Happy Independence Day
Dubya Shrub commuted what he called I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's "excessive" 30 month sentence...
for obstructing the investigation into the leaking of a covert intelligence agent's identity (CIA Agent Valerie Plame).
This corrupt administration makes Nixon, Dean, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell, Colson, Mardian, Strachan, Parkinson, Magruder and Liddy look like choirboys.
Judging from the Watergate fallout where 19 administration officials served time, Libby's 30 months was hardly "excessive".
Nixon, pardoned; Strachan, charges dropped; Mardian, conviction overturned on technicality, never retried; Parkinson, acquitted.
Months served: Kalmbach (191 days); Colson (7); Chapin (8); Barker, Gonzalez & Sturgis (13); Martinez (15).
Ehrlichman & Haldeman (18); Mitchell (19); Hunt (32); Liddy (52) remainder of 20 years commuted by Carter.
Magruder (7) testified for prosecution. McCord (2) after sentenced his letter gave up Dean. Dean (4), plea bargain, star witness for the prosecution.
for obstructing the investigation into the leaking of a covert intelligence agent's identity (CIA Agent Valerie Plame).
This corrupt administration makes Nixon, Dean, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell, Colson, Mardian, Strachan, Parkinson, Magruder and Liddy look like choirboys.
Judging from the Watergate fallout where 19 administration officials served time, Libby's 30 months was hardly "excessive".
Nixon, pardoned; Strachan, charges dropped; Mardian, conviction overturned on technicality, never retried; Parkinson, acquitted.
Months served: Kalmbach (191 days); Colson (7); Chapin (8); Barker, Gonzalez & Sturgis (13); Martinez (15).
Ehrlichman & Haldeman (18); Mitchell (19); Hunt (32); Liddy (52) remainder of 20 years commuted by Carter.
Magruder (7) testified for prosecution. McCord (2) after sentenced his letter gave up Dean. Dean (4), plea bargain, star witness for the prosecution.
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