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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Slugger who wrote (9630)	2/19/2001 12:51:11 PM
From: Mephisto	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10042

I read the article yesterday. Thanks! Still, I think it is time to move on unless Mr. Burton's committee asks Mr. Clinton to testify. People were furious when President Ford pardoned former President Nixon as well. Pardons always bring out the gremlins in Congress. Personally, I wish they would worry a bit about the economy, and the high price of energy. Their focus on former President Clinton doesn't do a damn thing for the American people! However, the gremlins get great press coverage! ....................................................*********************................................................ Criminal Probe of Pardon Begins Re: Clinton's Pardon of Marc Rich By James V. Grimaldi and Dan Eggen Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, February 15, 2001; Page A01 Three law professors who testified cautioned against a constitutional amendment to overturn pardons. Benton Becker, who advised President Gerald Ford on his pardon of Richard Nixon in 1974, noted, though, that Ford testified voluntarily in Congress to explain the reasons for the pardon. washingtonpost.com

To: Slugger who wrote (9630)	2/20/2001 4:42:58 PM
From: Maya	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

Rich's Lawyers Paid 2 Tax Experts for Their Opinions, WSJ Says 2/20/1 7:35 (New York) Washington, Feb. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Two tax attorneys named by former President Bill Clinton as having influence over his decision to pardon Marc Rich charged the fugitive financier's lawyers $97,000 for an opinion that concluded Rich's companies committed no tax offenses, the Wall Street Journal reported. Rich's lawyers didn't disclose that the tax experts, Georgetown University Law Professor Martin Ginsburg and Harvard Law School Professor Bernard Wolfman, had been paid for several years of legal work, including their 1990 opinion that said Rich's companies were innocent of evading taxes on commodities transactions, the paper said. The pardon application filed to Clinton called their conclusions the ``independent analyses of two of the nation's leading tax experts,'' the paper said. In a 1990 letter attached to the application, Wolfman conceded that he and Ginsburg had made ``no independent verification of the facts'' of the Rich case and that they were relying exclusively on information provided by Rich's lawyers, the paper said.