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One Law for Them, Another One for Us

By Seth | June 7, 2007

William Otis, in this morning’s Washington Post, argues that Bush should not pardon Libby, but commute his sentence so that he doesn’t serve jail time.

A sense of proportionality argues in favor of eliminating Libby’s prison term. This was an unusually harsh sentence for a first offender convicted of a nonviolent and non-drug-related crime.

And so Otis, a former federal prosecutor, with a flick of the wrist, reduces impeding a federal investigation into the outing of a covert CIA operative to something less than a teenager with a marijuana cigarette.

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