Did this freind of Bush deserve to be commuted.?

Question

in listening to talkshows and commentary i heard several times the definition and proof that Bush and his administration is corrupt for Commuting a certain jail sentence. But a 24hrs scenario shows top secret schemes that prove a need for a president to pardon or yes even commute a judicial sentence.

Answer 1

President Clinton sold pardons and even pardoned his own brother and of course, a millionaire fugitive (after multiple large contributions of cash by the fugitives wife). I really don't see what anyone's problem with this is except that they want to see Libby serve time for testifying exactly the same way that Hillary Clinton did about her Whitewater records.

Clinton's Commutations and Pardons:
Commutations

1. Benjamin Berger
2. Ronald Henderson Blackley
3. Bert Wayne Bolan
4. Gloria Libia Camargo
5. Charles F. Campbell
6. David Ronald Chandler
7. Lau Ching Chin
8. Donald R. Clark
9. Loreta De-Ann Coffman
10. Derrick Curry
11. Velinda Desalus
12. Jacob Elbaum
13. Linda Sue Evans
14. Loretta Sharon Fish
15. Antoinette M. Frink
16. David Goldstein
17. Gerard A. Greenfield
18. Jodie E. Israel
19. Kimberly Johnson
20. Billy Thornton Langston Jr.
21. Belinda Lynn Lumpkin
22. Peter MacDonald - President of the Navajo Nation
23. Kellie Ann Mann
24. Peter Ninemire
25. Hugh Ricardo Padmore
26. Arnold Paul Prosperi
27. Melvin J. Reynolds - Democratic Congressman from Illinois - bank fraud and obstruction of justice
28. Pedro Miguel Riveiro
29. Dorothy Rivers - lead official in Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, plead guilty to theft of 1.2 million dollars in federal grant money
30. Susan Rosenberg
31. Kalmen Stern
32. Cory Stringfellow
33. Carlos Anibal Vignali - convicted of cocaine trafficking
34. Thomas Wilson Waddell III
35. Harvey Weinig
36. Kim Allen Willis
37. Kimba Smith
38. Antonio Camacho Negron - FALN militant

[edit] Pardons

1. Verla Jean Allen (1990 false statements to an agency of the United States)
2. Nicholas M. Altiere (1983 importation of cocaine)
3. Bernice Ruth Altschul (1992 money laundering conspiracy)
4. Joe Anderson Jr. (1988 income tax evasion)
5. William Sterling Anderson (1987 defraudment of a financial institution, false statements to a financial institution, wire fraud)
6. Mansour Azizkhani (1984 false statements in bank loan applications)
7. Cleveland Victor Babin Jr. (1987 using the U.S. mail service to defraud)
8. Chris Harmon Bagley (1989 conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine)
9. Scott Lynn Bane (Unlawful distribution of marijuana)
10. Thomas Cleveland Barber (Issuing worthless checks)
11. Peggy Ann Bargon (Violation of the Lacey Act, violation of the Bald Eagle Protection Act)
12. David Roscoe Blampied (possess with intent to distribute cocaine)
13. William Arthur Borders Jr. (Conspiracy to corruptly solicit and accept money in return for influencing the official acts of a federal district court judge (Alcee L. Hastings), and to defraud the United States in connection with the performance of lawful government functions; corruptly influencing, obstructing, impeding and endeavoring to influence, obstruct and impede the due administration of justice, and aiding and abetting therein; traveling interstate with intent to commit bribery)
14. Arthur David Borel (Odometer Rollback)
15. Douglas Charles Borel (Odometer Rollback)
16. George Thomas Brabham (Making a false statement or report to a federally insured bank)
17. Almon Glenn Braswell (1983 mail fraud and perjury)
18. Leonard Browder (Illegal dispensing of controlled substance and Medicaid fraud)
19. David Steven Brown (Securities fraud and mail fraud)
20. Delores Caroylene Burleson, aka Delores Cox Burleson (Possession of Marijuana)
21. John H. Bustamante (wire fraud)
22. Mary Louise Campbell
23. Eloida Candelaria
24. Dennis Sobrevinas Capili
25. Donna Denise Chambers
26. Douglas Eugene Chapman
27. Ronald Keith Chapman
28. Francisco Larois Chavez
29. Henry Cisneros (former HUD Secretary)
30. Roger Clinton, Jr. (half-brother of President Bill Clinton)
31. Stuart Harris Cohn
32. David Marc Cooper
33. Ernest Harley Cox Jr.
34. John F. Cross Jr.
35. Reickey Lee Cunningham
36. Richard Anthony De Labio
37. John Deutch (former Director of Central Intelligence Agency)
38. Richard Douglas
39. Edward Reynolds Downe
40. Marvin Dean Dudley
41. Larry Lee Duncan
42. Robert Clinton Fain
43. Marcos Arcenio Fernandez
44. Alvarez Ferrouillet
45. William Dennis Fugazy
46. Lloyd Reid George
47. Louis Goldstein
48. Rubye Lee Gordon
49. Pincus Green
50. Robert Ivey Hamner
51. Samuel Price Handley
52. Woodie Randolph Handley
53. Jay Houston Harmon
54. Rick Hendrick
55. John Hummingson
56. David S. Herdlinger
57. Debi Rae Huckleberry
58. Warren C. Hultgren Jr.
59. Donald Ray James
60. Stanley Pruet Jobe
61. Ruben H. Johnson
62. Linda Jones
63. James Howard Lake
64. June Louise Lewis
65. Salim Bonnor Lewis
66. John Leighton Lodwick
67. Hildebrando Lopez
68. Jose Julio Luaces
69. James Timothy Maness
70. James Lowell Manning, (1982, aiding and assisting in the preparation of a false corporate income tax return)
71. John Robert Martin
72. Frank Ayala Martinez
73. Silvia Leticia Beltran Martinez
74. John Francis McCormick
75. Susan H. McDougal
76. Howard Mechanic
77. Brook K. Mitchell Sr.
78. Samuel Loring Morison
79. Charles Wilfred Morgan III
80. Richard Anthony Nazzaro
81. Charlene Ann Nosenko
82. Vernon Raymond Obermeier
83. Miguelina Ogalde
84. David C. Owen
85. Robert W. Palmer
86. Kelli Anne Perhosky
87. Richard H. Pezzopane
88. Orville Rex Phillips
89. Vinson Stewart Poling Jr.
90. Norman Lyle Prouse
91. Willie H.H. Pruitt Jr.[1]
92. Danny Martin Pursley Sr.
93. Charles D. Ravenel
94. William Clyde Ray
95. Alfredo Luna Regalado
96. Ildefonso Reynes Ricafort
97. Marc Rich - tax evasion fugitive
98. Howard Winfield Riddle
99. Richard Wilson Riley Jr.
100. Samuel Lee Robbins
101. Joel Gonzales Rodriguez
102. Michael James Rogers
103. Anna Louise Ross
104. Dan Rostenkowski - Former Democratic Congressman convicted in the Congressional Post Office Scandal
105. Gerald Glen Rust
106. Jerri Ann Rust
107. Bettye June Rutherford
108. Gregory Lee Sands
109. Adolph Schwimmer
110. Albert A. Seretti Jr.
111. Patricia Campbell Hearst Shaw
112. Dennis Joseph Smith
113. Gerald Owen Smith
114. Stephen A. Smith
115. Jimmie Lee Speake
116. Charles Bernard Stewart
117. Marlena Francisca Stewart-Rollins
118. Fife Symington III - former Arizona governor
119. Richard Lee Tannehill
120. Nicholas C. Tenaglia
121. Gary Allen Thomas
122. Larry Weldon Todd
123. Olga C. Trevino
124. Ignatious Vamvouklis
125. Patricia A. Van De Weerd
126. Christopher V. Wade
127. Bill Wayne Warmath
128. Jack Kenneth Watson
129. Donna Lynn Webb
130. Donald William Wells
131. Robert H. Wendt
132. Jack L. Williams
133. Kavin Arthur Williams
134. Robert Michael Williams
135. Jimmie Lee Wilson
136. Thelma Louise Wingate
137. Mitchell Couey Wood
138. Warren Stannard Wood
139. Dewey Worthey
140. Rick Allen Yale
141. Joseph A. Yasak
142. William Stanley Yingling
143. Phillip David Young
144. Keith Sanders
145. Darren Muci
146. John Scott (not a full pardon)
147. Anthony M Pilla
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I guess it IS different...Bush did it for political pressure (according to you) and Clinton did it strictly for monetary gain. Selling your favors for money....what does that make Clinton? It's only different that Clinton's pardons were for sale. You can call me a liar all you want...but the cash donations AND the pardons are all documented.

Answer 2

With the presidency comes certain perks of the office you can commute or pardon any U.S. citizen if the crime you are commuting or pardoning was commited in the U.S. or it's territories. To receive the pardon you don't even have to be convicted of a crime just a suspect. Yes President Clinton may have commuted or pardoned all those people but he is a lawyer and was better suited than most to give commuted sentences or pardons. Besides you'll find a lot of the drug convictions where steeper than they needed to be because the war on drugs was prosecuted with extreme prejudice in the 1980 and early 1990's. As to whether or not the friend of Bush as you put it, deserved it or not doesn't really matter because it was a commuted sentence not a pardon. It's just some thing the anti Bush/republican people are using to to bolster their candidates. He got the commuted sentence because he bit the bullet for the administration to shut up the conspiracy nuts and the Democrats. The leak happened because the woman pissed of the wrong people at the agency, not because her hubby spoke out against Bush. Do I think his commuted sentence should be a major topic in the media no, but it sells better than the fact that the Army Corp of Engineers and the other branches of service have helped rebuild hundreds of schools and other important buildings in Iraq and Afghanistan. Which should be on all the evening news and front pages of the news papers. To bolster Support for are troops over seas they fight so you can have this feature on this sight.

Answer 3

Let me see.
Libby was convicted for perjury in an investigation that should have been complete the year before.
His sentence far exceeded the typical given out for perjury.
He has to pay a quarter million dollar fine, is a convicted felon on probation, his career, family and his name is ruined.
All for saying "I don't know" in a political witch hunt.
HE WAS NOT THE LEAK.

The president commuted his sentence. While Bush has done a lot of foolish things, this is not one of them.
This is a great thing, plain and simple.

Answer 4

Scooter deserves to be placed under the jail.
He outted a CIA agent.
There are many things in this world that one of our agents should have to worry about while on the job...BUT...being
outted by our elected officials should never be one of their worries.
Goind further, many people have lost their 'freedom' in this country by doing a whole lot less than what Scooter did and NO one commutes or pardons them.

Answer 5

i think of of you will probable want to do a Google on Ramos & Compean and learn the testimony of decision officer's on the scene and the U. S. criminal expert's fact, which exchange into publicly released. the regulations of engagement for border patrol officers state that they could use deadly tension to guard their existence or the lives of others indoors the execution of their household initiatives. No regulation enforcement officer is legally allowed to shoot an unarmed suspect indoors the shrink returned (buttocks subsequently), as that "fleaing" suspect poses no possibility to existence. Now, so some distance as committing against the regulation with a firearm, it quite is a Federal regulation, that there at the instant are not any exceptions in for wrongful use of a firearm by skill of a regulation enforcement officer, despite if, i think of that if making use of the firearm is the alleged crime, then it falls exterior of the reason of the regulation. the reason of the regulation exchange into to make harder sentencing regulations for various crimes using a weapon, like theft, burglary, rape, and so on. subsequently, i would not be unfavorable to the putting aside of the enforcement of that Federal claus indoors the regulation, yet I besides the reality that have faith those officers violated the regulation besides as many departmental techniques and could desire to have effects to their strikes.

Answer 6

No! He obstructed justice, lied and spent less time in jail than Paris Hilton.

Bush bought his silence as it was Bush who leaked the name anyway. Libby also worked for Bush! I see a big job at KBR for Libby probably making a few million a year!

Under Bush the country is rotting at its core. And the world, oh the world, the world knows this degrading, deeply humiliating show cannot be canceled fast enough.

Lori, Clinton didn't pardon a person in his administration that lied to federal investigators about how aCIA operatives name was leaked by George W. Bush!

Bush pardons rapists as well!

Answer 7

Hell NO! His @ss belongs in jail.

Lori K, you're a liar. Clinton CHOSE to pardon those people.Oh wait, it's only that way for Republicans. It's different though because he's Clinton and he's a Democrat. Bush commuted Libby's sentence to bow down to pressure from the Republicans and to boost his ratings.

Answer 8

Bush covered up his own ***,nothing more and nothing less, you had to be a fool not to think he would do other wise!
The best the republican party can do is call for his resignation on the grounds of incompetence!

Answer 9

I go with Lori k's answer...and clinton pardoned Philippine terrorists...drug dealers....over 400 in all....

Answer 10

You don't want to know what I think of Bush jr.