| For Immediate Release Mar 8, 2001 |
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Threaten to Subpoena Records From George Bush Library on Casper Weinberger and Armand Hammer Helps Explain George W. Bush�s Refusal to Look Into Clinton Pardons (Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, Inc., the public interest law firm that investigates and prosecutes government corruption and abuse, has in recent days called for President George W. Bush to rescind over 44 pardons illegally entered into by Former President Bill Clinton. See www.JudicialWatch.org. These pardons, which were granted without the required specificity, are null and void under established case law. The pardons include but are not limited to persons such as Roger Clinton, Susan McDougal, Almon Glen Braswell, and friends of Jesse Jackson. Today, the Miami Herald reported, at page A3 in an article written by Frank Davies entitled �Probers of Clinton pardons find paper trail frustrating,� that: Republican efforts to investigate the pardons may be losing some steam this week. Democrats on the House committee said they would like to pursue information in the George Bush Library in Texas on the former president�s pardons of Casper Weinberger and businessman Armand Hammer, a GOP contributor. Republicans counter that Clinton�s last-minute �pardons for cash� are worse, . . . [b]ut neither committee has scheduled any more hearings. �It is clear that the Bush-Cheney Administration and the Republicans in Congress have been blackmailed into doing nothing. It is �business as usual� between the two major political parties, and the loser is the American people,� stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman. | |