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Just yesterday I saw her on the senate floor speaking against the high salaries of company CEO's.....

Hillary Rodham Clinton, as a New York State Senator, now comes under this fancy "Congressional Retirement and Staffing Plan," which means that even if she never gets reelected, she STILL receives her Congressional salary until she dies.

If Bill outlives her, he then inherits HER salary until HE dies. He is already getting his Presidential salary until he dies. If Hillary outlives Bill, she also gets HIS salary until she dies. Guess who pays for that? WE DO! It's common knowledge that in order for her to establish NY residency, they purchased a million dollar-plus house in upscale Chappaqua, New York. Makes sense. They are entitled to Secret Service protection for life. Still makes sense.

Here is where it becomes interesting. Their mortgage payments hover at around $10,000 per month. BUT, an extra residence HAD to be built within the acreage to house the Secret Service agents.

The Clintons charge the Federal government $10,000 monthly rent for the use of that extra residence, which is just about equal to their mortgage payment. This means that we, the taxpayers, are paying the Clintons' salary, mortgage, transportation, safety and security, as well as the salaries for their 12 man staff - and this is all perfectly legal!

When she runs for President, will you vote for her?

4 posted on 01/26/2003 5:10 PM EST by shaggy eel

EXCELLENT analysis.

It seems the most expeditious solution for us "regular people" is to make certain the clintons' primary residence is the hoosegow.

I cannot think of a more satisfying way of killing two birds with one stone.

HALF A HOUSE, HALF A BRAIN: Why the clintons hit on Simon & Schuster

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FBI decries freed Puerto Rican prisoners as terrorists

News/Current Events News
Source: Fox News
Published: 9/22/99 Author: By Shannon Mccaffrey, Associated Press
Posted on 09/22/1999 07:14:09 PDT by Lance Romance

WASHINGTON (AP) — A top FBI official told Congress he regards Puerto Rican militants freed in a grant of clemency by President Clinton as "terrorists'' who continue to represent a threat to the United States.

The description by Neil Gallagher, the FBI's assistant director for national security, came Tuesday as President Clinton tried again to explain why he granted clemency, this time in a five-page letter to a Democratic congressman.

Meanwhile, The New York Times reported in today's editions that an unsigned letter prepared for FBI Director Louis J. Freeh stating the FBI was "unequivocally opposed'' to the clemency offer was among thousands of documents sent to Congress.

The Times quoted senior law-enforcement officials as saying Freeh read the letter before it was forward to Congress with other background documents and that the letter accurately reflected his position.

Clinton's own letter said the offer was motivated not by politics, as critics have charged, but out of concern for the "extremely lengthy sentences'' the separatists were serving.

"No form of violence is ever justified as a means of political expression in a democratic society based on the rule of law,'' Clinton wrote. "Our society believes, however, that a punishment should fit a crime.''

Most of those who had their sentences commuted were serving between 35 and 90 years for seditious conspiracy and possession of weapons and explosives.

Clinton wrote the letter to Rep. Henry Waxman, the senior Democrat on the House Government Reform Committee, which was holding a hearing on the clemency Tuesday. Waxman read the letter at the hearing's start.

The explanation from the president came just days after the White House announced it was invoking executive privilege to block Congress from access to documents and high-level testimony pertaining to the clemency. The House panel hearing testimony Tuesday had issued subpoenas to get that information.

Clinton defended that decision in his letter, noting that the granting of clemency is an exclusive power of the president.

"In vesting the pardon power to the president alone, the framers of the Constitution ensured that clemency could be given even in cases that might be unpopular and controversial,'' he wrote.

Gallagher's testimony marked the first time that federal law enforcement officials have testified on the issue. Also on hand were officials from the Justice Department and the Bureau of Prisons. They were barred from answering direct questions about the clemency, because of the White House executive privilege.

Gallagher described the activities of the FALN - the violent organization to which most of those offered clemency belonged. Afterward he was asked by the committee's chairman Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind, if they should have been freed.

"Do I think they should be out on the street? I think these are criminals and that they are terrorists and that they represent a threat to the United States,'' Gallagher said.

The FBI was one of several law enforcement organizations opposed to the clemency.

Asked about the continuing threat of the FALN and its sister group in Puerto Rico, Los Macheteros, Galllagher ticked off a handful of more recent bombings in Chicago and Puerto Rico believed to have been conducted by the groups.

Clinton's offer of clemency has come under fire from some who have accused him of making it to boost first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's popularity among New York's 1.3 million Puerto Ricans. Mrs. Clinton is considering a bid for the Senate from New York in 2000.

Clinton said in his letter that "political considerations played no role in the process.''

The FALN — the Spanish abbreviation for the Armed Forces of National Liberation — is responsible for a wave of bombings of U.S. civilian and military targets in the late 1970s and early 1980s that left six dead.