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Commuting Sentence, Bush Spares Libby from 30-Month Jail Term

Commuting Sentence, Bush Spares Libby from 30-Month Jail Term

President Bush has commuted the sentence of Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff Lewis "Scooter" Libby, sparing him from a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence in the CIA leak case. Bush’s move came just five hours after a federal appeals panel ruled that Libby could not put off serving his sentence while he appealed his conviction. That meant jail time for Libby was imminent — the US Bureau of Prisons had already assigned him a federal prisoner number. We get reaction from analyst and author Marcy Wheeler. [includes rush transcript]

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