Dems realize they have a Hillary Problem
Harry Dope
Senator Hillary Clinton of New York issued the following statement on
President Bush's decision to commute the sentence of Scooter Libby:
"Today's decision is yet another example that this Administration simply
considers itself above the law. This case arose from the Administration's
politicization of national security intelligence and its efforts to punish
those who spoke out against its policies. Four years into the Iraq war,
Americans are still living with the consequences of this White House's
efforts to quell dissent. This commutation sends the clear signal that in
this Administration, cronyism and ideology trump competence and justice."
Pardon and Commutation are powers reserved to the President through our
heritage of English common law. As a candidate for the Presidency, Hillary
is seeking the power of pardon for herself. What is her record with regard
to presidential pardons and cronyism?
The King had the power of life and death. The power to make law, and to
commute or pardon crimes. So the framers of the Constitution gave such
powers to our chief executive. While George Bush may enjoy the headlines
today for the commutation (not pardon) of a portion of the sentence of
Scooter Libby that he judged to be excessive, take a few minutes to refresh
your memory of the felons and murderers that Bill Clinton pardoned.
Many of these miscreants were convicted of crimes that directly benefited
Bill and Hillary Clinton. Take for example, Susan McDougal. She spent two
years in jail for refusing to testify about the Whitewater Scandal to a
special prosecutor. Her husband, Jim McDougal, died in prison, serving time
for Whitewater bank fraud. Jim was shouting for the heart medication that
could save his life when he died. The jail guards could not seem to hear his
cries. Henry Cisneros, the Clinton Housing Secretary, was given a blanket
pardon such that no specific mention is made of the specific crime. Was he
pardoned for perjury? Tax evasion? Bribery? We will never know. Such a "get
out of jail free" card is not given out in a Monopoly Board Game.
Others have a personal "good old boy" connection: Arthur David Borel and
Douglas Borel, from Little Rock, Arkansas were guilty of odometer rollback
The Borels are car dealers that the Clintons knew in Little Rock. They
earned a little extra money by cheating consumers. It helps to have friends
in high places.
Denise Rich is the socialite, beautiful wife that arranged for her husband,
Marc Rich to contribute $400,000.00 on February 9th 2001, to the Clinton
Presidential Library. Marc Rich made hundreds of millions of dollars during
the oil crisis by selling Iranian Oil, when such trade was outlawed over the
Embassy Hostage taking in 1980.
The list of drug dealers, fraud artists, counterfeiters, and smugglers is
punctuated by Samuel Morrison, who sold defense secrets. The final days of
the Clinton presidency are rife with tales of influence peddling. Hillary's
brother got caught conducting such business, but was never charged.
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Eight years before 9/11, on Feb. 26, 1993, Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida
terrorist network declared war against the United States with a deadly
attack on the World Trade Center. Al-Qaida continued to wage war on the U.S.
throughout the Clinton administration, attacking Khobar Towers in 1996, two
U.S. embassies in East Africa in 1998, and the U.S.S. Cole in 2000.