Pardons: Scooter Libby/Orlando Bosch

Interesting discussion on the Ed Schultz radio show today. Someone said when people used to needle Bill Clinton about the Marc Rich pardon, he would bring up George H.W. Bush's pardon of terrorist Orlando Busch. And it shut the rightwingers right up.

Now that the neocons are harping on the Marc Rich pardon again in order to "justify" the Scooter Libby pardon, it's time to raise the subject of Bosch again, according to someone on the program. (I don't know who - I didn't catch the speaker's name).

For some background on Bosch, I checked Wikipedia and this is what they had:

"Orlando Bosch (also known as Orlando Bosch Avila) is a Cuban exile and former CIA-backed criminal, head of CORU organization, which the FBI has described as "an anti-Castro terrorist umbrella organization."] Attorney General Dick Thornburgh called Bosch an "unrepentant terrorist." He has been accused of taking part in Operation Condor and several other terrorist attacks, including the October 6, 1976 bombing of a Cuban civilian airliner in which all 73 people on board were killed, including many young members of a Cuban fencing team and 5 North Koreans."

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"Bosch was pardoned of all American charges by President George H.W. Bush on July 18, 1990 at the request of his son Jeb Bush, who later became Governor of Florida; this pardon was despite objections by the then President's own defense department, that Bosch was one of the most deadly terrorists working "within the hemisphere."

can stop using it on any Dem EXCEPT BILL CLINTON! We blame W for Libby they blame the entire Dem Party for Clinton's poor judgement.

Orlando Bosch was not pardoned. He was paroled.

I know this to be a fact. I personally requested from the Department of Justice several years ago the list of GHWB pardons. Orlando Bosch is NOT ON IT.

There is disinformation regarding this on the Internet dating back to a WSWS story that contained the wrong info. People have picked it up and repeated it.

Once again: Bosch was NOT pardoned. He was paroled against the wishes of the U.S. Immigration Service, which was holding him at the time.

sanitized in order to conceal a possible pardon? I wouldn't put it past either Bush 1 or Bush 2 to order revisions in a pardon list in order to escape some political heat.

I'm not saying that you are wrong, I'm just saying that that pack of thieves and liars can't be trusted on anything.

But thanks for the info.

Nevertheless, Bosch was too dangerous to be released and Bush 1's feet should be held to the fire for it.

But I get your point. And, yes, the Bosch matter stinks. The parole was made in order to buy votes from the Miami Cuban-American community.

...to the best story about Bosch, archived over at online journal:

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:WMU6vJ07BA8J:www.onlinejournal.com/archive/03-01-01_Smith.pdf+orlando+bosch+eileen+smith&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us