Remember Marc Rich and Pardongate? It’s Baaack!
I remember when all of this was going on, I often wondered why the POTUS didn’t say anything when asked. I am now beginning to think he knew what he was doing. He must have known that Hillary would not be happy with just a Senate seat, she eventually would go for the brass ring, and when she did, she would answer for all the pardons, but in particular, Marc Rich. Oh sure, Bill attempted to explain that one, but we all know that was just smoke and mirrors. Hillary wouldn’t take questions on the pardons, deferring them to Bill, but had no problem saying this about GWB: ‘In this administration, cronyism and ideology trump competence and justice’: Those are some harsh words coming from Hillary, if you consider the appearance of quid pro quo with regards to those pardons.
Today is the day of reckening and what is going on with the pardon papers?
Federal archivists at the Clinton Presidential Library are blocking the release of hundreds of pages of White House papers on pardons that the former president approved, including clemency for fugitive commodities trader Marc Rich.
That archivists’ decision, based on guidance provided by Bill Clinton that restricts the disclosure of advice he received from aides, prevents public scrutiny of documents that would shed light on how he decided which pardons to approve from among hundreds of requests.
Clinton’s legal agent declined the option of reviewing and releasing the documents that were withheld, said the archivists, who work for the federal government, not the Clintons.
Curt isn’t at all surprised:
Looks like the Clintons are refusing to release the records of the pardons granted 8yrs ago as well. Gosh, why could that be? Nothing to do with money laundered through the UN-Saddam Oil For Food program, millions in income from Arab princes in the UAE that the 911 Commission claimed funneled money for the 911 attacks, or the FARC pardons (something kinda interesting given that 1/3 of South America is on the verge of war over FARC terrorists). Nah, it’s wrong to ask about such things. The Clintons are saints.
Links of interest:
The Fact That Trouble Followed Three of Clinton’s ‘midnight pardons’ Is The Least Of Our Worries
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Well, gee. Iguess Scooter didn’t get pardoned. And as far as Mark Rich is concerned, can y’all say Kennyboy? You people are just so gutdom stupid, and fisated. W needs to pardon himself, if he actually ever had a whiff of what was going on.
There’s so much for Ms. Salkin to che on, besides Prosac and Oxysontin. W has to consider pardoning war criminals like th buy that picked him before they’re even charged. He might consider pardoning himself. That’s what he did after he japped on the Tejas Air Guard.
January 3, 2009 - 09:13 AM on January 3rd, 2009
Do you died-in-the-wool conservatives remember that PNAC insisted that Clinton invade Iraq? Mo. But that’s a good thing. Otherwise, Shock and Awe was premeditated murder, for Halliburton and free oilfield services companies everywhere.
Shrubistas havem’t really acted like Nazis, they’ve been a lot more likeLenin style apparatchiks. But I think Lenin thought that stuff up himself, rather than having it fed through his cocaine brain by some Raygun retread that salivated over trashing the Consttuion even more than Grover Norquist considered.
But, you’re done now. No more work-wives on the plantation. No more astoundingly incompetent Pretzeldents. No more rat-dogs urinating on those pointy littl ears. No more Cheney and his six deferrals impurning patriotism while he exhibits his utter disdain and disregard for the Constitution.
Hark Rich? Years ago, and we have war criminals to prosecte, y’all. Because we can’t prosecute them for selling themselves to Bear-Stearns and AIG, even though they did.
This coutry has never seen criminal behavior of this magnitude, and they’re all going to skate, off our cliff, with golden parachutes. And they all deserve jail time. They all knew exactly what they were doing. They were trickling down.
Madoff should get a pardon. He was just being a Raygun Republican.
January 3, 2009 - 09:44 AM on January 3rd, 2009
And, you know, there’s Armand Hammer and C. Boyden Gray. Look, you idiots, consider BCCI and the Raygun-sposored murders of Catholic clericals before you cast stones. And Halliburton and Cheney, who is now exceptionally rich, despises American government, and is adept at designing and funding insurgent warfare. Homeland Security should put his mealy ass in an undisclosed bunker. He hates the US and he’s slightly smarter than Jose Padilla. He’s admitted to war crimes, he shot a guy in the face under the influence (right, he wasn’t interviewed….for hours and hours until it was the next day, and every DUI suspect should get the same deference). If only he got Scalia instead of this hapless old guy. Well, except then Clarence Thomas would have been frozen like a statue, with nobody to push the “Agree With My Insane amd Amti-American Opinion button Poor Justice Pinooint. Nothing to do but Pluck pubes and put them on your clerks’ coke cans. He never denied he did this, and it’s so creepy he makes T-Bag look normal, Nothing like family values judges.
January 3, 2009 - 09:58 AM on January 3rd, 2009
Totally bereft of ideas.
Pardongate? Morons, there’s a new president. W is too stupid to be indicted, but the little woman whining weasel, Alberto Bonzalez. hee’s gunna talk. Hadley and Yoo, they’re going to man up and admit Cheney made them invent excuses that don’t pass any legal test for Americans to act like subhuman thugs. W will pardon these pitiful aholes. These people are despicable.
January 3, 2009 - 11:07 AM on January 3rd, 2009
Kennyboy..there I said it, but who is kennyboy? Ken Lay? The person that went on trial and was convicted but died of a massive heart attack before sentencing?
Imagine what an education would do for you..You simple little Georgia Peach!
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