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...Barack Obama really wanted to be cagey, he could pardon Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld for the possible commission of war crimes. Then they'd have to live with official acknowledgment of their ignominy in perpetuity. More likely, Obama will simply make sure - through his excellent team of legal appointees - that no such behavior happens again. Still, there should be some official acknowledgment by the U.S. government that the Bush Administration's policies were reprehensible, and quite possibly illegal, and that the U.S. is no longer in the torture business. If Obama doesn't want to make that statement, perhaps...
Bush, George W. •pardon given to son of major contributor to Republican party by is taken back the next day by •refusal of thrower of shoe at to ever apologize to, even - as his brother says - "if they cut him into small pieces" •surge in popularity of model of shoe thrown...
...after being convicted of racketeering and other federal charges. At the corruption trial of Ryan, Blagojevich's predecessor, Genson represented Ryan's co-defendant, Lawrence Warner, who is in a Colorado federal penitentiary with a projected release date of October 2009. (Ryan, who was also convicted, is seeking a pardon from President Bush.) More recently, Genson advocated unsuccessfully for Conrad Black, the disgraced media baron accused of fleecing his company, Hollinger, of millions. Black is serving a federal sentence near Orlando, Fla., until...
...case. The correspondent's actions were not merely an affront to the U.S. President; they discombobulated al-Maliki as well, who was standing beside Bush as he nimbly dodged the size-10 leather projectiles. Al-Zaidi has penned a letter of apology to the Prime Minister, asking for a pardon and saying his actions were directed squarely against Bush and not at al-Maliki, according to Omar Almashhadani, a spokesman for the Sunni Tawafuk parliamentary bloc. "It is too late now to regret the big and ugly act that I perpetrated," al-Zaidi wrote in the letter, according...
...done, so he will probably be tried and then either released with a fine or a muted sentence, according to several parliamentarians. Few doubt that he will be convicted. "It's about what happens after the conviction," says Othman. "Al-Maliki could do something about it, then pardon him or release him with a fine. Many people support al-Zaidi." Othman adds: "People will blame al-Maliki if he is sentenced or if he's been tortured ... And we are in an election year." Al-Maliki must tread lightly to make sure that the most disdained item of clothing...