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[Update:  The New York Times has a story showing the inconsistency between what Bush claimed his standards were and what he did with Libby.]

The man who famously mocked Karla Faye Tucker when she begged him for a pardon, a woman sentenced to death who had repented and become a born again Christian, feels that Lewis “Scooter” Libby’s sentence of 2-1/2 years in prison for unrepentant lying and obstruction of justice is too harsh. Where for Tucker, and others on death row like her, then Governor George W. Bush believed that they had “full access to the courts” - something clearly not so for many of the Texas indigent defendants - for Libby who clearly had “full access to the courts” and the best legal defense money could buy, President Bush had this to say,

“I respect the jury’s verdict…. But I have concluded that the prison sentence given to Mr. Libby is excessive. Therefore, I am commuting the portion of Mr. Libby’s sentence that required him to spend thirty months in prison.”

According to Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, Libby received the same sentence under the laws as other criminals, “[i]t is fundamental to the rule of law that all citizens stand before the bar of justice as equals.”

It didn’t happen here.