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More back-story on President Bush's resistance to concluding clemencies

By Douglas A. Berman

The New York Times has this new story with more on Dick Cheney major (failed) final push to get President Bush to pardon Scooter Libby (basics here).  Among the notable aspects of this Times coverage are indications that President Bush was "frustrated by a deluge of last-minute pardon requests from other quarters."  Here is some of this reporting: Two former White House officials familiar with the thinking of both men said that Mr. Bush had been generally overwhelmed and surprised by the last-minute lobbying for pardons, but that he had believed he owed it to Mr. Cheney to listen to him as he made one last case for Mr. Libby over the course of several long discussions. Sharing details of the private talks on the condition of anonymity, the former officials said Mr...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 18, 2009 (boomark / email).