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To: kayak
I plead ignorance to knowing exactly what he was pardoned for and whether it was for all crimes he may have committed at any time in the past or was it for specific acts and those things only related to them.

The pardon has to be for specific actions of a specific person, though the actions can be broadly defined (again, I point to Nixon).

I simply cannot see how being the shipping broker for the oil-for-food scandal would fit under his pardon, and even if it did, it could be successfully argued that each new manifest was a new criminal violation and would thus be outside the terms of his pardon as the events are known to have started in February 2001.

63 posted on 12/13/2004 9:21:11 AM PST by Chairman_December_19th_Society (James Burnham--Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide.)
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To: Chairman_December_19th_Society

Afternoon.


66 posted on 12/13/2004 9:49:30 AM PST by Dog ( In memory of Sgt. Rafael Peralta, United States Marine.)
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