trial on numerous war crimes charges. To say nothing of the high crimes and misdemeanors he committed in office and is no doubt striving to conceal and/or keep secret at this time.

Waterboarding ought to be employed with Mr. Cheney in order to more fully plumb his knowledge regarding 9/11/01. He could be both under oath and under water, neither of which he was under last time when he appeared before the Keane Cover Up Commission.

He shouldn't be hanged too quickly. He should be data-mined using aggressive techniques. That he would want "Scooter" Libby pardoned is strictly in keeping with his secret-team attitude towards government. It's not treason when his team does it.

That would have been very much in line with everything else he's done while in office.

Cheney's absolutely right about one thing: Scooter Libby was the victim of a serious miscarriage of justice.

Of course, the miscarriage of justice was the entire Bush Administration -- and while Libby could certainly be more properly characterized as a "cog", a "fall guy" or a "bagman" than a mere "victim", let's not quibble over details.

But a pardon for his role in it? Uh, no.

Cheney was always more concerned with "The Agenda" then anything else, including popularity contests. At least Bush had some concern over his reputation. Not that this will restore that.

this guy in court in his wheel chair for war crimes.

"Scooter Libby is one of the most capable and honorable men I've ever known," Cheney said of his former chief of staff.

Charlie Manson write a letter to the judge requesting leniency because you're such a fine fellow?

"Scooter Libby is one of the most capable and honorable men I've ever known," Cheney said of his former chief of staff.

Yeah, except for the whole, ya know, lying to federal investigators thing...

lied to the feds for God and Country, so that make's it a-okay.

So maybe George and Dick just don't get along anymore.... hahahaha

...knowing that Dick Cheney will spend the probably very short rest of his life fishing in some river in Wyoming, far away from our government, mumbling to himself about if the president wants it done, its not illegal.

One of the reasons to hope for a two term Obama administration is that in 2016, most Nixon-era republicans (i.e. Cheney, Rumsfeld) will be too old to work in government.

I have no difficulty believing that Libby is at the very pinnacle of Cheney's associations when it comes to honorable. It's an extraordinarily low bar.

"Scooter Libby is one of the most capable and honorable men I've ever known," Cheney said

It's just filler. It's not relevant or important what citizen Cheney says.

Dr Evil.

You go to prison and we'll let Scooter out. He can keep your fishing spot warm for you while you're bunking with Big Daddy.

He's right, though he meant to say "beneficiary".

Cheney is also on record as calling Rumsfeld the "best Secretary of Defence this country has ever had" shortly after his resignation in disgrace. Cheney is all about absolute personal loyalty. He demands it and he gives it. I say good riddance to bad Machiavellis.

Why don't you take a few more swipes at W's "legacy"?

Few things would please me more than to see the Former Idiot Child-Emperor get angry enough to start talking. With regard to Libby, never forget that Bush said that he "agreed with the verdict" but "disagreed with the sentence".

He basically let the world know that YES! SCOOTER LIBBY PERJURED HIMSELF AND OBSTRUCTED JUSTICE. You want to start digging, start there. W was obviously too scared and weak to take any meaningful action (after all, it could all be tied around his neck couldn't it), but he has laid the clues out.

Bush already knows that he's going to go down as a laughingstock, but if Cheney starts trying to diminish his legacy with those creepy 20 Percenters, the little worm just might find the cajones to turn on his former handlers.

W's conscience may very well gnaw at his gut like feral beast. If Cheney takes away the consolation prize, it's anyone's game.

How would Mr. Cheney know an admirable man? Libby and Judith Miller of the NY Times were an excellent team in promoting the Iraq War with alleged intelligence that was actually contrived intelligence. For this he deserves a pardon? Please.

It would appear so. They've diverged on several important matters in their final days of power.

One of the starkest divergences was when Bush was asked his regrets, and he said WMD. He implied very strongly that the U.S. wouldn't have gone to war if we'd known about the lack of WMD. Dick Cheney completely contradicted this. That is very disturbing -- it suggests that the two highest-level decision makers have completely different stories about the motivation for going to war. WTF!

Yes, Libby is, as Shotgun Cheney said, a capable and honorable man. A capable and honorable man who just happens to be a convicted felon.

I think we all know darn well that charges will never be filed against Duh-bya and Cheney, and if they were it would be a trial very disruptive to the commonweal. I think that Obama should do what Ford did, preemptively pardon Bush and Cheney. After all, you don't pardon an innocent person, so this pardon would show the SOB's (In Bush's case, of course, that stands for "Son of Barbara") to be guilty, and, laughably, they would have no defense. Accept the pardon and the country knows you are guilty. Refuse the pardon and people would wonder what shenanigans are on their mind. (Besides, can a pardon be refused?) The whole thing to these obviously guilty guys, would be similar to the old question: have you stopped beating your wife?

Scooter Libby may have been honorable, but Dick Cheney's endorsement will forever prevent us from knowing. He may have been the victim of a miscarriage of justice, but what Dick Cheney means by justice is criminal. What Dick Cheney did not do, however, is testify on Libby's behalf or take responsibility for his own actions in the Valery Plame affair.