The biggest pardon question here is whether or not he should pardon the former Governor of Illinois. The real reason Durbin wants George Ryan pardoned is that Blagoevich leaves office in 2010 and the indictments and such will start in late 2011. He wants a precedent sent for Obama to pardon him so things don’t get revealed so close to the 12 election.
Obama is the black Blagoevich.
Draft “evaders”?
Is that anything like pro-Communist traitors who blew up the Pentagon and attacked armories?
Is that anything like draft DODGERS?
Could you or someone define the difference between
“breaking the law” and a “policy disagreement”?
‘Cause last time I looked there are no jail sentences for the latter, but there are for the former.
On the other hand, if the President was a RAT, the media would be cheering the move on.
Dean Baker, Center for Economic Policy Research said,
“Congress should make it clear that anyone who has utter contempt for the law and the Constitution has no business being president.”
Wow! Sounds like he’s starting up another “OBAMA, SHOW US YOUR BIRTH CERTIFICATE” petition.
But alas, that was just my wishful thinking............
I also have heard rumors regarding legal action against Warriors on Terror. As a matter of fact, Mr. Cheney and Alberto Gonzalez have already been charged in some border county in Texas. The suit was brought by some crackpot, weirdo, D.A.
Is Calabresi overstating the case? Let's allow history to be the judge:
While Chicago natives and violent domestic terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn were living as fugitives, Edward Levi, Gerald Ford’s attorney general, was mounting a campaign against the FBI’s counterintelligence division. Levi, President of the University of Chicago at the time of his appointment, was a strange choice for attorney general if the purpose of that position is understood to include protecting the United States from its domestic enemies. He was a former member of the National Lawyers Guild, an organization cited by the now-defunct House Committee on Un-American Activities as "the foremost legal bulwark of the Communist Party, its front organizations, and controlled unions." Not coincidentally, Bernardine Dohrn was a prominent member of the NLG in the early 70's. As attorney general, Levi eventually indicted FBI acting director L. Patrick Gray, former Chief of Counterintelligence Edward Miller, and former acting associate director W. Mark Felt on charges of "conspiring to injure and oppress citizens of the United States."
The "citizens" in question were members of the Weather Underground.
Following the bombing of the Pentagon in 1972, Felt had authorized 13 surreptitious entries (commonly known as "black bag jobs") of suspected Weather Underground hideouts. This undoubtedly disrupted the terrorist cabal’s plans to complete its bombing "trifecta" by attacking the White House. But Levi insisted on prosecuting Felt and Miller for the supposed crime of preventing terrorism. After a prolonged court battle, Felt was sentenced to a $5,000 fine, and Miller was ordered to pay $3,000. The agents were also saddled with more than one million dollars in legal expenses.
Eventually, 140 FBI agents were brought to trial for their efforts to apprehend Weather Underground terrorists. All of these agents were prosecuted for actions taken in 1972-73 under guidelines created by Levi in 1976 — a violation of the Constitution’s prohibition against ex post facto laws. This amounted to a judicial purge of the FBI’s counter-terrorism division.
As Steven Emerson discovered, in the years leading up to 9/11/2001, aside from the "wall" created by Jamie Gorelick during the Clinton years, the FBI couldn't even keep news clippings of suspected terrorists, for fear of reprimand or prosecution. Thank Edward Levi for that, and don't think it can't happen again. If this is the path the drunk-on-power Democrats choose to go down – whether against the intelligence agencies, administration officials or the military -- this time, when the smoke clears, it will violent jihadists who will “guilty as hell, free as a bird,”
Given that the Al Qeda party has control of our nation he should do a blanket pardon.
The dhiminicrats would love to drag around our nations protectors through court to appease their financiers in the M.E.
F the Media and the dhiminicrats.
President Bush should issue a blanket pardon to his administration, the entire U.S. military and all intelligence agencies and other departments that took part in the War on Terror from January 20, 2001 onwards. Trusting the Obama administration and the Democratic controlled Congress would be extremely foolhardy!
. . . not to mention the fact that he should shred all the FBI files of his White House staff before Craig Livingstone returns to the WH Security office . . .
When you're dealing with Democrats, all bets are off.
He should issue the pardons on the way out the door just like Slick did and tell Congress to move on. While he’s at it, he shouldn’t forget Ramos and Compean.
Bush's pardon would enrage HALF the nation - the half that already hates him.
He should do all of this on the 18th of January, then immediately resign. Then have President Cheney pardon him on the 19th.
That would give liberals heartburn to rival a blast furnace.
Call me when Sandy Berger is frog marched to Levenworth..