White House Criticizes Clintons on Libby

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 Evil… the Clintons, I mean.

“I don’t know what Arkansan is for chutzpah, but this is a gigantic case of it,” presidential spokesman Tony Snow said.

 Oooh, Hillary’s not going to like that. Watch out, Tony, she might make you look at her. Seriously, the Clintons are involved in several murders and suspicious deaths (more on that later.)

Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has scheduled hearings Wednesday on Bush’s commutation of Libby’s 2 1/2-year sentence.

“Well, fine, knock himself out,” Snow said of Conyers. “I mean, perfectly happy. And while he’s at it, why doesn’t he look at January 20th, 2001?”

Wow, Tony’s really telling it like it is. The Dems can dish it out but they can’t take it apparently. I might go for a Hillary controlled White House in 08 as long as the GOP got Congress. Hopefully they’d have some fun making a big deal out of everything she does then.

In the closing hours of his presidency, Clinton pardoned 140 people, including fugitive financier Marc Rich.

Conyers said the hearings would include pardons made by Clinton, former President Bush and possibly other past presidents. “We won’t need to review each and every one of them, but the whole idea is to examine to what use this part of our criminal law is being put and whether it’s being used adequately or are their other changes necessary,” Conyers told Fox News Radio.

Oh, I see, he’s being fair. i suppose it’s just a big coincidence that the hearings are going on now. Anyway, i’ll just have to keep an eye on that situation.

President Clinton tried to draw a distinction between the pardons he granted, and Bush’s decision to commute Libby’s 30-month sentence in the CIA leak case.

“I think there are guidelines for what happens when somebody is convicted,” Clinton told a radio interviewer Tuesday. “You’ve got to understand, this is consistent with their philosophy; they believe that they should be able to do what they want to do, and that the law is a minor obstacle.”

Sen. Clinton, seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, said the Libby decision “was clearly an effort to protect the White House. … There isn’t any doubt now, what we know is that Libby was carrying out the implicit or explicit wishes of the vice president, or maybe the president as well, in the further effort to stifle dissent.”

Former Vice President Al Gore said he found the Bush decision “disappointing” and said he did not think it was comparable to Clinton’s pardons.

“It’s different because in this case the person involved is charged with activities that involved knowledge of what his superiors in the White House did,” Gore said on NBC’s “Today” show Thursday.

Okay, who’s buying the Clinton’s and Gore’s excuses? Anyone? Is there one single person (brainless people excluded) who thinks any of this should have even gotten a day in court, any of the original (non)”covert” case at all (be aware that saying yes without backup automatically makes you brainless.)

“It’s different because in this case the person involved is charged with activities that involved knowledge of what his superiors in the White House did,” Gore said on NBC’s “Today” show Thursday.

Scott Stanzel, a White House deputy press secretary, said that, “When you think about the previous administration and the 11th-hour, fire-sale pardons … it’s really startling that they have the gall to criticize what we believe is a very considered, a very deliberate approach to a very unique case.”

Snow also tried to clear up confusion about Libby’s probation. While commuting Libby’s sentence in terms of prison time, Bush left in place his two years of supervised release. But supervised release — a form of probation — is only available to people who have served prison time. Without prison, it’s unclear what happens next.

Snow said the White House view was this: “You treat it as if he has already served the 30 months, and probation kicks in. Obviously, the sentencing judge will figure out precisely how that works.”

To summarize, the Clintons are being stupid. And this from Yahoo News.