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WASHINGTON — The Bush administration blacked out almost all the information in hundreds of documents before releasing them to a conservative organization looking into President Clinton's (search)controversial pardons four years ago on his last day in office.
The only items not deleted from the material are the names of the person who wrote the document and the person it was sent to.
The government accountability group Judicial Watch (search) said Friday that it received the Justice Department documents following a court battle that featured a Republican administration fighting to keep secret documents generated by its Democratic predecessor.
The Bush White House (search) has argued that releasing pardon-related documents would have a chilling effect on internal discussions leading up to presidential action on such requests.
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton (search) called it an instance of the Bush administration covering up a Clinton administration scandal.
The group plans to return to court to challenge the deletions, which cover nearly everything that is written on a total of 915 pages.
A federal appeals court ruled a year ago in the case that the White House can't claim Justice Department records are covered by a special exemption from the law reserved for presidential communications.
Among the 140 people Clinton pardoned on Jan. 20, 2001 was fugitive financier Marc Rich. Rich's wife, a Democratic fund-raiser, contributed $450,000 to Clinton's presidential library foundation and more than $100,000 to Hillary Rodham Clinton's U.S. Senate campaign.
Rich's name does not appear on any of the 915 pages.
The department invoked exemptions under the Freedom of Information Act (search) that allow deletions for reasons such as documents being part of internal deliberations or containing personal information.
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I beileve the whole political game amounts to pro wrestling. They fight like dogs in the public eye and backstage they're all buddies. I think both parties now are for the most part controlled by the same people. You have to ask yourself who would want to push the war in Iraq? Who would want to flood our country with with third world immigrants? Who is trying to tear down marriage and remove christianity from our society? When you can aswer these questions you will begin to touch on who exactly is in control here.
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Somewhere out there is the man to lead us out of the problems our governments have created, to help achieve world peace while increasing our standard of living.
He will never get eelcted to even the post of dog catcher.
Or maybe it is a woman.
Lucy, is it you?
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More comforting to look only at the shadows of falseness. Posts: 4402 | From: Florida | Registered: Jun 2003
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quote:Originally posted by glassman: i've been trying to tell you guys that liberal vs conservative is just their way of dividing and conquering....
the bottom line regardless of which side of the isle your synpathies lie can be summed up in this quote "Good intentions will always be pleaded for any assumption of power. The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters." -Daniel Webster
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Orig posted by Sgt. Steiner: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Who is trying to tear down marriage and remove christianity from our society? --------------------------------------------------------------------------
who is trying to remove "separation of church and state" from our constitution? you?
and if this truly was a christian society, the masses wouldn't have been overwhelmingly in support of invading afganistan as a response to 911. because instead we would have been "turning the other cheek" and focusing on: "love thy neighbor as thyself" which means, love thy enemy, easily the most radical, and the wisest thing jesus ever said.
tear down marriage? pahlease. did it ruin dinner for you, the day you realized that happy faggots the world over were also sitting down to nice dinners?
why must ppl see homosexuality as a sin or a crime? (we know ppl are born like that.) clearly it's nature's help with population control. go bang your head against the wall. . something needs dislodging...
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No Lucy what makes me sick about Fags is once they have the right to marry they can be covered on each others health care plans forcing us to pay for their AIDS treatment.
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Sgt. Steiner: No Lucy what makes me sick about Fags is once they have the right to marry they can be covered on each others health care plans forcing us to pay for their AIDS treatment.
Bilious Lucy Lastic: largest # of new aids cases now i believe is straight women. guess maybe you don't want straight women to be able to marry anymore.
and if this is really what bothers you then why all the hogwash about "tearing down marriage." ?
so wait...... does that mean that.. what makes you sick about fat ppl with jobs, and bad diets, is they are covered by health care forcing us to pay for their diabetes and numerous other complications? and same for smokers? and ppl who don't exercise? and people under excessive amounts of stress? or living next to fields full of toxic pesticides who then get cancer? and what makes you sick about guys that are prone to heart disease is... that they are prone to heart disease....?
Sgt, what makes me sick about you is that you are taking in air. (see... but i realize that's not right... so at least i've got that much going for me.)
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You have nothing going for you and where did you come up with straight woman contracting Aids more than gay men you truly are blind and stupid
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Straight women have experienced an increase in AIDS in recent years, as Lucy says, but male homosexuals still have more per capita AIDS than any other group because of their extreme promiscuity and frequent sexual relations.
I resent paying the medical care for anyone whose illness is self-caused (AIDS from voluntary sex or voluntary street drug use, or tobacco/alcohol use, etc.). By providing care and treatment to such people, we reward their irresponsibilty, and yes Lucy, liberals are more inclined to reward bad behavior (increasing it) than conservatives.
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Worldwide, approximately 11 of every 1000 adults aged 15 to 49 are HIV-infected. In Sub-Saharan Africa, about 7.5 percent of all adults in this age group are HIV-infected. Woman account for nearly half of all people worldwide living with HIV/AIDS.
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# The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate that 850,000 to 950,000 U.S. residents are living with HIV infection, one-quarter of whom are unaware of their infection.(2)
# Approximately 40,000 new HIV infections occur each year in the United States, about 70 percent among men and 30 percent among women. Of these newly infected people, half are younger than 25 years of age.
theres a lot more women in America with hiv already....
Of new infections among women in the United States, CDC estimates that approximately 75 percent of women were infected through heterosexual sex and 25 percent through injection drug use.
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you mean cause i'm a drunk in a bar? (wait i'm a drunk on the other thread, G! here, i'm just blind and stupid... ok wait, i can work w/ all that ..)
yeah, cause actually?.. when he asked about sheep, i did that kind of "pphhsssssssssss" laugh, and sprayed the bartender kinda.. er, .... *hic*.. but then allvasudden some guy's Hand was like, on my A$$.. .. like *right* on my asc too cause i'm only wearing a thong and like an 8" skirt, but... .. woa, tiger... .. i was just laughing so hard.. sloe gin fiz evr-*hic*-where...dear god....oh yea, so yeah... this guy's hand... it was in the perfect spot on my ass too, .. big warm hand.. very big nice hand. . i got kinda ..dizzy, for a sec, feels so nice.. but i can't really see him.. i feel blind.. stupid.. can't stop laughing. now we are in dry storage behind the bar and he's...oh my god.
...wait... what was .. where...? what were we just talking about?
you know, after it was all over...i realized that was Mr. Assist himself. *magic johnson*! i am not fukcing kidding you. that's my 2nd famous guy. wow. man. nice big hands... (yeah so anyway, you coming to my wedding next month?) g, i dn't feel so good... woa.. all the little letters are rolling around.. some of htem look like teeding fubes... i ... i... i needa .. oh shi---
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