The Bush Cover-up

Why hasn't the mainstream media reported this coverup of the Bush Administration? Perhaps because Bush is covering for a scandal from former Democratic President Clinton's presidency.

The Bush administration blacked out almost all the information in hundreds of documents before releasing them to a conservative organization [Judicial Watch] looking into President Clinton's controversial pardons four years ago on his last day in office.

The only items not deleted from the material are the names of the person who wrote the document and the person it was sent to.

The Bush White House has argued that releasing pardon-related documents would have a chilling effect on internal discussions leading up to presidential action on such requests.

Among the 140 people Clinton pardoned on Jan. 20, 2001 was fugitive financier Marc Rich. Rich's wife, a Democratic fund-raiser, contributed $450,000 to Clinton's presidential library foundation and more than $100,000 to Hillary Rodham Clinton's U.S. Senate campaign.

While I respect the Bush Administration's desire to maintain the powers of the Presidency, I would prefer to protect democracy by not allowing a president to sell pardons to the highest bidder. As Daily Pundit says,

Given who Clinton pardoned, and how and why he pardoned them, a "chilling effect" is far from the worst thing that could happen. Bush has, once again, disgraced himself while going to extraordinary lengths to protect his dad's touring buddy.

I think I have to agree, although I don't believe that Bush is disgracing himself as much as he's helping to save Clinton from such a fate. Would a [fill in Democrat here] Presidency in 2008 go to the same length to protect Bush? I think we know the answer to that already.