[Mo1]

Investigators are looking into a series of deals that took place in the months after his pardon from Clinton.

We'll be paying for years to come with what Clinton did

BTW ... What is Raiddy up to these days?

[prairiebreeze]

In January 2001, in the final hours his presidency, Clinton bypassed law-enforcement and intelligence agencies to wipe the books clean for Rich after being subjected to intense lobbying from former Israel Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Rich's jet-setting ex-wife, Denise, who donated more than $1 million to Democratic campaigns — including Sen. Hillary Rodham's first Senate race — along with an additional $450,000 to Clinton's library fund

There's the tie to Beestie. And what the heck was Barak's interest in setting Rich free?

[Peach]

This starts my day out sweetly and makes my tagline all the more appropriate.

Does anyone know if the networks have touched this story and made mention of Clinton's pardon?

[AFPhys]

Thanks for the ping to this most important story.

By the way, Mo: I think you ought to add Alamo-Girl to your ping list for these type of stories. You seem to be there fast on many of them.

The 'Toon legacy just keeps on giving. As you all know, over six years ago (before Monica) I was repeating "it is going to take us thirty years to recover from the Clinton years" - and that after we only knew about his giveaway (via Loral) of satellite staging and encryption technology to Red China, allowing Boeing to sell them the advanced milling machines needed to produce (for example) super quiet submarines, and the total lack of attention to the India-Pakistan situation that failed to follow through with the Reagan and even the Carter legacy of discouraging their joining the "nuclear club". President Bush has been able to purge much of his other eggregious sullying of the office especially to the Office itself and respect for the military. However, since that time, the obvious results of an increasing number of his failures (including North Korea, OBL and the Intel Community) have come to light, some of which we didn't have solid information about five years ago.

The Ninety's were a total disaster for this country's foreign policy objectives.

This, in all honesty, ought to be tried in a Court of the UN somehow, or even the I.C.C., though the US is not a party to that. That body could really bring heat on Rich and his buddies. Since he has not set foot in the US since 2001, anything our government does against him personally is probably not bound to be very effective.