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Amid speculation among Democrats that President Bush might pardon former White House aide Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Bush said Wednesday he will “stay out of it” until Libby’s legal appeal runs its course.
The White House has dismissed talk of a Libby pardon as “wildly hypothetical.” But Bush, in an interview with the Spanish-language television network Univision before his trip to South America on Thursday, appeared to leave a pardon door open.
“There’s an ongoing legal matter,” Bush said. “If you listen carefully, the lawyers are talking about different avenues to approach this particular case. And so I’m pretty much going to stay out of it until the course–the case has finally run its final–the course it’s going to take.”
