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Was it smart for Bill Clinton to pick a fight with the White House over Scooter Libby?

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Was it smart for Bill Clinton to pick a fight with the White House over Scooter Libby?

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I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby When Bill Clinton pardoned Marc Rich at the end of his term, about-to-be-President Bush and his aides didn’t make a huge stink. Maybe Bush figured that one day he’d need to defend his own pardons. Maybe he didn’t want to start off with a drawn-out political fight. Or maybe he wanted to skirt the inconvenient fact that Scooter Libby, known only at the time as the vice president’s chief of staff with the quirky name, was Rich’s lawyer.