So, should Scooter Libby be pardoned?

[[AK]Squidly]

Libby's "taking one for the team"... I think a pardon is forthcoming, probably on Bribo's timetable.

As to whether or not he should be...I confess to not paying much attention to the particulars these days.

[[AK]Bribo]

Here's a list of Clinton's pardons:

http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pardonchartlst.htm

Dang - that's a long list.

[[AK]Squidly]

2 wrongs don't make a right. I'm going to try to remember to avoid the easy "hypocrisy" out that's so popular these days in political discussion.

If Clinton made 10,000 bad pardons, it doesn't absolve Bush of 1 that he might make.

[[AK]Hylander]

Here's a list of Clinton's pardons:

http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pardonchartlst.htm

Dang - that's a long list.

That's not a complete list... Rick Hendrick (The NASCAR team owner - A Republican BTW) - isn't on the list.

From the Book - "Arrogance and Accords"

Rick Hendrick -

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• Hendrick, owner of a major car dealership and NASCAR team owner, was convicted for mail fraud in 1997.
• Hendrick was on the Board of Directors of NationsBank.
• Hendrick's friend Hugh McColl was the chairman of NationsBank at that time.
• NationsBank merged with Bank of America
• Hugh McColl became chairman and CEO of Bank of America
• Rick Hendrick requested a pardon from Bill Clinton
• Bank of America chairman Hugh McColl wrote a letter to Bill Clinton recommending a pardon for Rick Hendrick
• On December 7, 2000, Hugh McColl announced that Bank of America would donate $500,000 to the Clinton Foundation
• On December 21, 2000, Bill Clinton granted a pardon to Rick Hendrick.

(DAMN BANK OF AMERICA WORKERS!!! )

Rick Hendrick was the biggest dealer influence-peddler to play ball with Billmyer and Cardiges. His relationship with Billmyer went back to Rick's youth as a hot rodder. Billmyer helped Hendrick establish himself in the car sales business and was instrumental in getting him a dealership. Lynch shows how Hendrick wielded undue influence with American Honda and was thus able to acquire more car stores than anyone else. "All it took," Lynch writes, "were a few gifts."

Most car companies limit dealers to about six store. Rick Hendrick, though, didn't believe such a rule should apply to him, and in Honda he found a company that officially did not have such a limit. He nonetheless took no chances; Lynch notes that Hendrick store holdings were frequently in the name of others, notably his brother John Hendrick, and less than $1 million of the bribes Rick paid have ever been recovered.

Lynch shows how Hendrick used bribes and influence-peddling to bankrupt rival Honda dealers and poach their stores. William Van Dalsam of Corono, CA, was one. Dick Young of South Carolina was another. These two cases were directly witnessed by Lynch; there were many other such cases not mentioned in the book because they were not directly witnessed by him. According to Rodger Knupp of Asheville, NC, one such involved former NASCAR driver Dick Brooks; after rebuffing a Hendrick offer to buy his stores, he found cars slated for his stores winding up at Hendrick stores.

[[AK]Bribo]

Here's a graph of Presidential pardons up to 2001.