Word: pardons
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Egypt's attorney general cited "medical reasons" for Nour's release even though Egyptian courts had repeatedly denied Nour's request for a pardon on those grounds. Many see politics behind the decision. Mubarak, 80, wants to improve relations with the new Obama administration, following eight years of cold relations with the Bush administration that were frosty in part due to Nour's imprisonment. "Does Mubarak want to risk another four years of bad relations with the United States? I don't think so," says Hesham Kassem, former deputy leader of Nour's liberal, secular al-Ghad party. "If [Nour...
...take full responsibility for my actions and seek your pardon." - in his 2004 televised confession...
...Bill Clinton named him Deputy Attorney General. Holder's decision four years later to facilitate a presidential pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich was a blunder, he later admitted. It revealed the danger that occurs when top officials forget that their job is not to accommodate political masters in the White House--an issue that dominated Holder's confirmation hearing...
...them that required the personal attention of-results in pulled back muscle of • resemblance of to Dr. Strangelove (or Bond villain Blofeld, or Mr. Potter in It's a Wonderful Life) is evoked by farewell appearance in wheelchair of • unhappiness of at Bush's failure to pardon Libby...
...other politically loaded cases, Holder seemed all too accommodating to political benefactors. The most notable of these is Bill Clinton's 2000 pardon of fugitive Marc Rich - which Holder facilitated - and the 1999 clemency Clinton granted to imprisoned members of FALN, a Puerto Rican nationalist group linked by the FBI to bombings, armed robberies and murders. Republicans accused the President at the time of using the commutations to draw Puerto Rican support in New York for the budding senatorial campaign of his wife. In the conservative National Review, Andrew C. McCarthy opines, "With the FALN pardons, [Holder] helped foster...