Election ’08: One of Hillary Clinton’s many lies is the one about her role in President Bill Clinton’s granting of clemency to terrorists to aid her political fortunes and those of his vice president.
Mrs. Clinton has been caught in a tangled web of deception about her experiences as first lady and her role and influence in the White House of William Jefferson Clinton. But there was one decision she did significantly influence, though she now denies it.
Campaigning in Corpus Christi, Texas, shortly before the March 4 primary that kept Hillary’s candidacy alive, if on life support, husband Bill was asked a question about his decision on Aug. 11, 1999, to grant clemency to 16 members of a hard core http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3148 terrorist group, the Armed Forces for National Liberation (FALN).
He said that the pardons were “based on the stuff I was given by the staff.” But as former Clinton staffer http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3716 relates, both the FBI and the Justice Department opposed the pardons of these terrorists. So it had to be his White House political staff, and one individual in particular — Hillary Rodham Clinton.Hillary has claimed to have had “no involvement in or prior knowledge of the decision.” Yet as the New Republic noted at the time: “Two days before the president announced the clemency deal, New York City Councilman Jose Rivera personally presented Hillary with a packet on clemency, including a letter asking her to ‘speak to the president and ask him to consider granting executive clemency’ to the prisoners.”
Apparently she did. Before this pardon, President Clinton had denied clemency in 3,039 out of 3,042 cases. Why this one, if he was serious about fighting terrorism? Between 1974 and 1983, FALN terrorists had been involved in more than 130 bombings in the United States, including the bombing of the historic Fraunces Tavern in New York City on Jan. 24, 1975, that killed four people and injured 150 others.
“These terrorists never even asked for a pardon” according to http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3144 population in New York during her first Senate race, they were suddenly granted a commutation of their sentences.”
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