Ex-VP Dick Cheney outraged President Bush didn't grant 'Scooter' Libby full pardon

New York Daily News ^ | February 17, 2009 | Thomas M. DeFrank

[Arec Barrwin]

Ex-VP Dick Cheney outraged President Bush didn't grant 'Scooter' Libby full pardon

BY THOMAS M. DEFRANK DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF Updated Tuesday, February 17th 2009, 8:36 AM

WASHINGTON - In the waning days of the Bush administration, Vice President Dick Cheney launched a last-ditch campaign to persuade his boss to pardon Lewis (Scooter) Libby - and was furious when President George W. Bush wouldn't budge.

Sources close to Cheney told the Daily News the former vice president repeatedly pressed Bush to pardon Libby, arguing his ex-chief of staff and longtime alter ego deserved a full exoneration - even though Bush had already kept Libby out of jail by commuting his 30-month prison sentence.

"He tried to make it happen right up until the very end," one Cheney associate said.

[Arec Barrwin]

I'm with Cheney. Libby should have been pardoned.

[TC Rider]

Ditto

[RabidBartender]

I wonder why Al Gore is always referred to as “former” Vice President, while Cheney always seems to be called “ex-”.

[SharpTalons]

Didn’t Libby lie under Oath? Why I thought the Wilson/plame affair was hyperbole, we can’t absolve Libby’s error. He should have not lied.

[Cinnamon Girl]

Why DIDN’T President Bush pardon Libby?

[antonico]

Yet another “Dubya” failing. He spent so much time being worried about the Democrats that he’s the real reason we have Zerobama in the White House now.

[listenhillary]

So was I, So was I. It was a manufactured Democratic operative scandal.

Richard Armitage seen laughing all the way to the bank.

[xzins]

Libby was taken care of. He at least had a bone tossed to him by way of the commutation.

What about the Haditha sacrifical lambs: Chessani and Wuterich.

It’s a violation of the gravest order that the commander in chief would stand by while these men are being persecuted.

[sarasota]

“Outraged” and “furious”. Does the writer have an audio source for that? All is hearsay otherwise.

[listenhillary]

He didn’t remember a conversation that had taken place two years ago.

[SharpTalons]

Problem is that Libby committed perjury. The same garbage Clinton did. Conservatives can’t pick and choose when one of their own breaks the law.

[Ann Archy]

I'm sure Cheney is ticked off at Bush for a LOT of things!

Mark McKinnon, a DEMOCRAT was the WORST Commuunications person ....EVER!!!!! Well, I guess he was a good Democrat that helped RUIN the Republicans!

[Doogle]

NY DAILY NEWS....has always been, and always will be a libtard haven

[A.A. Cunningham]

From 22 January 2009:

Cheney Speaks Out on Libby (Cheney Mad at Bush)

[arealconservativeforachange]

Along with the border agents!

[devane617]

DOTTO DITTO DITTO WHAT YOU SAID!

[Verginius Rufus]

I don't know if Libby lied about anything. His recollections differed from those of Tim Russert, and Fitzgerald chose to believe Russert (whose memory was not always right). I think it's possible Libby was right and Russert wrong, or if Libby's version was wrong, he was trying his best to remember and give a truthful answer. I have not studied the case in sufficient detail to know, and maybe there is conclusive evidence somewhere in Fitzgerald's material, but I wouldn't rule out the possibility that Fitzgerald went after Libby because he needed to get someone to justify his witchhunt.

[Dixie Yooper]

And all this time, everyone thought Cheney was pulling the stings with this administration...

[ncalburt]

YOur full of crap TROLL.
There was no perjury . The crime was working for a repub WH in the DC court system. Buzz Off Obama drone .