Bill Clinton in Higher Loyalty, by James Comey

On Government Reform: OpEd: Obstruction of justice often used for convenient

It took the prosecutor three years of litigation to get to a place where he charged, tried, and convicted Dick Cheney's chief of staff Scooter Libby of making false statements in a federal investigation, perjury, and obstruction of justice. Republican loyalists howled that he was persecuting Libby because prosecutors could never prove the underlying crime--the intentional leaking of a covert agent's name [Valerie Plame, a CIA operative] with prior knowledge of its illegality. Of course, these were the same Republicans who passionately believed that President Bill Clinton's lies under oath over an affair with an intern simply had to be pursued, because obstruction of justice and perjury strike at the core of our system. Meanwhile, Democrats who six years earlier attacked the case against Bill Clinton as a silly lie about sex, had discovered in the Libby case that they cared deeply about obstruction of justice crimes-- when the instructors were Republicans. Source: A Higher Loyalty, p. 73, by James Comey Apr 17, 2018

On Principles & Values: 2001: Pardoned Marc Rich on last day of presidency

In 1983 oil trader Marc Rich had been indicted for 65 criminal counts by then-US Attorney Rudy Giuliani. Nearly two decades later, on his final day in office, President Clinton had issued Rich a highly unusual pardon. It was unusual because the pardon was given to a fugitive, which was, to my knowledge, unprecedented. It was also unusual, and suspicious, because it had not gone through the normal review process at the Department of Justice.

The New York Times called the pardon "a shocking abuse of federal power". Amid allegations the pardon had been issued in exchange for promises of contributions by Marc Rich's ex-wife to President Clinton's presidential library, [Rudy Giuliani's office] opened an investigation focused on whether the was evidence of corrupt bargain. When I became US Attorney in 2002, I inherited the investigation, which had been the subject of media stories.

Source: A Higher Loyalty, by James Comey, p.159-60 Apr 17, 2018

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