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Off Topic Forums => Off Topic Forum => Topic started by: jack on September 30, 2006, 10:49:11 am
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Willy did this to secure the puerto rican vote in NY for his wife. At the same time he pardoned arch criminal Marc Rich(fixing oil prices) in return for huge donations from Richies wife to Clintons Libary.
Clinton Freed Terrorists Who Killed My Father
September 30, 2006; Page A9
While Richard Miniter's Sept. 27 editorial-page commentary "What President Clinton Didn't Do . . ." goes a long way toward holding Mr. Clinton's record on fighting terrorism up to scrutiny, he misses an relevant fact that must be considered when assessing the ex-president's record as a whole: In 1999 Mr. Clinton gave clemency to 16 terrorists.
Granted, considering Mr. Clinton's pardons of scores of drug dealers, tax cheats and the like in the final night of his presidency, many Americans lost track that one year earlier that he provided clemency to members of the FALN, a Puerto Rican separatist group that waged a terrorist war against the U.S. in the 1970's and 1980's. During that time the FALN carried out more than 130 bombings, including the January 1975 attack on Fraunces Tavern in Lower Manhattan that killed four people, including my father, Frank, who was 33 years old.
On Sept. 21, 1999, only weeks after 14 of the terrorists walked out of prison courtesy of Mr. Clinton (two rejected the deal), I warned the House Oversight Committee of the impact of being soft on terrorism, saying that "on the eve of the next century, the threat of global terrorism is greater than it has ever been" and "when the next indiscriminate bombing happens, I, unlike Clinton, will feel the pain of the victims and he will be in part responsible for it." Sadly, I was proven right less than two years later.