Posted on 07/30/2007 3:49:57 PM PDT by SmithL
WASHINGTON, (AP) -- Vice President Dick Cheney thinks his former chief of staff shouldn't have been convicted in the CIA leak case and that President Bush did right by commuting the jail sentence instead of issuing a pardon.
"I thought the president handled it right," Cheney said in an interview Monday with Mark Knoller of CBS Radio. "I supported his decision."
However, asked if he disagreed with the guilty verdict for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Cheney said, "I did."
Libby was convicted of lying and obstructing justice in a probe into the leak of a CIA operative's identity. The former operative, Valerie Plame, contends the White House was trying to discredit her husband, a critic of Bush's Iraq policy.
Libby's allies had called for a full pardon, and some conservatives groused that Bush had declined to do so — at least for now. They criticized the middle ground the president sought to strike with his decision, in which he said he respected the jury's verdict but thought the 30-month jail sentence was too harsh. Bush left intact a $250,000 fine and two years' probation.
Cheney said he has seen Libby socially a number of times since the verdict, but he did not reveal anything about their conversations.
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I wish Mr. Cheney were president.
Real Men scare the Left!
asked if the republican party will bend over again for the
democraps, cheney said “of course”.
I’ve thought the same thing since 2000.
Like Scooter, Slick Willie also committed perjury. The bozos living in this country are getting ready to make his wife the president “because she’s a woman.”
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