***Tell that to Scooter Libby. ***
Bush commuted Libby’s sentence. To pardon him would have been saying he was guilty.
I'm sure Scooter is ever so glad to be hung instead of shot.
A single sentence in a pardon saying that the President believes Scooter to be innocent, but in any case he is pardoned would have taken Bush's secretary about ten seconds to type up, but that was too much for the ever so loyal Bush.