Posted on 07/25/2010 1:10:16 PM PDT by Nachum
Scottish officials say US memo giving grudging support to freeing Abdelbaset al-Megrahi undermines president's criticisms
Barack Obama is under growing pressure to release a letter that reveals the US grudgingly supported freeing the Lockerbie bomber on compassionate grounds.
The letter was sent to Scottish ministers by a senior diplomat at the US embassy in London last August, eight days before Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was released from prison because he was dying from inoperable prostate cancer.
Obama's administration has refused to allow publication of the letter, in which the US says allowing Megrahi to live at home in Scotland would be "far preferable" to sending him back to Libya under the prisoner transfer deal brokered by former prime minister Tony Blair in 2007.
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The diplomat that was the intermediary had best have a copy of the letter or he find out how much room is under the bus.
One more item for the eventual impeachment hearings.
Hillary made another try on 8/19/09. She may have violated protocol by doing this.
Who do you think is involved with this letter?
If anything negative flows to the administration, she goes under the bus.
Bp signed the contract with Libya in 2007...two years before he was released.
I don’t think she’ll go quietly. At least I hope not.
No doubt but it will be easier to toss a nameless diplomat from the embassy under the bus. He needs Hillary’s supporters to vote his way.
So, now that the Journolist has been 86’d, where have they reconvened?
I have heard rumors, but I am not sure.
If true, this is a big story - yet it has disappeared from Drudge, and isn’t on Fox or CNN. What happened to it?
The Guardian still has it up. Time will tell.
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