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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush
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To: tonto who wrote (47002)11/6/2005 7:32:50 PM
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According to the December 11 application filed with the president, former Clinton administration White House counsel Jack Quinn turned to his ex-boss for help in pardoning Rich after federal prosecutors refused to negotiate.

"It is our firm policy not to negotiate dispositions of criminal charges with fugitives," said a February 2000 letter from federal prosecutors in New York to Quinn.

"In 1987, an assistant in this office met with Mr. Rich's counsel and listened to the same presentation by Professor Martin D. Ginsburg referenced in your letter regarding the merits of the tax charges," the letter said.

"If Mr. Rich genuinely believes that he is innocent and believes in the strength of his arguments, then he can surrender."

In a Washington Post editorial on Friday, Quinn defended Clinton's decision to pardon his client. Quinn wrote that the pardon was "granted strictly on its legal merits."

Burton said he wants his House committee "to determine whether the president had an improper motive for the pardons, whether law enforcement authorities were consulted before the pardons were granted, and determine if any regulations governing the lobbying of the president may have been violated."

Clinton defended the pardons, telling reporters Sunday that they should not be viewed as an exoneration, only that the individuals have "paid in full." He said he spent "a lot of personal time" on the Rich case but declined to explain his reasoning for the pardon.
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