White House mum on possibility of Libby pardon
By Klaus Marre | Posted 12/10/07 4:46 PM
December 10, 2007
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/white-house-mum-on-possibility-of-libby-pardon-2007-12-10.html
The White House refused to speculate whether President Bush would pardon former vice presidential aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby after Dick Cheney’s erstwhile chief of staff dropped his appeal in the CIA leak case Monday.
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However, Libby’s decision to drop the appeal opens the door to renewed questions about the case, in which the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson was leaked to the media.
Bush and other White House officials have routinely said that they would not comment on the case as it is making its way through the legal process. Now that it is closed, Bush could be asked to answer some of the queries that he has been deflecting since an investigation into the leak began.
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In addition, the recent memoir of former spokesman Scott McClellan also raises questions about the involvement of top White House officials, including Bush and Cheney, in the case.
McClellan said he unknowingly passed along false information. “And five of the highest-ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice president, the president's chief of staff, and the president himself,” McClellan said in his memoir.
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