From: patth@panix.com (Patt Bromberger)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.bush
Subject: Re: Bush pardons....
Summary: Walsh is his own man; Walsh runs the show!
Date: 31 Dec 92 23:07:25 GMT
Followup-To: alt.politics.bush
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC

In article <1992Dec31.114442.424@hsh.com> paul@hsh.com writes:
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>Let us scrap this myth once and for all.  Leaving aside the insidious 
>inference that a Rep cannot possibly investigate a fellow Rep (may we thus
>assume the same about Dems?), let us get this clear: Walsh is NOT running the
>show; he's a figurehead, a mouthpiece.  His second-in-command, James
>Brosnahan, is running the show -- and he is a devout, liberal, Democrat. 

	Ask anyone who has ever worked with Judge Walsh
	if they would even presume to think that "he" is not
	running the show; if Judge Walsh said he "personally"
	reviewed Cap Weinberger's notes and is personally
	reviewing Bush's notes then he is probably staying
	up nights analyzing everything single word they've ever
	written - he's that thorough!

	One could even say he is obsessive about the law!  :-)

>>>[    ]
>To prevent them from being ruined by an obsessive persecutor, who would 
	
	are you referring, by any chance, to the 
	sterling character of Judge Lawrence E. Walsh,
	the special prosecutor "they" appointed; are
	they complaining about their own lack of judgment
	in appointing him?

>cheerfully have bankrupted them in his search for "justice."  Chew on this 
>one, Norm:  if they were guilty of the major charges -- selling arms to Iran, 
>or sending money to the Contras -- WHY WEREN'T THEY CHARGED with these 
>crimes?  With unlimited time and unlimited power, surely Walsh & Co should 
>have been able to convict them.  

	I will repost for you, a message from Sandra Stewart-Cole,
	who succintly stated the issue(s):

Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy
From: cole@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Sandra Stewart-Cole)
Subject: Re: Weinberger's Pardon
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 19:51:29 GMT


There is a failure in those applauding the recent pardons to recognize the real
nature of the investigations. The actual actions of the Reagan Administration 
in selling arms or even in secretly funding the Contras is no longer an issue 
in any case. The legality or illegality of those actions has never been 
suffuciently tested, and probably never will be. The issue is now coverup. The
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common phraseology of the Reagan partisans in this issue is that Walsh is 
"criminalizing policy differences" HOGWASH! What Walsh was trying to prosecute
Weinberger et al. for is simple lying to hide actions that may or may not have
been illegal. The act of hiding evidence from a federal prosecutor or lying to
Congress in the position of a cabinet secretary is simply illegal, and has 
nothing to do with policy differences, unless we determine that somehow someone
in the White House decided that hoodwinking Congress is good policy (in which 
case is is a legitimately criminalized policy matter) Weinberger hid evidence 
in a criminal investigation. If you or I did so, we'd be prosecuted. 

The one satisfaction for those of us who believe that the men who run our 
governmment should obey the law is that Bush cannot pardon himself, and ther is
some evidence that Bush himself lied to Walsh and to the Congress. Why he lied
is irrelevant. He will likely have no friendly occupant of the White House to 
let him off. It's a sad commentary on the morals of our politician that in the
end the most prominent conviction of this whole thing may be that of the great
proponent of family values and morality being convicted of decieving Congress 
and misleading a criminal investigation. 


[emphasis supplied]


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Patricia Ann Bromberger                            patth@panix.com
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