[msnimje]

Bush has the power to call off the prosecution with little more than a snap of his fingers...

He most certainly CAN NOT! That may be how it works in China but in this country no man, not even the president, is above the law.

That is why people in the family of presidents are charged with crimes if they break the law.

[inquest]

He's head of the executive branch. He's in charge of federal prosecutors. He can order them to drop the charges, to say nothing of his power to grant reprieves and pardons.

[Orange1998]

in this country no man, not even the president, is above the law.

Really? Seems current and past Presidents think otherwise.

FROST: But when you said, as you said when we were talking about the Huston Plan, you know, "If the president orders it, that makes it legal", as it were: Is the president in that sense—is there anything in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights that suggests the president is that far of a sovereign, that far above the law?

NIXON: No, there isn't. There's nothing specific that the Constitution contemplates in that respect. I haven't read every word, every jot and every title, but I do know this: That it has been, however, argued that as far as a president is concerned, that in war time, a president does have certain extraordinary powers which would make acts that would otherwise be unlawful, lawful if undertaken for the purpose of preserving the nation and the Constitution, which is essential for the rights we're all talking about. © 1977 by The New York Times Company. Reprinted by permission

[Stone Mountain]

Bush has the power to call off the prosecution with little more than a snap of his fingers...

He most certainly CAN NOT!

You think that Bush has no influence as to whether or not this woman gets prosecuted? Really?