Posted on 12/17/2004 3:24:06 PM PST by Libloather
WND AT THE WHITE HOUSE
Is Pardongate probe dead?
Spokesman asked about Marc Rich/Bill Clinton investigation
Posted: December 17, 2004
5:21 p.m. Eastern
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By Les Kinsolving
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
At today's White House news briefing, WND asked presidential press secretary Scott McClellan about the Pardongate investigation and airline security.
WND: Scott, since Page 1 of this morning's Washington Times reports a federal grand jury investigation – they're investigating Marc Rich's role in the U.N. oil-for-food scandal – why isn't it time for the president to nudge the U.S. attorney for the seventh district of New York to complete the criminal investigation of Bill Clinton's Pardongate nearly four years ago, and his pardoning Rich, the fugitive? And I have a follow up.
McCLELLAN: Les, those are matters for the proper authorities to handle, not the White House.
WND: Presuming that the president wants our federal air marshals to be effective on board planes, why hasn't he fired Federal Air Marshal Service Director Thomas Quinn for refusing to allow air marshals to dress undercover rather than in mandated suits, which led a passenger on a flight from Chicago to Miami to announce, "Oh, I see we have air marshals on board"? Isn't the president concerned about –
McCLELLAN: I see you have a strong opinion on this matter. I think that you might want to go to the Department of Homeland Security and ask for their views on these matters.
WND: I want to know what the president –
McCLELLAN: The president puts in place a Department of Homeland Security and other people to implement the policies that they feel are best for the government and – on matters like this.
If the playing field were equal, sure. We on the Right have daily to climb the Matterhorn, while those in the lofty Ivory Towers above pelt us with flying Monty Python cattle such as Algore, Hitlary, Jesse Jackson, James Carville and Al Sharpton.
But we have a secret plan (shhhhhh!) to attack them in their Achilles Heel, where they are absolutely without defense: WE TELL THE TRUTH!
and we keep on telling it....
and telling it.....
and telling it.....
and telling it.....
I said this about 4 years ago. Bill Clinton took money from the Rich's and he pardoned the guy. That is bribery any way you define it. BUT neither Bill or what's her name will ever do 1 day in jail or even suffer the slightest discomfort for these crimes. Not gonna happen. Bush has no backbone and the game is long ago over. Nothing to see here, keep moving.
Pardongate, Rathergate, Sandy Burglargate........ they all have something in common, they just seem to fade away.
Indeed.
Having noted McClellan is absolutely correct, I hope pardongate IS still open. I happen to think it is.
And I think it's fascinating that so many are calling not just on a change in the air marshall program, but demanding Quinn be fired.
Seems like an extreme action to me and they have failed to buttress their call for his head in any reasonable way.
"Pardongate, Rathergate, Sandy Burglargate........ they all have something in common, they just seem to fade away."
Those stories only go away if we LET the MSM get away with it...and LET our elected officials and appointed officials get away with it. We must hammer, hammer, hammer home the demands for investigation with the deadly tenacity the Democrats do in their demanding recount after recount.
REMEMBER THE ALGOREAMO--relentlessly hammer on the TRUTH, like the Dems demand recounts, until WE get OUR way!
I think I may have just come up with my next tagline...
I think it's true that it's none of Bush's business to interfere in these matters. It's one of the things I objected to about clinton: that he took vindictive pleasure in intervening in matters like this, siccing the FBI, the SEC, the FCC, or the IRS on people that displeased him, and generally acting as if the law was his private tool for vengeance.
I DO very strongly fault the press for not taking any interest in these matters. They are completely failing to do their basic job.
The time to deal with Rich and Clinton was four years ago.
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