Analysis: Libby Case a Twist on Justice

Analysis: Libby Case a Twist on Justice

By PETE YOST
The Associated Press
Wednesday, June 6, 2007; 1:46 PM

WASHINGTON -- The latest twist in the CIA leak scandal has Vice President Dick Cheney saying he hopes his former chief of staff, now sentenced to 30 months in prison, will eventually get off.

And that, legal experts say, is an odd statement for a vice president to make.


While expressing support for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Cheney and President Bush are also in the position of being officials sworn to uphold the law, running the branch of government that prosecuted Libby.

"It's a disappointment whenever a person who occupies a high office and takes an oath doesn't respond to a demonstrated serious criminal event in a serious governmental way," former Iran-Contra prosecutor John Barrett said Tuesday night.

"It's an adversary process and I understand the personal dimension, but the United States is the side of the case that President Bush and Vice President Cheney are on. Those are their jobs," said Barrett, now a law professor at St. John's University in New York City.

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Bush and Chenet are not on the USA's side....they are on the Republican party side...:-(

It's odd indeed, normally, if a VP of the United States says that someone convicted in court ought to "eventually get off." As a U.S. official he has no business saying that; it's almost a challenge to a U.S. court. And the wording is strange, too, even for Cheney. Of course, undoubtedly he's lobbying for a presidential pardon for Scooter.

So much for BushCo's not commenting on an ongoing legal procedure.

for the appeal is in place?