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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zoltan! who wrote (125600)	2/6/2001 2:04:44 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

With Bush in office nobody's going to owe taxes anyway, so where's the beef? TP

To: Zoltan! who wrote (125600)	2/6/2001 4:24:34 PM
From: Mr. Palau	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Apart from the Ford pardon of Nixon, here's the pardon(s) against which all others should be compared: George Sr. getting himself (and perhaps Reagan as well) off the hook: >>BUSH PARDONS 6 IN IRAN AFFAIR, ABORTING A WEINBERGER TRIAL; PROSECUTOR ASSAILS 'COVER-UP' BUSH DIARY AT ISSUE<< >>Mr. Walsh hinted that Mr. Bush's pardon of Mr. Weinberger and the President's own role in the affair could be related. For the first time, he charged that Mr. Weinberger's notes about the secret decision to sell arms to Iran, a central piece of evidence in the case against the former Pentagon chief, included 'evidence of a conspiracy among the highest ranking Reagan Administration officials to lie to Congress and the American public.' The prosecutor charged that Mr. Weinberger's efforts to hide his notes may have 'forestalled impeachment proceedings against President Reagan' and formed part of a pattern of 'deception and obstruction.' On Dec. 11, Mr. Walsh said he discovered 'misconduct' in Mr. Bush's failure to turn over what the prosecutor said were the President's own 'highly relevant contemporaneous notes, despite repeated requests for such documents.' The notes, in the form of a campaign diary that Mr. Bush compiled after the elections in November 1986, are in the process of being turned over to Mr. Walsh, who said, 'In light of President Bush's own misconduct, we are gravely concerned about his decision to pardon others who lied to Congress and obstructed official investigations.'<< nytimes.com