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• Libby says he's dropping appeal in leak case involving outed agent

  - 2007-12-11

  WASHINGTON -- I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, announced Monday that he was dropping the appeal of his conviction for perjury and obstruction of justice in the CIA leak case. The move comes five months after President Bush commuted the 30- month...

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• Ex-White House aide Scooter Libby drops appeal

  - 2007-12-10

  WASHINGTON AFP — A former top White House aide partially pardoned after being served a jail term for obstructing a probe into the outing of a CIA agent has dropped his appeal in the case, lawyers said Monday. In July President George W. Bush pardoned Lewis "Scooter" Libby, a...

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• Ex-Bush aide says he was misled

  - 2007-11-21

  Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan writes in a memoir that he unintentionally misled the public about the leak of a CIA operative's name because of misinformation given to him by President Bush, political adviser Karl Rove and other top officials. A three-paragraph excerpt from the book...

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• President says CIA leak is old news not worth discussing

  - 2007-07-13

  WASHINGTON -- President Bush always said he would wait to talk about the CIA leak case until after the investigation into his administration's role. On Thursday, he skipped over that step and pronounced the matter old news hardly worth discussing. "It's run its course," he said. "Now we're...

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• Bush dodges questions about CIA leak

  - 2007-07-13

  WASHINGTON -- President Bush always said he would wait to talk about the CIA leak case until after the investigation into his administration's role. On Thursday, he skipped over that step and pronounced the matter old news hardly worth discussing. "It's run its course," he said. "Now...

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• Our faux constitutional crisis

  - 2007-07-09

  PRACTICALLY everything else in American life has been dumbed down, so why not constitutional crises? The braying over President Bush's commutation of Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff Lewis "Scooter" Libby's prison sentence is that Bush has undermined the rule of law and the Constitution. ...

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• Our faux constitutional crisis

  - 2007-07-09

  PRACTICALLY EVERYTHING else in American life has been dumbed down, so why not constitutional crises? The braying over President Bush's commutation of Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff Lewis "Scooter" Libby's prison sentence is that Bush has undermined the rule of law and the Constitution. ...

  Tags: Bush, CIA, Government, Libby, president

• President did right thing by Libby

  - 2007-07-06

  CONTRARY to the outcries from leading Democrats in Congress, President Bush finally has brought some justice to the case of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. By commuting Libby's utterly unreasonable sentence but leaving his $250,000 fine and two years of probation in place, the president also has put this victimless crime...

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• Editorial | Scooter Goes Free

  - 2007-07-04

  While governor of Texas, George W. Bush reviewed 153 writs of execution. He let executions proceed 152 times.How lucky for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby that Bush has suddenly discovered his mercy gene.On Monday, Bush commuted the 30-month prison sentence that Libby, former top aide to Vice President Cheney, received for...

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• Bush won't rule out Libby pardon

  - 2007-07-04

  WASHINGTON -- President Bush on Tuesday refused to rule out an eventual pardon for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, leaving open the chance he may wipe away the former White House aide's criminal record after already erasing his prison sentence. "I rule nothing in or nothing out," Bush said...

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