Posted on 01/13/2007 12:59:21 PM PST by doug from upland
Jersey judge up for circuit court post Hillman is expected to be Bush's nominee Tuesday, January 09, 2007 BY ROBERT COHEN STAR-LEDGER WASHINGTON BUREAU WASHINGTON -- President Bush is expected to nominate Noel Hillman, a longtime prosecutor and a newly appointed federal judge in New Jersey, to an opening on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Reliable political sources said Hillman is currently undergoing a background investigation needed before he can be formally nominated to fill the federal appeals court seat vacated a year ago by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. "It's pretty close. It's what the White House wants to do," said one knowledgeable source who asked not to be identified.
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Go figure...
January 9, 2007
The Clinton Cabal Rules At the Justice Dept Office of Public Integrity: Another “Fox in the Hen House”
Filed under: Hillary Clinton — Peter Paul @ 4:36 pm
Well, its Deja Vous all over again! The Government Reform Committee has now discovered how far Mr. Noel Hillman went to protect the Clintons in his abuse of his authority as the Chief Justice Department official responsible for investigating and prosecuting public corruption by elected and appointed public officials.
Without a recommendation from the Chief of the Public Integrity Office, the Attorney General of the U.S. will not prosecute any politically related crime! This policy was articulated by the Chief of the Criminal Division of the Attorney General’s office in 2005.
The same Noel Hillman who supervised the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s 2000 campaign finance frauds from 2001-2005, and indicted and prosecuted the lowest level functionary in Hillary’s campaign, finance director David Rosen, pinning the rap on him to protect Hillary and Bill Clinton’s role in the affair, has now been outed by the Chairman of the House Oversight and Govt Reform Committee as a partisan protector of the Sandy Berger- Bill Clinton conspiracy to erase the truth about their mishandling of pre 9-11 Osama Bin Laden - Al Queda threats.
Where was the Oversight and Reform Committee when the FEC investigation concluded, and obtained an admission from, Hillary’s campaign treasurer Andrew Grossman knowingly filed three false reports hiding more than $800,000 in contributions to Hillary’s 2000 Senate campaign from Peter Paul? If they would have studied the FEC General Counsel Reports they would have learned that Hillary’s finance director David Rosen, had no legal obligation at all to file reports, true or false, about contributions to Hillary’s campaign and should never have been indicted and tried for that offense on his own.
The FEC concluded that it was Hillary’s treasurer that had knowingly filed the three false FEC reports that Hillman charged Mr Rosen with, and a jury acquitted him of when Hillman’s case made no sense. Rosen never signed any reports to the FEC and had no legal responsibility to file any reports with the FEC. While Rosen’s boss, campaign treasurer Grossman, testified at Rosen’s trial in May, 2005, that he never heard of any fundraising event costing more than $1 million, he admitted in December, 2005 to the FEC that he knowingly hid more than $800,000 of the more than $1.2 million that Paul paid for Hillary’s largest fundraiser.
How could Mr. Hillman ignore in good conscience Rosen’s boss’ admission to the FEC to the very crimes Rosen was indicted and tried for by the Justice Department (which the jury itself concluded was accomplished by Rosen’s higher ups) ? How could Hillman explain that his investigation resulted in Rosen’s indictment and exonnerated Grossman and Grossman’s boss, Hillary? The answer is Hillman didnt have to account to anyone for his actions. Membership in the Clinton Cabal ensures immunity from the Rule of Law, whether you are the malfeasor or the protector.
Clinton Cabal founding member Sandy Berger has demonstrated that even with a Republican Congress and a Republican Justice Department, the Clinton Cabal Immunity works perfectly well.
On Jan 9, 2007 - Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Tom Davis (R-VA) released the following statement on a committee report that sheds important new light on Sandy Berger’s theft of classified documents from the National Archives. The report makes it clear that the full extent of Mr. Berger’s document removal can never be known, and consequently the Department of Justice could not assure the 9/11 Commission that it received all responsive documents to which Mr. Berger had access.
“My staff’s investigation reveals that President Clinton’s former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger compromised national security much more than originally disclosed,” Davis said. “It is now also clear that Mr. Berger was willing to go to extraordinary lengths to compromise national security, apparently for his own convenience
“The public statements of the former chief of the public integrity section, Noel Hillman, were incomplete and misleading. Because Mr. Berger had access to original documents that he could have taken without detection, we do not know if anything “was lost to the public or the process”
The Justice Department’s (Noel Hillman’s) assertion that Mr. Berger’s statements are credible after being caught is misplaced. One wouldnt rely on the fox to be truthful after being nabbed in the hen house. But the Justice Department (Noel Hillman) apparently did.”
Mr. Hillman’s unquestioned reliance on “truthful foxes” was showcased with the “mother of all foxes”, when Mrs Clinton herself , according to her attorney David Kendall, “fully cooperated” with Hillman’s investigation of her 2000 campaign finance frauds. Her “cooperation” confirmed to Hillman that she had no involvement whatsoever in inducing Peter Paul to become her largest contributor and then hiding that fact from the Washington Post before her first Senate election victory, and from the FEC for the next five years. During that time Hillary obstructed an OIG, FEC and Grand Jury investigation into the affair and caused the filing of false reports to the FEC and a false sworn declaration in her civil fraud suit in California.
Hopefully the Reform Committee will continue to look into Mr Hillman’s abuse of his office and the role Hillary and Bill played in obstructing the latest investigations of their conduct.
Congressman Billybob
Hitlary FBI Files BumP
This looks like confirmation of what we rumoured the last two weeks i.e. that Bush was going to give up on the judges fight.
Starting to be disappointed by President Bush.
new tone jive until the bitter end. Which thank heavens is near for him. Maybe now the crap about strong leader ship will give way to the realization that bush is stuck on stupid. Yes ,it is that simple.
Starting?
Hillman personally argued on behalf of the corrupt Bush Justice Department for probation and a $10,000 fine for that thieving scumbag Sandy Berger. Even a puzzled and reluctant Judge Deborah Robinson couldn't stomach the plea deal and, in a token gesture, boosted the fine to $50,000.
The Hillman nomination must be killed.
A couple hours ago I alerted Peter Paul about this possible appointment. Hillman is not going to get a free ride here. We need to cause him some grief.
Ping to this unfathomable disgrace.
I just don't understand anything anymore.
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You don't want to miss this.
Some grief? This p.o.s. Hillman should be in a cell next to Berger.
I sure hope you're wearing your flame retardant undies today. LOL When the bots show up, me thinks you're going to be needing it. ;o)
I think I'm going to throw up.
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