The total commutation of Libby’s sentence should put an end to any questions, if any remain, about whether the Bush-Cheney cabal is completely crooked.

Briefly: the published statement for public consumption that the president found Libby’s sentence “excessive” is transparently false. If he had merely found the sentence excessive, he could have commuted it PARTLY. Two and a half years cd have been reduced to two, or to one and a half, or to one year. It cd have been drastically commuted to six months, or to three months.

That did not happen. Instead, George Walker Bush elevated Byron York over ...   more »