Shockingest!

[lsanderson]

President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney in April 2007, the month after I. Lewis Libby Jr. was convicted.
By JIM RUTENBERG and JO BECKER
Published: February 17, 2009

WASHINGTON — Dick Cheney spent his final days as vice president making a furious last-ditch effort to secure a pardon for his onetime chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby Jr., leaving him at odds with former President George W. Bush on a matter of personal loyalty as the two moved on to private life, according to several former officials. More

Comments

[barthanderson.livejournal.com]

That's one of the all-time creepy pics of the Bush2 era.

[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

I'm at a loss to explain Mr. Cheney's desire for a Presidential Pardon for Mr. Libby -- such a Pardon would, according to some legal experts, preclude Mr. Libby from citing the 5th amendment and refusing to testify if brought to trial. I rather think that such testimony, given under penalty of perjury, would be, at the very least, embarrassing for Mr. Cheney. Usually (IMHO) Mr. Cheney seems to be better as such chicanery than Mr. Bush, so it may be that Mr. Libby's orders came directly from the President..

[pameladean]

Wow, I got to the point where cheney was whining about, "The most cruel and foul injustice," and just bailed. If irony could be killed, that'd do it. How I hate that man.

P.