly from CNN's website)

Here you have Pelosi and Reid misunderstanding what the trial was about. The trial was not about who 'outed' a 'covert' CIA agent. The trial was about Libby's recollection of conversations and whom did he talk to first. He was supposed to remember all of this 2+ years later. Ridiculous!

When all the appeals and other judicial nonsense is done, and if Scooter Libby is 'still' convicted, I pray that Bush pardons him. The president needs to grow a pair and tell the Dems "I'm pardoning Libby and there's nothing you can do about it". I hardly think this will be as questionable as the pardons given by former President Clinton. Of course they have short memories and won't remember that.