Iran-Contra Special Prosecutor Walsh about Bush Sr pardoning 4 convicted Iran-Contra felony criminals and Defense Secretary Weinberger, who never even went to trial.:
"It's hard to see how pardoning your former enemy justifies pardoning your former colleagues -- and possible co-conspirators... Not only did he [Bush] pardon his political allies, he pardoned them for illegal activities in which he himself may have been implicated."
Isn't that what Bush's pardon of Libby is about?
2007-07-06 16:46:53 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
a constitutional amendment to close the loop whole allowing the pardoning of a presidents co-conspirators sounds like a good idea. it's an abuse of seraration of powers.
2007-07-06 16:51:37 · answer #1 · answered by bdbbdb 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
George Bush has pardoned or commuted only 4 people in his 6 years in office. Slick Willy was the all time king of pardons, with hundreds. He has the guts to question Bush's commuting Libby's sentence. Same old Clinton. Or should I say Clinton's.
2007-07-06 16:57:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No not even. According to the investigation the individual named responsible for the non crime of "outing Plame" was not indicted. Armitage got away with it. Tho in truth the person that should have been indicted was Joe Wilson, whoever knew him knew his wife worked at CIA. As far as Iran/Contra is concerned there was nothing illegal about it. We wanted to supply the Anti communist rebels and the pro-communists Democrats didn't want to.
2007-07-06 16:53:42 · answer #3 · answered by smsmith500 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Our device of justice shows countless faith interior the skill of the "Trial by using Jury" approach of judicial overview. The theoretical thought is that 2 antagonistic facets, each and each armed in trouble-free terms together with his very own self-interest, modern-day their superb part of a case to a jury of (the defendant's) friends. however the "superb part" of any case relies upon on the presentation. For any style of motives, human beings are in many cases wrongfully convicted even in criminal circumstances the place the burden of information demands information "previous any lifestyles like doubt" - that is occurred 1000's of cases, in accordance to the Innocence project. So we've traditionally allowed one guy or woman to be the "stress valve" ensuring democratic and trouble-free therapy by using the court systems, to act unilaterally and cut loose any institutionalized tendency to stick to the court's each and every dictum (see Stare Decisis).
2016-11-08 09:13:31 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"It's great to be king!"
Some people are under the impression that since the underlying crime was not prosecuted, they should not have tried Libby. Scooter impeded the investigation by lying about it, which is a crime in and of itself, namely, "obstruction of justice".
2007-07-06 17:12:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. That was Slick Willie.
2007-07-06 16:50:04 · answer #6 · answered by yupchagee 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Welcome to the world of real politics.
2007-07-06 16:53:27 · answer #7 · answered by Studbolt Slickrock Deux 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋