"I'm not aware of any significant Bush Administration official who has been convicted"
Two for starters --
http://markarkleiman.blogspot.com/2002_12_01_markarkleiman_archive.html
Elliot Abrams, who joins John Poindexter in the Bush Administration rogues' gallery, is being called a felon by the Washington Times's Insight, no less...
Abrams pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors, and was subsequently pardoned. Poindexter was convicted of five felonies, but beat the rap when an appeals court decided that his immunized testimony to Congress might have been improperly used to convict him.
blythe.org
AP - March 13, 2002
Bush Employs Iran-Contra Veterans
by the Association Press
WASHINGTON, March 13 (AP)--In the 1980s it was the biggest scandal of the Reagan administration, a covert arms-for-hostages overture to Iran -- more popularly known as "Iran-Contra."
Today, a half-dozen alumni of that episode have found prominent jobs in the Bush administration.
The most recent is former National Security Adviser John Poindexter, 65. The retired admiral took over a new Pentagon counterterrorism office last month.
Poindexter was convicted in 1990 on five felony charges of
conspiracy, making false statements to Congress and obstructing congressional inquiries. He was sentenced to six months in prison, time he never served. |
