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Countries are almost always reluctant to have their citizens extradited, especially when it's for a political or politically-connected crime. You can't blame them. If it's important enough to us, then we need to lean on them.

The real question is whether Bush and Ashcroft want this guy to be extradited. They haven't exactly been in hot pursuit of clinton's crimes anywhere.

I said when he took office that Bush personally should leave these matters alone--unlike clinton, who got his paws all over everything and never shut his mouth. He should leave them to the usual agencies, such as the Justice Department, to follow their usual procedures. Instead, the word seems to be out to everyone to put their usual policies on hold and give clinton a free pass. Unfortunate.

The real question is whether Bush and Ashcroft want this guy to be extradited. They haven't exactly been in hot pursuit of clinton's crimes anywhere.

DOJ has been putting heavy pressure on the Philippines to extradite Jimenez.

What I don't understand is in cases like Torricelli's and this; the guy that gave the illegal contributions go to jail, and the guy receiving the illegal contributions gets off...

If Bush were to even glance at something like this he would be chewed up by the Dems, regurgitated and chewed up again by their lapdogs in the press.