sentences:  Two days after their term expired, former Vice President Cheney expressed his regret that Bush had not pardoned Libby on his last day in office.Blogs played a prominent role in the press coverage of Libby's trial.Scott Shane, in his article "For Liberal Bloggers, Libby Trial Is Fun and Fodder", published in "The New York Times" on February 15, 2007, quotes Robert Cox, president of the Media Bloggers Association, who wrote that the trial was "the first federal case for which independent bloggers have been given official credentials along with reporters from the traditional news media."