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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 17:04:58 -0400
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- From: The Integral Differential <DEMON@DESIRE.WRIGHT.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Pardons: who needs them?
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- >Granted, we have had limited numbers of democratic executive office
- >holders in the past quarter century but can anyone list examples of
- >pardons handed out by democratic presidents? I can't think of any off
-
- Carter: Draft dodgers, sundry criminals. Before that you have to go
- back to Johnson, who is before my time :).
-
- >hand. As far as the Iran-Contra investigation taking a long time, that
- >is what tends to happen when the administration is using all avialable
- >resources to deny access to materials connected with the case on the
- >never fails grounds of national security. Now that Bill Clinton is the
- >commander-in-chief (don't you love the sound of that Brett and Robert?),
-
- Doesn't really bother me.
-
- >he need never disclose who/what he has slept with in the past on the
- >grounds that it would violate national security concerns. I personally
- >have a problem with the character issue; Bush ran his whole campaign
- >on "Who do you trust to tell you the truth?" and now it is obvious
- >that he has been less than candid with the american people as to his
- >knowledge of Iran-Contra.
-
- I expect executives to keep mum about certain things. The question is
- whether Bush himself did anything criminal. Walsh keeps crying "cover up!" in
- an effort to invoke Watergate, but it just doesn't wash. He's had six years to
- dig up facts, one thinks that Bush would have been indicted earlier if he was a
- key player. As it is, Walsh's claims of a cover-up are nonsense also.
- Weinberger's notes are already archived, and available to those with the proper
- clearance. (Something Walsh could have obtained.) But instead he blames the
- two-year period from which the notes were archived until now on an attempted
- "cover-up". Phooey. Walsh is incompetent. He even has accepted the same kind
- of gifts that he broiled North for accepting.
-
- >I would also like to see a special prosecuter
- >investigate the savings and loan fiasco and tell us how much money we
- >could have saved by addressing the issue prior to the 1988 election.
-
- You'll have to unbury Mr. Wright's trail, and get the Keating Five out
- of positions where they can bury investigations. :) Of course, age and
- politics have already removed a couple of key players from the field.
-
- >Has anyone heard anything about Ross Perot lately? I haven't seen the
- >news much lately but he seems to have had his fifteen minutes of fame
- >and is now back in oblivion. I wonder, are the democrats better crooks
- >than the republicans and manage not to get caught while in office,
- >thus the infamous pardon gap?
-
- No, when you control the House, you can steal by proclaiming a new tax.
-
- Brett'
-