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murray hill farm

(3,650 posts) Thu May 16, 2013, 05:23 PM May 2013

Is there a statute of limitations on prosecution [View all]

of a former president, vice president, secretary of state, etc.? If there is not, I am thinking that GW, Cheney, Rice and Rumsfeld...and many, many more must be terrified that one day Hillary Clinton will be president...and even more so now when they hoped to take her down...and her polling numbers went up as a result. Seeing Cheney and Rumsfeld on the news of late all enraged by the so called "scandals" and how horrible is Obama and Hillary, I keep having this smiley thought about when Hillary becomes our next president.

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Is there a statute of limitations on prosecution [View all] murray hill farm May 2013 OP

statutes of limitation are specific to crimes, not persons. nt geek tragedy May 2013 #1

Statutes of limitations are based on crimes, not political ranks. (nt) Posteritatis May 2013 #2

There is no statute of limitations for murder. rug May 2013 #3

For war crimes? 60 years later they are prosecuting Nazi prison guards. HereSince1628 May 2013 #4

I seriously doubt that I or for that matter anyone here will live long enough CBGLuthier May 2013 #5

I will hang onto that smiley thought then. murray hill farm May 2013 #6

Nobody, neither Hillary, nor Joe, nor Elizabeth Warren, will ever prosecute past presidents or staff NYC_SKP May 2013 #7

For most crimes Half-Century Man May 2013 #8

never happen newmember May 2013 #9