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Bush Pardons

Bush Flooded With Pardon Requests: Mike Milken, Marion Jones, "American Taliban"

newsweek.com | Posted 12.17.2008 | Politics

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UPDATES: Bush Pardons 14, Commutes 2 Prison Sentences The Justice department is getting flooded with a new wave of requests for pardons an...

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Obama Pushes Ahead With Bush Torture Probe

Salon | Posted 12.14.2008 | Politics

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With growing talk in Washington that President Bush may be considering an unprecedented "blanket pardon" for people involved in his administration's b...

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Executive Accountability: A Constitutional Amendment for the Next Congress

Paul Abrams | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics

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Paul Abrams

Excluding from the pardon power persons who have worked for the administration will prevent the president from covering up illegal acts -- making it less likely that officials will carry out illegal acts in the first place.

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Bush Issues 29 Pardons -- To Carjackers, Drug Dealers, And "A Moonshiner"

AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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President Bush granted pardons Tuesday to carjackers, drug dealers, a moonshiner and a violator of election laws, but not to I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby...

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