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Michael Ramirez on Democrat Fundraiser Norman Hsu and the Clintons
A controversial Hillary Clinton fund-raiser surrendered to California authorities yesterday – 15 years after skipping out on a possible three-year jail term for a fraud conviction.
Businessman Norman Hsu was cuffed and bail was set at $2 million, with a judge turning down his request to cut the bail in half. He was released on bail five hours later.
The Clintons and the smell of dirty campaign money has returned (remember Bill Clinton’s pardon of Mark Rich?) and is tainting the Democrat Party.
All of the Democrats who received Hsu’s contributions are now scrambling to rid themselves of the money – from New Jersey’s Senators to New Mexico’s Governor and Presidential candidate Bill Richardson.
Fancy that……
Stay tuned as Hsu and the others are scrutinized for their ties to foreign interests.
And the Los Angeles Times asks how Hillary could not know about Hsu.
Gateway Pundit has an excellent round-up of the Hsu-nami that has hit Hillary and other Democrats:
- Macranger has more on the curious Mr. Hsu.
- Kurt Hoglund built a Google Notebook of “All Things Hsu”.
- Don Surber reports- Hillary Hears a Hsu
- Clarice Feldman– Left Hand Meet Right Hand
- Captain’s Quarters questions Hillary.
Hillary’s donor case goes back to court next week
Michelle Malkin reports that the Justice Department is looking into Norman Hsu’s possible straw campaign donations as a result of the Wall Street Journal report.
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Photo Caption of the Day: Hillary and Bill
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Scooter Libby Outrage
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Michael Ramirez on Bill Clinton, Pardons, Hypocrisy and Scooter Libby
Clintons accused of ‘hypocrisy’
President Bush commuted the jail term of Lewis “Scooter” Libby, convicted over a CIA-leak case, on Monday.
White House spokesman Tony Snow accused the Clintons of “chutzpah” – Yiddish for brashness – in criticising Mr Bush.
President Clinton issued 140 pardons on his final day in office, including one for fugitive financier Marc Rich.
Mr Bush commuted the 30-month prison sentence but left in place a $250,000 (£124,000) fine, which Libby paid on Thursday, and a two-year “supervised release”, or probation, period. He has refused to rule out a full pardon for Libby.
The White House’s accusation of hypocrisy against the former president and first lady followed a radio interview in which Mr Clinton said the Bush administration viewed the law as a “minor obstacle”.
Mr Clinton, from the state of Arkansas, also rejected comparisons with his own controversial granting of pardons, saying “the facts were different”.
Mrs Clinton, a Democratic contender for the presidential elections in 2008, in turn accused the administration of having “elevated cronyism over the rule of law”.
White House spokesman Tony Snow responded: “I don’t know what the Arkansan is for chutzpah, but this is a gigantic case of it.”
He then referred critics to Mr Clinton’s pardons on the last day of his presidency, 20 January, 2001.
Oh the Hypocrisy……………
This issue with pardons is going to bite Bill and Hillary in the ass again as the race for 2008 heats up.
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Rudy Giuliani Watch: Rudy Slams Clinton on Terrorism
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani speaks about terrorism and his bid for the presidency at the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington in Rockville, Md., on Tuesday, June 26, 2007. ‘ Giuliani on Tuesday accused former President Clinton of not responding forcefully enough to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing or later terrorist attacks.
Giuliani slams Bill Clinton on terrorism
Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday accused former President Clinton of not responding forcefully enough to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing or later terrorist attacks.
The former New York mayor criticized Democrats, accusing them of weakness and naivete in dealing with terrorism. Giuliani made the comments to about 650 business, corporate and political leaders at Regent University, the conservative Christian college founded by religious broadcaster Pat Robertson.
“Islamic terrorists killed more than 500 Americans before Sept. 11. Many people think the first attack on America was on Sept. 11, 2001. It was not. It was in 1993,” said the former New York mayor.
Giuliani argued that Clinton treated the World Trade Center bombing as a criminal act instead of a terrorist attack, calling it “a big mistake” that emboldened other strikes on the Khobar Towers housing complex in Saudi Arabia, in Kenya and Tanzania and later on the USS Cole while docked in Yemen in 2000.
“The United States government, then President Clinton, did not respond,” Giuliani said. “(Osama) bin Laden declared war on us. We didn’t hear it.”
In hindsight, Giuliani said, maybe it’s all clearer now, “but now is now, and there is no reason to go back into denial, and that is essentially what the Democratic candidates for president want to do: they want to go back, to put the country in reverse to the 1990s.
“I’m not blaming anybody back then,” Giuliani said later in the day at a campaign stop at a Jewish temple in Rockville, Md. “What I am saying is, I do blame people after Sept. 11. Now you have to get it.”
And Rudy does get it while Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, et al. do NOT.
Flap can hardly wait for the Rudy vs Hillary debates.
When I have video of today’s speeches I will post it here.
Stay tuned……
Rudy Giuliani, seen here at Ground Zero in October 2001.
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Hillary Clinton Watch: Two for One?
Could Bill Clinton take over his wife’s Senate seat if he becomes the first first husband? Some think so.
The Examiner: Some mull idea of Sen. Bill Clinton
If Hillary Rodham Clinton wins the presidency, some top Democrats would like to see her husband, former President Bill Clinton, appointed to serve out Hillary’s unexpired Senate term.
“As a senator, he’d be a knockout,†said Harold Ickes, who was once a top White House aide to Bill Clinton and now gives behind-the-scenes advice to Hillary. “He knows issues, he loves public policy and he’s a good politician.â€
Some Democrats and political analysts say Bill Clinton would thrive in the world’s greatest deliberative body, much like Lyndon Johnson did before he became president.
“President Clinton would excel in the Senate,†said Paul Begala, who helped Bill Clinton get elected and served in the White House as a top aide.
“Why not?†Begala added. “He excelled as attorney general and governor of Arkansas, he excelled as president and he’s been a model of the modern Senate spouse.â€
Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, agreed.
“Clinton is a natural for the Senate,†Sabato said. “He loves to talk and schmooze. He could be a great vote-organizer. Majority Leader Clinton?â€
A TWOfer and another reason not to vote for Hillary.
Flap thought the polls said voters were tired of the same ol’ politicos.
And why not a three-some?
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Hillary Clinton Watch: McAuliffe Puts The ARM on Hollywood
Los Angeles Times: McAuliffe seeks Clinton believers
The campaign chairman charms, jokes and twists arms — gently, of course — at a dinner party in Beverly Hills.Listen up! Terry McAuliffe wants a hand count.
“Who’s with Hillary?” he asks a small gathering of ultra-power brokers assembled for a dinner party at media mogul Haim Saban‘s palatial Beverly Hills estate Sunday evening. “Come on!” he says.
“Pulp Fiction” producer Lawrence Bender, brave soul, is the only one to keep his hand down: “I’m with Obama.”
“Ah,” says McAuliffe, chairman of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton‘s (D-N.Y.) presidential campaign. He’s on a roll, funny and charming and deadly serious.
“This isn’t the John Kerry campaign,” he quips. “You are either with us or you’re against us.”
Call it a hard sell and humor mixed with a heavy dose of better-watch-out. McAuliffe is in town this week, promoting his book, “What a Party!” His message is clear: Get off the fence, you Hollywood doubters.
Supporting multiple candidates? “That’s the dumbest thing I ever heard.”
Former Democrat National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe is out trolling for Hollywood presidential campaign cash for Hillary.
He is taking names trying to FREEZE OUT Obama who has a Hollywood fundraising event on February 10.
And do you think he is kidding about being with them?
NOPE
But, this election should Mayor Rudy Giuliani win the GOP nod Hillary and/or Obama may have competition for Hollywood campaign cash.
“Bill Clinton might forgive you if you give to other candidates,” McAuliffe teases guest Nicole Avant, the daughter of the mega-political Clarence Avant, music industry guru. “But not Hillary. No way. She’s tough.”
Avant smiles coyly. She won’t say whom she supports.
“How are you ever going to get the Paris ambassadorship?” McAuliffe continues. “Get on board.”
Sounds like McAuliffe is selling PARDONS again for the Clintons.
Stay tuned…….
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Hillary Clinton Watch: Jokes on Bubba Bill
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New York Post: HILL’S ‘EVIL’ JOKE ON HUBBY BUBBA
Hillary Rodham Clinton left caucus-goers here yesterday believing that Bubba had given her a baptism by fire in how to deal with “evil and bad men.”
Clinton’s quip, made during a morning rally with about 500 Iowans, drew 31 seconds of straight laughter and applause that left little doubt among attendees that she’d made a joke at hubby Bill Clinton’s expense.
The one-liner came in response to a question shouted at the former first lady from the audience asking whether she had the mettle and experience to deal with evil and rotten men – like terrorist Osama bin Laden and the tyrants of North Korea and Iran.
Clinton grabbed the mike and told the audience that the questioner wanted to know “what in my background equips me to deal with evil and bad men.” She then smiled, raised her eyebrows and nodded knowingly at the questioner.
Her nod and the ensuing eruption of laughter had rally-goers convinced she was talking about her husband, whose Oval Office affair with intern Monica Lewinsky exploded into the Sexgate scandal and led to impeachment proceedings.
“She was talking about Bill being a bad man. There was no doubt whatsoever,” said Tyrone Williams, 55, an engineer from nearby Bettendorf, Iowa.
In case you missed it yesterday – Flap has the video here.
The ghosts and baggage of Slick Willie are already haunting Hillary. It would be funny if it wasn’t so PATHETIC.
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Sandy Berger Watch: House report: Berger Hurt National Security
WorldNet.com: House report: Berger hurt national securityA House committee released a report today concluding former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger went to extraordinary lengths to compromise national security and that the Department of Justice could not assure the 9/11 commission that it received the documents it requested.
Rep. Tom Davis of Virginia, ranking Republican member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said his staff’s investigation reveals Berger “compromised national security much more than originally disclosed.”
“It is now also clear that Mr. Berger was willing to go to extraordinary lengths to compromise national security, apparently for his own convenience,” Davis said.
The report from Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (Republicans) by Ranking Member Thomas M. Davis is here.
As WND reported, a newly released investigation report by the National Archives and Records Administration showed President Bill Clinton signed a letter authorizing Berger’s access to the classified documents.
Last year, Berger plea bargained a criminal sentence on the charge of unlawfully removing and retaining classified documents. A judge gave him no prison time, a $50,000 fine, 100 hours of community service and a ban from access to classified material for three years.
Davis said the 9/11 commission “relied on incomplete and misleading information regarding its access to documents” Berger reviewed.
The commission was never told Berger had access to original documents that he could have taken without detection, Davis stated.
“Mr. Berger’s review of documents did not conform to the usual requirements for reviewing classified documents in a secure facility and under strict supervision,” he said. “The archives staff’s failure to contact law enforcement immediately and their contacts with Mr. Berger about the missing documents compromised the law enforcement effort.”
Davis said the “compromised law enforcement effort contributes to reduced confidence that the 9/11 commission received all the documents it requested.”
“The execution of a search warrant before Mr. Berger knew there was an investigation would have either located additional documents or enhanced confidence that he stole no others than those he admitted to taking,” he said.
As Flap said previously:
This former National Security Advisor for President Clinton should be barred from ever dealing with classified documents again. Three years was NOT long enough of a ban.
Remember when Bill Clinton had a damn shit fit when the TV docu-drama, The Path to 9/11 aired?And that he bitched all over the place that he tried – after Berger stole documents that would implicate Clinton and himself before the 9/11 Commission with regards to Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda. America will NEVER know the role these characters played in pre-9/11 anti-terror activities, if ANY.
Sandy Berger = THIEF
The Inspector General’s Report is here (H/T Allah)
Flap wonders when Hillary announces Berger as part of her national security campaign staff? Berger should NEVER be confirmed or allowed acess to the government again – PERIOD.
Stay tuned……
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Glenn McCoy on Sandy Berger and Bill Clinton
AP: Report Says Berger Hid Archive Documents
President Clinton’s national security adviser removed classified documents from the National Archives, hid them under a construction trailer and later tried to find the trash collector to retrieve them, the agency’s internal watchdog said Wednesday.
The report was issued more than a year after Sandy Berger pleaded guilty and received a criminal sentence for removing the documents.
Berger took the documents in the fall of 2003 while working to prepare himself and Clinton administration witnesses for testimony to the Sept. 11 commission. Berger was authorized as the Clinton administration’s representative to make sure the commission got the correct classified materials.
Berger’s lawyer, Lanny Breuer, said in a statement that the contents of all the documents exist today and were made available to the commission.
But Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., outgoing chairman of the House Government Reform Committee, said he’s not convinced that the Archives can account for all the documents taken by Berger. Davis said working papers of National Security Council staff members are not inventoried by the Archives.
“There is absolutely no way to determine if Berger swiped any of these original documents. Consequently, there is no way to ever know if the 9/11 Commission received all required materials,†Davis said.
This former National Security Advisor for President Clinton should be barred from ever dealing with classified documents again. Three years was NOT long enough of a ban.
Remember when Bill Clinton had a damn shit fit when the TV docu-drama, The Path to 9/11 aired?And that he bitched all over the place that he tried – after Berger stole documents that would implicate Clinton and himself before the 9/11 Commission with regards to Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda. America will NEVER know the role these characters played in pre-9/11 anti-terror activities, if ANY.
Sandy Berger = THIEF
The Inspector General’s Report is here (H/T Allah)
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