Posted on 11/07/2016 4:26:16 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March
Janet Reno was a wicked old hag.
I saw Janet Reno during congressional hearings.
She was the most uninspired repetitive stonewaller I ever heard in my life.
She kept repeating the same phrase, something along the lines:
“I cannot comment on this because it’s part of an ongoing investigation.”
She might have made a world record using that tactic.
Thanks to her the Clintons managed to steal billions from Haiti, sell watered down AIDS medication to third world countries, transfer 20 percent of our uranium mines to Russian ownership, etc.
Reno enabled that by being so corrupt back in the 90s when she should have spearheaded Bill Clinton's richly deserved impeachment over corruption other than the blue dress.
I will dig up what I can find about her.
I fear for her soul, but a true historian shows no mercy, especially to the likes of her.
2004
when innocent folks were burned to death in Waco I didn’t see Janet Reno stepping down.
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atomicpossum | 5/6/2004 | atomicpossum
when innocent folks were burned to death in Waco I didn’t see Janet Reno stepping down.
2004
Even Reno testified in support of maligned Patriot Act
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1121651/posts
Manchester Union Leader | April 21, 2004 | Rich Lowry
[And later she led the ACLU to sue against it as research above shows. I’m backtracking on the years.]
Maybe Kingsford™ could out a special edition charcoal briquette in honor of Janet Reno. A fitting tribute.
2004
Big Lie ...
Reno: Nothing kept FBI from sharing info
30 replies · 269+ views
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1117870/posts
[And what was the Gorelick Wall, pray tell? The memo that caused 9-11-01. And Gorelick was placed on the 9-11 Commission.]
To any liberal Virginians out there:
We both respect your right to vote on Super Wednesday.
Lieberman smacks the DNC, and no one responded to your thread?
Wow!
But you did get 86+ views.
2004
A Tale of Two Attorneys General
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1116176/posts
by George Liebmann
Oh ... Liebman.
I see.
[I’ll post the article to ‘all’ so as not to clog your pings.]
A Tale of Two Attorneys General
http://acuf.org/issues/issue9/040406gov.asp
Not since the arbitrary A. Mitchell Palmer, President Wilson’s last Attorney General, was succeeded by the corrupt Harry Daugherty in the Harding administration have the two parties united to so debase federal law enforcement.
Janet Reno, President Clinton’s third choice as Attorney General, carried out the swiftest partisan purge of U.S. Attorneys since that of the Kennedy administration. She supported renewal of the misguided special prosecutor law. At the behest of feminist groups, against the unanimous advice of the Judicial Conference, she secured adoption of Rule 415 of the Federal Rules of Evidence, allowing discovery of a defendant’s sexual history. Similarly, in Burlington Industries v Ellerth, her Justice Department urged on the Supreme Court a broadened definition of sexual harassment, repudiating that given by Judge Susan Wright in dismissing Paula Jones’s case against President Clinton. Thus an employment discrimination law was transformed into a device for defamation and blackmail. Ms. Reno then procrastinated throughout ensuing investigations.
Mrs. Clinton has said that the Danforth investigation of the Waco disaster found “no wrongdoing,” but former senator Danforth’s charge was to investigate only criminal behavior. One cannot picture Attorneys General Jackson, Biddle, or Levi giving such directions as Ms. Reno gave in that instance, nor can one picture them seeking to promote the agent responsible for the premature use of force at Ruby Ridge, as she did.
Regardless of one’s level of sympathy for the outcome of the Elian Gonzalez affair, in which a midnight order entered by a federal magistrate without notice was used to justify transfer of custody at gunpoint, the action was imprudent. Such controversies are generally resolved by litigated orders, and force, when used, is employed to incarcerate recalcitrant relatives, not to abduct the child.
At the behest of trial lawyers, Ms. Reno acceded to a veto of a product liability law and sought tobacco legislation to bestow billions on this Democratic constituency, an invitation to corruption.
She supported “hate crimes” legislation, resisted by Levi, which, by eliminating requirements that defendants intend to impair a federal right, would create what Justice Jackson described as a “shapeless and all-embracing statute . . . a dangerous instrument of political intimidation and coercion.”
In the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing (allegedly a retaliation for Waco), she sponsored a law including more than forty new federal death penalty offenses, making federal prosecutions the prosecutions of first resort, and attempted to relax prohibitions on military law enforcement.
Partly because of federal drug legislation, with its emphasis on supply rather than demand, and partly because of the “leveling upward” imposed by the Federal Sentencing Commission (whose guidelines specify minimum sentences in excess of the minimums provided by statute), the number of prisoners in federal custody doubled. The number of federal prosecutors has tripled since 1982.
Attorney General John Ashcroft carried forward the Reno policies. The 1968 drug legislation was invoked by both Reno and Ashcroft to preempt state “right to die” and “medical marijuana” laws, even though neither issue was debated in 1968, the Supreme Court left the “right to die” issue with state legislatures, and the laws concerned had been approved in referenda.
The Clinton legislation creating new federal death penalty offenses was invoked to seek the death penalty even in states in which it had been abolished; in New York City, in a case in which the experienced prosecutor Robert Morgenthau had declined to seek it; and in Puerto Rico, whose Constitution prohibited it. This posturing produced waste, since juries where public opinion does not support capital punishment are prone to acquit.
Terrorist acts have been exploited to alter procedure in cases having nothing to do with terrorism; such provisions were rendered temporary only because of Senate resistance. Detention without trial has been employed for American citizens, even though in both World War II and the War on Terrorism, citizen belligerents can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Although the Bush administration recognized that detained citizens retain the right to habeas corpus, they were denied access to counsel and held incommunicado. Needless opposition has been aroused by “pushing the envelope.”
U.S. Attorneys have been asked to report on judges departing from sentencing guidelines. New restraints on plea-bargaining prevent prosecutorial discretion, just as judicial discretion has already been greatly reduced. Mandatory sentences for nonviolent drug offenses are embraced, even as the states are repealing them.
The changes constrict the role of the judge and convert him into an automaton; the public respect in which law is held is endangered. Rigid sentencing guidelines, urged by law-and-order conservatives and liberals like Senator Kennedy, sacrifice liberty to equality.
It is inconceivable that Levi, Benjamin Civiletti, or Edwin Meese would have authorized the “bugging” of the office of a major elected official during an election campaign, an episode that has occasioned insufficient public outcry, though the voters of Philadelphia have rendered a decisive judgment on it.
Twelve years of questionable leadership have produced a drift toward a policing establishment controllable by no one. The federal share of total criminal justice spending has increased from 12 percent to 18 percent since 1982; proposed FBI spending is up 19 percent in one year, and up 60 percent over 2001 levels.
Justice Jackson cautioned that the “potentiality of a federal centralized police system for ultimate subversion of our system of free government is very great.”
The genuineness of Reno’s concern for minorities is not open to question, nor is the authenticity of Ashcroft’s alarm at deteriorating personal behavior. But during Prohibition, the nation’s last experience of pervasive federal law enforcement, Justice Brandeis cautioned that “the greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.” Except for the need to make it gender-neutral, that statement is as true now as it was then.
The public wants security, and will put up with mistakes in its cause. But when it senses that important values have been ignored, there is retribution. By the time the Supreme Court adjourns in June, it almost certainly will have embarrassed the administration by rejecting some of the extravagant claims for power made by it in the several terrorism cases the Court has significantly agreed to hear.
The Republicans lost the 1976 presidential election because of Watergate; the Democrats that of 2000 because of Clinton’s shoddiness. Even Lincoln paid a price in the 1862 congressional elections for arbitrary arrests. If the President makes no change in his Justice Department, he may also suffer such consequences.
George W. Liebmann is an attorney in Baltimore and the author of several books, including Six Lost Leaders: Prophets of Civil Society (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001), and Solving Problems Without Large Government: Devolution, Fairness and Equality (Praeger, 2000).
© 2003 American Conservative Union Foundation 1007 Cameron Street, Alexandria, VA 22314 Tel: 703.836.8602
2004 — somewhat connected to Reno I think.
Jamie Gorelick in the Hot Seat
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Republican staffers on the 9-11 Commission are looking for a way to place commission member Jamie Gorelick before the body she sits on to explain the Clinton Justice Department’s seeming lack of interest in counter-terrorism activities.
[Yes — very confusing. Gorelick was on the wrong side of the table. The Gorelick Wall prevented us from stopping the 9-11 attack, but she was part of the 9-11 commission. Democrats have their quaint little ways.]
According to a Republican commission staffer, some are outraged at the continued leaks by Democrats on the commission, which are being coordinated to embarrass upcoming members of the Bush Administration set to testify before the commission. The latest example was a memo from the spring of 2001 issued by the Department of Justice, with newly confirmed Attorney General John Ashcroft signing off on it ...
Year 2004
“Blue Skies and Green Lights” In the Clinton era, Porn Flourished
11 replies · 62+ views
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1091492/posts
So Reno didn’t think porn was a big deal I take it.
If Babs opens our mouth about Reno, what about Ronald Reagan?
Barbra Streisand: The new Janet Reno [confusing headline]
26 replies · 169+ views
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1031210/posts
An e-mail pen pal from Illinois suggested I write an editorial commemorating my fateful meeting 10 years ago with President Bill Clinton’s Attorney General Janet Reno in the Ulysses S. Grant suite of the Willard Hotel in Washington D.C. During that fateful meeting in November 1993, Reno demanded government control of primetime television. That’s blatantly unconstitutional.
After mulling over what has happened to Reno since then — Parkinson’s disease, her loss in the Florida Democratic primary campaign, and her dubious achievement award for being listed as number seven in the year-end “Whacko” list — I felt it would be unfair to pick on her anymore.
However, Barbra Streisand obligingly made herself a target by coming out of the gate with her version of The Reagans’ story. By all accounts, she is the new Janet Reno, kicking a man when he’s down and, in an editorial, portraying herself as the victim of censorship following CBS’ decision to cancel the controversial mini-series. [snip]
Dog posted this back in 2003
AP: FBI Sent Hamas Money in Clinton Days
JOHN SOLOMON Associated Press WASHINGTON
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/996224/posts
[And Janet Reno approved it.]
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While President Clinton was trying to broker an elusive peace between Israelis and Palestinians, the FBI was secretly funneling money to suspected Hamas figures to see if the militant group would use it for terrorist attacks, according to interviews and court documents. The counterterrorism operation in 1998 and 1999 was run out of the FBI’s Phoenix office in cooperation with Israeli intelligence and was approved by Attorney General Janet Reno, FBI officials told The Associated Press. Several thousand dollars in U.S. money was sent to suspected...
2002
Reno speaks [Washington Times]
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/628494/posts
That paragon of rectitude and competence, former Attorney General Janet Reno, disapproves of the way her successor, John Ashcroft, is doing his job. Speaking to university students in Minnesota Monday, Miss Reno suggested that Mr. Ashcroft had questioned the patriotism of critics of the Bush administration’s conduct of the war on terror. “It is important that we bring people to justice according to the principles of our Constitution,” Miss Reno declared. “The day we start giving up our freedoms, the bad guys have won.”
[Just the opposite happened in more ways than one. Reno led a lawsuit to give foreign terrorists the same rights as US citizens — in some ways more rights. Even though she supported the Patriot Act. And she got her way. Now look at how the war on terror has been going. A disaster.]
2003 again?
Year lineup flawed somehow.
Ha, such a horrible vanity! My son is all grown up and voting for trump.
Year 2003
Ashcroft bars gay pride event at Justice Dept.
77 replies · 474+ views
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/924823/posts
[Totally at odds with Reno’s appointees.]
The Idiot’s Guide to Chinagate
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/917940/posts
Possibly the most damaging Clinton scandal of all!
And this thread has the goods on it.
Not much evidence she had one.
For those who want to dig even deeper into her past, I stopped the key word search to her name here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/janetreno/index?more=687578
To backtrack, just go down each page and hit ‘next page’. When you stop, please just leave the last web address here for someone else to take up the torch.
And please ping me. I'm curious if anyone else has the gumption.
When you study Reno, you study Clinton Corruption.
Synonymous.
I like Reno, I live here...
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