andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 11/14/2008
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Mark Benjamin reports that Bush may issue a blanket pardon to protect his administration from war crimes. Benjamin also describes how Obama may approach Bush's use of torture: The Obama plan, first revealed by Salon in August, would emphasize fact-finding investigation over prosecution. It ...
democrats.com - 11/21/2008
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democrats.com —
Dear Representative, I urge you to co-sponsor Rep.
Jerrold Nadler's H.Res. 1531 urging President Bush not to...
pardon senior members of his administration for crimes authorized by the President - and to investigate those crimes both in the House and ...
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Support Nadler Resolution on Bush Pardons
msnbc.msn.com - 11/21/2008
americablog.com - 11/18/2008
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americablog.com —
I was reading an article about how the
Obama administration likely won't prosecute Bush officials who authorized...
torture, and it got me thinking more generally about Bush's pardons. They're coming, and they're gonna be nasty. Cheney and Rumsfeld are ...
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Bush's pardons
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War Crimes Against Bush!
Jules Crittenden —
... I think what Andrew Sullivan must be refering to is the cowardice of Congress and Obama in wanting to bolt Iraq. Because cowardice and desertion are in fact crimes in war:… Bush may issue a blanket pardon to protect his administration from war crimes. I don’t see how pardoning Congress and Obama will keep them from being cowards, but Bush has proven himself able to make them do all kinds of things they don’t want to do, like keep supporting the war, and at long last, acknowledge we’re winning it. But as lefty blogger Digby, quoted by Sullivan, notes, this Congress probably is ...
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