Monday, October 31, 2016

What goes around comes around

Via David

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A reader points out the irony of Hillary Clinton complaining about timing of the reopening of the FBI investigation. In 1992, the reader reminds me, President Bush was gaining on Bill Clinton as Election Day approached. But just four days before the election, the special counsel, Lawrence Walsh, obtained a new indictment of former Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger.

Weinberger had been indicted earlier in the year. But the new indictment cited a Weinberger diary entry that contradicted something President Bush had said.
 
The Clintons seized on the new indictment, howling about a “culture of corruption” that supposedly pervaded the administration. Bush’s poll numbers declined and Bill Clinton won the election.

Shortly after the election, a federal judge threw out the new indictment because it violated the five-year statute of limitations and improperly broadened the original charges. President Bush then pardoned Weinberger.

Keep this history in mind during the coming days when you hear Democratic hacks talking about how awful it is for law enforcement officials and/or prosecutors to “interfere” in the presidential election process.

4 comments:

  1. Excuse the intrusion. Major gasoline explosion in Alabama,
    a mile from the September gas leak. Several people injured.
    Unbelievable. I guess gas prices will explode.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtssA1hycoo

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  2. Intentionally suppressing an investigation until after an election is also "influencing the election". And now that elections go on for two years or more, Everything influences the election. It is unavoidable.

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