I beg your pardon
March 10, 2008
From my letter to the editor regarding Bush’ pardon of Scooter Libby, published in the Sierra Sun in Tahoe City, CA in July, 2007
http://sierrasun.com/article/20070710/OPINION/70710012
I’ve taken Sen. Joe Biden’s advice to heart and called the White House regarding President Bush’s decision to commute the 30-month prison sentence of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby. Well, I’ve been getting a busy signal for the last two hours, so I think I’ll e-mail.
I encourage you to contact the White House too and let them know what you think. What’s that emotion north of indignation? Outrage perhaps. Yes, that’s what I feel. Personally, I think former Ambassador Joe Wilson had it right when commenting on President Bush’s decision. Wilson said recently on NPR’s Morning Edition that this proves “this administration is corrupt to the core.”
Ambassador Joseph Wilson is the former diplomat whose wife was at the center of the CIA leak investigation that sparked the Libby case. In denouncing the Bush administration, Wilson told NPR, “I would only hope that Americans now realize, with this subversion of our system of justice and the rule of law in this country, just exactly how corrupt they are.”
Thanks and Happy Independence Day. This is the day we celebrate the act of defeating the oppressive illegitimate tyranny that threatened to enslave us. But please don’t read into it, there’s no metaphor or serendipity with the timing, I assure you.
And yes, Bill Clinton pardoned plenty of people, but none were involved in a conspiracy to deliberately expose the identity of a covert operative for the CIA to discredit her husband politically.
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