Hill on Brinks radical: I didn't know!

[Adelante]

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You can watch the video below. If it's true, it means that she got the worst briefings in the world when she was running for Senate in 2000 and the clemency issue was hot in Rockland County, and it means that Chuck Schumer didn't even bother to mention the issue to his fellow NY senator-elect/ First Lady after promising the widows of two dead cops to fight against one of the clemencies.

Here's the chronology:

On October 19, 2000, as Hillary was hunting for Senate votes throughout New York, Rockland County's biggest paper, the Journal News, ran a front page story reporting that imprisoned radical Susan Rosenberg -- linked to the 1981 Weather Underground Brinks robbery that left two Nyack cops dead -- was seeking clemency from Bill Clinton.

The next day, the widows and fellow state and local police attended a memorial service for the two dead cops at the site of the killings. Also in attendance: Sen. Chuck Schumer, who in that fall was frequently campaigning with Hillary. According to another front page story, on Oct. 21, he made a pledge to the widows to fight the clemency: "I intend to take our opposition as high as I can in government."

On December 16, 2000, after Hillary became New York's Senator-elect, the paper did another Page 1 story about an upcoming 60 Minutes episode on Rosenberg's clemency application. It included a quote from one of her new constituents, Diane O'Grady, wife of one of the dead cops: "This is a woman who has taken lives."
On December 17, 2000, the "60 Minutes" piece on Rosenberg's case and clemency request ran.

So, Clinton -- in her effort to avoid being connected in any way to the case -- now says she knew nothing about it. Nobody briefed her, either while she was running or after she was elected, on an emotional hot-button issue that intersected her husband with her constituents. Her husband, who invited her to sit in on a White House meeting with another group of Rockland County residents seeking pardons for four Hasidic members of their community, never so much as mentioned Rosenberg.

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Entire article
http://weblogs.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/politics/blog/2008/04/hill_on_brinks_radical_i_didnt.html



Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zsrf4IrKHsE

[Scurrilous]

1. Thanks for posting this.

K & R :thumbsup:

[mrreowwr_kittty]

2. K and R. nt

[MagickMuffin]

3. Everything IS FAIR GAME

How can see be Ready to Lead ON DAY ONE, when she denies knowing anything about these pardons?.?.?

She's isn't a very good poker player.


:kick: & RRRRRRRR

[Adelante]

6. Fair Game - so says Hillary's campaign chairman

MCAULIFFE: I agree with Speaker Gingrich. Anything that's been out in the public is fair game.

HANNITY: All right.

MCAULIFFE: Are you kidding me? Wait until the general election, Sean.

HANNITY: Wait until -- yes, well, the Bill Ayers issue which we were on -- just like the Wright issue.

MCAULIFFE: Yes.

HANNITY: .we were on way ahead of anybody. You think that's a legitimate issue?

MCAULIFFE: I think everything is a legitimate issue. Hillary Clinton nothing has been taken off the table for her.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/04/terry_mcauliffe_on_hannity_col.html

[MagickMuffin]

8. I read that earlier, that's why I posted... Hey Hillary what about Peter Paul?.?.?

Fair Game and ALL that, surely the republicons will bring it up.

[OneBlueSky]

4. fwiw, when Hillary visited a community center in Nyack . . .

there were a group protesting parole for one of the Brinks perps right across the street from where she exited her SUV . . . she looked directly at them, and then proceeded into the building without so much as acknowledging their presence . . . the smart move would have been to listen to their concerns, but she didn't seem to want to bother . . .

[benddem]

5. But, But

I thought that her claim of experience was that she was in on all these decisions?????

[FrenchieCat]

7. We need this stuff to come out before the Republicans bring it out....

or so the theory goes.

[C_U_L8R]

9. It's the old Sergeant Schultz defense

I know nothing. I see nothing. I hear nothing. I say nothing.