Posted on 03/07/2008 5:58:52 PM PST by STARWISE
More than a thousand pages covering pardons granted by former president Bill Clinton during his final days in office have been withheld from the public.
Archivists at the Clinton Presidential Library decided to keep the papers out of a larger batch recently released because they covered confidential discussions with advisers.
Included in the more than 2800 documents that have been made public, letters in support of fugitive financier Marc Rich and his partner, both of whom were pardoned by Clinton.
The delays by the library in releasing documents have led to sharp criticism of Clinton and former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.
A spokeswoman for the National Archives, which runs the library, now says they may have misinterpreted a 2002 letter from the former president in which he left instructions on which pardon documents should be made public.
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If Obama is the Messiah they say he is. He should have a hundred thousand people march on the Clinton library and hod it under seige until the documents are released!
What does any of it matter? Why even bother starting this thread? They can do anything they want and get away with it, just as they always have. We whine and whine about it-and then-we reward them and keep them alive politically. America had its one fleeting chance to be free of the swine forever last Tuesday, and what seemed like half the FReepers in Texas and Ohio crossed over and voted for these scum, after listening to the ‘brilliant strategy’ of ‘conservative’ talk show hosts who want to sell more books. Get ready for eight more years. All because a lot of people apparently forgot the first eight-or how they always land on their feet.
You mean the same Mark Levin who told people to vote for them last week?
This will make McCain, by process of elimination, look like the only honest one running, not tied to any illegal activity of any kind.....Yes, the Keating Five will, again, be overlooked at our expense.
I bet billionaire crooks everywhere are salivating at the thought of her becoming president.
As far as I’m concerned, the jury’s still out on that tactic. That said, I’m fundamentally against such tactics and IMO the parties should take steps to eliminate them.
His friends contributed $56,000 for Senator McCain's two House races in 1982 and 1984, and $54,000 for his 1986 Senate race. Didn't cost us a dime, in fact probably saved us money/airplane trip ;)
Senate Select Committee on Ethics concluded: "The Committee concludes that Senator McCain's actions were not improper nor attended with gross negligence and did not reach the level of requiring institutional action against him. The Committee finds that Senator McCain took no further action after the April 9, 1987 meeting when he learned of a criminal referral. "
"The Committee reaffirms its prior decision that it does not have jurisdiction to determine the issues of disclosure or reimbursement pertaining to flights provided by American Continental Corporation while Senator McCain was a Member of the House of Representatives. The Committee did consider the effect of such on his state of mind and judgment in taking steps to assist Lincoln.
"Senator McCain has violated no law of the United States or specific Rule of the United States Senate; therefore, the Committee concludes that no further action is warranted with respect to Senator McCain on the matters investigated during the preliminary inquiry."
Investigation fini. Clinton/Peter Paul and Obama/Rezko, however present day media illegal fund raising attention more likely to take precedent.
Old Alumni vs the New Pledgie: Barack "Barry" Hussein Obama, Jr., #23.
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There’s a lot of dirt on her that’s been witheld. Remember a while back the Barrett (or was it the Burnett) Report that she had kept under wraps? I wonder if that was ever released. She also held back her college thesis.
PLUS, Hillary;s two fat, CROOKED brothers each got $200,000 for pardons for other criminals!!!!! The RODHAMS are the WORST family ever in politics!!
And don't forget about the pardon for the HASIDIC JEWS that STOLE MILLIONS from that school.....they all got pardons and then the ENTIRE COMMUNITY oted for Hillary when they normally vote Republican!!! CROOKS.....the Clintons ONLY KNOW CROOKS!
The Committee finds that Senator McCain took no further action after the April 9, 1987 meeting when he learned of a criminal referral. “... Exactly. And I quit shooting after my lawyer said I could be charged with murder. The man is scum.
"From the Yazoo land fraud of the 1790s to the Savings and Loan scandals of the 1980s, "organized crime" in America has involved "respectable" people. It is a social phenomenon, an integral part of American life, and, paradoxically, not at all a threat to the existing order.6If America, the beacon of liberty and democracy, can live with its "organized crime"for all its moralistic crusades against alcohol, drugs, prostitution, and "organized crime" itselfthen perhaps other countries, including Russia, can, too. A second lesson is that the Prohibitionand any prohibition of economic activity will have this same effectprovided organized crime with a golden opportunity to penetrate the legitimate economy. Woodiwiss is also going against the current when he refers to criminal groups as networks (170, 202, and 381). The partnerships even of Americas most famous criminal, Al Capone, he correctly points out, were not hierarchical; gangsters are hustlers, not bureaucrats (Woodiwiss, 2001: 196). Once installed in the political system and the economy, by whatever means, organized crime is impossible to extract"........"politicians' are able to control organized crime from the top, and to exploit it like a "cash cow"--a source of hard currency, investment and development funds, campaign financing, and personal enrichment..."
Obama, or anyone with early aspirations of holdling high political office, probably has a careful motto laid out: Do not have your picture taken with anyone but "trustworthy friends and relatives", to the most careful degree possible. The Clintons, perhaps more recklessly egotistical, have always posed for any photo opportunity, like they are almost oblivious to how that photo might appear later, innocent or not. A picture in the beginning often seems like an agreement to sign on for future political thank yous-campaign fund raising.
All politicians brush elbows with some kind of unscrupulous messenger of a given criminal activity at some time or other in their careers. Politicians have to eventually pay off the I.O.U's that have gotten them where they are. One point General McPeak (now military adviser to Obama) said when he first met Barack Hussein Obama,Jr, was that Obama was upset over the amount of money it took to just enter into a presidential race. Money makes and controls power. Your donation to your favorite candidate is intended for him or her to do something for you-- free health care, free tuition to universities, tax cuts, elimination of the IRS etc. Far too many have their hand out, that's the problem.
Never forget Melonhead Begala's observation: "Stroke of the pen. Law of the land. Kinda cool."
It’s worse than I thought. Scary. Thanks for reminding me. You have a great memory.
She's far more dangerous than Obama because she's already been there and knows what to do to circumvent or eliminate the system entirely.
Obama can't even touch that on his worst day times 100.
Your data and input is really awesome. i just heard on Hannity and Colmes tonight that Obama’s church is being investigated by the IRS. I wonder if Clintons are behind that as well.
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