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

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (709390)	10/28/2005 5:18:39 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

It has been the custom for Presidents to run pardons up the flagpole with the justice department. Clinton neglected to respect that custom despite the fact he had Reno running interference for him over there. Clinton pardoned his drug dealers, and various other people on his last moment. The appearance is that the reason he pardoned Marc Rich was that he needed someone more egregiously wrong to take the heat off of pardoning Susan McDougall. It worked with FMSM cooperation. Read the roundtable discussion at: jurist.law.pitt.edu "While presidential pardons have been controversial in the past, the focus has been far less on the incumbent's general moral character." "like so many other things about Clinton, there is the sheer scale of them--so many in such a short time ... that it is bound to raise eyebrows even among those not predisposed to distrust the man." "Presidents are on a sounder footing (though not above criticism) when they exercise the pardon power to end criminal consequences of "criminal/political" acts. ... But Clinton's pardons are outside this context. These were not political pardons. Why was Marc Rich pardoned but not Michael Milken? At least Milken served his time and paid an enormous fine. Clinton's pardons excite comment because the people don't trust Clinton, and they suspect that these pardons were utterly crass and self-serving. So far, the circumstances of their delivery seem to confirm some of that mistrust."