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...occasionally, and shows off a framed TIME cover of McCain inscribed "To my dear friend." Yet he has authored a rival bill that has emerged as the favorite disguise for those who want to look like reformers while leaving the system porous enough for Denise Rich to drive a pardon through. Hagel's proposal does not ban soft-money contributions but simply caps them at $120,000 per two-year cycle, though critics calculate that wealthy folks could still give half a million dollars. When I ask McCain why he can't talk some sense into his brother-in-arms...
...there no demand that Presidents--and Governors--be denied the power to pardon, which is so obviously open to abuse? Clinton's pardons may have been the worst, but they were hardly the first to be controversial. The power to pardon assumes that due process will fail and that Presidents and Governors will have the wisdom and good conscience to remedy its failures. The sad truth is that these officials are cut from the same cloth as the rest of us. BOB HILTON Iowa City...
...balance, I am very satisfied with the judgment of former President Clinton in granting a pardon to fugitive billionaire Marc Rich. This controversy demonstrates that the person who holds the office of President is one of the few people who aren't caught up in legal and political minutiae and thus can see the bigger picture. The postelection hassles show how much the conservatives need Clinton as a whipping boy. Without him, they will have to accept responsibility for governing now that they have the White House, the Supreme Court, the Senate and the House of Representatives. LEON F. DROZD...
...appointed Mary Jo White the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, the first woman to hold what is widely considered the nation's most prestigious post for prosecutors. Eight years later, after months of grandstanding at congressional hearings and scattered inquiries into Clinton's last-minute pardon spree, Attorney General John Ashcroft has given White the green light to investigate any of the 177 eleventh-hour pardons and commutations. The Justice Department characterized Ashcroft's decision, which could involve cases lying outside White's jurisdiction, as a "routine effort to consolidate cases...
...Colleagues say White was "furious" when she learned that Clinton had pardoned Rich; despite her office's obvious interest in Rich's case, White says the President never consulted her. And while no one knows what might have happened had the President made a pre-pardon phone call to White's office, his lapse in professional etiquette could eventually prove costly...