Freeing a terrorist mastermind

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Power Line:

Scott Johnson

Jan. 18 2017

 

 

In his invaluable history of the maniacal leftist terrorism of the 1970s, Bryan Burrough frankly characterizes FALN leader Oscar López Rivera as “the man behind the deadliest bombing campaign of the era.” That’s quite a distinction.

 

And the man remains unrepentant, as they say. He therefore escaped pardon by Slick William J. Clinton in his corrupt departure from office at the end of his second term. Clinton pardoned 16 of the 18 FALN terrorists convicted in the group’s bombing campaigns; the other two convicted FALN members rejected Clinton’s offer of pardon. Debra Burlingame condemned these “terror pardons” in a superb 2008 Wall Street Journal column. They felt they had nothing for which to apologize.

 

Yesterday President Obama completed Clinton’s dirty work by commuting the sentence of López. The New York Times covers the story here. In a column arguing against the freeing of López, City Journal’s Matthew Hennessey has a much fuller account of López’s wrongdoing in the New York Daily News here. Don’t miss Hennessey’s column.

 

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Who else will get clemency in Obama’s final hours?
Ed Morrissey
January 18, 2017

Three days from the end of his term, Barack Obama used his clemency power to commute sentences for a notorious terrorist, and an even more notorious source for a website that Obama has spent the past two months attacking as a Russian intelligence front or stooge. What does the outgoing president plan for an encore? What could possibly be more controversial than this round of clemency actions?

 

I don’t know, but … we’re about to find out:

 

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