Jane Hamsher: Pardoning Libby: Never a Good Idea

This post, written by Jane Hamsher, originally appeared on The Huffington Post

In a rather shocking move, Barack Obama's General Counsel Robert F. Bauer adds his voice to the chorus calling for Scooter Libby to be pardoned, but he believes he is coming at it from a different angle than the Libby apologists:

To Bush's antagonists on left, a pardon would be only another act in the conspiracy -- a further cover-up, a way of getting away with it. But this is the entirely wrong way of seeing things. A pardon is just what Bush's opponents should want.