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Tuesday, 03 July 2007 |
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Outrageous: Bush saves Libby from jail
'George Bush created a political storm by intervening to stop the disgraced White House aide, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, from going to jail. The president, in a statement, said the prison sentence imposed on Mr Libby, who was found guilty of perjury in a complex spy case linked to the Iraq war, was too harsh.Mr Bush, who made the statement after leaving a summit with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, at Kennebunkport, Maine, said: "I respect the jury's verdict. But I have concluded that the prison sentence is excessive".'
So speaks the man behind Guantanamo Bay and 'extraordinary rendition' who refused appeal after appeal against the death sentence while Governor of Texas.
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