It was something of a surprise. As I said earlier, Mr Bush has been under some pressure from Republicans to - who are outraged at this original sentence - to commute the sentence, sorry, to pardon Mr Libby completely. Nonetheless, most opinion polls suggest that the public was very much opposed to a pardon, a pardoning. And so the Democrats, not surprisingly, are outraged. The leader of the Democrats in the Senate, Harry Reid, says
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