For those who remember Watergate, the years of the Bush administration have often induced a sense of deja vu. Not only do the same issues keep coming back - executive privilege, illegal wiretaps, congressional subpoenas, presidential pardons - but even some of the same actors are still on the stage.
Lewis scooter libby
How the Texacutioner discovered his heart
So President Bush has commuted the two-and-a-half year prison term facing Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby, calling the sentence “excessive”. Um, is this the same United States, the world leader in incarceration? asks Jeff Sparrow.
