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• Monday, January 12, 2009 11:49 AM

  LET'S WAIT AND SEE IF W PRE-EMPTIVELY PARDONS HIMSELF

  I am going to wait for Obama to be sworn in before I pass judgment on him. Nevertheless, GG does raise areas of concern about his interview with George Stephanopolous yesterday, especially his comments about “looking forward” with respect to the numerous criminals in the Bush Administration. I suspect that some of those comments may be designed to allay the very strong possibility that George W. will pre-emptively pardon himself, Cheney and others for the lawless activities of his Administration. (I note that he specifically avoided the subject of pardons at today's press conference) We will have to wait and see if W. actually does pre-emptively pardon himself and others. If he does, that will be a rallying cry that will galvanize public support for not simply “looking forward,” but looking forward in a way that will insure that future administrations don’t take the law into their own hands as the Bush Administration did. I always suspected that the real reason Clinton was impeached was not the so-called “rule of law” that the Republicans were calling as the reason for the impeachment, but the impending renewal of the Special Prosecutor Act, which conveniently was allowed to expire prior to the end of Clinton’s term. Democrats who had endured eight years of Kenneth Starr had had enough of special prosecutors. If we had had a special prosecutor in place during the Bush Administration, I suspect that much of the lawbreaking would never have happened.

  —farbie Read farbie's other letters
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