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...WHILE CASPAR WEINBERGER AND FIVE OTHER SUSPECTS IN the Iran-contra affair got pardons for Christmas, the Santa in the White House was not so generous to everyone. CLARK CLIFFORD, 85, the onetime Defense Secretary indicted for helping the Bank of Credit & Commerce International secretly buy two U.S. banks, received coal in his stocking. He was up for consideration, but counsel C. Boyden Gray recommended against a pardon, and Bush agreed. Reason: Clifford's indictment suggests he reaped a bundle from his B.C.C.I. connection...
...characters were in place. The topic was right. It was the story of a Bush, a Caspar and a pardon. But as I read the page one article, I quickly realized that something was missing. The roles had been reversed. Jonathan J. Pollard was still in jail...
Carter also discussed President Bush's recentpardons of Secretary of Defense Caspar W.Weinberger '38 and others in the Iran-Contrahearings. "In a struggle to keep my language asmoderate as possible--I thought it was a travestyof justice, an insult to the integrity of theWhite House...
...sure is nice to have friends in high places. The smug look that Caspar W. Weinberger '38 gave reporters at his post-pardon press conference says it all. Cap's old friend George Bush got him off the hook before his trial on charges of lying to Congress even began...
...that he did. There is an inherent paradox in pardoning a suspect before he or she has been convicted of a crime. Semantically, a pardon cannot exist without an accompanying misdeed. A pardon is meant to be the last word on a case--a final chance at leniency. In Caspar Weinberger's case, the pardon is the first word...