Massimo Calabresi and Michael WeisskopfInside Bush and Cheney's Final Days, Time, July 24, 2009, accessdate 2009-07-24 "[A]mong Bush aides, the presidential statement was seen as a fail-safe, a device that would prevent a backtrack later on. Fielding crafted the commutation in a way that would make it harder for Bush to revisit it in the future. ... Bush's allies would say later that the language was intended to send an unmistakable message, internally as well as externally: No one is above the law."