Clinton: My Pardons Were Okay

You'd think the Clintons would be smart enough to stay out of the Libby commutation flap given the questionable pardons issued by President Clinton in the closing moments of his term, but apparently they're not:

Mr. Clinton was asked by a radio host, David Yepsen, “You had some controversial pardons during your presidency; what’s your reaction to what President Bush did?”

“Yeah, but I think the facts were different,” Mr. Clinton said. “I think there are guidelines for what happens when somebody is convicted. You’ve got to understand, this is consistent with their philosophy; they believe that they should be able to do what they want to do, and that the law is a minor obstacle.”

“It’s wrong to out that C.I.A. agent and wrong to try to cover it up,” Mr. Clinton added. “And no one was ever fired from the White House for doing it.”

Mr. Clinton pardoned 140 people in the final hours of his presidency, including Marc Rich, the fugitive broker who had been charged with evading tens of millions of dollars in taxes, and who was the former husband of a top donor to Democrats and Mrs. Clinton’s first Senate campaign.

Of course, Clinton has fallen for the lefty meme that someone in the Bush White House purposefully leaked Valerie Plame's name in order to punish her husband. The lengthy investigation by the special prosecutor long ago proved that meme false as nobody was charged with such a crime, and Libby's only "crime" was a bad memory. Every time Clinton insists on criticising Bush for commuting Libby's prison term he shines new light on his own pardons, and that doesn't help his wife's campaign out one bit.