How many of *'s guys have been pardoned by the father?

[mediaman007]

It just seems to me that they didn't learn their lesson from Iran-Contra. All they did was get away with "murder," get some great jobs while they plotted to return to power, and when they came back they just continued to manipulate the World to their advantage.

No doubt there will be more pardons of this crew.

[Octafish]

1. Several very big names.

Conviction-Overturned on Appeal un-Admiral John Poindexter: The National Security Advisor kept the heat off Poppy. He got busted and convicted. Now he's back as head of the Total (or Terrorism) Information Awareness Office of the DIA. Nice work if you can get it.

Indicted Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger: His assistant Richard Perle haunts us today, building bridges to terror and arch-criminality.

Some remembered courtesy of FAIR:

* John Negroponte, as ambassador to Honduras from 1981-85, covered up human rights abuses by the CIA-trained Battalion 316. He is Bush's choice for U.S. ambassador to the U.N. and, as Extra! went to press, was expected to clear Senate confirmation hearings.

* Elliott Abrams, an assistant secretary of state under Reagan, pleaded guilty in 1991 to two counts of withholding evidence from Congress (i.e., lying) over his role in the Iran-Contra affair. Bush I pardoned him; Bush II has appointed him to the National Security Council as director of its office for democracy, human rights and international operations. The post requires no Senate approval.

* Otto Reich's nomination as assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs, the top post for Latin America, was predicted to draw the most congressional fire. Reich was head of the now-defunct Office for Public Diplomacy (OPD), which the House Committee on Foreign Affairs censured for "prohibited, covert propaganda activities" (Washington Post, 10/11/87).

http://www.fair.org/extra/0109/iran-contra.html

There must be a whole lot of BFEE more. What say we build a nice list?

[grasswire]

2. if anyone wants the list of actual Bush pardons, I have it

I got it faxed to me from the Department of Justice when the Clinton pardon of Marc Rich flap was happening. I was looking to confirm Orlando Bosch, who turned up not pardoned, but paroled.

It actually is a pretty short list.