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Clinton pardon records offer fuel for Hillary's foes (nothing to see here ... more old news alert)
Politico ^ | January 28, 2016 | Josh Gerstein

Posted on 01/28/2016 12:43:23 PM PST by Zakeet

Just as Hillary Clinton braces for yet-another release of her much-discussed State Department emails, the Clinton Library this week released the largest set of records ever—over 43,000 pages—detailing her husband Bill's use of his executive clemency powers while he was president.

The long-secret records include new information on some of the late-term pardons and commutations that created controversy, including a pair of pardons that followed intervention of one of Hillary Clinton's brothers. And the release comes as Republican opposition researchers work overtime combing through the background of the former first lady and Secretary of State, whose presidential candidacy faces a tough test in the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses set for Monday.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clinton; corruption; marcrich; markrich; pardons; scandal

It's old news ... members of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy are just out to get me ... it's totally irrelevant ... it's time to move on ...

1 posted on 01/28/2016 12:43:23 PM PST by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

How much in there about Marc Rich and his ex wife. Biggest tax cheat in US History. How much did they “donate” to the Clinton Library?


2 posted on 01/28/2016 12:49:39 PM PST by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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Free Republic Caucus 16 01/28

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3 posted on 01/28/2016 1:00:04 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Free Republic Caucus: vote daily / watch for the thread / Starts 01/20 midnight to midnight EST)
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To: Zakeet

***INFLUENCE PEDDLING ALERT***


4 posted on 01/28/2016 1:01:01 PM PST by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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To: Zakeet

Can Hillary pardon herself upon taking office in Jan 2017?


5 posted on 01/28/2016 1:02:23 PM PST by nascarnation
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To: Zakeet
Bill Clinton and Tony Rodham


6 posted on 01/28/2016 1:06:01 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: samadams2000
When forwarding the proposed pardon for Archie Shaffer, a Tyson Food lobbyist convicted of giving illegal gifts in an independent counsel investigation into Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy, White House aide Lisel Loy advised that if Clinton acted quickly, officials could "announce your decision on the attached tomorrow along with the clemency decisions you made earlier this week."

"Yes—do it, but important," the president wrote on the December 2000 memo, drawing a line back to the language about releasing the Schaffer pardon along with the others.

Neat variation on the old Clinton "document dump" trick for hiding their malfeasance.

7 posted on 01/28/2016 1:14:31 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Zakeet

MARC RICH. First contributor to the Clinton Foundation.


8 posted on 01/28/2016 1:47:47 PM PST by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: Zakeet

The “presidential pardon” should be eliminated.


9 posted on 01/28/2016 2:19:45 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
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