{"id":2148,"date":"2007-07-02T22:43:11","date_gmt":"2007-07-03T03:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2148"},"modified":"2007-07-02T22:43:11","modified_gmt":"2007-07-03T03:43:11","slug":"bush-spares-libby-30-month-jail-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2148","title":{"rendered":"Bush Spares Libby 30-Month Jail Term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Scott Shane and Neil A. Lewis, <em>New York Times<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/07\/03\/washington\/03libby.html\">2 July 2007<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Bush spared I. Lewis Libby Jr. from prison Monday, commuting his two-and-a-half year sentence while leaving intact his conviction for perjury and obstruction of justice in the C.I.A. leak case.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Bush?s action, announced hours after a panel of judges ruled that Mr. Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney?s former chief of staff, could not put off serving his sentence while he appealed his conviction, came as a surprise to all but a few members of the president?s inner circle. It reignited the passions that have surrounded the case from the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>The commutation brought immediate praise from conservatives, who hailed it as a courageous step to avert a miscarriage of justice, and condemnation from Democrats, who said it showed a lack of accountability and respect for the law.<\/p>\n<p>The president portrayed his commutation of the sentence, which fell short of a pardon and still requires Mr. Libby to pay a $250,000 fine and be on probation for two years, as a carefully considered compromise.<\/p>\n<p>?I respect the jury?s verdict,? Mr. Bush said in a statement. ?But I have concluded that the prison sentence given to Mr. Libby is excessive.?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Scott Shane and Neil A. Lewis, New York Times, 2 July 2007 President Bush spared I. Lewis Libby Jr. from prison Monday, commuting his two-and-a-half year sentence while leaving intact his conviction for perjury and obstruction of justice in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2148\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-yE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}