On Libby Pardon, Giuliani Breaks With Conservatives
Rudy Giuliani doesn't think Lewis Libby should be pardoned, at least not yet.

    "The pardon power is a very, very important power that the president has, and it has to be exercised very judiciously and very carefully. You certainly shouldn't speculate about it while a criminal case is still ongoing. It seems to me you let it go through the process."

    He added: "It seems to me you let it go through the process."

    Mr. Giuliani is a former federal prosecutor who ... briefly ran the pardon office when he served in the Justice Department. "I know more about pardons than anybody needs to know about them," he said.

    But he has also been on the other side: Mr. Giuliani prosecuted the commodities broker Marc Rich for tax evasion when Mr. Giuliani was the U.S. attorney for New York's Southern District. President Clinton pardoned Mr. Rich shortly before he left office in 2001, and Mr. Giuliani, then the mayor of New York, was so upset that he canceled a meeting with Senator Clinton weeks after she was sworn in