Marc Rich pardon controversy just won't die

[Terri]

By PETE YOST
Associated Press
November 20, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's a controversy that Republicans refuse to forget: Bill Clinton's pardon eight years ago of fugitive financier Marc Rich. Just ask Eric Holder, President-elect Barack Obama's top choice for attorney general.

Holder, who was deputy attorney general during the Clinton administration, is in line for the attorney general job he long has wanted, but the 2001 episode with Rich still echoes. The Republican National Committee is resurrecting the incident, circulating an e-mail Wednesday that asks: "Why does Obama want to appoint an attorney general with a long history of controversial pardons?"

The Rich pardon that Clinton granted on his last day in office became the final controversy in a presidency filled with them.

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[rangerrebew]

The MSM will squash any mention of Holder's part in the mess or they will say it really was Clinton's decision and so Holder shouldn't be held accoutable which is true - sort of. They may well say it was really the Waco Wacko, Janet Reno, that made the decision and poor Holder was only relaying the message. But the bottom line is he could have killed Marc Rich and wouldn't make a hill of beans of difference. Look how the commiecrats backed Sandy Burglar and how he made his way into politics again. Crime, extortion, and payoffs are not crimes to commiecrats, only a way of life.

[Charie]

Crime, extortion, and payoffs are not crimes to commiecrats, only a way of life.

You hit the nail squarely on the head with that one, Ranger.

on discovering that former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak supported Rich's petition.

After fleeing the United States, Rich became an Israeli citizen, giving tens of millions of dollars to Israeli hospitals, museums, orchestras and to projects to take in Jewish immigrants.

I guess we can draw our own conclusions here. Just too funny!