Heh... mere mention of this will have leftist heads exploding.
I'd rather an acquittal than a pardon - even more commie crania will rupture.
Time for 'Scooter' to Scoot (Because Libby called Marc Rich to congratulate him on his pardon)
John L. Perry March 4, 2001
It'll hurt like cutting off his right arm, but Dick Cheney has a duty to the presidency to fire his own trusted chief of staff. ...
Over a period of 17 years, when he would weave out of government, Libby represented Rich.
It would be fair to say, as was said of him during the committee hearing, that Libby probably knows more about that tangled case than any man alive.
On Jan. 22, two days after George W. Bush was sworn in as president, Libby did something quite wrong. He placed an overseas phone call, to Switzerland, to Marc Rich.
He phoned his old client and obvious friend, to offer congratulations on having been pardoned by Clinton – arguably the most-damned pardon ever granted by a president in the nation's history.
Libby's congratulations, as his testimony in the committee-hearing transcript reveals, were offered to a man he considered to be both a traitor and a fugitive from justice.
So what's the big deal? No one was injured – as in "no harm, no foul."
This isn't roundball. This has to do with the proper stewardship of the presidency, the delicacy and transcending importance of which this nation is just now, after eight awful years of Clintonism, only beginning to appreciate.
What's wrong, what's harmful is that if you are entrusted with public office, whether on the local school-board staff or as chief of staff of the vice president of the United States of America, you simply do not do what Libby did.
Marc Rich showed greater sensitivity to that imperative than Libby did.
Libby testified that Michael Green, one of Rich's defense counsels, told him that right after the pardon he had taken a thank-you call from the fugitive, who expressed reluctance to phone Libby to state his appreciation for all he had done for him over the years because, as Libby put it, Rich "did not want to get me into any trouble by calling me." ....
It's the right time for "Scooter" to scoot back to private practice again.
John L. Perry, a prize-winning newspaper editor and writer who served on White House staffs of two presidents, is senior editor and a regular columnist for NewsMax.com.