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To: Cletus.D.Yokel
-- Treason cannot be pardoned ... --

Iva Toguri D'Aquino, who is frequently identified by the name "Tokyo Rose", convicted 1949. Subsequently, pardoned by President Gerald Ford.

See too, debates of the founding on excluding treason from the pardon power.

232 posted on 08/30/2018 6:12:53 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt

A number of witnesses against Tokyo Rose later indicated that they had lied in their testimony. She fed nearby American prisoners with her meager earnings from the TR gig.

She was a master at using American slang double entendre in her broadcasts that the Japanese did not understand. Many American troops thought she was on our side.
A very smart and complicated woman


246 posted on 08/30/2018 6:35:58 AM PDT by buffaloguy (MSM: Wind up dolls of the DNC.)
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To: Cboldt

:: Iva Toguri D’Aquino ::

Not familiar with the whole story, just what I learned from old newsreels. Was US citizen at time of trial?


269 posted on 08/30/2018 7:24:29 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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