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Former CIA Director John Deutch just a day before the pardon agreed to plead guilty to improperly storing classified materials on his home computer...
Sure, Clinton pardoned Marc Rich, a tax evader whose ex-wife donated tons to the Democratic Party and the Clinton library, but what kind of guy do you expect him to pardon? Republican carjackers who snubbed him in high school? Pardons by tradition are given to guilty people you like or at least served as Vice President under. And the argument that Rich didn't deserve a pardon because he never served any time is simply untrue. This guy was married for 25 years to the woman who wrote Sister Sledge's Frankie, which contains the lines "You walked...
...Clinton's pardon of Marc Rich stinks, then how much greater is the stench of President Bush's proposed tax giveaway of $1.6 trillion, most of which will go to the wealthiest Americans? Bush's proposed tax cut is 32,000 times as great as Rich's $50 million tax swindle. In essence, Bush wants to save thousands of Marc Riches from the tiresome chore of having to cheat on their taxes. JOE HEAPHEY Greencastle...
Rich stole umpteen million dollars that he owed in taxes and got away with it, thanks to Clinton's presidential pardon, which was preceded by high-level lobbying from the likes of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and King Juan Carlos of Spain...
Clinton actually showed restraint with the pardons by not giving one to Michael Milken, Jonathan Pollard, Webb Hubbell and Ol' Dirty Bastard. And, if he had wanted, he could have fought to pardon himself. And that's the greatest pardon...