The hallmark of hypocrisy is forgetting where you’ve been before. Hillary Clinton on the Libby sentence commutation:

“Today’s decision is yet another example that this administration simply considers itself above the law,” said Clinton of Bush’s decision to commute Libby’s sentence. “This case arose from the administration’s politicization of national security intelligence and its efforts to punish those who spoke out against its policies.

“Four years into the Iraq war, Americans are still living with the consequences of this White House’s efforts to quell dissent. This commutation sends the clear signal that in this Administration, cronyism and ideology trump competence and justice.”

Oh really….

After Marc Rich baby you have no room to talk.

A few facts that now since she is running for the Presidency perhaps she should come clean on who paid what to whom and where for whom.

Again, since she has now opened the door again to questions that have never been answered perhaps it’s time the media began to ask her those questions again. After all since she may well become president these issues may come up again.

UPDATE: Obviously she doesn’t know when to shut up:

“Democratic presidential contender Hillary Rodham Clinton drew a distinction between President Bush’s decision to commute the sentence of White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby‚Äîwhich she has harshly criticized‚Äîand her husband’s 140 pardons in his closing hours in office.

“I believe that presidential pardon authority is available to any president, and almost all president’s have exercised it,” Clinton said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. “This (the Libby decision) was clearly an effort to protect the White House. … There isn’t any doubt now, what we know is that Libby was carrying out the implicit or explicit wishes of the vice president, or maybe the president as well, in the further effort to stifle dissent.”

Keep talking …….please.

UPDATE II: Thank you! Via uber lefty lawyer site Talk Left, this passes for a Hillary reason why her hubby’s pardons cannot be compared to the Libby commutation.

“Her husband’s pardons, issued in the closing hours of his presidency, were simply routine exercise in the use of the pardon power, and none were aimed at protecting the Clinton presidency or legacy, she said.”

Yeah, Mark Rich - nothing to do….(heh, heh) with (ha, ha, heh, heh), her upcoming run for the Senate down the road and lets not forget the pardoning of those Puerto Rican terrorists, that definetely wasn’t to gain the hispanic New York vote….naw…