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To: i-node who wrote (448273)	1/17/2009 1:10:53 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573941

Well Dave, I'm concerned about the pardon provision too, but not because of Marc Rich. I'm concerned because of Scooter Libby. He hasn't been pardoned (yet), but Bush did commute his sentence. Pardons and commutations like Sccoter Libby, and several by Poppy Bush too, concerning Iran/Contra, open the way for any president to have underlings commit crimes at his bidding, with the certainty that they will never have to face justice. This possibility is so threatening to the rule of law and justice that I believe a review board with veto power should review ALL presidential pardons and commutations.

To: i-node who wrote (448273)	1/17/2009 1:22:14 PM
From: combjelly	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573941

"I don't need to, idiot." Perhaps you should have. One of the more famous recent pardons was granted by President Gerald Ford to former President Richard Nixon on September 8, 1974, for official misconduct which gave rise to the Watergate scandal. Polls showed a majority of Americans disapproved of the pardon, and Ford's public-approval ratings tumbled afterward. Other controversial uses of the pardon power include Andrew Johnson's sweeping pardons of thousands of former Confederate officials and military personnel after the American Civil War, Jimmy Carter's grant of amnesty to Vietnam-era draft evaders, George H. W. Bush's pardons of 75 people, including six Reagan administration officials accused and/or convicted in connection with the Iran-Contra affair, Bill Clinton's pardons of convicted FALN terrorists and 140 people on his last day in office - including billionaire fugitive Marc Rich, and George W. Bush's commutation of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's prison term. en.wikipedia.org