Scooter Quotes

The George W. Bush administration had sought to discredit and punish a vocal critic whose wife was a covert CIA operative. Despite a law that prohibited it, the Presidential and Vice Presidential Aides leaked this information to the press. A special prosecutor had investigated and found that the Vice President’s Chief of Staff had covered up the plot and obstructed justice and lied to investigators and Libby was convicted by a Jury. However, at the time, the degree of involvement of the President, the Vice President and other key administration officials was unknown and many people such as Trump agreed with several of the trial jury members that Libby was taking the fall and protecting the administration.

President Bush, who in 6 years had only pardoned or commuted the sentence of 2 people before, commuted the criminal jail sentence of Scooter Libby, the White House Vice Presidential Chief of Staff who had lied to the FBI and the Grand Jury in order to protect the role of White House officials in the illegally leaking the identity of a CIA covert operator to punish her husband—a critic of the administration.

President Bush, who in 6 years had only pardoned or commuted the sentence of 2 people before, commuted the criminal jail sentence of Scooter Libby, the White House Vice Presidential Chief of Staff who had lied to the FBI and the Grand Jury in order to protect the role of White House officials in the illegally leaking the identity of a CIA covert operator to punish her husband—a critic of the administration.