Olson Book's Chilling Warning: Clinton's Terrorist Pardons Sent Signal

News Max ^ | Oct. 14, 2001 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[concerned about politics]

Olson Book's Chilling Warning: Clinton's Terrorist Pardons Sent Signal

In a bone chilling chapter of her new book "The Final Days," late heroine-author Barbara Olson warned that ex-president Bill Clinton's pardons of terrorists who had repeatedly bombed buildings in New York City "send a signal" that the U.S. isn't serious about fighting terrorism.

In words that now seem like a harbinger of her own Sept. 11 death at the hands of the Middle Eastern terrorists, Olson cited example after example of how U.S. officials strenuously warned Clinton that pardoning FALN Puerto Rican separatists who had waged their own bombing jihad on America posed a threat to national security.

In August 1999 Clinton pardoned 16 FALN terrorists without even being asked, in a move that was widely seen as a cynical ploy to win Hispanic votes for his wife's New York senate bid.

The group had planned and executed 130 bombing attacks on New York, Chicago and Washington, D.C. from 1974 to 1983. Miraculously, the FALN managed to kill just six Americans. But hundreds more were seriously wounded.

Law enforcement officials were stunned when Clinton decided to pardon the FALN bombers.

"The FBI's assistant director of national security, Neil Gallagher, said that the people turned loose by Clinton 'are criminals, and they are terrorists, and they represent a threat to the United States,'" Olson wrote.

In a subchapter eerily headlined "Pardons for Terrorists Send a Signal," she reported:

"President Clinton had not bothered to consult with relatives of victims of FALN terrorism. In fact, the survivors of those murdered and those whose lives had otherwise been destroyed by the terrorists were not even informed that their attackers were being released."

Olson continued:

"Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder.... conceded that the nation owed much greater consideration to the victims. And Holder's boss, Janet Reno, explicitly acknowledged that groups aligned with the FALN still posed a threat to national security."

In comments turned gut-wrenching in light of last month's attacks, former Justice Department pardon attorney Margaret Love told the late author that Clinton's terrorist pardons should have set off alarm bells.

"We should have seen a big flashing red light because of the FALN cases.... That was a foreshoadowing of what happened later."

Love was referring to Clinton's January 2001 pardons of drug dealers and international fugitives, not the attacks on the U.S., which no one foresaw. But it's nearly impossible now to read those words as anything but prophesy of the terrorist acts that murdered Olson and nearly 6,000 others last month.

In a moment of now legendary heroism, the late author telephoned her husband, Solicitor General Ted Olson, from American Flight 175 to warn that terrorists had hijacked her plane. Mr. Olson had the terrible task of telling his wife that two planes had slammed into New York's World Trade Center minutes before.

Barbara Olson's phone call was the first warning the government had that Washington, D.C. had come under similar attack.

In comments sure to irk those who argued for eight years that Bill Clinton's private life was nobody else's business, the late author contends that the terrorist pardons were payback for Mrs. Clinton indulging her husband's decades of rampant philandering.

"Hillary had done a lot of heavy lifting for her husband, much of it, such as the various bimbo eruptions, that required her to hold her nose. She had to cover for her husband and lie."

Olson called the FALN pardons Bill Clinton's "first return on her investment."

Though a lively debate has raged ever since Sept. 11 over whether the ex-president did as much as he could to stop Osama bin Laden, the one-time congressional Clinton investigator is the first to raise the FALN pardon question at any length.

Perhaps now Sen. Clinton, who has made herself newly available on the TV talk show circuit since the World Trade Center attacks, will be asked whether she agrees with Olson that her husband's terrorist pardons "sent a signal."

[Palladin]

Bumping and bookmarking to read tomorrow. Rest in peace, Barbara.

[operation clinton cleanup]

"President Clinton had not bothered to consult with relatives of victims of FALN terrorism. In fact, the survivors of those murdered and those whose lives had otherwise been destroyed by the terrorists were not even informed that their attackers were being released."

I hope Billary can explain to those fallen heros he is praising now why those that have murderd and maimed NYC's fineset in the past deserve to be on the streets now..

[Bob Burnett]

It would seem New Yorkers scheduled themselves a bin Laden enema.

[BOBWADE]

bump

[Calpublican]

was forced to return thousands from the Hamas front American Muslim Council--having tried to disguise it as "American MUSEUM Council!

Yes, that was another outrageous example of how naive the Clintons think we are, or the type of slippery stuff they've gotten away with, or both.

[breakem]

bumpable

[B4Ranch]

I understand your emotions to a "T" because I feel the same ones.

[100%FEDUP]

What really gets me going is these Filthy Liberals(patent pending) will go to ANY length to defend Bill and Hill's political reputation, but shift into cowardly pacifist mode when they need to defend their own lives!

[Anochka]

Good post, thanks.

The other LARGE matter never mentioned is the INS free-for-all prior to the 96 election as steamrolled by Al Gore.

Thousands of felons were given citizenship on Gore's vote-making INS conveyer belt. No background checks, no fingerprint checks, no prison record checks, no educational checks, just about zip checks. Supposedly INS was going to sort all this out, but recently I read all the records that did exist on those people were lost in June 2000. Not sure I read a reason, wharehouse fire as with the Indian royalties records and funds that US Treasury thoroughly looted and Robert "Peso Bob" Rubin covered up with a timely spark.

Why is no one in the media asking the Clintoons about this patch of their history?

[Salvation]

In words that now seem like a harbinger of her own Sept. 11 death at the hands of the Middle Eastern terrorists, Olson cited example after example of how U.S. officials strenuously warned Clinton that pardoning FALN Puerto Rican separatists who had waged their own bombing jihad on America posed a threat to national security.

Praises to this hero, Barbara Olson.

[willyboyishere]

See now, Dennis, this is where we differ: I think of the
Clintons as a giant sh*t stain on the underwear of humanity.

[dennis1x]

Ok, Willy, I hope we can put our differences aside for the greater good of the country. God Bless America

[sweetliberty]

What poetic justice it would be indeed if this book reveals that which would finally bring down the Clintons.

[swheats]

Marc Rich was another distractor from the real concern.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

But it's nearly impossible now to read those words as anything but prophesy of the terrorist acts that murdered Olson and nearly 6,000 others last month.

Wow! God bless Barbara Olson. Just another statistic now, a number on the victim list, so far as the liberal media is concerned. Her own book explains why she died.

[Dick Bachert]

What I want to know is when are we gonna see Clintoon's long-awaited tome on the racks?

A mole at the publisher sent me an advance mock-up of the book:

Clintoon's book will be published by Alfred Knopf Publishing.

“Knopf” is 13th Century German for “ incredibly stupid buyer of other peoples’ garbage.” Knopf is a very old publishing house best known for such early best-selling classics as

“How to Enjoy The Inquisition” by Father Torquemada
“You Get My Point?” by Vlad the Impaler
“Guillotine Maintenance and Repair” by Citizen Robespierre

Two of their more recent offerings are “PeeWee Herman’s Movie Guide” and “Gary Condit’s Guide to Picking Up Chicks.”

All available in a dumpster or landfill near you!

[Dick Bachert]

What I want to know is when are we gonna see Clintoon's long-awaited tome on the racks?

A mole at the publisher sent me an advance mock-up of the book:

Clintoon's book will be published by Alfred Knopf Publishing.

“Knopf” is 13th Century German for “ incredibly stupid buyer of other peoples’ garbage.” Knopf is a very old publishing house best known for such early best-selling classics as

“How to Enjoy The Inquisition” by Father Torquemada
“You Get My Point?” by Vlad the Impaler
“Guillotine Maintenance and Repair” by Citizen Robespierre

Two of their more recent offerings are “PeeWee Herman’s Movie Guide” and “Gary Condit’s Guide to Picking Up Chicks.”

All available in a dumpster or landfill near you!

[mwl1]

Despicable people. A special place in Hell awaits these two.