Great discussion. The question I wanted KO to ask Dean was whether he thought Budh didn't pardon Libby hoping he'd expose Cheney - you know polish up his legacy and leave Cheney with the bag. Bushes only care about themselves.
Whether or not there is a constitutional requirement to file pardons in some official manner.
If a president could produce a signed and notarized "pardon" from his back pocket, that had been kept secret for a period of many years, it would seem to meet the loosest of loose interpretation of the Constitution's pardon power.
Seems to me that the granting of the pardon must be made public during a President's term. Once he leaves the White House, he can no longer do any damn thing at all.
Leaving "secret" pardons sound like a conspiracy theorist's nightmare. Too much foil by far.
25. Bush was so Secretive...maybe he found his lawyer could find another way to get around laws like
Gonzo and Yoo did for him with Iraq and like the others did for him so he could leave the White House and never deliver anything about his Administration to our Congress or the National Archives.
Bush/Cheney will write their OWN HISTORY and the PEOPLE will never know the "full truth" even though we know exactly what they did...we Progressives on the Left who've been watching them since they STOLE the 2000 Election...that is.
I guess they were and will always be "Above the Law" when they can find lawyers unscrupulous enough to re-write the laws or ignore the laws for their client....
21. They kind of left "hanging in the wind" whether Obama can reveal them, or not?
:shrug: I hope we hear more about this...the details. It was weird that Bush left without the pardons we thought he would issue ...but there are so many damned "secret rules" in our Congress and now it seems our White House that we as Citizens know NOTHING ABOUT! Why?
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