pardonpower.com - 12/24/2008
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The standard approach to President Bush's recent batch of pardons seems to be to brush them aside. After all, there were no "big names." No Scooter Libby . No Conrad Black . No Dick Cheney. No Donald Rumsfeld. Etc. But "big" just might be in the eye of the beholder. Maxine Wilson is more than a ...
boston.com - 12/20/2008
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boston.com —
Vice President Dick Cheney says he directly approved
waterboarding to torture terror suspects. A bipartisan Senate committee...
report concludes that the 2003 Abu Ghraib detainee abuse was not just the result of a few rogue soldiers. Those items help ...
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8 years on the dark side
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Pardon Season Update
Swampland —
... for a man convicted of selling B-17s in 1948 to Jewish resistance fighters in Israel. None of the names on the list were the big ones (like Scooter Libby) about which there has been so much speculation. But P.S. Ruckman Jr., an associate professor of politcal science at Rock Valley College in Illinois, raises questions about this one. You can read Ruckman's blog Pardon Power ...
The Season of Forgiveness
TalkLeft —
... The blog Pardon Power raises a red flag over the pardon of real estate developer Isaac Robert Toussie, the mastermind of "a massive real estate scam," whose father donated $28,500 to the RNC this year. Perhaps the president gave the meth dealer a commutation to ease his conscience (assuming he has one) over Toussie's pardon. ...
President Bush Rescinds Pardon
A Blog For All —
... , and Bush didn't want to have the appearance of impropriety. I think the Office of Pardon Attorney did the President a grave disservice by failing to conduct due diligence to not turn up Toussie's less than stellar record, including additional criminal activities beyond those for which the pardon was sought. This was not a man who should have been considered for a pardon in the first place. UPDATE: PardonPower suggests that the issue involved isn't necessarily the GOP donation, but rather the speed at which the pardon was approved. It took four months, which is unusually ...
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