“can’t pardon Gonzo or Libby or Schloz or Yoo or any of the people involved in the torture chain-of-command, because doing so would remove the 5th amendment protection and obligate those people to testify about their complicity in committing war crimes. And once we get on that bus, it only stops at the end of the line.”
Comment by tekel – 1/20/09

Bush Pardon Party Goes Out With a Whimper (Wall Street Journal, 1/20/09)
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2009/01/20/bush-pardon-party-goes-out-with-a-whimper/