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Marc Rich was clearly a tax cheat. What made his case pardon-worthy was that he was singled out for criminal, not civil prosecution, unlike every other similarly situated defendant.
Really? Why was he "singled out"?
The pardon still left him exposed to civil prosecution. If that is "sleazy", the definition is rather exacting. From where I sit, selective prosecution is "sleazy."
What's sleazy is not the pardon itself, but the fact that the normal procedures were thrown in the trash can -- bans on pardons of fugitives, review by the Pardon Office, consultation with the prosecutors -- because he was drowning in hundreds of millions of dollars which he was spreading around to the Democratic Party, Jack Quinn, and influential Israelis of all stripes.
It's the special treatment that makes it sleazy.
Whether his prosecution was just nor not in the first place has nothing to do with that. Some Terrorists at Guantanamo really are bad and violent. That doesn't justify torturing them and keeping them locked up without process.
Glenn should really save his outrage for the actually outrageous, and not another manufactured pseudo-scandal by the Clinton-hating MSM.
Are all scandals relating to the Clintons MSM-manufactured? Or are any of them real?
