HILL DUCKS LIBBY ISSUE
By IAN BISHOP November 12, 2005 -- WASHINGTON — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is staying silent as top Democratic senators demand President Bush rule out a pardon for indicted top White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby — which could evoke memories of her and her husband's own Pardongate scandal.
Party leaders — including fellow New York Sen. Charles Schumer — have written a letter to Bush urging that he promise not to pardon Libby, who has been charged with obstruction of justice and perjury in the CIA-leak case.
But Clinton has ducked taking a position on the letter.
Asked yesterday by The Post if she agrees with her party's anti-pardon offensive, Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines said only, "If I have anything for you on this, I will let you know."
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Sen. Clinton herself came under fire when feds investigated whether she offered clemency to four men from the Hasidic village of New Square in exchange for the community's votes in her 2000 Senate run.
She has denied playing a role in the men's pardons.
No, she left it up to her brother...
To paraphrase Michael Irvin of the Dallas Cowboys...back when he was being accused of drug use...
"I hope that when I am exonerated you will report THAT with the same intensity that you have reported my supposed guilt..the SAME INTENSITY...."
In that same vein....I hope that if Clinton does become the dandidate or heaven forbid the POTUS, I hope the press goes after HER with the SAME INTENSITY...as to her opinions, and apologies...that they have with President Bush...
But, alas, just like with Michael Irvin, there will be no intense srutiny of La Hillary....she should be "forced" to answer these questions...and not be able to dodge them, if she considers herself a legitimate candidate for Senator...let alone POTUS!