On the matter of the presidential pardon being used at any time to halt the investigation of this administration and its co-conspirators, such a pardon does not protect a person from giving future testimony to a grand jury, petit jury or the congress under the penalty of perjury for false statements. Moreover, a pardoned individual cannot raise a legitimate fifth amendment defense against self-incrimination with respect to the pardoned acts, but must testify truthfully to all that is known as one under a grant of prosecutorial immunity.
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February 9, 2007 at 9:52 am
Wow. Good to know. I thought a presidential pardon got you off scott-free. So we would be able to find out what they did, but not be able to do anything about it. Damn…
February 9, 2007 at 10:37 am
Well, yeah otherwise George and Dick could just pardon one another in succession and then resign and run away to Paraguay to live in happy happy insaneland.
February 9, 2007 at 10:38 am
Of course I do not mean that you are insane, Ellroon.