I was perusing the vast internets and happened across this at the CNN Ticker. It’s Bill Clinton (gawd help us, Clenis is LOOSE!) on the campaign trail with Hillary addressing the pardon of Scoots. What caught my attention was this regarding Clinton:
. . . . . . . a flurry of last-minute pardons issued as he left office in 2001 — particularly his absolution of fugitive financier Marc Rich — sparked largely partisan outrage. Critics alleged that the pardon of Rich was linked to contributions raised for Clinton’s presidential library by Rich’s ex-wife . . . . . . . . Rich fled to Switzerland in the 1980s to avoid racketeering, tax evasion and fraud charges stemming from illegal oil trades with Iran. Libby, who represented Rich from 1985 to 2000, told a House committee in 2001 that prosecutors “misconstrued the facts and the law” in pursuing the tax evasion charges. . . .
When I read that I heard Jon Stewart go off in my head with that double-eye rubbing, head shaking woopphtt!!
That’s what the Big Dog meant when he said “the facts were different” in relation to the pardon of Libby vs Rich. Uh-huh; Mr. Rich is quite the scoundrel. Another reason not to vote for Hillary.
I also stumbled across some interesting stuff from Sanders Research out of the UK investigating Marc Rich, Scoots, and the Wilson family….not all tied together necessarily.
