Name That Criminal or How Many Of These Criminals Will Be Pardoned Before junior Rides Off Into The

[unhappycamper]

Sunset?

I've been thinking about all the harm dubya and his cronies have inflicted this country and it's people. Between homelessness in the US, suiciding soldiers, the Wall Street meltdown, loss of our Rights, torture, relaxation of business rules, outsourcing and the bloated military buget, we are fucked. Almost ready to drown in a bath tub as Grover Norquist would say.

I realize that my list is nowhere near complete, but it's a start. Please feel free to add nominees.


Scooter Libby (already pardoned)
Jack Abramhoff
JamesGannon
John Bolton
Douglas Feith
Paul Wolfowitz
Condi Rice
Duke Cunningham
Alberto Gonzoles
John Yoo
Dick Cheney
Harriet Meyers
Samuel Alito
Michael Chertoff
William Boykin
Peter Pace
Donald Rumsfeld
Monica Goodling
Michael Mukasey
Heather Wilson
George Deutsch
James Connaughton
Josh Bolten
John Negroponte
John Poindexter
Gale Norton
J. Steven Griles
Donald Evans
Elaine Chao
Asa Hutchinson
Thomas Scully
Christine Whitman
Michael Powell
Arturo Duran
Michael Brown
Karl Rove
Robert Somma


on edit to add: Teddy Stevens

[nichomachus]

1. My personal feeling is that

all things being equal, Dubya and Cheney will pardon each other and leave the others to twist in the wind. The Bush Crime Family has no sense of loyalty.

But, in reality, Bush, like his father, will have to pardon anyone who could possibly incriminate him in future trials.

So, I'm guessing the pardon pen will start scratching out pardons on November 5 and won't stop until 11:59 a.m. on inauguration day.

[onenote]

3. where does cheney get any pardon authority?

[nichomachus]

4. When Bush pardons Cheney, then resigns, Cheney is sworn in and pardons Bush

[onenote]

8. and you think that's going to happen?

I'll put up any bet you want on that one.

[cherokeeprogressive]

12. Oh come on. n/t

[Jack Rabbit]

7. The President has the power to pardon himself

Nice work if you can get it, no?

[onenote]

2. one or two at most.

I'm not sure I know what crimes all of them are supposed to have committed, but even assuming there is something for all of them, apart from possibly gonzales and rove, I don't see much likelihood of pardons being issued for others on that list (maybe Cunningham).

[samsingh]

5. save the charges until after bush leaves office

then he can't pardon them.

[Dan]

6. no, like the Nixon pardon

all crimes, potential acts that might have been criminal., etc.

[samsingh]

13. seems too widesweeping

[Jack Rabbit]

9. First of all, Libby has not bee pardoned

Libby had his prison sentence commuted. As long as his appeal is pending, he has to keep his mouth shut (unless he wants to turn state's evidence).

Second, you left out Dr. Stephen Cambone, the Grand Inquisitor in the Pentagon's torture regime, and Judge Jay Bybee, who, like Professor Yoo, provided legal arguments to Mr. Bush for evading the Geneva Conventions.

Third, you should also include Katherine Harris and Ken Blackwell, who ought to be prosecuted for election fraud.

[nichomachus]

10. Yet

[Jack Rabbit]

11. I agree, he's certainly in line for one

I'll be surprised if he doesn't get one.

[dkofos]

14. I think you missed a FEW THOUSAND!!

[TexasObserver]

15. All of those, and more.

I look for Bush to inoculate his administration from prosecutions and investigations by pardoning anyone with any real culpability.