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Posted on 12/24/2008 4:59:05 PM PST by meandog
President Bush on Wednesday retracted one of the 19 presidential pardons he granted just before the Christmas holiday.
The White House announced that Isaac Toussie, a Brooklyn developer convicted of fraud and making false statements to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, should not be granted clemency.
White House press secretary Dana Perino said the new decision was "based on information that has subsequently come to light," including on the extent and nature of Toussie's prior criminal offenses. She also said that neither the White House counsel's office nor the president had been aware of a political contribution by Toussie's father that "might create an appearance of impropriety."
"Given that, this was the prudent thing to do," she said.
The new information came out in news reports, Perino said. The counsel's office generally doesn't include vetting of political contributions in its reviews on such matters, as that would be "highly inappropriate on many levels," she said. The White House decision on Toussie had come without a recommendation from the pardon attorney, Ronald L. Rodgers, as Toussie's request for a pardon came less than five years after completion of his sentence, so that eliminated another step in the review process.
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Meanwhile Ramos and Campeon rot. What is wrong with the President?
Good on ya, W.
Now, howzabout those two Border Agents?
I wasn’t aware a pardon could be reversed.
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If Senor Bush does not give pardons to Ramos, Campeon and Scooter Libby, then he is lower than pond scum.
Can this administration get nothing right? Who was supposed to vet the recipients before the pardon was granted?
Thanks, I stand corrected, LOL!
Stroke of the pen and all that. And besides, it's Christmas, a time of miracles.
Evidently, there is a limited supply of pardons and one had to be saved for Bernie Madoff!
GWB is neither compassionate nor conservative, despite his old rhetoric. It's like the Holy Roman Emopire: "not holy, not Roman, and not an empire."
Senor Bush wants to teach the border patrol agents on the field a lesson: leave all stones unturned.
Bumbling fools with R’s beside their name.
Makes me ashamed to have an R beside my name.
The schlub pardons scum and leaves railroaded border police heros in jail to rot. I bet Bush doesn’t even know about Ramos and Campeon (sp?).
G.W.B. is the greatest fraud ever perpetuated upon conservative America.
Pardon Ramos and Compean, Mr.President.
How can he have Christmas with his family and not think of the young children these border agents have, who are missing their daddys tonight?
There is a very bad reason W won’t pardon them. Too close to Sutton? Likes drug runners? Like the Mexicans too much? Whatever the reason it isn’t a good one.
Add his unwillingness to pardon them, to the long list of grievances the prez has piled up in 8 years of not being a conservative (as advertised).
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If one wants to know who GWB truly is this situation is the perfect example. He won’t pardon Ramos and Campeon because this jerk DA is his little pal or he owes him something.
EVIL.
Well, maybe that leaves a space to pardon Ramos and Campean. Now that President Bush retracted one pardon, perhaps he should keep the count by issuing a pardon to civil servants with families being punished for doing their jobs.
Is this refusal by Bush to pardon genuine deserving patriots some kind of a Yale thing I wonder? The horrendous sentences are out of line with similar offenses in my opinion.
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