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1 posted on 08/11/2005 3:24:10 PM PDT by SmithL
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Oh this isn't good.


2 posted on 08/11/2005 3:29:52 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (The repenting soul is the victorious soul)
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"The Reagan administration had a unique opportunity to rescue Wallenberg at that very moment. I had credible evidence that Wallenberg was alive and well at that time," said Wolff, who once served in the Kennedy Justice Department.

So what did Kennedy do on the case, at a time when RW was much more likely to still be alive?

4 posted on 08/11/2005 3:36:16 PM PDT by Restorer (Liberalism: the auto-immune disease of societies.)
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"The Reagan administration had a unique opportunity to rescue Wallenberg at that very moment. I had credible evidence that Wallenberg was alive and well at that time," said Wolff, who once served in the Kennedy Justice Department.

So this guy was a flaming conservative lawyer for the Kennedys?

Pretty transparent. He gets to bash on Reagan and help the other Dims bash Roberts at the same time. Gee, maybe he'll get a book deal or get to hit the cable news channels to boot.
11 posted on 08/11/2005 4:23:30 PM PDT by George W. Bush
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All I can find is this listing of honorary citizens:
A non-U.S. citizen of exceptional merit may be declared an Honorary Citizen of the United States by the President pursuant to an Act of Congress. As of August 6, 2002, six people have had this honor bestowed upon them:

Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister during World War II (awarded 1963)
Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (Mother Teresa), Albanian nun and human rights advocate (1996)

Posthumously Awarded:

William and Hannah Callowhill Penn, 18th century founders and rulers of Pennsylvania (1984)
Marquis de la Fayette, French supporter of the American Revolution (2002)
Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat and Holocaust hero (1981)

Honorary citizenship is not to be confused with permanent residency bestowed by a private bill. Private bills are, on rare occasions, used to provide relief to individuals, often in immigration cases, and are also passed by both houses of Congress and signed into law by the President.
Given that the U.S. possessed no honorary citizens prior to 1963, it would seem odd to draw any conclusions about the constructionism of John Roberts from his cautious position on the Wallenberg case during the Reagan era. Especially when the charges made against him come from a mouthpiece of the Kennedy's.

Given that honorary citizenship does not confer residency, it's hard to see how we could invoke other laws to retrieve a 'citizen' that didn't even have the right to live in the United States. Nor had he apparently even expressed a desire to do so.
13 posted on 08/11/2005 4:39:38 PM PDT by George W. Bush
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Wallenberg is one my my heroes but short of threatening to nuke Russia to force an answer, our people did almost everything possible to try and get his release, if he was still alive. Roberts was correct.
15 posted on 08/11/2005 4:44:41 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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