Word: marc
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...Clinton hasn't murdered anyone (although his most rabid enemies say he's not even past that), but like O.J., his very presence makes us all a little bit uncomfortable. We just wish he'd stay offstage. The Marc Rich pardon has been a moral tipping point for Clinton. Even those who have always defended him have become suddenly silent. His own Al Cowlings, Bill Daley, the former commerce secretary, criticized Clinton on the front page of today's New York times...
...hurts us more than it hurts you. But because of his sheer tenacity; his absolute and unwavering refusal to just go away, already; his ability to bump real news stories from the front pages to the back of the papers, and, finally, because of the utter tawdriness of the Marc Rich pardon, we've named former president Bill Clinton our Person of the Week...
...eleventh-hour pardon of financier Marc Rich was received badly from the start, but this week, as House and Senate committees dissected Clinton's decision, the pardon emerged as both universally abhorrent and colossally stupid. Rich's ex-wife, Denise, spent the last two years of Clinton's administration pouring money into Democratic causes, including Hillary Clinton's Senate race, as well as Clinton's presidential library fund. Was it a direct quid pro quo for her ex-husband's pardon? Legally, the criminal intent is nearly impossible to prove. But it doesn't really matter - appearances alone...
Bill Clinton has portrayed the Marc Rich pardon as a favor to Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, citing the imperative of foreign policy to justify his last-minute decision. Had he checked with his own State Department, however, he would have discovered that diplomatic experts rejected a similar plea five years...
...Beth Dozoretz, fund-raiser and FOB, was, according to TIME, skiing when she heard that Clinton was "impressed" by Rich's case for a pardon. Dozoretz eagerly told skiing partner Denise Rich about the development, who called Marc Rich's supporters in Israel, then Washington. Dozoretz is also a big contributor to the Clinton presidential library fund. As in Denise Rich's case, congressional investigators want to know if there's a trail leading straight from Dozoretz's bountiful checkbook to Clinton's signature on Marc Rich's pardon...