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To: Norm Lenhart

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB120277819085260827

Good list, then there was the pardoning of terrorists so that she could win a senate seat in NY.

“...........On Aug. 7, 1999, the one-year anniversary of the U.S. African embassy bombings that killed 257 people and injured 5,000, President Bill Clinton reaffirmed his commitment to the victims of terrorism, vowing that he “will not rest until justice is done.” Four days later, while Congress was on summer recess, the White House quietly issued a press release announcing that the president was granting clemency to 16 imprisoned members of FALN. What began as a simple paragraph on the AP wire exploded into a major controversy.

Mr. Clinton justified the clemencies by asserting that the sentences were disproportionate to the crimes. None of the petitioners, he stated, had been directly involved in crimes that caused bodily harm to anyone. “For me,” the president concluded, “the question, therefore, was whether their continuing incarceration served any meaningful purpose.”

His comments, including the astonishing claim that the FALN prisoners were being unfairly punished because of “guilt by association,” were widely condemned as a concession to terrorists. Further, they were seen as an outrageous slap in the face of the victims and a bitter betrayal of the cops and federal law enforcement officers who had put their lives on the line to protect the public and who had invested years of their careers to put these people behind bars. The U.S. Sentencing Commission affirmed a pre-existing Justice Department assessment that the sentences, ranging from 30 to 90 years, were “in line with sentences imposed in other cases for similar terrorist activity.”..................................


27 posted on 09/11/2015 7:31:40 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

And all this is off the top of our heads. Imagine what a real researched list of accomplishment would look like.

In truth, she probably accomplished more than anyone since Reagan. Perhaps more.

All of it bad/evil/anti-American of course, but accomplishments regardless. So People clueless to thinking of anything? I don’t buy it.


28 posted on 09/11/2015 7:40:55 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart ("The road is long...and I must poop." - Volarian Lionheart/Hero of the people)
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