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corner.nationalreview.com - 11/25/2008
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Slate's look at possible pardons by the outgoing administration gives good odds for a pardon of the two Border Patrol agents -- Nacho Ramos and Jose Compean -- serving 11- and 12-year terms, respectively, for shooting a drug smuggler in the butt in 2005 (the criminal was subsequently arrested ...
nytimes.com - 12/2/2008
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nytimes.com —
Eric H. Holder Jr., Barack Obama’s choice to
be attorney general, was more deeply involved in the
2001 pardon of Marc Rich than his supporters acknowledge. >
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Pardon Is Back in Focus for the Justice Nominee
usdoj.gov - 11/28/2008
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usdoj.gov —
Ronald L. Rodgers, Pardon Attorney The Office of
the Pardon Attorney, in consultation with the Attorney General
or his designee, assists the President in the exercise of executive clemency as authorized under Article II, Section 2, of the ...
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Office of the Pardon Attorney
volokh.com - 12/2/2008
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Such a pardon would be a generous Christmas
gift to the Obama administration, which appears to want
to avoid prosecutions. It would greatly disappoint a lot of Obama supporters, but...
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Will Bush pardon officials involved in controversial ...
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Truth and falsity are fundamental, Mark Krikorian
Stubborn Facts —
... In a post this morning on Pardon Prospects, Krikorian expressed support for pardons or commutations for Nacho Ramos and Jose Compean, the two Border Patrol agents who shot a man in the back, while he was fleeing from them, then lied, continuously and repeatedly, to their superiors and other investigators in order to cover up their crime. Krikorian, in his initial post, made the point if President Bush didn't pardon the two men (or at least commute their sentences), he would "present Obama with a golden opportunity to build up more political capital, and short-circuit populist ...
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