Posted on 12/17/2003 3:58:35 PM PST by truthandlife
So, who appointed U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman, the guy who wants would-be presidential assassin John Hinckley Jr. to run around loose? Bill Clinton, of course.
We suspected as much even before doing our research. According to the federal courts' Web site, Friedman won his appointment in 1994.
Oh, and he was "Associated Independent Counsel for the Iran-Contra investigation from 1987 to 1988."
The Washington Times reported in July 1999 that Friedman and the other seven judges appointed by Clinton to the U.S. District Court in Washington "meet privately every month in closed-door sessions that other jurists believe are improper and call into question the court's impartiality."
One veteran courthouse official familiar with the sessions told the Times: "I cannot imagine any legitimate reason for them to meet together once a month, even socially. It's not only in bad taste, it certainly has the appearance of impropriety. It's hard to imagine any rationale for these meetings."
The Times reported: "Another court official said they 'reek with impropriety.' Concern among courthouse officials about the meetings, which are described in e-mail addressed monthly to each of the eight judges, comes at a time that Chief U.S. District Judge Norma Holloway Johnson is being publicly criticized for selectively assigning criminal cases against friends and associates of Mr. Clinton's to judges the president has appointed. None of the eight Clinton-appointed judges, all of whom were named to the bench between 1994 to 1998, would comment on the meetings or their content."
In Reagan's words. Very ironic quote at the end of the video.
They place modest bets on things like, "will Hinkley's first victim be a random target or someone he knows," "will he acquire his weapon from a liberal bleeding heart or steal/buy it from a cop," and, "how many shots will he pump into his first/second/third/etc. victim before he moves to the next?" Of course, each has a time dimension.
There has been a minor scandal. One of the Clintonista judges got caught cheeting (yeah, I know, who would have thunk it). He snuck into Hinkley's room and checked out the female movie stars in the posters in his room and made all his pool picks based on targets associated with her.
Hinkley is GUARNTEED trouble!!
Too bad he wasn't freed while Clinton was president after someone whispered in his ear what Billy Goat had been doing to Jodie.
Suppose this is another Arkicide in the making?
The security of our nation is not a sideshow in which corrupt political gamesmanship is played like it's recess in the schoolyard hour.
Following his arrest for possession of firearms in the Nashville airport, where he had followed Carter to a campaign stop, Hinckley's parents sent their youngest son to psychiatrist John Hopper. Hinckley was already taking prescribed antidepressants, and Hopper didn't detect mental illness; instead, he attributed Hinckley's problems to "emotional immaturity," recommending the Hinckleys cut off their son financially, which they did.
In April 2000 he won the right to unsupervised furloughs. The following month these rights were revoked when guards found in his room a smuggled book about Jodie Foster. (He is banned from having any material about the star.)
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