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...been in an unwelcome spotlight on issues of crime and punishment. Recently, Texas has been working to show that it is not all frontier justice and, indeed, the day Perry's office announced he was dropping Bassett and appointing a new commission chairman, the governor also issued a "pardon for innocence" for James Lee Woodard, released last year after serving 27 years in prison for a murder and rape he did not commit. Woodard was exonerated on the basis of DNA testing urged by the New York City-based Innocence Project, led by noted defense attorney Barry Scheck. (Read "Texas...
...nuclear development has been more than passive spectator, however; Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan's atom bomb, admitted five years ago that he passed nuclear secrets to Tehran and Libya. The disclosures stung Islamabad and forced then President Pervez Musharraf to act against Khan, before issuing a pardon and confining the proliferator, who is still hailed as a national hero in Pakistan, to house arrest. (See pictures of Pakistan's vulnerable North-West Frontier Province...
...very interesting to discover points of disagreement between Bush and Cheney and the mood in the White House at that time. However, I am slightly disturbed by your description of George W. Bush as a President who believed in fairness in the judicial system. His attitude toward Libby's pardon is strikingly different from the way matters such as interrogations and extraordinary renditions were dealt with during his term. Naeem Meer, LE VESINET, FRANCE...
...your article on the final days of the Bush White House: I was dismayed by the incomplete retelling of the Scooter Libby - Valerie Plame investigation. A major reason Dick Cheney pushed for the pardon was that he was not the original leaker. That person, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, was not even mentioned in your article. No underlying national-security crime was committed by the accidental leak of Plame's name (as demonstrated by the lack of charges), and as such, Libby's perjury was ancillary to the investigation. Gregory Eschbacher, Fanwood...
...very interesting to discover points of disagreement between Bush and Cheney and the mood in the White House at that time. However, I am slightly disturbed by your description of George W. Bush as a President who believed in fairness in the judicial system. His attitude toward Libby's pardon is strikingly different from the way matters such as interrogations and extraordinary renditions were dealt with during his term. Naeem Meer, Le Vesinet, France...