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The Clintons' Terror Pardons
The Wall Street Journal ^ | February 12, 2008 | Debra Burlingame

Posted on 02/12/2008 3:17:39 AM PST by Puzzleman

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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...

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TOPICS: Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; bomb; burlingame; clintonpardons; faln; hillary; pardon; terrorism; terrorists
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Wow! This is a great article!
1 posted on 02/12/2008 3:17:40 AM PST by Puzzleman
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Hillary Rodham Clinton was in the midst of her state-wide "listening tour" in anticipation of her run for the U.S. Senate in New York, a state which included 1.3 million Hispanics. Three members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus -- Luis V. Gutierrez (D., Ill.), Jose E. Serrano, (D., N.Y.) and Nydia M. Velazquez, (D., N.Y.) -- along with local Hispanic politicians and leftist human-rights advocates, had been agitating for years on behalf of the FALN cases directly to the White House and first lady.

Initial reports stated that Mrs. Clinton supported the clemencies, but when public reaction went negative she changed course, issuing a short statement three weeks after the clemencies were announced. The prisoners' delay in refusing to renounce violence "speaks volumes," she said. The Clintons were caught in an awkward predicament of their own making. The president had ignored federal guidelines for commutation of sentences, including the most fundamental: The prisoners hadn't actually asked for clemency.

"The prisoners hadn't actually asked for clemency"? OMG

2 posted on 02/12/2008 3:26:30 AM PST by GOPJ (Take your ball - go home - sit this one out? Fifty years of liberal Supreme Court decisions? NO WAY.)
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To: Puzzleman

Debra Burlingame is incredible. I would love to see her run for political office.


3 posted on 02/12/2008 3:28:19 AM PST by SueRae
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To: Cindy

ping


4 posted on 02/12/2008 3:28:19 AM PST by freema
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To: Puzzleman

Written by Debra Burlingame....her brother was a pilot who was killed on 9/11?


5 posted on 02/12/2008 3:29:33 AM PST by submarinerswife ("If I win I can't 't be stopped! If I lose I shall be dead." - George S. Patton)
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To: GOPJ

That duo is so blatantly corrupt it is breathtaking. To call them grifters is an understatement. They are vile pukes.


6 posted on 02/12/2008 3:33:51 AM PST by ought-six
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To: Puzzleman
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.

Well, after all, they do vote Democrat.

7 posted on 02/12/2008 3:39:57 AM PST by The Duke (I have met the enemy, and he is named 'Apathy'!)
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To: GOPJ

The Clintons MUST be kept from ever returning to the White House as occupants. Maybe now that it has a new messiah (Obambi) the MSM will start to bring to the light of day the various and sundry examples of where the Clintons screwed America and the American people.


8 posted on 02/12/2008 3:45:16 AM PST by ought-six
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To: submarinerswife

Yes. She is a great counterbalance to the umm...”Jersey Girls”.

Unlike them, she has a message to convey, and it isn’t “we are all victims looking for money”.


9 posted on 02/12/2008 4:00:05 AM PST by rlmorel (Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
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To: ought-six

That duo is so blatantly corrupt it is breathtaking. To call them grifters is an understatement. They are vile pukes

I will never understand how these two scum have gotten away with so much. It makes me fear for our country. It also makes me wonder how they can hold their heads up.


10 posted on 02/12/2008 4:03:31 AM PST by Misschuck
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To: Puzzleman
If anyone knows how to pimp for votes it is the despicable Team Clinton.

That bitch is lying her fat ass off when she says she wasn't involved!

It was all about her damn senate bid, you know that woman micromanages every second of her life!

11 posted on 02/12/2008 4:13:24 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: GOPJ
Jeffrey Farrow, a key adviser on the White House Interagency Working Group for Puerto Rico recommended meetings with the president and the three leading members of Congressional Hispanic Caucus who were pushing the effort, stating in a March 6, 1999 email, "This is Gutierrez's [sic] top priority as well as of high constituent importance to Serrano and Velazquez."

The next day, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Maria Echaveste sent an email to White House Counsel Charles Ruff, who was handling the clemency issue, supporting Mr. Farrow's view, saying, "Chuck -- Jeff's right about this -- very hot issue."Another adviser in the Working Group, Mayra Martinez-Hernandez, noted that releasing the prisoners would be "fairly easy to accomplish and will have a positive impact among strategic communities in the U.S. (read, voters)."

12 posted on 02/12/2008 4:15:31 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: Puzzleman

Bill Clinton registers for the draft on September 08, 1964, accepting all contractual conditions of registering for the draft.

Selective Service Number 3 26 46 228.

Bill Clinton classified 2-S on November 17, 1964.

Bill Clinton reclassified 1-A on March 20, 1968.

Bill Clinton ordered to report for induction on July 28, 1969.

Bill Clinton refuses to report and is not inducted into the military.

Bill Clinton reclassified 1-D after enlisting in the United States Army Reserves on August 07, 1969, under authority of Col. E. Holmes.

Clinton signs enlistment paper s and takes oath of enlistment.

Bill Clinton fails to report to his duty station at the University of Arkansas ROTC, September 1969.

Bill Clinton reclassified 1-A on October 30, 1969, as enlistment with Army Reserves is revoked by Colonel E. Holmes and Clinton now AWOL and subject to arrest under Public Law 90-40 (2)(a) registrant who has failed to report...remain liable for induction.’

Bill Clinton’s birth date lottery number is 311, drawn December 1, 1969, but anyone who has already been ordered to report for induction is INELIGIBLE!

Bill Clinton runs for Congress (1974), while a fugitive from justice under Public Law 90-40.

Bill Clinton runs for Arkansas Attorney General (1976), while a fugitive from justice.

Bill Clinton receives pardon on January 21, 1977, from Carter.

Bill Clinton FIRST PARDONED FEDERAL FELON ever to serve as President of the United States.

All these facts come from Freedom of Information requests, public laws, and various books that have been published, and have not been refuted by Clinton.

After the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, President Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.

After the 1995 bombing in Saudi Arabia, which killed five U.S. military personnel; Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.

After the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia, which killed 19 and injured 200 U.S. military personnel; Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.

After the 1998 bombing of U.S. embassies in Africa, which killed 224 and injured 5,000; Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.

After the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, which killed 17 and injured 39 U.S. sailors; Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.

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Maybe if Clinton had kept those promises, a n estimated 3,000 people in New York and Washington, DC. that are now dead would be alive today.

AN INTERESTING QUESTION: This question was raised on a Philly radio call-in show. Without casting stones, it is a legitimate question.

There are two men, both extremely wealthy.

One develops relatively cheap software and gives billions of dollars to charity.

The other sponsors terrorism.

That being the case, why was it that the Clinton Administration spent more money chasing down Bill Gates over the eight years in office, than Osama bin Laden?

THINK ABOUT IT!

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It is a strange turn of events

Hillary gets $8 Million for her forth coming memoir.

Bill gets about $12 Million for his memoir yet to be w ritten.

This from two people who spent 8 years being unable to Recall anything about past events while under oath.

Sincerely,

Cmdr. Hamilton McWhorter USN (ret)

P.S. Please forward this to as many people as you can! We don’t want this woman to even THINK of running for President.


13 posted on 02/12/2008 4:32:52 AM PST by IrishMike (I am not a Republican first. I am a conservative.)
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To: ought-six
That duo is so blatantly corrupt it is breathtaking. To call them grifters is an understatement.

Don't hold back, tell us how you really feel.

14 posted on 02/12/2008 4:35:22 AM PST by GOPJ (Take your ball - go home - sit this one out? Fifty years of liberal Supreme Court decisions? NO WAY.)
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To: IrishMike
P.S. Please forward this to as many people as you can! We don’t want this woman to even THINK of running for President.

Too late.

15 posted on 02/12/2008 4:37:46 AM PST by Non-Sequitur (Save Fredericksburg. Support CVBT.)
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To: submarinerswife

Yes, he was. She is a great spokeswoman for those murdered on 9/11.


16 posted on 02/12/2008 4:37:48 AM PST by mathluv
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To: ought-six

And yet people are gladly pulling the lever for her. I don’t care that she’s having trouble with Obama. That she’s even got the support she has tells you things are truly horrible.


17 posted on 02/12/2008 4:39:14 AM PST by Dahoser (America's great untapped alternative energy source: The Founding Fathers spinning in their graves.)
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To: IrishMike

Why these two aren’t behind bars boggles the mind.


18 posted on 02/12/2008 4:46:11 AM PST by mtbopfuyn (The fence is "absolutely not the answer" - Gov. Rick Perry (R, TX))
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To: sauropod

read


19 posted on 02/12/2008 4:54:27 AM PST by sauropod (I'd rather be waterboarded than vote for John McCain)
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To: Puzzleman
It’s almost beyond belief that people would actually vote for these despicable people.
20 posted on 02/12/2008 4:57:06 AM PST by libertylover (How does enabling Mrs. Clinton or Obama help The United States of America?)
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