Word: pardons
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...last trip of his presidency, to Little Rock, Ark., Clinton banters with reporters. "You got anybody you want to pardon?" he asks. "Everybody in America either wants somebody pardoned or a national monument...
Quinn talks to Clinton. They cut a deal: Rich will get the pardon, but he won't use the statute of limitations to avoid civil prosecution. Quinn's notes from the conversation include a few inscrutable phrases: "stayed away--publicity," "defensible," "inequity," "bias--rich...
White House counsel Nolan calls Holder to ask for his opinion. Holder, aware that Barak is lobbying hard, says if there's a foreign policy benefit he's "neutral, leaning toward favorable." Quinn later testifies that Nolan told him in the days after the pardon that "if Mr. Holder hadn't participated in the process...this pardon wouldn't have happened...
...Shortly after midnight, White House lawyer Meredith Cabe mentions for the first time to Justice pardon attorney Roger Adams that Rich and Green may be on the pardon list. She asks for a criminal-records check on the pair because they had been "living abroad" for several years--she conveniently doesn't call them fugitives. Two hours before Bush's Inauguration, the White House issues 177 pardons and commutations...
...eight years as President, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton each issued roughly 400 pardons. But in their final days, just 10 trickled out of Reagan's White House, while 177 flooded out of Clinton's. And Marc Rich's pardon isn't the only one that appalled federal prosecutors. While most of the 177 were for minor drug and fraud offenses, roughly a third raise serious questions. A TIME analysis of the pardon fever--the symptoms included well-connected lawyers and pols pulling strings, bypassing the Justice Department and sending petitions directly to the White House, often at the last...