WASHINGTON — President Bush spared former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby from a 2 1/2-year prison term in the CIA leak case today, stepping into a criminal case with heavy political overtones on grounds that the sentence was just too harsh.
Bush commutes Libby's prison sentence
Monday, July 2, 2007 | 6:03 p.m. CDT;
updated 12:24 p.m. CDT, Sunday, July 20, 2008
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