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EndElectoral Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-25-08 11:33 PM
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31. Pardongate!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton_pardons_controversy

Linda Sue Evans and Susan Rosenberg were pardoned. Weather Underground members, they were imprisoned on weapons and explosives charges.<17><18>

Marc Rich, a fugitive, was pardoned of tax evasion, after clemency pleas from Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, among many other international luminaries. He was required to pay a $100 million dollar fine and waive any use of the pardon as a defense against any future civil charges that were filed against him in the same case. Critics complained that Denise Rich, his former wife, had made substantial donations to the Clinton library and to Mrs. Clinton's senate campaign. Emails uncovered during the course of the investigation revealed that her final donation was provided a year before Scooter Libby requested that she approach Clinton for a pardon. According to Paul Volcker's independent investigation of Iraqi Oil-for-Food kickback schemes, Marc Rich was a middleman for several suspect Iraqi oil deals involving over 4 million barrels of oil.<19>

And she has the audacity to criticize Obama's association with Ayers?

And HRC said you must defend family, but you can always change pastors. Well HRC, you can always change friends too.

I'm sorry the woman is a hypocrite.

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