Will Bush Pardon Libby?

John Podhoretz thinks he will. I hope he does. Let the unhinged left caterwaul all they want. We didn't hear squat from them when Bill Clinton pardoned drug dealers, terrorists and fugitives.

In his last days as president, George W. Bush will pardon Scooter Libby - that is, if the convictions secured yesterday don't get overturned on appeal.

For political reasons, Bush can't pardon Libby earlier than that. His responsibilities as head of the Republican Party, heading into an election year, would preclude such action.

But Bush won't leave office without issuing that pardon.

Why? Because if Bush fails to pardon Libby, he will implicitly be accepting the contention that Scooter Libby was part of a White House conspiracy at the highest levels to destroy the career of a CIA agent whose husband had proved Bush & Co. had lied us into the Iraq War.