Byron York notes the silence of Cheney and Bush on the possibility of a Libby pardon and concludes:“There are pardons that the president may choose to make that mean something other than the typical forgiveness kind of pardon, which contemplates that you acknowledge guilt and express remorse and be contrite,” says Margaret Colgate Love, who was the pardon attorney in the Justice Department for much of the 1990s. “A pardon like this would be like the Iran-Contra pardons, which said, to me, ‘These guys didn’t do anything wrong.’“The Iran-Contra pardons, to which Love referred, came on Christmas Eve, 1992, when George H. W. Bush, then just a few weeks from leaving office, pardoned former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, former top CIA official Clair George, and four others involved in the Iran-Contra affair. Bush made clear that he was trying to right a political wrong. “The...(Read Full Post)