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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Stay ignorant my friends [View all]Divernan
(15,480 posts)49. I thought her main case was defending a child's rapist she believed to be guilty.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2658801/I-never-trusted-polygraph-Hillary-Clinton-LAUGHS-recalls-helped-suspected-child-rapist-walk-free-prosecution-lost-crucial-evidence.html#ixzz41bBgdlFvFollow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook'I never trusted a polygraph again': Hillary Clinton LAUGHS in 30-year-old interview as she recalls how she helped a suspected child rapist walk free after the prosecution lost crucial evidence
Hillary Clinton defended Thomas Alfred Taylor, 41, in 1975 in Fayettville, Arkansas
Then aged 27, Clinton found a loophole in the prosecution case and Taylor walked free
Newly unearthed audio interview from the early 1980s has Clinton discussing the case with Arkansas journalist
Recordings throw into question Clinton's claim to be a champion of women and children's causes
Taylor died in 1992 and his alleged victim is now a drug addict still in Fayettville, Arkansas
The facts are these. In 1975, before she married Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham defended a 41 year old rapist of a 12 year old child in Arkansas court. She was not a public defender. No one ordered her to take the case. An ambitious young lawyer, she was asked by a friend if she would represent the accused, and she agreed. And her defense was successful. Attacking the credibility of the twelve-year-old victim on the one hand, and questioning the chain of evidence on another, Clinton got a plea bargain for her client. He served ten months in prison, and died in 1992. The victim, now 52, has had her life irrevocably altered for the worse. Sometime in the mid 1980s, for an Esquire profile of rising political stars, Hillary Clinton and her husband agreed to a series of interviews with the Arkansas journalist Roy Reed. Reed and Hillary Clinton discussed at some length her defense of the child rapist, and in the course of that discussion she bragged and laughed about the case, implied she had known her client was guilty, and said her faith in polygraphs was forever destroyed when she saw that her client had taken one and passed. Reeds article was never published. His tapes of the interviews were later donated to the University of Arkansas. Where they remained, gathering dust.Not long ago, in 2012, the Washington Post ran an extensive investigation into the troubling incidents of Mitt Romneys prep-school days, whereupon the media devoted hour after hour to the all-important discussion of whether Willard M. Romney had been something of a child bully. Here, though, we have a newly unearthed recording of Hillary Clinton laughing out loud over her defense of a child rapist and plenty of outlets have ignored the story altogether. The difference? As the Newsday editor said: It might have an impact.
No matter your view of Hillary Clinton, no matter your position on legal ethics, the recording of the Reed interview is news. It tells us something we did not already know. It tells us that, when her guard was down, Clinton found the whole disturbing incident a trifling and joking matter. And the fact that so many supposedly sophisticated and au courant journalists and writers have dismissed the story as nothing more than an attorney doing her job is, I think, equally disturbing. Dana Bash to the contrary notwithstanding, Hillary Clinton was not forced to take on Taylor as a client. It was her choice and not, for her, a hard one. Certainly that complicates our understanding of the former first lady as an unrelenting defender and advocate of women and girls. Lets even concede that Clinton was just doing her job. What makes that job exempt from inquiry and skepticism and criticism? Yes, Mumia, Bill Ayers, and child rapists have the right to legal representation. But that does not give the lawyers who represent them the right the entitlement to public office. If it is fair to attack a candidate because he used to travel with the family dog on the roof of his car or because he may have forcibly subjected a fellow student to a haircut, then it is entirely fair, it is more than fair, to attack a candidate for defending the rapist of a twelve-year-old girl, and for laughing about it a decade later.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/380880/hillarys-child-rapist-defense-matthew-continetti
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Probably for the same reason the Loonix fly became part of so many sig lines
passiveporcupine
Mar 2016
#145
He must not have seen the condesending OP in the Hillary Group advising them to
Dustlawyer
Feb 2016
#23
Lol, now THAT is funny. But it epitomizes the insincerity of the politics we reject. 'Pretend to
sabrina 1
Mar 2016
#122
That's because they didn't read the terms of service rules more carefully. nt
Cali_Democrat
Feb 2016
#65
Hides are community standards violations, not terms of service violations.
Cali_Democrat
Feb 2016
#67
You mean the part that says that "thou shalt not say bad things about Hillary Clinton."
rhett o rick
Mar 2016
#117
Yell it from the rooftops. Might I suggest you post it on your facebook page.
NCTraveler
Feb 2016
#3
So, if you don't support Bernie, then you're ignorant ? These are the same tactics the far Right
Trust Buster
Feb 2016
#14
I'm aware of Hillary's financial status. I'm not ignorant of that at all. #Broad Brush
Trust Buster
Feb 2016
#61
what an incredibly inspired republican poster full the of the typical republican thinking
MariaThinks
Feb 2016
#15
Really her main case back in Arkansas was to fight ACORN against the power company.
LiberalArkie
Feb 2016
#41
I thought her main case was defending a child's rapist she believed to be guilty.
Divernan
Feb 2016
#49
National Review? I'm voting for Sanders tomorrow, don't like Clinton at all, but you should'nt pick
That Guy 888
Feb 2016
#54
What got me was as soon as Bill gets the governorship she gets a job at Rose Law firm in 1979.
LiberalArkie
Feb 2016
#58
Love that play. And I agree, Bernie will win the Primary despite all the efforts we will see
sabrina 1
Mar 2016
#123
it's the millions she has received, over and over, that go straight into her bank account; in additi
amborin
Feb 2016
#32
The angry "you're with us or against is" attitude towards other Democrats is really odd.
PeaceNikki
Feb 2016
#17
Cattle futures here; Whitewater land sales there & lotsa Wall Street speeches.
Divernan
Feb 2016
#18
It's ugly, but true. How very sad that she thinks she can fool Americans in this way.
JDPriestly
Feb 2016
#52
It's hard to figure out what's sadder Clinton's positions, or her supporters ITT
That Guy 888
Feb 2016
#55
Why do I always get the impression Bernie Sanders people think they're better than everyone else? nt
kjones
Feb 2016
#59
Because sackcloth and ashes is the only way to be a real Democrat or Progessive....
Hekate
Feb 2016
#63
Because you can't see through your cognitive dissonance, and you have nothing else to fall back on.
AtheistCrusader
Mar 2016
#138
Who here at DU are you calling ignorant? I guess if the news was what a big turnout the AfAm
randys1
Feb 2016
#76
They just have very powerful Forget pills and can't remember when they were liberals.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Feb 2016
#79
Please explain to me again why Republicans hate Hillary with such passion
world wide wally
Feb 2016
#100
Hey if you are cool with off shoring American jobs, underpaid service jobs left, endless war, wall
RiverLover
Feb 2016
#112