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Think Progress: White House not likely to pardon torture officials, claims torture memos make pardons ‘unnecessary.’
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White House not likely to pardon torture officials, claims torture memos make pardons ‘unnecessary.’
Think Progress —
... The Wall Street Journal reports today that the White House “isn’t inclined to grant sweeping pardons for former administration officials involved in harsh interrogations and detentions of terror suspects.” White House officials believe that the Justice Department’s ...
Bush Administration: Torture Pardons "Unnecessary"
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... The Wall Street Journal reports that the Bush administration isn't planning to pardon officials involved in torture -- because, they believe, memos legalizing the practice makes it "unnecessary." ...
Bush Administration: Torture Pardons "Unnecessary"
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... The Wall Street Journal reports that the Bush administration isn't planning to pardon officials involved in torture -- because, they believe, memos legalizing the practice makes it "unnecessary." ...
Would Bush pre-emptively pardon Rumsfeld?
Think Progress —
... The Wall Street Journal reported that the White House is “isn’t inclined to grant sweeping pardons” for former officials involved in its torture program. ThinkProgress wondered whether former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was seeking a pardon anyway, but a person close to him, who requested anonymity, vehemently dismissed such speculation: ...
Golden Shield or Achilles Heel?
TPMCafe —
... Yesterday brought some remarkable developments on the accountability front. The Wall Street Journal, relying on Bush Administration sources, tells us that President Bush is not likely to extend pre-emptive pardons to those who were involved in his torture program and related extralegal misadventures. The White House is relying on the view that Attorney General Mukasey has been peddling aggressively in the last weeks (most recently at a talk he delivered at Columbia Law School) to the effect that OLC memoranda provide a "golden shield" against prosecution. Mukasey ...
Turley: By Refusing To Pardon Torture Officials, Bush Is Allowing Democrats To Repair His Legacy
Think Progress —
Last night on MSNBC Rachel Maddow highlighted a report from the Wall Street Journal that said that President Bush is unlikely to pardon any officials involved in engineering or executing the Bush administration’s torture program. According to the Wall Street Journal report, the White House believes that the Justice Department’s torture memos give the officials all the legal cover they need.
Maddow’s guest, constitutional legal scholar Jonathan Turley, said that he also believes that Bush is unlikely to pardon his torture ...
Kristol Calls On Bush To Pardon Torturers And Wiretappers, Reward Them With Medal Of Freedom
Think Progress —
... The Wall Street Journal reported recently that the White House “isn’t inclined to grant sweeping pardons for former administration officials involved in harsh interrogations and detentions of terror suspects.” President-elect Barack Obama is reportedly ...
Kristol wants rewards for torturers
Political Animal —
... that Obama is considering a 9/11 Commission-style investigation of the administration's crimes torture interrogation practices. But there are, not surprisingly, a few things wrong with Kristol's request. First, there's Kristol's frightening belief that those who commit acts of torture deserve rewards. It's just, on its face, twisted. Second, there's the fact that the Bush White House "isn't inclined to grant sweeping pardons for former administration officials involved in harsh interrogations and detentions of terror suspects." Why? Because a) the torture policies are, as ...
War and Piece — | Main November 29, 2008 Via ThinkProgress , WSJ : Sweeping pardons "unnecessary." Posted by Laura at November 29, 2008 09:12 PM
