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120.000 PETITION BUSH: BRING THE CLINTONS TO JUSTICE
NewsMax | Wednesday Nov. 21, 2001 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

Posted on 11/21/2001 5:35:39 PM PST by truther

120,000 Petition Bush: Bring the Clintons to Justice

With Hillary Clinton installed in the U.S. Senate and Bill Clinton still capturing headlines while quietly running the Democratic Party, it's plain America has yet to get fully past its decade of sleaze.

And while most who'd like to move on hope ignoring Bill and Hillary will do the trick, a hearty minority say America suffers from a case of "justice interruptus" - that the former first couple were demonstrably guilty of crimes but timid prosecutors failed to do their jobs.

Nearly 120,000 such citizens have petitioned the Bush administration to do something about this lingering affront to the nation's judicial system, in an effort sponsored by the Washington, D.C.-based legal watchdog group Judicial Watch.

"59,535 petitions were sent to Attorney General John Ashcroft demanding that he hold Bill and Hillary Clinton accountable using the evidence available to him from Democratic donor Peter Paul," Judicial Watch announced in a press release Tuesday.

Paul is the Hollywood producer who contributed over $2 million to Mrs. Clinton's New York Senate campaign - most of which she failed to report to the Federal Election Commission as required by law.

"26,103 petitions were also sent to President Bush demanding that he fire IRS Commissioner Charles Rossotti, a Clinton holdover responsible for illegal audits against conservatives organizations and other perceived adversaries of Bill and Hillary Clinton," said Judicial Watch.

That kind of abuse of the IRS was considered one of the most egregious crimes in the history of the presidency when Richard Nixon merely tried to do it in the 1970s. Twenty years later the Clintons got away with it in spades, a fact that still has many civil libertarians shaking their heads in disbelief.

And finally, says Judicial Watch, "33,580 petitions were sent to President Bush requesting that he rehire Linda Shenwick, the State Department official who single-handedly uncovered numerous instances of waste, fraud, and abuse of authority at the United Nations and State Department."

Shenwick was fired just one day after last year's presidential election, a move she believes was in retaliation for her congressional testimony about the U.N.'s massive misuse of U.S. tax dollars.

"The underlying basis of conservatism is respect for ethics and the rule of law," Judicial Watch Chairman Larry Klayman told NewsMax.com Wednesday.

"The president and the attorney general should understand that they were elected to carry out that mandate."


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To: Uncle Bill
It still amazes me these to charlatans were able to snow the voting public for so long.Hillary is still able to!Although it seems her popularity is waning.They both belon in Federal Prison.
42 posted on 11/21/2001 8:33:50 PM PST by cardinal4
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To: The Documentary Lady
Either you are a shill for Klayman or else you haven't been reading FR for the last year. Klayman and Judicial Watch have been totally exposed and discredited. Do a search and read some of the threads about Judicial Watch. No conservative who has kept themselves informed would try to defend Judicial Watch.

I say this sincerely and without any ill will toward you.

43 posted on 11/21/2001 8:47:57 PM PST by bayourod
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To: IRtorqued
Thanks IR.
44 posted on 11/21/2001 8:52:49 PM PST by IRBlondie
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To: WileyCoyote22
Hazardous waste. Slimy and discusting.
45 posted on 11/21/2001 8:57:13 PM PST by IRBlondie
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To: truther
truther, this is such an important public question. But I have to tell you, my sense of the Bush administration suggests that neither President Bush nor his Justice Department is going to go after Clintonian miscreants any time soon.

My sense of the reason for the hesitancy: It's not because President Bush minds so much the tarnishing of an American public figure -- whom the brain dead of American society seem to regard as a brilliant politician and leader. (Yeah, maybe just like the German people regarded Hitler as a "leader" circa 1939.)

My sense of President Bush's "prosecutorial reluctance" is this: He won't tarnish a single soul, no matter how much that "soul" might "objectively deserve it," if it means that the reputation and/or dignity of the United States might subsequently be tarnished by such disclosure. (And Clinton can take that to the bank. Unfortunately.)

Bill Clinton is the "idiot cousin" that (let's face it) no serious chief executive would want to acknowledge as his predecessor if he can possibly help it.

Bill Clinton -- the richly talented political sourcerer of late twentieth-century America -- is such an embarrassment to this administration (not to mention thinking, reasoning adults in general), and to the national public order when you boil it all down, that Bush would do practically anything (within reason and justice) to keep the Clinton name out of the public consciousness. (I can only hope the president is willing to extend this antipathy to Clinton's hideous wife.)

Well, that's my take on the problem, anyhoot. FWIW. best to you, bb.

46 posted on 11/21/2001 9:05:02 PM PST by betty boop
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To: bayourod
I just found out about this guy by joining FR and he seems to have some serious stuff on his agenda. I for one wish him well!
50 posted on 11/21/2001 9:30:36 PM PST by horsewhispersc
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To: horsewhispersc; ratcat
Just do a search under Judicial Watch within FR and you will quickly change your minds.

Judicial Watch has been anti-Bush since the fall of last year.

They aligned themselves with Gore in the Florida courts trying to get a recount to overturn the election results.

They have filed ethics complaints against Cheney, DeLay, the RNC, Haskert, and other conservatives. All were frivilous.

They have never won a case. Most of their cases get thrown out of court before trial. In fact, I can't think of any case they have even been able to get to trial.

51 posted on 11/21/2001 9:55:30 PM PST by bayourod
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To: truther
Make that 120,001.
52 posted on 11/21/2001 9:59:59 PM PST by Jimhimself
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To: ratcat
Klayman has done more to expose the truth about the Clintons than anyone. Meanwhile Bush tries to protect them.

They seem to protect each other. My take on this is that either can destroy the other. In a just world, BOTH Bush Sr. and Clinton would be doing time.

But we all know it's not a just world: LBJ never served time either....

53 posted on 11/21/2001 10:07:58 PM PST by BILL_C
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To: Uncle Bill; Mudboy Slim
Wow, Uncle Bill. What a great post!

Mudboy!! Thought you would like to see this.

Everyone have a blessed and wonderful Thanksgiving! You should smell that pumpkin pie cooking!! God Bless America!

54 posted on 11/21/2001 10:42:08 PM PST by AuntB
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To: truther
I'd love to see Hitlery and Bubba in burkas traveling together without a *male* relative in portions of Taliban-controlled areas of Afghanistan...
55 posted on 11/21/2001 10:45:27 PM PST by wayne_shrugged
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To: Uncle Bill
Didn't you know there was a third 260lb turkey pardoned for thanksgiving
56 posted on 11/21/2001 10:47:27 PM PST by Governor StrangeReno
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To: Uncle Bill
Please keep bumping this post until Bill and Hillary are in prison.
57 posted on 11/21/2001 10:48:25 PM PST by SevenDaysInMay
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To: horsewhispersc
THE HORSE WHISPERERS - Click Photo

58 posted on 11/21/2001 11:57:28 PM PST by Uncle Bill
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To: Uncle Bill
BMP
59 posted on 11/22/2001 2:17:10 AM PST by Highest Authority
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To: AuntB
Jeepers AuntB, this is GREAT NEWS!!

FReegards...Opie

60 posted on 11/22/2001 3:56:11 AM PST by Mudboy Slim
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