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Wilson blasts Bush for sparing Libby |
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By Chris Good
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Posted: 07/03/07 11:51 AM [ET] |
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Former U.S. Ambassador Joe Wilson, husband of the CIA operative whose name was leaked to the media in 2003, said Tuesday that President Bush has “utterly subverted the rule of law” in sparing I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby from jail. “I couldn’t give a rat’s patootie about the fate of Scooter Libby,” Wilson said on NBC, “other than he was convicted by a jury of his peers.” Bush commuted Libby’s 30-month prison sentence Monday, incensing liberals and also angering some of Libby’s supporters who had called for a full pardon. Wilson called the Bush administration “corrupt from the top to the bottom,” and said the president is “potentially a suspect in an ongoing obstruction of justice case.” Libby, formerly Vice President Cheney’s chief of staff, was convicted in March of perjury and obstruction of justice for lying to investigators examining the leak of the identity of Wilson’s wife. |
