Fast and Furious is not the first time Eric Holder has been involved or associated with the death of American citizens...
In 1999, Holder was assistant Attorney General for the United States...Bill Clinton was president...and 16 members of the terrorist group Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (English: Armed Forces of National Liberation, FALN) were in prison, convicted of setting off more than 120 bombs in the United States, something they brazenly claimed...they were convicted of conspiracy and sedition and sentenced with terms ranging from 35 to 105 years in prison...these terrorists threatened the judge and jury during their trial and the only reason they didn't get the death penalty was because it wasn't an option in the state in which they were tried...
President Clinton decided to commute the prison sentences for these 16 terrorists...according to the son of one American killed by these terrorists:
Holder, in considering his department's recommendation on clemency, met with supporters of the terrorists but ignored their victims. He pushed staff members to drop their strong opposition to a presidential pardon for the FALN members and alter a report they had prepared for the president recommending against clemency.According to an LA Times article in January 2009:
…President Clinton’s decision to commute prison terms caused an uproar at the time. Holder was called before Congress to explain his role but declined to answer numerous questions from angry lawmakers demanding to know why the Justice Department had not sided with the FBI, federal prosecutors and other law enforcement officials, who were vehemently opposed to the grants.
Sound familiar?...Holder refusing to testify..explain..cooperate...whatever...
(the original article has been scrubbed from the LA Times website, however Michelle Malkin has excerpts on her website that were posted Jan 9, 2009)
New interviews and an examination of previously undisclosed documents indicate that Holder played an active role in changing the position of the Justice Department on the commutations.
Holder instructed his staff at Justice’s Office of the Pardon Attorney to effectively replace the department’s original report recommending against any commutations, which had been sent to the White House in 1996, with one that favored clemency for at least half the prisoners, according to these interviews and documents.
And after Pardon Attorney Roger Adams resisted, Holder’s chief of staff instructed him to draft a neutral “options memo” instead, Adams said.
The options memo allowed Clinton to grant the commutations without appearing to go against the Justice Department’s wishes, Adams and his predecessor, Margaret Colgate Love, said in their first public comments on the case.
"I remember this well, because it was such a big deal to consider clemency for a group of people convicted of such heinous crimes,” said Adams, the agency’s top pardon lawyer from 1997 until 2008. He said he told Holder of his “strong opposition to any clemency in several internal memos and a draft report recommending denial” and in at least one face-to-face meeting. But each time Holder wasn’t satisfied, Adams said.
The 16 members of the FALN (the Spanish acronym for Armed Forces of National Liberation) and Los Macheteros had been convicted in Chicago and Hartford variously of bank robbery, possession of explosives and participating in a seditious conspiracy. Overall, the two groups had been linked by the FBI to more than 130 bombings, several armed robberies, six slayings and hundreds of injuries. All of this information was available when Barack Hussein Obama was making a decision on his choice for US Attorney General in 2009...Holder has been unapologetic for his involvement in these pardons, just as he is denying today his knowledge of/participation in Fast and Furious...
The thing about these patterns of behavior are always the same...people don't change...sympathy towards terrorists that kill American citizens isn't something you do in passing before you move on to your next frame of mind...it is something that is ingrained in you to the core of your being...
Obama's friend Eric Holder...terrorist sympathizer...terrorist enabler...contempt for American citizens...this didn't happen overnight...
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