On the face of it, a pardon for Scooter is less a lock than may be supposed. Partly because of a PR screwup by Bu$hCo a couple of months ago while pandering to the anti-immigration wing of the party. In refusing to pardon to the two Border Patrol agents caught up in the political/quasi-legal witchhunt recently, Bush declined to pardon them since they did NOT meet Justice Dept guidelines for pardon.
Libby doesn't meet ANY of the guidelines for a pardon (see kos for more discussion of that), so Bush may have boxed himself in there as far as Libby goes. Two things to remember- Bush has NEVER worried about being consistent or principled AND, when it comes to a pardon, the Pres can pretty much do anything he wants, JD guidelines or not.
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