{"id":180896,"date":"2016-11-30T18:36:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T23:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/11\/30\/liar\/"},"modified":"2016-11-30T18:36:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T23:36:00","slug":"liar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/11\/30\/liar\/","title":{"rendered":"Liar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama said that <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2016\/11\/obama-says-he-cant-pardon-snowden\/\">he can\u2019t pardon Edward Snowden because he has not been presented before a judge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a blatant and transparent lie.<\/p>\n<p>The President&#8217;s powers with regard to federal offenses are very broad.<\/p>\n<p>They can grant clemency on a whim.&nbsp; The person need not to have been charged, nor do the offenses need to be specified.<\/p>\n<p>Just witness Gerald Ford&#8217;s pardon of Richard Nixon, and George H.W. Bush&#8217;s self-serving pardons of his Iran Contra co-conspirators.<\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">Worst Constitutional Law Professor Ever<\/span><\/b><sup>\u2122<\/sup><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama said that he can\u2019t pardon Edward Snowden because he has not been presented before a judge. This is a blatant and transparent lie. The President&#8217;s powers with regard to federal offenses are very broad. They can grant clemency on a whim.&nbsp; The person need not to have been charged, nor do the offenses &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[817],"class_list":["post-180896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}