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Passage from McClellan's book on the Libby commutation

By Douglas A. Berman

Thanks to this post at TalkLeft I saw this post from Christopher Bateman at Vanity Fair titled "McClellan Disappointed (and McCain Still Mum) About Libby Commutation."  Here are highlights:Scott McClellan?s bombshell book... [includes] a forceful denunciation of President Bush?s decision to commute Scooter Libby?s sentence after his conviction for perjury and obstruction of justice in the Valerie Plame affair: It?s ? clear to me that Scooter Libby was guilty of the perjury and obstruction crimes for which he was convicted. When the president commuted Libby?s prison sentence and thereby protected him from serving even one day behind bars, I was disappointed.  This kind of special treatment undermines our system of justice?...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 29, 2008 (boomark / email).