President Bush said that he had used his power of clemency to commute the 30-month sentence for I. Lewis Libby Jr., who was convicted of perjury in the C.I.A. leak case.
President Bush?s decision to commute the sentence of I. Lewis Libby Jr. was the act of a leader who knows he has dwindling support and just 18 months left in office.
A small army of presidential candidates, their strategists, staffs, and media entourages is converging on the first-in-the-nation caucus state to celebrate July 4th?and compete for votes at a seemingly endless series of barbecues, ice-cream socials, parades, and speeches.
AP - President Bush spared former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby from a 2 1/2-year prison term in the CIA leak investigation Monday, delivering a political thunderbolt in the highly charged criminal case. Bush said the sentence was just too harsh.
AP - At least three physicians were identified Monday among suspects arrested in Britain's failed car bomb attacks, and authorities announced three new arrests including a doctor in Australia as the investigation spread overseas.
AP - An oil spill added to the misery caused by widespread flooding Monday as thousands of evacuees in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas waited for water to recede from their homes.
President Bush commuted the prison term of Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney. Libby was sentenced to 30 months after his March conviction on federal charges of perjury, obstruction of justice and lying to investigators.
An eighth person was arrested Monday in connection with the London and Glasgow terror attacks, UK police said as the investigation focuses on at least three doctors -- two of them from the Middle East.
A military judge on Friday rejected the Pentagon's request to reinstate previously dismissed charges against a prisoner accused of killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan in 2001, officials said.