Pardoning the Guilty

There is an old tradition in US politics where the President gets to pardon or commute sentences of people to prevent political or “unjust” prosecutions (though it does seem that this is widely interpreted).  President Trump, amid a huge uproar of the “loyal opposition” party, the Democrats, has pardoned a Watergate leftover “Scooter” Libby.  The criticism is totally out of line with the pardon granted to General Cartwright who gave classified information to the Press, and the commutation of sentence for Chelsea Manning who gave mountains of classified information to everyone in the world.  The only difference, of course, was that President Obama did those two actions.  Hypocrisy abounds here.