the Libby commutation explained
[from The Note http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/Story?id=3105288&page=3 - amazing: Cheney doesn’t even have to speak!]
Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff delves into the internal deliberations
that led Bush to keep Libby out of jail, and reports that White House
counsel Fred Fielding “reluctantly concluded that the jury had
reached a reasonable verdict: the evidence was strong that Libby
testified falsely about his role in the leak.” Vice President Dick
Cheney didn’t even have to speak to exert his considerable influence,
Isikoff writes. “I’m not sure Bush had a choice,” one Bush adviser
tells Isikoff. “If he didn’t act, it would have caused a fracture
with the vice president.”