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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Duke who wrote (9343)	12/14/1998 2:00:00 PM
From: gerard mangiardi	Respond to of 13994

If Reagan said he couldn't remember people would have believed him not due to his honesty but due to his feeble mind.

To: Duke who wrote (9343)	12/14/1998 2:14:00 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13994

Treason was never an issue. At worst Reagan ignored an attempt by Congress to politicize and criminalize the executive's prerogative in foreign policy. He may have broken a law, the Boland Amendment in particular. For this if there was sufficient evidence he should have been prosecuted. Walsh chose not to prosecute. End of story. The others got off mainly because in Congress' zeal to hang Reagan, arguably the most successful and well liked President in the modern post war era, they forgot about the rule against self-incrimination. JLA