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Vice President Dick Cheney thinks his former chief of staff shouldn’t have been convicted in the CIA leak case and that President Bush did right by commuting the jail sentence instead of issuing a pardon.
Lewis “Scooter” Libby was convicted of lying in a probe into the leak of a CIA operative’s identity. Bush commuted the 30-month sentence, but left intact a $250,000 fine and 2 years’ probation.
“I thought the president handled it right,” Cheney told CBS Radio on Monday.
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Items compiled from Tribune news services.
