Friday, March 10, 2017

She Persisted.


"The list of beneficiaries of Clinton's last-minute clemency orgy was as eclectic as one could imagine: small and big time crooks, con men, bank robbers, terrorists, relatives, ex-girlfriends, a cross section of the Clinton cabinet, a former director of the CIA, perjurers (appropriately enough) tax evaders, fugitive money lenders, Clinton campaign contributors, former members of Congress, and friends of Jesse Jackson.  The sheer number of pardons and clemency grants, coupled with their timing the last day of the Clinton Presidency and the first day of Bush Two staggered the press and smothered the story.  Details would have to come later and they were both hard to uncover and slow to reveal."
                                                            
                                                       Barbara Olsen,  'The Final Days'.  p. 123

Ms. Olson also tells related two of Bill Clinton's more interesting actions: a grant clemency to Susan Rosenberg, a member of a Weather Underground cell that set off a bomb in the Capitol Building back in 1978; and Bill pardoning members of the FALN, a Puerto Rican separatist group responsible for a string of bombing in Chicago, New York, and Washington from 1974 to 1883, leaving a number of people dead, crippled, and blinded. 

Barbara Olson.  She Persisted.

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