Oh Brave Sir Georgie

Attempts to tell us he is moving on:

At a news conference Thursday, Bush acknowledged publicly for the first time that someone in his administration perhaps leaked the name of former CIA officer Valerie Plame to the news media — an act that launched the criminal investigation that resulted in Libby's conviction.

"And, you know, I've often thought about what would have happened had that person come forth and said, 'I did it.' Would we have had this, you know, endless hours of investigation and a lot of money being spent on this matter?" Bush said.

"It has been a tough issue for a lot of people in the White House, and it's run its course, and now we're going to move on."

Interesting that what you just confessed to, Georgie, is illegal as hell. You can thank your dad for that.



But even the judge who passed sentence on Libby is stunned at Bush's action:

WASHINGTON — In an unusual expression of frustration, the judge who sentenced former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby to 30 months in jail, only to see the sentence commuted by President Bush, said he was "perplexed" by the act of clemency.

In his first public comments on the matter, U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton took issue with Bush's statement that the prison sentence ordered for Libby last month was "excessive." Walton defended the sentence, saying that he followed established legal precedents as well as a strict interpretation of federal sentencing guidelines that has been supported by Bush's own administration.

Brave Sir Georgie ran away, he ran away, oh, he ran away..... but we are staying and checking for clues.