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Libby on the Loose

Brian Doherty | 7.2.2007 6:17 PM


President Cheney, er, Bush, commutes Scooter Libby's jail sentence--the fine and probation stand. All Republicans who actually have to run for re-election again smile very, very tight, pained smiles at the news.

Brian Doherty is a senior editor at Reason and author of Ron Paul's Revolution: The Man and the Movement He Inspired (Broadside Books).

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