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- From: cole@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Sandra Stewart-Cole)
- Subject: Re: Weinberger's Pardon
- References: <BzzH4s.M60@well.sf.ca.us> <1734@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 19:51:29 GMT
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- There is a failure in those applauding the recent pardons to recognize the real
- nature of the investigations. The actual actions of the Reagan Administration
- in selling arms or even in secretly funding the Contras is no longer an issue
- in any case. The legality or illegality of those actions has never been
- suffuiciently tested, and probably never will be. The issue is now coverup. The
- common phraseology of the Reagan partisans in this issue is that Walsh is
- "criminalizing policy differences" HOGWASH! What Walsh was trying to prosecute
- Weinberger et al. for is simple lying to hide actions that may or may not have
- been illegal. The act of hiding evidence from a federal prosecutor or lying to
- Congress in the position of a cabinet secretary is simply illegal, and has
- nothing to do with policy differences, unless we determine that somehow someone
- in the White House decided that hoodwinking Congress is good policy (in which
- case is is a legitimately criminalized policy matter) Weinberger hid evidence
- in a criminal investigation. If you or I did so, we'd be prosecuted.
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- The one satisfaction for those of us who believe that the men who run our
- governmment should obey the law is that Bush cannot pardon himself, and ther is
- some evidence that Bush himself lied to Walsh and to the Congress. Why he lied
- is irrelevant. He will likely have no friendly occupant of the White House to
- let him off. It's a sad commentary on the morals of our politician that in the
- end the most prominent conviction of this whole thing may be that of the great
- proponent of family values and morality being convicted of decieving Congress
- and misleading a criminal investigation.
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