Paging Web Hubbell!
Oh man, Chicago is starting to make Arkansas look like Periclean Athens:
The LA Times exposé on [Attorney General Eric] Holder’s role in the FALN pardons will undoubtedly play a central role in the hearings. Democrats screeched about politicization of Justice during Gonzales’ tenure because of the termination of at-will political appointments, but Holder pressured careerists at Justice in 1999 to change their opinions on granting pardons to FALN terrorists. He twisted arms to get Bill Clinton some political cover for clemency, which Clinton thought he needed to get Latino support for Hillary in the 2000 Senate race in New York. That’s real politicization, and it shows Holder as nothing more than a hatchet man.
That same impression will be made when the subject turns to Holder’s aborted partnership with Rod Blagojevich. Holder neglected to mention this on his questionnaire, but he agreed to represent Blagojevich to the Illinois Gaming Board to help push through a casino that Blagojevich and Obama ally Tony Rezko needed for his own financial benefit. The Gaming Board refused to accept Holder, and the Senate Judiciary Committee (or at least the Republican members) will be interested in hearing what exactly Holder intended to do for the corrupt cabal in Illinois.
Perhaps Jim and Susan McDougal are free to pitch in and help out if Web is busy picking up litter along Interstate 55. Vince Foster is, alas, unavailable.
Blago, Ayers, Wright, Rezko, now Holder—and that’s just the starting five, you should see the bench.
Chicago may be known as the Second City, but in terms of corruption it knows no equal.