Not true, but then I don't expect the perpetual Bush haters here to recognize the truth. Like the rest of us, President Bush did not know who the leaker was until after he left office. The people who knew were Armitage, Powell, Novak and Fitzgerald. None of them told the truth although they all had plenty of opportunity to do so.
Armitage and Powell were guilty, at minimum, of betraying their country and president by withholding the truth. Novak was guilty of betraying professional ethics by allowing himself to be cowed by Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald was guilty of gross prosecutorial misconduct. I'm no lawyer, but it's possible Fitzgerald, himself, broke some serious laws.
The victims of this disgusting charade pulled by those four men were first the country -- the American people -- second, the President, third, Scooter Libby and his family, and fourth, the other people in the White House whom Fitzgerald hounded (including Rove).
Perpetual Bush haters like you just compound the injustice.
I think Bush should have pardoned Libby, but at least he spared him from going to prison. I think he wanted to respect our system of trial by jury (even though obviously juries don’t always reach the correct conclusion—see the O.J. criminal trial). He didn’t have all the facts and thought that he shouldn’t second-guess the jurors who had spent a lot of time listening to the case.
According to Wikipedia, Armitage admitted he was the leak in August of 2006, two years before President Bush left office.
I truly like and respect President Bush, but there are many things he did or didn’t do that I disagree with. Not pardoning Libby was one of them. Especially after the truth finally came out. Not sure how he sleeps with that one on his conscience.
Meanwhile, Fitzgerald should be prosecuted since he knew everything BEFORE he really started this whole mess and covered it up.
The whole thing is nasty, sordid and disgusting.