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5. Don't forget the pardons

Sat Jul 18, 2015, 09:44 AM

Jul 2015

Caspar Weinberger, Elliot Abrams, Robert McFarlane, Clair George, Duane Clarridge, and Alan Fiers, Jr. were all granted pardons by the first President Bush in the dead of night on Christmas Eve 1992 after Bush had lost his re-election campaign to Bill Clinton. Trial of the Iran-contra principals was to begin two weeks after the pardons, but Bush's executive action decapitated the prosecution, probably saving his own miserable hide because a trial probably would have show that Bush was anything but "out of the loop" on the planning and execution of the arms-for-hostages deal with the terrorist state.

https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/06/29/reviews/iran-pardon.html

Keep this in mind the next time you hear some right wing knucklehead rant about "unconstitutional" this or "executive overreach" that.

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