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...same reason--a desire for historians' esteem--motivated a less praiseworthy decision. Bush granted six Iran-contra defendants--one of whom was former secretary of defense and current perjurer Caspar W. Weinberger '38--executive clemency on Christmas Eve. Whether their actions were right or wrong didn't matter, he maintained, because the six were patriots, and it's wrong punish people for loving their country. Of course, that the pardons prevented six sticky trials which would have likely reveal the extent of Bush's participation in the scandals probably contributed to the outgoing president's decision. He could...
...most prominent of those pardoned was former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, who was awaiting trial in January. The President also absolved former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, former Assistant Secretary of State Elliot Abrams and three ex-CIA officials: Duane Clarridge, Alan Fiers and Clair George. Conspicuously absent from Bush's list were other Iran-contra defendants, including Richard Secord, deemed by the President to have gained financially from the affair...
...MAKING HIS LIST AND CHECKING IT TWICE. PRESIDENT Bush, that is; and the list includes Caspar Weinberger, Clair George and others hoping that Bush will invoke executive clemency to pardon them before he leaves office next month. Add JONATHAN JAY POLLARD, now in his eighth year of a life term in Marion, Illinois, for spying for Israel. Pollard's attorney has asked for a commutation of sentence, arguing that his client's life term was much harsher than those meted out to other recently convicted spies. President-elect Clinton has said he favors a review of the sentencing...
...ruling that overturned the 1990 conviction of former National Security Adviser John Poindexter. He and Oliver North, whose conviction was also reversed, were the main architects of the secret sales of weapons to Iran and diversion of profits to the Nicaraguan contras. Ironically, that leaves former Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, who angrily opposed the deal, as the biggest-name defendant remaining. A federal judge Friday threw out a charge against him of lying to Congress, but he still faces a January trial on four counts of perjury and making false statements...
...Judge Lawrence J. Feloney, a committeemember, said it will be difficult to find alocation for CASPAR that pleases everyone. "Wecan't have unanimity on these things," Feloneysaid. "It's almost impossible...