"It took one Clinton to clean up after the first Bush....

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Mon Apr-28-08 12:03 AM
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"It took one Clinton to clean up after the first Bush....

and it will take anothe Clinton to clean up after the second Bush".

So what exactly did she mean when she said that? Didn't Bill Clinton staop all investigations into the BCCI scandal? And the Iraqgate scandals? What happened to Iran/Contra?

And just incase there are those who would say that this has nothing to do with todays problems, I offer you some light reading:

This is also true, in some respects, of the 1992 U.S. Senate investigation into what was known as "the BCCI Affair," which left several stones unturned and many questions unanswered. There are two main differences, however. First, the Senate investigation – although it operated within fairly circumscribed limits, pulled many punches, and shied away from some evidence that clearly led to the highest echelons of government -- was actually much more thorough than the official probes of the Kennedy assassination and 9/11. And second, unlike those two investigations, which continue to generate heated interest year after year, the BCCI Affair has been almost completely erased from public memory. Yet a grasp of BCCI's operations – many of which simply continued in other guises when the "bank" itself disappeared – is essential to understanding much of what is happening in the political world today, including Edmonds' revelations.

http://baltimorechronicle.com/2008/011008Floyd.shtml

Also see:

Kerry will later conclude that the Justice Department in particular went to great lengths to block his and Morgenthau’s investigations “through a variety of mechanisms, ranging from not making witnesses available, to not returning phone calls, to claiming that every aspect of the case was under investigation in a period when little, if anything was being done.” After the Bank of England shuts down BCCI in July 1991 (see July 5, 1991), making big headlines, Under Assistant Attorney General Robert Mueller takes over Justice Department efforts on BCCI and assigns many new attorneys to the case. But Kerry will ultimately conclude that the indictments the Justice Department brings forth against BCCI after that time were narrower and less detailed than those of Morgenthau’s, and often seemed to be in response to what Morgenthau was doing. Kerry submits his report on BCCI in December 1992, and after that investigations into BCCI peter out. President Bush will appoint Mueller to be director of the FBI shortly before 9/11 (see September 4, 2001).

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timeline&financing_of_al-qaeda:_a_more_detailed_look=complete_911_timeline_bcci

Note that Mueller was one of many people to return to the services of the Bush family after Clinton's administration. An administration that had the report on it's desk when they took office one month after Kerry released the report, and did nothing about it..

So who wants to let Hillary "clean up" after the most disastrous and criminal Presidency in American history?

Not me.