Posted on 11/20/2008 7:01:52 PM PST by george76
New Year's Eve, 1982...New York Police Department's elite bomb squad rushed to headquarters at One Police Plaza, where minutes earlier an explosion had destroyed the entrance to the building.
A total of four bombs exploded in a single hour on that night, including at FBI headquarters in Manhattan and the federal courthouse in Brooklyn.
The perpetrators were members of ... FALN ... Its members waged war on America with bombings, arson, kidnappings, prison escapes, threats and intimidation. The most gruesome attack was the 1975 Fraunces Tavern bombing in Lower Manhattan. Timed to go off during the lunch-hour rush...
FALN bragged about the bloodbath... By 1996, the FBI had linked FALN to 146 bombings and a string of armed robberies -- a reign of terror that resulted in nine deaths and hundreds of injured victims.
On Aug. 7, 1999, the one-year anniversary of the U.S. African embassy bombings that killed 257 people and injured 5,000, President Bill Clinton reaffirmed his commitment to the victims of terrorism, vowing that he "will not rest until justice is done."
Four days later, while Congress was on summer recess, the White House quietly issued a press release announcing that the president was granting clemency to 16 imprisoned members of FALN.
Hillary Rodham Clinton was in the midst of her state-wide "listening tour" in anticipation of her run for the U.S. Senate in New York, a state which included 1.3 million Hispanics.
While the pardon scandals that marked Bill and Hillary Clinton's final days in office are remembered as transactions involving cronies, criminals and campaign contributors, the FALN clemencies of 1999 should be remembered in the context of the increasing threat of domestic and transnational terrorism that was ramping up during the Clinton years ...
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
Eric Holder was “a driving force” behind Bill Clinton’s pardons of FALN members.
FALN threatened Judge Thomas McMillen’s life during their trial in Chicago and remained unrepentant in prison.
http://pardonpower.com/2008/08/campaign-08-more-on-eric-holder.html
As the deputy attorney general, Eric Holder was responsible for signing off on all clemency matters forwarded to the President, and in this case he recommended that clemency be granted — despite vehement opposition from the FBI, the Bureau of Prisons, and his own Justice Department ...
Indeed, rather than consult with attack victims and their families, Mr. Holder instead met privately with members of Congress and recommended what the FALN members should do to facilitate a grant of presidential clemency.
This is the big CHANGE the voters have been looking for? How sad.
Long time, how are you?
Eric Holder is not qualified to be an U. S. Attorney not alone The Attorney General of the United States!
You got that right. This is just a sick joke, right? Please?
The DUmmies and KOS kids must be going nuts.
Seems like most posts are going to Clinton re-treads.
Yes. Some change...The messiah is clueless and no doubt having problems sleeping now.
First Ayers, now Holder.
All the times Clinton sat and shook his finger at us, while he made horrible decisions. I hope he feels shame before his life ends.
Perhaps President Bush will make some WISE pardons soon.
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Oddly the FALN terrorist bombers never applied for pardons
Eric Holder met with FALN supports and pushed throught the pardons - I’d venture to get more hispanic voters for democrats
It’s going to be a Chocolate Cabinet with little vanilla sprinkles
Bubba probably got a good payoff. I never kept up with all the intricate details of that so can't make many comments about it.
Loved your little risque comment. I shall send a hacksaw baked in the cake...
Some refused to apologize to get a clemency that they never requested.
My 13 year old son saw the picture of Elian and the men with the balaclava, sub gun and goggles.. and asked, "Where was this... in the United States?"
I told him, "yep, when liberals want something the law doesn't matter and neither is common decency." I told him how his mother drowned trying to get him to freedom and that the democrats took a young boy and gave him back to the communist.
It was a great learning experience. I could tell he was thinking about it and we talked about what freedom is.
My 13 year old son saw the picture of Elian and the men with the balaclava, sub gun and goggles.. and asked, "Where was this... in the United States?"
I told him, "yep, when liberals want something the law doesn't matter and neither is common decency." I told him how his mother drowned trying to get him to freedom and that the democrats took a young boy and gave him back to the communist.
It was a great learning experience. I could tell he was thinking about it and we talked about what freedom is.
Eric Holder is a political hack. He has proven he will serve only the interest of his “masters” and certainly not those of the “people”. Holder will never be trusted to do the right thing in-lieu of the politically expedient thing.
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