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- From: porges@beretta.camb.inmet.com (Don Porges)
- Subject: Re: George Bush pardons criminals
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.211224.25932@inmet.camb.inmet.com>
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- References: <1992Dec30.213641.12543@panix.com> <bhayden.725784933@teal> <1992Dec31.102246.6188@eff.org>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 21:12:24 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec31.102246.6188@eff.org> mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin) writes:
- >In article <bhayden.725784933@teal> bhayden@teal.csn.org (Bruce Hayden) writes:
- >
- >
- >
- >>Where is the ACLU here. They should be up in arms about this
- >
- >Many civil libertarians, including me, are concerned about the problems
- >raised by compelling testimony before Congress. Given that Walsh could not
- >order Congress *not* to conduct hearings, it seems to me that North's
- >prosecutors did everything humanly possible to prevent compelled testimony
- >from affecting the case. Don't forget that they had a greater interest in
- >achieving this result than Brendan Sullivan did; the prosecutors wanted
- >any convictions to survive an appeal.
-
- In fact, just to be clear: where the ACLU is (well, was) on this, was
- in court, filing a friend-of-the-court brief in North's defense.
- Something to remember when anyone calls the ACLU a liberal-only group
- (and, of course, "the criminals' lobby").
- --
- -- Don Porges
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