Former Vice President Dick Cheney has gone public about the controversy surrounding his former no. 1 aide Scooter Libby:
The former vice president reportedly lobbied his boss relentlessly for a full pardon for his ex-chief of staff, who lied to a federal grand jury. A bitter Cheney has now gone public…
With Cheney on offense to get Libby a full pardon, an exasperated Bush told aides he didn’t want to talk about it anymore.
Bitter over the outcome, Cheney has now gone public, arguing that his chief of staff was railroaded by the administration’s political critics.
As he told the Weekly Standard: “He was the victim of a serious miscarriage of justice, and I strongly believe that he deserved a presidential pardon. Obviously, I disagree with President Bush’s decision.”
It’ll be interesting to see whether the Bush camp will fight back, or whether they’ll take it all in and ignore Cheney from now onwards. If they fight back, it could get quite ugly. One only hopes they all washed their laundry recently.
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no reason for the Bush’s to fight back. End of the day who cares, Bush was in the seat, Cheney wasn’t. Bush gains nothing by fighting what doesn’t need to be fought.