I think Tony Snow and the president need some help. Snow is out there saying that President Clinton has chutzpah for criticizing President Bush’s commutation of Scooter Libby.
But this really isn’t that complicated.
Setting aside whether Scooter Libby should spend 0 days in jail for what most people spend from 1 to 3 years in jail, the key here is that it’s inappropriate for the president to pardon or commute a sentence in a case in which he (i.e., the president) is a party to the same underlying crime. Because it amounts to obstruction of justice.
It’s really not that complicated.
