Oh, man, next you're gonna tell me these guys are in on it.
Posted on 06/21/2002 6:46:21 PM PDT by dts32041
O'Reilly: Bush Insider Claims Clinton Deal Torpedoed Pardongate
A Bush administration insider has privately leaked word that a deal was struck between Democratic congressional leaders and the Bush White House not to prosecute Bill and/or Hillary Clinton on an array of charges related to the Pardongate scandal, Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly claimed Friday on his nationally syndicated "Radio Factor" show.
"A very highly placed source - and I mean this guy knows what's going on in the Bush administration - told me about a month ago that when President Bush took office he had meetings with all of the Democratic leadership.... one on one meetings in the Oval Office," O'Reilly said.
"The Democratic leadership made it quite clear to Mr. Bush that he would not get any cooperation - zero - on the part of the Democrats in the Senate and in the House if he pursued any kind of a criminal investigation against Bill Clinton."
O'Reilly said that according to his source, "Basically they said look, if you embarrass us - by us we mean the Democratic Party - if you, Bush-Ashcroft, indict Clinton on bribery or go after Hillary or any of this - we're gonna shut you down. We're not gonna do anything. You're not going to get any (legislation) passed if four years."
The talk host's highly placed administration source said Democrat leaders then explained to Bush, "If you put this thing on the back track and just play the game the way we've always played it here in the Justice Department since Watergate, where the powerful protect each other - then we'll keep an open mind on your legislation."
O'Reilly never indicated who his source might be beyond describing him as "very highly placed."
On Thursday, U.S. Attorney for New York's Southern District James Comey, a Bush appointee, ended a key part of the probe into whether the Clintons traded pardons for political favors and campaign contributions.
Unfortunately I've never had the honor of serving on jury duty. But the US is a nation of laws and citizens. When someone is accused of breaking the law, if the DA deems there is enough evidence to go through the expense of putting that person on trial, it will go forward. At that point, all the DA can do is make sure the evidence is as airtight as possible. Sometimes witnesses are not as forthcoming as the DA thought they would be. Sometimes their testimony is not very compelling to the jury. Sometimes the DA over-reaches and tries for a conviction on a charge for which there is not a clear case. For many reasons, cases which to an outsider look airtight don't end up that way when the jury goes behind closed doors and ponders the evidence WHICH THEY HAVE OBTAINED DURING THE TRIAL. And sometimes, as in the OJ case, you get jurors who are looking for political payback, so they won't convict someone who according to the evidence given in the trial seemed clearly guilty.
It can be a messy situation, but that's the way of 'Justice' in this country of free citizens. It is not a perfect system because it depends on humans, who make misakes. There are a lot of guilty folks walking the streets today because the Justice system failed in some way or the other. It shouldn't cheapen the system because of those mistakes, it should make people more interested in serving on jury duty when they are called so that they can be sure of at least one person who really cares that justice is done. Frankly I think it is a miracle that the system works as well as it does, and I hope that if I ever find myself caught up in it, there will be educated citizens who are serving on the jury because they care about it.
Then you must believe the Clinton's did no wrong. Else what other reason can you give for no indictments? Only the justice department
can bring charges, and Bush is in charge of that.
Absolutely nothing was done about Bill and Hillary Clinton's crimes.
And if I had to guess, I'd go with O'Reilly's story.
Just the fact that this supposed leak is so hush hush, made me immediately suspicious! Folks in the Bush White House are VERY loyal, out of respect for their boss. That's why you HAVEN'T seen any leaking going on from the White House. Plenty has been going on down the Avenue at the Capitol, though.
Yes, and they prosecute criminals. They do don't they? Oh never mind.
If this administration was infatuated with polls, we'd have attacked an outhouse in Iraq by now with a 40 cruise missiles and called it quits to avoid further risk.
The wording alone of the 'quotes' from the dems is clearly fake. They look like they were written by a pulp fiction writer.
OK, assuming that this is true... since we clearly haven't seen 'his' laegislation passed, and we haven't seen any movcement on nominations... then evidently the rats didn't get any guarantees from him.
No way, didn't happen. Just for this reason that it would go public. Bush wouldn't dare allow himself to be compromised to this degree.
Some people and their pipe dreams.
It's late.
And it appears a fair number of people are willing to lap it right up. You can set your watch by this junk. Let the person who is making this outrageous claim step forward and allow himself to be identified. Then we'll see.
Kindly list ALL the legislation the Democrats RUSHED through Congress to keep up "their" end of the bargin.
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