The President's statement says it all. A pardon would have been better to address the out-of-control special prosecutor's pursuit of someone who had no connection with the leak itself. The leak, as we now know, was from Armitage - and it was an effort to expose the lies of one Joe Wilson and possible neptism on the part Valerie Plame.
Still, it is a start. One can hope that the pardon will come at an appropriate time.
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Unfortunately, Bush has done all he will do for Libby. There will be no pardon at a later date. Bush does not want to leave himself open to the charge that he, like Clinton, issued an orgy of last minute pardons to his cronies and partners in crime.
It just won't happen. And no one will bring Fitzgerald to heel, either.
He might as well had pardoned Scooter. The Left wouldn't have been any madder than they are now. But this way, Bush takes the moral high ground against the Left, who turned their anger against the war into an attempt to stick it to the White House, and lost.
Bush's commutation of his sentence allows his appeals to go forward, with the distinct possibility that his conviction will be overturned. A pardon now would short circuit that process and make it impossible for him to be vindicated. I still doubt that Bush will pardon Libby if his conviction is upheld, though.
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