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the DoJ is aware that there is no cause, if one looks to their guidelines, to pardon Libby. And I'm sure that the DoJ isn't looking for any new controversies right now. What we are witnessing is a group of OVP/WHIG/OSP folks who are demanding that Scooter get special treatment. They are telling Bush that as his only true supporters (besides his mom), he needs to listen to them, ignore the guidelines, and insult the system of justice by pardoning Libby.

It's worth noting that they made a significant "surge" in their effort to get Libby pardoned in December, when they felt Bush might be angry enough by the election loses and the Baker-Hamilton group's questioning his policies in Iraq, to try to show he was in full control. But Bush refused to grant the holiday pardon.