americablog.com - 1/20/2009
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Huh? President Bush on Monday commuted the sentences of two former border patrol agents who had been sentenced to more than a decade in prison for shooting and seriously wounding a Mexican drug dealer in Texas in 2005. With a day left in his presidency, Mr. Bush exercised his constitutional ...
corner.nationalreview.com - 1/19/2009
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corner.nationalreview.com —
White House officials have just told me that
there will be no more pardons coming out of...
the Bush White House. "We're done," I was told. That means there will no pardon of Lewis Libby.
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Breaking: No Libby Pardon
adn.com - 1/19/2009
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adn.com —
With less than 48 hours left of the
Bush presidency, U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski's spokesman said Sunday...
that Murkowski had asked the White House to pardon the former senior senator of Alaska, Ted Stevens.
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Murkowski requests pardon for Stevens
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Eschaton —
If, in fact, there are no more pardons coming I won't be completely surprised. Pardoning the people below him would remove any 5th amendment reasons to not testify, and Bush has never shown much sign of giving a shit about other people. ...
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