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JUSTICE UNDONE: CLEMENCY DECISIONS IN THE CLINTON WHITE HOUSE
www.house.gov/reform ^ | Committee on Government Reform

Posted on 03/25/2002 6:32:46 AM PST by Mia T


Oversight of Presidential Pardons

 

JUSTICE UNDONE: CLEMENCY DECISIONS IN THE CLINTON WHITE HOUSE

 

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY (69kb PDF file)


INTRODUCTION (66kb PDF file)  
Introduction Exhibits

 

CHAPTER ONE (539kb PDF file)

Take Jack's Word: The Pardons of International Fugitives Marc Rich and Pincus Green

Exhibits 1-4, 5-10, 11-15, 16-35, 36-55, 55-80, 81-140, 141-155, 156-180, 180-190

 

CHAPTER TWO (387kb PDF file)
Roger Clinton's Involvement in Lobbying for Executive Clemency

Exhibits 1-10, 11-27, 28-29, 30-35, 36-45, 46-60, 61-75, 76-90, 91-100, 101-110, 111-118

 

CHAPTER THREE (277kb PDF file)
Hugh Rodham's Role in Lobbying for Grants of Executive Clemency

Exhibits 1-2, 3-20, 21-45, 46-51, 52

 

CHAPTER FOUR (81kb PDF file)
Tony Rodham's Role in Lobbying For Grants of Executive Clemency  

Exhibits 1-21, 22-29

CHAPTER FIVE (112kb PDF file)
The Grant of Clemency to Drug Money Launderer Harvey Weinig
Exhibits
1, 2-4, 5, 6-7, 8, 9-10, 11-15, 16-25

 

Hearing Transcripts   TEXT 947K   PDF 21.9M

 

The Controversial Pardon of International Fugitive Marc Rich

The FALN Clemency Investigation

 

 



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KNOWNOTHING VICTIMS RODHAM/CLINTON REVISITED

Q ERTY2 "There isn't a shred of evidence."

HILLARY, YOU KNOW, KnowNothing Victim Q ERTY4 double bagel,

W I D E B O D Y. low-center-of-gravity Dim Bulb, Congenital Bottom Feeder

Q ERTY3 zipper-hoisted

Humpty Dummies Q ERTY6 utter failures 4th-Estate Malfeasance (DEATH BY MISREPORT)

rodham-clinton reality-check BUMP!

Thou art arm'd that hath thy crook'd schemers straight.

Cudgel thy brains no more, the clinton plots are great.

Mia T, On Neutered and Neutering,

by Mia T and Edward Zehr (EZ)

"I did not have any involvement in the pardons that were granted or not granted," insisted Sen. KnowNothing, seeming to forget her presence at the New-Square/Oval-Office schmooze that secured pardons for the four Hasidic felons who set up a phony school in Brooklyn to swindle the government out of millions intended for the poor.

Mia T, Sen. KnowNothing Victim Clinton Effectively Pleads 5TH in Press Conference by Invoking Spousal Privilege

With President Clinton's encouragement, his half-brother, Roger, collected hundreds of thousands of dollars to lobby on behalf of as many as 13 people seeking presidential pardons and other favors, a key congressional panel has found. <snip>

 

The probe concluded that the former president and his administration repeatedly failed to properly check the backgrounds of people seeking pardons and <snip> permitted a culture that provided easy opportunities for relatives and close associates of the president to make money on the side by lobbying for clemency and other presidential favors for convicted felons...[R]equests bypassed the normal Justice Department review system and instead went directly to the Oval Office <snip>.

 

Roger Clinton could not be reached for comment. Bill Clinton has denied that pardons were for sale.<snip>

 

Congressional investigators found that the president's brother-in-law Hugh Rodham... suggested that former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton was also behind the commutation.<snip>

 

In addition <snip> Rodham, despite his public statements to the contrary, has returned less than one-fourth of the $204,000 fee that he said he had given back to the Vignali family.

 

The committee also determined that President Clinton granted a pardon to fugitive financier Marc Rich only after his sponsor, former White House Counsel Jack Quinn, went around the Justice Department. Quinn apparently did so on the advice of then-Deputy Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr., who was hoping to be elevated to attorney general if Al Gore was elected president, the report found. <snip>

 

 

Roger Clinton Said to Be Deeply Tied to Pardons

Politics: House reform panel says ex-president encouraged his brother.

  • the deposition of Sonya Stewart, which tells us that "the trade mission issues were "only the tip of the iceberg -- that the really big money went towards Presidential access." Mr. Grafeld indicated to me that he believes that Ms. Moss was asking for political contributions in exchange for seats on Commerce Department trade missions, likely at the direction of Hillary Rodham Clinton, but that documents showing this illegal activity had "left the building."

  • "a huge box" hauled back to Camp David by said corrupt president under subpoena.

the Gestalt--the synthesis of the evidence -- the absurd reason for the president's Thanksgiving-Day Camp David-DC-Camp David trip; the Ron-Brown-posthumous, Ron-Brown-related, Thanksgiving-Day corpse; the Sonya Stewart deposition informing us that evidence of illegal Commerce activity had "left the building;" and "a huge box" hauled back to Camp David by said corrupt president under subpoena.

Mia T, Helen Thomas Syndrome: THE SYMPTOMS

 

 

HEY, HEY MARY JO!

 

by Mia T

 

So many pardons 4 sale.

 

So many rodhams & clintons to nail.

 

Hey, hey Mary Jo!

 

Can you spell R-I-C-O?

Sen. KnowNothing Victim Clinton Holds News Conference

EFFECTIVELY PLEADS 5TH BY INVOKING SPOUSAL PRIVILEGE

by Mia T

 

WASHINGTON- February 22. Sen. KnowNothing Victim Clinton held her premiere press conference today on Capitol Hill, ostensibly to answer questions about the peddling of White House pardons by her brother and her campaign treasurer. Notably absent among the press queries were any about her own involvement not only in those pardons, but in the larger universe of sold pardons--the incipient clinton scandal du jour--Pardongate.

KnowNothing's brother, Hugh Rodham, secured two of the 141 clinton midnight pardons, one for a cocaine kingpin and the other for a snake-oil swindler. Rodham netted a quick $400,000 for his "work" according to various rodhams and clintons and their assorted lawyers. KnowNothing's campaign treasurer, William Cunningham III, himself a law partner of longtime KnowNothing adviser Harold Ickes, helped obtain last-minute pardons for two convicted felons.

LA FAMIGLIA

Displaying a willingness to throw her brother (along with her husband) to the wolves, Sen. Victim Clinton was quick to make a distinction between her big, bad brother's pardon "work" and that of her campaign treasurer, "a fine lawyer and a fine man." The "family" connection of brother Rodham to Clinton made brother Rodham's "work" bad, bad, bad, whereas the campaign treasurer Cunningham's connection to the senator and her campaign coffers made his securing of two pardons in record time a sterling example of highminded, effective public service.

KnowNothing is apparently not the best of thinkers. If the "family" connection makes lobbying for cocaine-kingpin and snake-oil-swindler pardons bad, bad, bad for brother Rodham, then the "family" connection makes lobbying for the Hasidim 4 (see Keating 5) pardons bad, badder, baddest for the wife, First Lady and senator-elect. Moreover, pardons for votes is arguably worse than pardons for dough.

EFFECTIVELY PLEADS 5TH BY INVOKING SPOUSAL PRIVILEGE

KnowNothing specifically declined to answer when asked whether she discussed the pardons with her husband, effectively pleading the 5th. Turning aside questions about the pardon decisions her husband had made, she told reporters they should address those issues with him and his staff. She refused to say whether he should agree to appear voluntarily before congressional committees investigating the pardons. Interestingly, no one asked her whether she would agree to appear voluntarily before those same congressional committees.

I DIDN'T HAVE SEX WITH THAT PARDON

"I did not have any involvement in the pardons that were granted or not granted," insisted Sen. KnowNothing, seeming to forget her presence at the New-Square/Oval-Office schmooze that secured pardons for the four Hasidic felons who set up a phony school in Brooklyn to swindle the government out of millions intended for the poor.

RESURRECTING RUFF

KnowNothing noted that her"best memory" was that she never spoke to her brother or to Mr. Cunningham about the pardons. With variations of "I don't have a memory" and "my best memory, and avoiding the more obvious "I don't recall" and "my best recollection," KnowNothing reprised the Ruffian standard used during the clinton years to commit perjury without penalty.

I GET LETTERS

...or more precisely, envelopes. During her denials of involvement in any of the pardons, KnowNothing made the curious claim: "People handed me envelopes, I passed them on [and never opened a single one. Honest.]"

I AM VICTIM

Reprising the role of victim that enabled her to win a senate seat in spite of record-high personal negatives and public failures, the senator peppered her answers about big, bad Hugh (understanding that the subtext was big, bad Bill) with "saddened" and "disappointed" and "heartbroken" and "shocked."

UTTER CONTEMPT FOR THE PEOPLE

This session today was cut short by a staffer when reporters appeared dissatisfied by Senator KnowNothing's lack of candor.

In the end, this press conference full of poses, poll-tested phrases and prevarication was just another display of the clintons' utter contempt for the people. Bill Clinton committed the same error last Sunday in his shameless, lie-filled New York Times Pardongate Apologia.

The clintons' fundamental error: They are too arrogant and dim-witted to understand that the demagogic process in this fiberoptic age isn't about counting spun heads; it's about not discounting circumambient brains.

 

 


1 posted on 03/25/2002 6:32:46 AM PST by Mia T
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To: Mia T
Bump for later read...
2 posted on 03/25/2002 6:37:22 AM PST by eureka!
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just-in-time McDougal death A corrupt system cannot be cured from within Q ERTY1 rodham-clinton REALITY CHECK bump!
 
It's not easy to play fair against Mr. and Mrs. Clinton, who, in the words of the authors, "operated like a crime family, expecting friends and aides to protect them even against their own best interests." What's amazing, of course, is that's exactly what Clinton friends and aides have always done, from Susan McDougal to Webster Hubbell to flocks of nameless White House special assistants. Even Jim McDougal died just in time to deprive the independent counsel of a key witness against Mrs. Clinton, thus derailing what the authors report to have been her likely indictment for perjury and obstruction related to the Whitewater investigation....     

Reading the tumultuous events of the Lewinsky probe in a comprehensive narrative is unlike attempting to make sense of it in daily doses. Something different comes through the heavy accumulation of detail of, for example, the duplicity of the Justice Department, or the sharklike behavior of the White House. One begins to get a choking sense of the atmosphere of corruption and ruthlessness the Clintons inhabit -- and, worse, have forced the rest of us to inhabit. Taken in one piece, the habitual, even casual abuse of power on display begins to resemble conditions one normally associates with a state of totalitarianism, where such concepts as truth and justice are only paid lip service. In the end, then, it makes you wonder when there will be fresh air again.

-----Crime-family values

 
 
 
MIA T: 
Now, as regards the wretched Cheapside brat,
And turmoil his concupiscence begat,
Methinks MacJeff's crook'd feelpolitik, the lasix death, his solipsistic sex
Thou must put in cold blood'd cardiovascular context.
 
The brain deviseth laws for the blood,
but the brain 'tself is ne'er understood.
The King's crook'dness flows from limp circulation.
Methinks the solution is swift amputation.
 
 
EZ:
Thou place thy versifier in a quandary,
Redoubling thy most sharp-edged entendre.
The gist of they intent can I but gape on.
Dost thou propose the prez be made a capon?
 
In blood caught up these wretches play their role,
But this must not become Le Grand Guignol.
Lest those of delicate mien be made to faint,
'Twere better I should exercise restraint.
 
Mind you, Act I, scene 4 drips the odd bit of gore here and there.
 
 
MIA T:
Thy bard's excessive predilection metaphorical
confuseth redoubled sharp-edged entendre with one blunt oracle.
 
Forsooth, thy bard surely knowth,
Phallus on eunuch can't growth.
Plucking capon from hen's an impossibility,
Unless the cluck's hermaphroditic Hillary.
 

On Neutered and Neutering,

by Mia T and Edward Zehr (EZ)

 
 
 

 

 


3 posted on 03/25/2002 6:41:11 AM PST by Mia T
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To: Gail Wynand; looscannon; Lonesome in Massachussets; river rat; Freedom'sWorthIt; IVote2; Slyfox...
 
Q ERTY2 even THE MOB disavowed the rodham/clinton gang bump!  
 

"My client had nothing to do with the low-rent, trailer-park trash politicians who infested our country for the past eight years."

Michael Rosen, lawyer for Thomas Gambino, son of late Mafia boss Carlo Gambino

New York Post via The Wall Street Journal

 

(Michael Rosen was understandably eager to distance his client, a convicted loan shark, from the clintons. Another Thomas Gambino reportedly paid $50,000 to roger clinton in an unsuccessful effort to get a pardon for his father, Rosario Gambino.),

It's not easy to play fair against Mr. and Mrs. Clinton, who, in the words of the authors, "operated like a crime family, expecting friends and aides to protect them even against their own best interests." What's amazing, of course, is that's exactly what Clinton friends and aides have always done, from Susan McDougal to Webster Hubbell to flocks of nameless White House special assistants. Even Jim McDougal died just in time to deprive the independent counsel of a key witness against Mrs. Clinton, thus derailing what the authors report to have been her likely indictment for perjury and obstruction related to the Whitewater investigation....     

Reading the tumultuous events of the Lewinsky probe in a comprehensive narrative is unlike attempting to make sense of it in daily doses. Something different comes through the heavy accumulation of detail of, for example, the duplicity of the Justice Department, or the sharklike behavior of the White House. One begins to get a choking sense of the atmosphere of corruption and ruthlessness the Clintons inhabit -- and, worse, have forced the rest of us to inhabit. Taken in one piece, the habitual, even casual abuse of power on display begins to resemble conditions one normally associates with a state of totalitarianism, where such concepts as truth and justice are only paid lip service. In the end, then, it makes you wonder when there will be fresh air again.

Crime-family values
  
 
  
Don't lose
Your head
To gain a minute
You need your head
Your brains are in it.
--an old roadside ad, Pushme-Pullyou
 
 
 
 
 
 
HEY, HEY MARY JO!
 
by Mia T
 
So many pardons 4 sale.
 
So many rodhams & clintons to nail.
 
Hey, hey Mary Jo!
 
Can you spell R-I-C-O?

it won't s-p-i-n
 
Fraudulent Democrat Scheme Fails as Bush Soars
BUSH: NATIONAL SECURITY 1st PRIORITY. . ."I will not wait on events, while dangers gather."
THE CLINTON LEGACY PLACED IN STARK RELIEF
 
The Real Danger of a Presidential Fake:
Post-9/11 Reconsideration of The Placebo President
 
CLINTON-WAS-AN-UTTER-FAILURE Containment Team Scheme Fails Again
Ollie North Laughs Ann Lewis Off Stage
 
IT IS OBVIOUS
 
Helen Thomas Syndrome: THE SYMPTOMS
 
Will Riefenstahl-esque "editing to perfection" resurrect the clintons?
 
WHOSE DOG WAS WAGGED?
 
Frankenstein, The Sequel:
'Black Hawk Down' Was Set to Blame Clinton for 9/11
 
hillary clinton, Congenital Bottom Feeder, Cowers Below Network Radar,
Continues to Subsist on Cozy Clintonoid Interviews of Colmes Kind
 
hillary's head revisited:
hillary clinton's brain (such as it is) II
 
Buddy Death Report Raises More Questions Than It Answers
 
 "The Daschle Scheme"
 
THE HILLARY, YOU KNOW, CLINTON TRANSCRIPT:
Analyzed and Annotated
 
See also:
 
Can the President Think?
 
THE MYTH OF HILLARY'S BRILLIANCE
 
Mindless rhinestone-studded-and-tented kleptocracy
 
OFF THE RECORD: AN OLD DOG NEEDS NEW TRICKS
 
The man is an artist: He's not just 'Slick Willie' anymore
 
Hey, what a party!
New Year's at the White House
 
Senator Dim Bulb by Gary Aldrich © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com
Annotated by Mia T
 

4 posted on 03/25/2002 6:52:22 AM PST by Mia T
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To: Mia T
My eyes hurt.....but I loved it anyhow.
5 posted on 03/25/2002 6:55:20 AM PST by ErnBatavia
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To: Mia T
Speaking of being undone... none of the links work.
6 posted on 03/25/2002 7:08:13 AM PST by upchuck
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To: Mia T
Robert Ray was on the Steve Malzberg show (WABC 770 AM in New York) Sunday 3/24/02. Malzberg asked him about the evidence in the Ford building that the American public has never seen. Ray evaded the question, saying he was proud of the OIC investigation, justice was done, the highest executive was not above the law and it was time to move on. He said New Jersey voters (Ray may run for NJ Senator) should focus on the economy, yadda, yadda, yadda.

Malzberg noted, after the commercial break, that the records would be unsealed in 2048, which is just around the corner.

7 posted on 03/25/2002 7:37:20 AM PST by Tymesup
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To: Mia T
Locator bump. I'll link this, Mia T. I'm mulling over if I really want to go back and start a fresh DUBOB file- a "best of" with the dead, old, or now-irrelevant links culled out. The thought is making my head hurt & my eyes water....
8 posted on 03/25/2002 8:55:12 AM PST by backhoe
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To: Mia T
As Clinton had the cops doing things in his sexual interest from Arkansas on, has anybody investigated how the guards had the authority to take away ALL of McDougal's medications, including heart medication, and ignore his pleas the night he died? Could the Hildabeast have meddled with his life?
9 posted on 03/25/2002 9:08:06 AM PST by boltfromblue
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To: backhoe
backhoe, it doesn't work on my server....any..suggestions...do I have to download adobe PDF? I would love to see this...
10 posted on 03/25/2002 9:27:21 AM PST by KLT
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To: Tymesup
 

Q ERTY1 Postmodern-Oz REALITY CHECK

 

Well, they've gone and done it. They let Slick skate. Of course we knew it was likely. We knew. We just couldn't convince our next door neighbors of the risk they ran by endorsing this president. And we didn't want to jinx those who fought against him by telling them that the fix was in...

Meanwhile, Slick's gone skating. And we're all going with him, whether we like it or not. We're all going skating on some of the most dangerously thin political ice since the Civil War. And to all you on the left, from Hollywood to Manhattan, now that you've formally unleashed the hounds of the totalitarian collective, I hope you're satisfied with the current darkness. To you who have insisted on freely fornicating with this syphilitic harlot, this queen of the lie, you who are absolutely convinced that your hypocrisy will protect you, that no accident will ever happen to you.

Well, what can we say? Except...sleep well!

Slick Skating on Thin Ice

Those same historians should note, if only in a footnote, that not a single senator made the trip to the Ford Building to review documentation of Clinton's "nauseating", "alarming" and "horrific" sexual misconduct; evidence that ultimately made the difference in the impeachment vote.

America's Impeachment Secret

Carl Limbacher/NewsMax.com Staff

 
Sell Out: Why Bill Clinton's Impeachment Was Over Before it Began
by David P. Schippers
 
 
 

'It was a sellout. A pitiful, cowardly sellout.'  

 
Find out what really happened with the Clinton Impeachment by the man Congress hired to prosecute Clinton.  
 
David Schippers has written the political expose of the year that everyone is talking about - from Rush Limbaugh to the Drudge Report. Sell Out is a stunning indictment of President Clinton's corruption - and of the congressional leaders who let him get away with it.  
 
David Schippers, the former Chief Investigative Counsel of the House Judiciary Committee, and a loyal Democrat, went against his party, the press, and public opinion to build a powerful case against the most corrupt President in American history and bring him to justice.  
 
As a former Chicago prosecutor, David Schippers thought he had seen everything - treachery, double crosses, sellouts. But what he saw behind the scenes at the Clinton impeachment shocked him to his core.  
 
In this startling book, schippers shows how the entire impeachment process was what Chicago politicians call a 'First Ward election.' In other words, a rigged ball game, a tank job, a sellout. And he tells you who took the dives. Retail $27.95. Hardcover.  
 
'They'll call me a liar...a traitor...and worse. But I was there. At the impeachment. Every day. Behind the closed doors. I was there when the brave House managers were sold down the river. I saw it all. The small lies, the big lies, and the damn lies. It's time to tell the truth...and name the names. I just can't keep silent about it anymore.'

 

11 posted on 03/25/2002 9:52:29 AM PST by Mia T
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To: Mia T
Just wonderful, Mia T -- AGAIN<~
12 posted on 03/25/2002 10:43:25 AM PST by AKA Elena
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To: KLT
Hi-- this?

backhoe, it doesn't work on my server....any..suggestions

I'm not sure what you are referring to... what's the "it?"

13 posted on 03/25/2002 12:38:24 PM PST by backhoe
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To: abwehr
good idea
15 posted on 03/25/2002 7:58:47 PM PST by joyce11111
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To: Mia T
^
16 posted on 03/25/2002 10:21:53 PM PST by prognostigaator
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To: backhoe
I'm not sure what you are referring to... what's the "it?"

The links backhoe...it keep coming up unavailable on Mia's thread...I'm devastated...

17 posted on 03/26/2002 6:43:37 PM PST by KLT
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To: KLT
Ah! OK.... now I get it. I've been offline since circa noon-3 yesterday trying to migrate files from an 85 Mb. drive to a "better" 210 Mb., and finally accomplished it last night.

Know what? You can do this without any new, expensive software- but there are tricks 'n traps to learn about. Finally got it right!

18 posted on 03/27/2002 2:25:44 AM PST by backhoe
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To: backhoe
OK, maybe I should download adobe...what do you think?
19 posted on 03/27/2002 8:05:20 AM PST by KLT
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To: KLT
Adobe is pretty nice if you can spare the room on your drive... there is an online reader, which I think is on their site- you have to cut & paste the addy of the PDF file to it, but it works fine.

Aha! Found it!

Punch in a PDF url HERE and you can read PDF files online without a download.

20 posted on 03/27/2002 8:48:10 AM PST by backhoe
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