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To: Ooh-Ah
Tony Snow was understating the hypocrisy of the Clintonoids utterly idiotic statement about President Bush's commutation of Scooter Libby's jail term.

Presidential Pardons / Commutations are both Constitutional AND extensively used by past Presidents. See History of Presidential Clemency actions 1945 to 2001.

See also PRESIDENTIAL CLEMENCY ACTIONS BY FISCAL YEAR July 1, 1900 to June 30, 1945

and seeRecipients of Clemency under President GHW Bush and under Bill Clinton.

18 posted on 07/05/2007 6:44:49 PM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt
Interesting link. Thank you.
Of anything I’d change in the Constitution, the ability of Presidents to pardon or otherwise grant clemency would be the first, if not only.
21 posted on 07/05/2007 9:33:01 PM PDT by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca, Deport all illegals, abolish the IRS, ATF and DEA)
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