Although it's been obvious for a long time that The Dick would arrange for The Bush to pardon the Scootster, it's now moving to the trial-balloon stage.
Newsday's Tom Brune writes:
"Now that top White House aide Karl Rove is off the hook in the CIA leak probe, President George W. Bush must weigh whether to pardon former vice presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the only one indicted in the three-year investigation.
"Speculation about a pardon began in late October, soon after Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald unsealed the perjury indictment of Libby, and it continued last week after Fitzgerald chose not to charge Rove.
"Scooter" Libby
"'I think ultimately, of course, there are going to be pardons,' said Joseph diGenova, a former prosecutor and an old Washington hand who shares that view with many pundits.
"'These are the kinds of cases in which historically presidents have given pardons,' said the veteran Republican attorney."
(Also see TalkingPointsMemo on the pardon)
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