Will Bush Pardon Himself?
Kenneth Roth has been executive director of Human Rights Watch since 1993. Before joining HRW as deputy director in 1987, he was a federal prosecutor for both the US attorney's office for the Southern District of New York and the Iran-Contra investigation in Washington.
No president, not even Richard Nixon, has ever pardoned himself. George Bush shouldn't be the first to try it.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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