The following excerpts, food for thought, are from a New Jersery Jewish News Editorial (Rich Pardon Fallout/Bill Clinton's Defense 02/22/01).
Holder: "I am opposed, for instance, to a pardon for Jonathan Pollard," Holder said, trying to explain why he was swayed by Barak's endorsement of the Rich pardon. "And yet if the granting of the pardon had somehow led to Middle East peace, something that the Israeli government had requested, that might be something to take into account."
Wilson didn't object. "That I understand, and that's fair enough," he said.
Makes you wonder why no one advanced that argument.