The Clintons are a shady bunch of motherfuckers, and yet Democratic voters seem not to care. I actually find myself hoping for a McCain/Clinton ticket because it would win and completely destroy the Democratic and Republican Party simultaneously. Then we could scrap this whole fucking government, put every politician on trial, and start over again with a real democratic system.

Federal archivists at the Clinton Presidential Library are blocking the release of hundreds of pages of White House papers on pardons that the former president approved, including clemency for fugitive commodities trader Marc Rich.

The archivists’ decision, based on guidance provided by Bill Clinton that restricts the disclosure of advice he received from aides, prevents public scrutiny of documents that would shed light on how he decided which pardons to approve from among hundreds of requests…

…Former president Clinton issued 140 pardons on his last day in office, including several to controversial figures, such as commodities trader Rich, then a fugitive on tax evasion charges. Rich’s ex-wife, Denise, contributed $2,000 in 1999 to Hillary Clinton’s Senate campaign; $5,000 to a related political action committee; and $450,000 to a fund set up to build the Clinton library.

The president also pardoned two men who each paid Sen. Clinton’s brother, Hugh Rodham, about $200,000 to lobby the White House for pardons — one for a drug conviction and one for mail fraud and perjury convictions, according to a 2002 report by the House committee on government reform. After the payments came to light, Bill Clinton issued a statement: “Neither Hillary nor I had any knowledge of such payments,” the report said.

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Remember when Hillary said this about the Libby pardon? “This commutation sends the clear signal that in this Administration, cronyism and ideology trump competence and justice.” Kinda hard to place which administration she was talking about isn’t it?