When is executive wrongdoing appropriately a matter for criminal prosecution and when is prosecution unfair? In his pardon message, President Bush called referred to the “criminalization of foreign policy.” Senator Hatch, who expressed his disapproval of the NSC running covert operations and his disapproval of the diversion of funds, nevertheless made it clear that he did not think that Col. North should be prosecuted. Hatch worried that “sticklers in the law” would want "pursue the last pound of flesh.”