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Bush Rescinds Pardon for Brooklyn Developer
Fox news ^ | Christmas Eve 2008

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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Well, Merry Christmas anyway...
1 posted on 12/24/2008 4:59:05 PM PST by meandog
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To: meandog

Gilda Radner as Roseanne Rosanna-Danna pic: “Never mind”


2 posted on 12/24/2008 5:00:51 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (Our government is an edifice of artifice.)
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To: meandog

Meanwhile Ramos and Campeon rot. What is wrong with the President?


3 posted on 12/24/2008 5:04:35 PM PST by onedoug
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President Bush on Wednesday retracted one of the 19 presidential pardons he granted...

Good on ya, W.

Now, howzabout those two Border Agents?

4 posted on 12/24/2008 5:05:03 PM PST by OldSmaj (Death to islam. No to Hussein. BO stinks.)
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To: meandog

I wasn’t aware a pardon could be reversed.


5 posted on 12/24/2008 5:05:11 PM PST by no-s
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder; meandog
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6 posted on 12/24/2008 5:08:01 PM PST by Canedawg
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To: meandog
The sleaze who made contributions to get his pardon will now go to court to claim that a President who has granted a pardon has no right to withdraw that pardon. Having read a number of cases on the pardon power, going back to one that took place in New Jersey while the Constitutional Convention was taking place across the river, I believe the sleaze will win his case.

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7 posted on 12/24/2008 5:11:17 PM PST by Congressman Billybob (Latest book: www.AmericasOwnersManual.com)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder
Gilda Radner as Roseanne Rosanna-Danna pic: “Never mind”

You're thinking of Emily Litella


8 posted on 12/24/2008 5:13:14 PM PST by Hoodat (For the weapons of our warfare are mighty in God for pulling down strongholds.)
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To: onedoug

If Senor Bush does not give pardons to Ramos, Campeon and Scooter Libby, then he is lower than pond scum.


9 posted on 12/24/2008 5:13:53 PM PST by webschooner
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To: meandog

Can this administration get nothing right? Who was supposed to vet the recipients before the pardon was granted?


10 posted on 12/24/2008 5:16:24 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Hoodat

Thanks, I stand corrected, LOL!


11 posted on 12/24/2008 5:19:13 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (Our government is an edifice of artifice.)
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I wasn’t aware a pardon could be reversed.

Stroke of the pen and all that. And besides, it's Christmas, a time of miracles.

12 posted on 12/24/2008 5:20:50 PM PST by AFreeBird
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To: meandog

Evidently, there is a limited supply of pardons and one had to be saved for Bernie Madoff!


13 posted on 12/24/2008 5:22:47 PM PST by Revolting cat!
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To: onedoug
What is wrong with the President?

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."

14 posted on 12/24/2008 5:26:08 PM PST by Theodore R. (The most frightening words in the English language: The American people!)
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To: webschooner

Senor Bush wants to teach the border patrol agents on the field a lesson: leave all stones unturned.


15 posted on 12/24/2008 5:27:10 PM PST by Theodore R. (The most frightening words in the English language: The American people!)
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To: Non-Sequitur

Bumbling fools with R’s beside their name.

Makes me ashamed to have an R beside my name.


16 posted on 12/24/2008 5:31:59 PM PST by autumnraine
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To: Canedawg

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.


17 posted on 12/24/2008 5:33:27 PM PST by gost2
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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).


18 posted on 12/24/2008 5:43:20 PM PST by TheConservativeParty ("A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not why the ship was built." by The First Gal of AK)
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To: TheConservativeParty

Eggs Ackley!

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.


19 posted on 12/24/2008 5:52:06 PM PST by gost2
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To: meandog
President Bush on Wednesday retracted one of the 19 presidential pardons he granted just before the Christmas holiday.

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.

20 posted on 12/24/2008 5:57:05 PM PST by olezip
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