Bush Filed a Motion Last Year to Uphold the 30-Month Sentence of Victor Rita, a 24-Year Marine Corps Vet Convicted on Same Crimes as Libby

Posted by Jon Ponder
Pensito Review

Last month, the Supreme Court agreed with the Bush Justice Dept. and ruled against Rita’s appeal for a reduced sentence based his exemplary military service.

Sen. Joe Biden:

Tony Snow said that President Bush decided to commute Scooter Libby’s two and a half year-prison sentence for perjury and obstruction of justice, because it was “excessive.”

Yet last year the Bush Administration filed a “friend-of-the-court brief” with the Supreme Court, in an attempt to uphold a lower court’s ruling that a 33-month prison sentence for Victor Rita, who was convicted of the same exact charges, perjury and obstruction of justice, was “reasonable.”

Scooter Libby, is the classic Bushie chickenhawk — a neocon bureaucrat with no service record. And yet, Pres. Bush cited Libby’s “years of exceptional public service.” Conversely, Victor Rita is the real deal:

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