Libby may need to serve some jail time says judge
Libby judge questions Bush commutation as Judiciary Committee prepares hearings
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by Michael Roston
The House Judiciary Committee plans hearings next week into President George W. Bush’s decision to commute the sentence of convicted former White House aide I. Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby. They are likely to focus their inquiry into whether Bush’s commuting of a jail sentence that had not yet been served was appropriate after the key judge in the Libby case questioned the President’s act.
Federal District Judge Reggie Walton, who sentenced Libby to 30 months in jail for perjury, obstruction of justice, and making false statements in the investigation of the outing of Plame, raised concerns about the President’s commutation of Libby in a Tuesday filing. He suggested that the commutation cannot be used without Libby first serving time in jail.
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There’s new life in the accountability movement! The People v Bush: One Lawyer’s Campaign to Bring the President to Justice and the National Grassroots Movement She Encounters Along the Way (Chelsea Green) has just been published. Author Charlotte Dennett will be in Cambridge January 20 at the Harvard Bookstore at 7 pm to discuss it and the following day, January 21, at 7 p.m. in New York City at the 92nd St Y. Vincent Bulgiosi is flying all the way from the west coast and will join Naomi Wolf in helping her launch the book on the 21st.
