Bush: Cheney angry Bush did not pardon Libby

WASHINGTON – Former President George W. Bush says Vice President Dick Cheney angrily confronted him over Bush's decision not to pardon a former vice presidential aide over his role in the case of the leaked identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame.

Bush, in an interview aired Monday on NBC's "Today" show, said Cheney was angry that Bush only commuted the sentence of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, convicted of lying during the leak investigation.

In the book, Bush recounts that a furious Cheney told him: "I can't believe you're going to leave a soldier on the battlefield."

Bush said he worried the incident would fracture his friendship with Cheney. But he said: "I'm pleased to report we are friends today."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101108/ap_on_re_us/us_bush_cheney

I still believe that Libby wasn't pardoned for legal CYA reasons on behalf of Rove or Cheney.

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so he didn't spend any time in jail. Yeah, the fine stayed in place, as did the two-year probation, but it still amounts to a slap on the wrist.

Oops. Edited for clarity.

Further edited to add: considering the fact that Cheney got FIVE deferments during Vietnam, he's got a hell of a lot of nerve saying Bush left "a soldier on the battlefield." Cheney knows sweet fuck-all about what that's really like--Libby was a right-wing traitor, not a soldier.