Libby's sentence not unusually long

"Three-fourths of the 198 defendants sentenced in federal court last year for obstruction of justice — one of four crimes Libby was found guilty of in March — got some prison time. According to federal data, the average sentence defendants received for that charge alone was 70 months." The only reason Bush could possibly have commuted Libby's sentence is to keep him from talking.

Jul 5, 2007 in Politicks | Comment