Reply #3: READ CLINTON'S OWN WORDS ABOUT HIS DECISION THAT SCREWED AMERICA [View All]

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...President Bush gave a big Christmas present to some former associates, and potentially to himself, when he pardoned Caspar Weinberger and five others who had been indicted in the Iran-Contra scandal by Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh. Walsh's trial was about to get under way, and President Bush was likely to be called as a witness. Walsh angrily denounced the pardons as completing a six-year coverup, saying it "undermines the principle that no man is above the law. It demonstrates that powerful people with powerful allies can commit serious crimes in high office - deliberately abusing the public trusr - without consequence." Since now none of the defendants could be called to testify incourt under oath, if there were any more facts to come out, they probably never would, Just two weeks earlier Walsh had learned that the President and his lawyer, Boyden Gray, had failed for more than year to hand over Bush's own contemporaneous notes relating to Iran-Contra, despite repeated requests to do so.

I disagreed with the pardons and could have made more of them but didn't, for three reasons. First, the President's pardon power is absolute under our Constitution. Second, I wanted the country tobe more united, not more divided, even if the split would be to my political advantage. Finally, President Bush had given decades of service to our country, and I thought we should allow him to retire in peace, leaving the matter between him and his conscience.

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There is not one word in his book about BCCI. The first and granddaddy of all terrorist banks that Bush and his administration were protecting from Kerry's investigation.