Pardon Libby

In a stroke of injustice I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was sentenced to 30 months in prison for lying and obstructing the Central Intelligence Investigation into who leaked the name of Valerie Plame an intelligence agent to the press.
There are many Libby supporters who have written President Bush and asked him to pardon him before he must enter prison. President Bush ducked questions about whether or not he would pardon Mr. Libby.
Mr. Libby was Vice-President Dick Cheney's, chief of staff and is the highest ranking White House official to be sentenced to prison since the Iran-Contra affair in the Reagan administration in the 1980's.
The President said their is a process that needs to run its' course before he could make any decisions about a pardon.
Libby's attorney's are going to ask that he be allowed to remain free while his appeals are exhausted. The Special Prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, is going to oppose the request.
First President Bush should pardon Mr. Libby, because it was then Deputy-Secretary of State, Richard Armitage who released Mrs. Plames name to the press. Second the Special "Persecutor" law should be repealed as it nothing more than a stick to beat an administration over the head with when the "loyal" opposition has a policy dispute with the governing party. They wasted the government's time and money when they used it against former President Bill Clinton and it is being used against the Bush adminsitration, as Mr. Libby is being used as a poster child for all that has gone wrong in Iraq.
Mr. Fitzgerald says this proves that truth matters, but the truth did not matter to him. All he wanted was a conviction to justify the millions he wasted going after the wrong person. Truth my butt!!
United States District Judge Reggie B. Walton indicated Tuesday he saw no reason to grant the request. If Walton denies it, he will order Libby to report to prison in the next month or so, but attorneys have said they will rush to an appeals court and try to block his imprisonment there.
Libby was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice for lying to investigators about his conversations with reporters about Plame. Fitzgerald questioned Bush and Cheney in a probe that became a symbol of the administration's deepening problems
Even if pardoned Mr. Libby has incurred immense legal bills and all this time has been wasted going after the wrong person, in Washington there is no justice to be found.
Mr. President you have done a lot of things wrong during your time in office, do a right thing by pardoning Mr. Libby and coming clean on why you allowed Richard Armitage to reveal the name of a CIA operative to the press, to retaliate against her husband, Joseph Wilson who accused your administration of twisting intelligence to justify the 2003 Iraqi invasion.
It is time for this President to admit that he authorized this release of the name, that we were wrong to go to war in Iraq, even though we now need to finish it, and pardon this man before he spends one day in jail for lying to these "persecutors".