[Intelforum] Pollard's Life Sentence

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Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:28:53 -0500
From: gweinber at email.unc.edu
To: intelforum at lists101.his.com
Subject: Re: Pollard's Life Sentence

Please read my text again.  I did not say serve a sentence; I said sentence.
Gerhard L. Weinberg


Quoting IntelForum Mailing List <intelforum at lists101.his.com>:

>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
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