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...House Government Reform Committee, under the leadership of longtime Clinton foe Dan Burton, began official hearings into the Marc Rich pardon on February 8. Since then, the committee has subpoenaed nearly everyone and everything involved in the Rich case - from ex-wife Denise Rich, who took the Fifth, to contribution records for the Clinton Library Foundation, which have been slow to emerge from behind a stubborn stonewall...
...Orrin Hatch's Judiciary Committee launched its Marc Rich hearings on Valentine's Day. The senators plowed through testimony from Rich lawyer Jack Quinn, former U.S. pardon attorney Roger Adams and former deputy attorney general Eric Holder. The heavyweights were joined by legions of legal experts, who mulled over potential procedural misconduct inherent in Clinton's last-minute pardons. No further hearings are scheduled at this time. Does that mean it's all over? Friday afternoon, TIME.com asked one Patrick Leahy staffer that very same question. "Oh, no," he said. "Definitely...
...White's office, in partnership with the FBI, has already dedicated a full week to a probe of all the presidential pardons - including, but not limited to, the Marc Rich debacle. That investigation began February 15 - and no one expects a sprint to the finish...
Sure, Clinton pardoned Marc Rich, a tax evader whose ex-wife donated tons to the Democratic Party and the Clinton library, but what kind of guy do you expect him to pardon? Republican carjackers who snubbed him in high school? Pardons by tradition are given to guilty people you like or at least served as Vice President under. And the argument that Rich didn't deserve a pardon because he never served any time is simply untrue. This guy was married for 25 years to the woman who wrote Sister Sledge's Frankie, which contains the lines "You walked...
...Clinton's pardon of Marc Rich stinks, then how much greater is the stench of President Bush's proposed tax giveaway of $1.6 trillion, most of which will go to the wealthiest Americans? Bush's proposed tax cut is 32,000 times as great as Rich's $50 million tax swindle. In essence, Bush wants to save thousands of Marc Riches from the tiresome chore of having to cheat on their taxes. JOE HEAPHEY Greencastle...