Conyers: Reprieve May Have Quieted Libby

Conyers: Reprieve May Have Quieted Libby
Published: 7/8/07, 2:25 PM EDT
By JOHN HEILPRIN

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Democrat probing President Bush's decision to erase the prison sentence of a former White House aide said Sunday there is "the suspicion" the aide might have fingered others in the Bush administration if he served time.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers spoke of "the general impression" that Bush last week commuted I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's 2 1/2 year sentence in the CIA leak case to keep Libby quiet. The White House said Conyers' claim was baseless.

Conyers, D-Mich., has scheduled a committee hearing Wednesday on the matter.

Bush contended Libby's sentence was too harsh. Libby was convicted of lying and obstructing justice in an investigation into the leak of a CIA officer's identity. The former operative said the White House was trying to discredit her husband, a critic of Bush's Iraq policy.

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Anyone who did not draw that conclusion must have no deductive abilities at all.

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