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Pollard, you may wonder. Is he one of the other Iran-Contra hoods whom Bush let off the hook? Sorry. My take on the whole pardon thing is a bit different than the others that have graced this page in the last two weeks. I'm less concerned about guys like Lawrence Walsh and Robert MacFarlane than about a Jewish man named Pollard marking time in a federal penitentiary. Since Casper W. Weinberger '38 helped secure a term of life imprisonment for Pollard, only Bush could have ended his excessive punishment by granting Pollard a pardon. But Bush let Weinberger...
...Christmas Eve, Walsh charged Bush with "misconduct." Specifically, Walsh demanded to know why the President withheld until last month a 1986 personal diary that might be relevant to the inquiry. Those angry words followed Bush's pardon of six Iran-contra defendants, a move that set off a noisy debate. Were the pardons a show of compassion and personal courage -- or an act of expediency and political perfidy? Most critics seemed less annoyed by the pardons than by Bush's cavalier dismissal of the defendants' actual or alleged crimes as mere "policy differences." Last week the President clarified his position...
...IRAN-CONTRA investigation finally drawing to a close? Midweek, a source close to independent counsel Lawrence Walsh leaked word that the Oklahoma lawyer intends to halt the probe and deliver a final report to Congress. A day later, however, Walsh spokesman Mary Belcher denied the report. "Where we are is exactly as Judge Walsh described on Dec. 24," she said. "We are continuing to obtain and review the Bush notes. No decisions have been made one way or the other regarding further action because we aren't done...
Baker, during the Bush presidency, has carefully managed to avoid blame for his mishandlings of situations. This is nothing new for him. He was the only major Reagan administration official not to be tied to the Iran-Contra scandal. Few people seem to recall that he was secretary of the treasury during the time in which the savings and loan problems mushroomed. And he presided over the precipitous fall of the dollar that culminated in the 1987 stock market crash...
Walsh, whose six-year Iran-contra investigation has cost more than $32 million, and who is still working on a final report to Congress, was asked if the pardons meant that government officials are above the law. "That," replied the prosecutor, "depends on the President you work...