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This would be a perfect opportunity for a White House pardon.
by optimiz3 14y ago
This would be a perfect opportunity for a White House pardon.
- tomjen3 14y agoThose are only available to the guilty.
- twoodfin 14y agoI assume you mean convicted, but Ford gave Nixon one.
- tomjen3 14y agoActually I do mean guilty, as I was under the impression that you have to accept your guilt before you could get a pardon.
- jlgreco 14y agoIs that the case in the US? My impression is that Ford gave Nixon a blanket pardon even though Nixon had not (yet, probably) been found guilty of anything.
- iso-8859-1 14y agoYou are correct: http://www.factcheck.org/2008/06/blanket-pardons/ http://www.factcheck.org/2008/06/blanket-pardons/
- icambron 14y agoA promise of a pardon would have done just as well, especially for federal prosecutors. The DOJ isn't going to make a big case out something their boss has promised to throw out. That said, the president being superinvolved in an ongoing case like that would be very strange.