Romney backs Libby sentence commutation
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who as Massachusetts governor refused to pardon an Iraq war veteran's BB-gun conviction, on Tuesday called President Bush's commutation of Scooter Libby's prison sentence "reasonable."
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A federal appeals court ruled today that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff, must report to prison shortly to begin serving his 30-month sentence for lying to federal investigators about his role in leaking a CIA officer's identity.
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Republican Mitt Romney said Wednesday that if elected president he and his wife will not embarrass the nation by their conduct in the White House as happened in "the Clinton years."
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Former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby has shown no remorse for corrupting the legal system and deserves to spend 2 1/2 to three years in prison for obstructing the CIA leak investigation, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald said Friday.
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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.
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Bloomberg - Feb. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Republican Mitt Romney will endorse former rival John McCain in the Republican presidential race, a spokesman for the former Massachusetts governor said.
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At his sentencing Tuesday, former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby will learn whether he will go to prison and, if so, whether it will be right away for his conviction in the CIA leak case.
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Few Americans thought Libby should get off the hook. But Bush had little to lose in granting clemency
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President George W. Bush on Monday spared former vice presidential aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby from going to prison for 2 1/2 years for obstructing a CIA leak investigation.
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Republican Mike Huckabee on Wednesday defended his handling of requests for clemency when he was Arkansas governor and in turn accused Mitt Romney of denying such requests to protect his political future.
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Former vice presidential aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby must begin serving his 2 1/2-year prison sentence while he appeals his perjury conviction, a U.S. judge ruled on Thursday.
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Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, who dropped out of the Republican presidential race last week, is to endorse front-runner John McCain, CNN and MSNBC television said Thursday.
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President Bush's statement on his commutation of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's sentence, from the Associated Press:
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Mitt Romney will release his delegates Â and while the rules vary by state, he can ask many of them to support John McCain.
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Former Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney will announce today that he is backing Sen. John McCain in his bid for the Oval Office, two sources familiar with the decision said. Romney suspended his campaign earlier this month, saying it was in his party's best interest.
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Fred Thompson on Wednesday defended his support for limits on campaign contributions Â a sore point among many fellow Republicans Â and said rival Mitt Romney had reversed his view on the issue.
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Two of the three judges considering whether to delay former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's prison sentence were Republican appointees.