Hillary Clinton Takes Cash From Recipients of Husband's Controversial Pardons

Source: ABC News

Three recipients of controversial 11th-hour pardons issued by former President Bill Clinton in January 2001 have donated thousands of dollars to the presidential campaign of his wife, Democratic front-runner Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., according to campaign finance records examined by ABC News, in what some good government groups said created an appearance of impropriety.

"It's not illegal," Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, told ABC News. "But, of course, it's inappropriate and she should return the money. It does raise the appearance that this is payback.

"One can only hope that she wasn't yet aware of who made the donations," said Sloan.
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She doesn't have control over who donates to her campaign, and I would bet the farm that she returns it.

shouldn't this be posted on Rush's sight? Like she knows exactly who sent her what? Come on now.

Did anyone PapaBush pardoned (if there were any?) donate to Shrub or the GOP?

Eliot Abrams for one. I don't recall if John Poindexter and John Negroponte required Poppy's Christmas Eve Pardon Service back in 1992, but if they didn't, they should have. Isn't it odd that Clinton's pardons were "controversial," while Poppy's, which probably kept his own ass out of jail (or at least off a witness stand) have just disappeared down the Memory Hole?

that I don't really consider this an issue. She'd be wise to return the money, though.

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This is something I would expect to be featured on a right-wing website or talk show, we don't need to be doing this shit to ourselves. Besides, there's nothing illegal about it.

I hope we get to relive every so-called Clinton "scandal," again and again and again and again

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