Snow says politics was not considered in Libby commutation

TPM Muckraker has been all over the commutation story more than any other blog on the internet.  They covered the White House Press Conference this morning, in which Tony Snow denied that politics was involved in the elimination of Scooter Libby's jail sentence:

SNOW: The key considerations were... let’s figureout what we think is appropriate, what he thinks is appropriate interms of punishment and let’s also do it in a way that does not doviolence, but in fact shows respect to a system of justice... not goingin and overthrowing the hard work and the verdict of a duly constitutedjury. That, to me, demonstrates just the opposite of politicalconsideration....

Here is the video: