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Re:Edward Snowden makes 'moral' case for presidential pardon by nabla9 on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @08:32AM (#12487532)
Carter's pardon for draft dodgers was preemptive pardon for hundreas of thousands of fugitives, many of them who left the country. 50,000 never returned even after pardon.

There has been some other preemptive pardons: pardons for Richard Nixon and Caspar Weinberger at least.

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Re:Edward Snowden makes 'moral' case for presidential pardon by tptacek on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @08:34AM (#12487548)
Preemptive pardons are definitely not without precedent.
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Re:Edward Snowden makes 'moral' case for presidential pardon by tanderson92 on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @09:05AM (#12487799)
The point was that preemptive pardons for fugitives is also not without precedent, as you claimed.
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Re:Edward Snowden makes 'moral' case for presidential pardon by tptacek on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @09:06AM (#12487807)
Neither Nixon nor Weinberger were fugitives. Also: see rest of thread.
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Re:Edward Snowden makes 'moral' case for presidential pardon by nabla9 on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @09:17AM (#12487892)
My comment used Carter as the example of pardoning fugitives preemptively.

https://www.justice.gov/pardon/proclamation-4483-granting-pa...

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Re:Edward Snowden makes 'moral' case for presidential pardon by tanderson92 on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @09:13AM (#12487857)
Correct! It is fortunate then that the poster mentioned Carter's pardons.
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