President Bush spared Libby by commuting his two-and-a-half year sentence while leaving intact his conviction for perjury and obstruction of justice in the CIA leak case.
The NYT's editorial staff weighs in....
Presidents have the power to grant clemency and pardons. But in this case, Mr. Bush did not sound like a leader making tough decisions about justice. He sounded like a man worried about what a former loyalist might say when actually staring into a prison cell.
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