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Topic started on 28-7-2008 @ 09:22 PM by TrueHusslin

Before leaving office George W. Bush will issue a mass pardon, the largest collection of presidential pardons in American history. Bush will pardon himself, Vice President Cheney, and a long list of officials involved in torture, eavesdropping, destruction of evidence, the CIA leak case and a range of potential crimes.

As George Bush signs the pardons and boards the helicopter to depart Washington as his presidency finally ends, even then, he and those pardoned will worry about the statute of limitations.

There is an important point to this, often not recognized in official Washington during the Bush years, where the unthinkable becomes a way of life, and acts have been done that have never been done by an American president or administration.

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reply posted on 5-8-2008 @ 10:59 AM by pooty

We knew this was comming.I'm happy for people that think it won't work however I look at other things and wonder.Thier is no two party system anymore just the corporate party.Bush commits the crime Pelosi protects him.
The latest fisa bill that Pelosi rammed through the house is unconstitutional.
Obama voted yes for it.Where is the judicial branch saying no.The constitution means nothing anymore and we have a government run by the corporations.
So what I see is if the corporations decide to throw Bush under the bus the pardons won't hold but if they don't he and his cronies will walk and after all hasn't he made lots of money for them?

reply posted on 5-8-2008 @ 08:15 PM by Anonymous ATS

Im sorry, but maybe i dont quite understand the whole legal system but... Why would he pardon himself, wouldnt that basically be admitting he did all these so called crimes you talk about? I dont buy it at all.

reply posted on 7-8-2008 @ 01:05 PM by seagull

And you know this how?

Apparently I missed your sources of information in that opening post. So you'll pardon me (sorry couldn't help it) if I'm a bit skeptical?

reply posted on 7-8-2008 @ 01:31 PM by pyrytyes

I, like many others here,am not well versed in the rule of law... however, I thought that a "pardon" was issued those one who had been tried and convicted of a crime. This "blanket pardon" concept would then apply to future transgressions?? I want me one of THEM!

I do not think it will happen quite the way you envision.

reply posted on 7-8-2008 @ 01:44 PM by marg6043

reply to post by seagull

He doesn't really need a source as the presidential pardons are a choice that every president have before leaving the presidential seat.

He can not pardon himself but with this president we can expect anything.

It will be interesting to see who indeed will be in the long list of criminals to be pardon.