In a warm up to his annual pardoning of turkeys in honor of Thanksgiving, the president has been less forgiving to another bird: the bald eagle.Instead, he has pardoned Leslie Owen Collier, who was convicted of killing three bald eagles, via a misdirected attempt to use poisoned hamburger meat to kill coyotes.
Bush has also granted pardons to several convicted of bank fraud and Daniel Figh Pue III who, according to the Associated Press, was "convicted of illegal treatment, storage and disposal of a hazardous waste without a permit."
This pardon simultaneously says it's ok to kill endangered species andtakes aim at our national symbol. You might say he's killing two birds with one stone.
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