MSNBC host: 'If you know the president ... even a judge and jury cannot ensure justice' RAW STORY

Published: Tuesday July 3, 2007 Print This Email This MSNBC's Dan Abrams expressed outrage at the Scooter Libby commutation on Monday, saying, "The public should appreciate the famous or powerful will be treated just as harshly as anyone else. ... This sends the message that if you know the president or the vice president well enough, even a jury and judge cannot ensure justice. ... As they say, the president had the right to do it, but it wasn't the right thing to do." GOP strategist Karen Hanretty commented, "I don't think there's going to be parties thrown across America" by celebrating Republicans, but insisted that any fallout would be felt less by President Bush than by the current presidential candidates and that Bill Clinton's pardons "were much more egregious than this one." However, former Clinton speechwriter Michael Waldman threw the onus back on the president, stating "It would be one thing if he said, 'You know, the guy got railroaded, he was innocent' ... but what he said was, 'Well, he's guilty. He did these things. And I'm going to make sure he doesn't get punished.'" The following video clip is from MSNBC's Scarborough Country, broadcast on July 2.





