Now I know–all you die hard Socialist Liberals out there are having a field day on the opposite side of the fence–but this has to be said! Praise President Bush for finally commuting Scooter Libby’s prison sentence–and hopefully in the coming days–a full pardon will be issued as well! Honestly–the only person that should be arrested and tried is Mr. Fitzgerald! This has been a witch hunt from the beginning–Libby has been the scapegoat from the beginning–the one who outed Ms. Plame–was Ms. Plame herself–and her lying husband! How many covert agents do you know who drive to CIA headquarters everyday for 6 years?? Oh yeah–that would be really hard to track! MORON!!
There never was anything that needed to be investigated–and yet Moronic Mr. Fitzgerald has spent BILLIONS of tax payer monies to run this charade!
Thank Heavens it’s almost over! And for any of you bleeding heart liberals–just remember what your last joke of a president did the last two weeks of his term–selling pardons for donations to his farce library! And you are all going to get your panties in a wad over this one???? What a joke!
Clinton issued 140 pardons as well as several commutations on his last day of office (January 20, 2001).[11] When a sentence is commuted, the conviction remains intact, but the sentence can be altered in a number of ways. Some controversial actions include the following:
* Carlos A. Vignali had his sentence for cocaine trafficking commuted, after serving 6 of 15 years in federal prison.
* Almon Glenn Braswell was pardoned of his mail fraud and perjury convictions, even while a federal investigation was underway regarding additional money laundering and tax evasion charges.[12] Braswell and Carlos Vignali each paid approximately $200,000 to Hillary Clinton’s brother, Hugh Rodham, to represent their respective cases for clemency. Hugh Rodham returned the payments after they were disclosed to the public. Braswell would later invoke the Fifth Amendment at a Senate Committee hearing in 2001, when questioned about allegations of his having systematically defrauded senior citizens of millions of dollars.[13]
* Marc Rich, a fugitive, was pardoned of tax evasion, after clemency pleas from Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, among many other international luminaries. Denise Rich, Marc’s former wife, was a close friend of the Clintons and had made substantial donations to both Clinton’s library and Hillary’s Senate campaign. Clinton agreed to a pardon that required Marc Rich to pay a $100,000,000 fine before he could return to the United States. 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.[14]
* Susan McDougal, who had already completed her sentence, was pardoned for her role in the Whitewater scandal; McDougal had served 18 months on contempt charges for refusing to testify about Clinton’s role.
* Dan Rostenkowski, a former Democratic Congressman convicted in the Congressional Post Office Scandal. Rostenkowski had served his entire sentence.
* Melvin J. Reynolds, a Democratic Congressman from Illinois, who was convicted of bank fraud, 12 counts of sexual assault, obstruction of justice, and solicitation of child pornography had his sentence commuted on the bank fraud charged and was allowed to serve the final months under the auspices of a half way house. He had served his entire sentence on child sex abuse charges before the commutation of the later convictions.
* Roger Clinton, the president’s half-brother, on drug charges after having served the entire sentence more than a decade before. Roger Clinton would be charged with drunk driving and disorderly conduct in an unrelated incident within a year of the pardon.[15] He was also briefly alleged to have been utilized in lobbying for the Braswell pardon, among others.
OOOOOOOH, and lets not forget—Slick Billy lying under oath–all by himself! Yep–in comparison–PRESIDENT BUSH looks like a choir boy!!
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