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On the recordJune 4, 2007
I didn't pardon anybody as governor because I didn't want to overturn a jury. But in this case you have a prosecutor who clearly abused prosecutorial discretion by going after somebody when he already knew that the source of the leak was Richard Armitage.
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Mitt Romney
Republican · Utah

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Romney comments on the prosecutor's actions in the Libby case and expresses his reluctance to pardon.

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