Libby verdicts: angry, ecstatic and pragmatic

● An analysis piece in the New York Times acknowledges the pragmatism, for George Bush at least, of the decision to commute "Scooter" Libby's sentence: "[It] was the act of a liberated man - a leader who knows that, with 18 months left in the Oval Office and only a dwindling band of conservatives still behind him, he might as well do what he wants."