The victim of Scooter Libby’s scandal exposes the sinister reason for Trump’s pardon
Why did President Trump today suddenly decide it was the right time to pardon Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the former Chief of Staff to then-Vice President Dick Cheney, who was convicted in 2005 on four counts including obstruction of justice, perjury and making false statements?

In his statement today, Trump said he did not know Libby, but “for years I have heard that he has been treated unfairly. Hopefully, this full pardon will help rectify a very sad portion of his life.”

Valerie Plame, however, sees a direct link between today’s pardon of the man whose leak put the life of her and her husband in danger and the current investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller into Trump’s involvement in Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election, and the cover-up since…[more]