[Intelforum] Pollard's Life Sentence

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Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:13:41 -0500 (EST)
From: Bill Oliver <billo at radix.net>
To: intelforum at lists101.his.com
Subject: Re: Pollard's Life Sentence

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, IntelForum Mailing List wrote:

>Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:47:17 -0500
>From: gweinber at email.unc.edu
>To: intelforum at lists101.his.com
>Subject: Re: Pollard's Life Sentence
>
>Is it not correct that Weinberger himself escaped a possibly lengthy
>jail sentence only because of a presidential pardon?
>
>Gerhard L. Weinberg
>

Yes.  It is not correct. Weinberger escaped a possibly lengthy show 
trial because of a presidential pardon.  He would never have gone to 
jail regardless.  The fact that politicians have used the special 
prosecutor process to criminalize politics has little or nothing to 
do with actual breaking of any laws, as the Scooter Libby fiasco has 
shown.

William R. Oliver