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• Tuesday, December 2, 2008 07:54 AM

  rrobmac

  I understand that Glenn despises Bill Clinton and all associated with him

  Replace "understand" with "fantasize" and this sentence would then become accurate.

  You have any proof of my bountiful contempt for Bill Clinton and all associated with him? Have I ever written about the role of the media and the Right in the Lewinsky scandals? What did I think of that?

  Bill Clinton made it clear that his main reason for issuing this pardon was to allow the many many civil suits against Rich to go forward. As long as the criminal action was ongoing (which it would be forever since Rich refused to return to the country) the civil actions could not even begin. There were many entities in this country that were eager to sue Rich for many millions of dollars. As a result of Clinton's pardon, those suits were able to go forward.

  That's absolutely hilarious. Then why not offer all criminal fugitives the same deal: We'll pardon you for your crimes so that you'll be subject to civil suit!

  I'm sure that Marc Rich and his hundreds of millions of dollars were devastated by that consequence -- that's why he spent years and millions of dollars doing everything he could to connive that outcome.

  I wasn't focused here on Clinton's excuse for the Rich pardon, but on Holder's role in it, and not even Holder offers this hilarious excuse. In fact, he has said his behavior was a mistake that he regrets.

  Now, the fact that a Deputy Attorney General received an average of one phone call or email every two and a half months from from some powerful and well connected lawyers certainly is damning evidence of something, but I don't know what. Sadly, Mother Theressa and Jesus Christ are both dead, so Obama was forced to name a mere human as his Attorney General. How ever will the nation survive?

  The hallmark of a blind Obama worshiper: any objections to right-wing or militaristic policies makes one a wild-eyed Ideologue who doesn't understand the Virtues of Pragmatism. And any objections to unethical, sleazy behavior makes one an unrealistic Purist who wants everyone to be Jesus Christ.

  So, Holder used his power as Deputy Attorney General to facilitate the granting of extremely special and valuable treatment to a very rich, high-donor fugitive and his well-connected, power-broker lawyers that no ordinary citizen would ever get. That makes him human! What do you want? Mother Theresa.

  Any time there is any scandal or error on the part of the Obama administration, we'll be hearing this over and over and over for the next four years from this small though vocal group of groupies.

  —GlennGreenwald Read GlennGreenwald's other letters
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