Pardoning Terror

FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com ^ | Wednesday, December 03, 2008 | John Perazzo

[Cindy]

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "During Barack Obama’s presidential run, Eric Holder, Bill Clinton’s Deputy Attorney General from 1997 to 2001, campaigned heavily for the then-Illinois senator. This past summer, Obama tapped Holder to serve on the vice presidential selection team that ultimately chose Joe Biden to be Obama’s running mate. Now Holder may receive his own position in the Obama administration, which he has been nominated to serve as Attorney General."

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Nearly ten years after the FALN pardons, Holder is once again set to enter the Attorney General’s office – this time as its head. But before assuming that important post, he owes the American people – and the victims of FALN terror – the explanation he failed to provide when the terrorists were set free."

[Cindy]

ARTICLE SNIPPET from the link in post no. 1:

"But Holder’s biggest lapses in judgment date back to the final days of the Clinton administration. He was among those entrusted with the task of vetting the Clinton administration’s 176 last-minute pardons—whose beneficiaries included such luminaries as billionaire financier Marc Rich (who had fled the country rather than face federal tax evasion charges) and former Weather Underground members Susan Rosenberg and Linda Evans. Holder’s judgment is called into question most dramatically by his intimate involvement in President Clinton’s August 11, 1999, pardon of 16 members of the Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN), an FBI-designated terrorist organization that was active in the U.S. from the mid-1970s through the early 1980s. Before exploring the very significant role Holder played in securing clemency for the aforementioned 16, some background is in order."