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[06-19-07]
With Scooter Libby appeals all but exhausted, and a prison term imminent, it seems Libby’s sole chance at freedom, is an 11th hour pardon from the governor…or at least a former governor [audio]…or mayor [audio]…or senator[audio]
But the highest probability comes from the lowest likelihood of candidates: Mitt Romney, current Mormon and former governor of Massachusetts, now running for President. If he is lucky enough to become President, Romney has said he will consider a pardon for Scooter Libby.
Romney is 3rd in the polls for Presidency, but 4th on Forbes list of creepiest candidate. But when it comes to pardons, Romney hands them out about as often as Dick Cheney smiles. That’s because Romney has never given a single pardon, and he’s proud of it.
Not even to Anthony Circosta, who at the age of 13, shot another boy in the arm with a BB gun. Without even breaking the skin, Circosta, amazingly, was convicted of assault.
After working his way through college, Circosta joins the Army National Guard. Not only does he lead a platoon of 20 soldiers through Iraq’s deadly Sunii triangle, he is decorated, and receives a bronze Star. Stateside, Circosta’s dream of becoming a police officer, needs only one thing: a pardon. Even at the recommendation of the Board Of Pardons, Romney denies the pardon.
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…it was a BB Gun.
But a pardon to Libby would hardly rank as the most egregious of pardons, that bit of infamy belongs to William Jefferson Clinton, who pardoned Marc Rich, an international commodities trader. During the Iran Hostage crisis, Rich sold stripper oil and helped himself to some $42 million dollars that should have gone to the IRS.
But it was Rich’s wife who gave a lending hand, with veritable hand over fist donations to the Democratic Party, and tens of thousands of dollars to the Clintons Defense Fund not to mention the $7000 worth of furniture.
Unrelated I’m sure, Clinton pardoned Marc Rich on January 20, 2001, a mere 8 hours before leaving the White House.
But while Rich’s partners in the Iran Oil Deals have all served time, and paid millions in fines, Marc Rich divorced his ticket to freedom, and still lives in Switzerland with his model girlfriend.
Marc Rich had one helluva lawyer back then. But today, he sits in line for a pardon of his own.
