WND Commentary How Scooter skated | Posted: July 6, 2007 | 1:00 a.m. Eastern
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Why did he suddenly barge into the legal process and erase the entire 30-month sentence of Scooter Libby?
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Bush indicated no disagreement with the verdict.
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But why did Bush rush to spare him even one day behind bars?
Three explanations come to mind.
The first is that Bush capitulated to intense pressure from the neoconservative commentariat led by the Wall Street Journal and the Weekly Standard.
To these folks, Scooter is no felon. Scooter is a hero. In the neocon network, Scooter was the pivot man in the veep's office moving the cherry-picked intel on Saddam's WMD, Saddam's nukes, Saddam's ties to 9-11 and al-Qaida to a collaborationist press as determined as he was to smash Iraq and Iran, secure Israel and control the Middle East.
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The second explanation is that Vice President Cheney went to Bush, closed the door and asked, as a personal favor, that he spare Cheney's faithful friend and loyal aide the disgrace and pain of prison. And Bush did this distasteful and shameful act at the behest of a vice president to whom he feels an immense debt.
The third explanation is that Cheney, and perhaps the president, fears that if Scooter goes to prison, and is staring at disgrace and 30 months away from friends and family, he may think he has been abandoned by people whose secrets he kept at the cost of reputation and freedom. An idle mind being the devil's workshop, Scooter might sit down and write a book, or phone "Bulldog" Fitzgerald and tell him he just remembered something.
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The act reeks of cronyism. The perception is that Scooter Libby got preferential treatment, a get-out-of-jail-free card because he was chief of staff to Cheney and assistant to Bush.
That perception is correct.
Because of whom he knew, Scooter got preferential treatment, big-time. The Godfather took care of the consigliere.
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