Legally speaking, Libby cannot be pardoned by Bush

It would be against the law for President Bush to pardon Scooter Libby -- maybe all the more reason to suspect that he will.  All jokes aside though, the latest issue of Newsweek explains why, legally speaking, Bush can have no say in Libby's destiny:

Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief ofstaff does not qualify to even be considered for a presidential pardonunder Justice Department guidelines.

...Those regulations, which are discussed on the Justice Department Web site at www.usdoj.gov/pardon,would seem to make a Libby pardon a nonstarter in George W. Bush’sWhite House. They “require a petitioner to wait a period of at leastfive years after conviction or release from confinement (whichever islater) before filing a pardon application,”  according to the JusticeWeb site.

Still, Bush could issue an Executive Order that would overturn this Justice Department policy.

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[unknown86]

bush is a numbnut