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Misplaced Outrage Over 'Torture'
RCP ^ | August 30, 2009 | Debra Saunders

Posted on 08/30/2009 6:10:31 AM PDT by skimbell

When he served as deputy attorney general, now Attorney General Eric Holder gave a "neutral leaning positive" recommendation that led to President Bill Clinton's pardoning of gazillionaire fugitive Marc Rich, who was on the lam in Switzerland hiding from federal charges of fraud, evading more than $48 million in taxes, racketeering and trading oil with Iran in violation of a U.S. embargo.

Holder also had a role in the 1999 Clinton pardons of 16 Puerto Rico independence terrorists -- members of the bomb-happy FALN or the splinter group Los Macheteros -- who had been convicted on such charges as bank robbery, possession of explosives and participating in a seditious conspiracy...

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: corruption; wot
Nice bunch we've got running the show!
1 posted on 08/30/2009 6:10:31 AM PDT by skimbell
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ping holder


2 posted on 08/30/2009 6:16:39 AM PDT by 4Speed
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To: skimbell

Holder also had a role in the 1999 Clinton pardons of 16 Puerto Rico independence terrorists.And he wants to go after the CIA what an idiot it may be his last act in D.C.


3 posted on 08/30/2009 6:20:35 AM PDT by Vaduz
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What happened to the mizzies is small stuff to what’s probably happening to Teddy right now.


4 posted on 08/30/2009 6:22:10 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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I just wonder if Bambi and Holder would be going after the CIA if the terrorists had been white and/or Christian.


5 posted on 08/30/2009 6:57:57 AM PDT by SantosLHalper (I am the World that hides the Universal secret of All time.)
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The one positive here is that BHO is seriously overplaying his hand, and this investigation will never be popular with 51%+ of the population. This alone helps the GOP. I, after these show trials, there is a terrorist attack on American soil, well.....


6 posted on 08/30/2009 9:00:02 AM PDT by uscabjd
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