Why Scooter Libby Didn’t Get a Presidential Pardon Until Just Now
Apr 14, 2018, 01:32 PM
President Donald Trump on Friday pardoned former Vice President Dick Cheney's onetime Chief of Staff Lewis "Scooter" Libby, who was convicted in 2007 of perjury and obstruction of justice in the investigation of the 2003 leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity.
President George W. Bush had already been accused of showing favoritism to someone within his administration when he commuted Libby's sentence, which saved Libby from serving two-and-a-half-years in jail.