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Andy McCarthy is all over the obvious injustice and the underlying injustice in this article:

According to Preston’s article, Harris has told the judge that the terrorism counts against Ms. Stewart were “unwarranted overkill.” Harris reportedly elaborated that Stewart “didn’t have a clue that the stick she was poking in the government’s eye was going to have consequences beyond her imagination.”

The bottom line is that Jo Ann Harris, the Clinton Justice Department’s Criminal Division chief at the time the blind sheikh was indicted, showed the real ’strategy’ that the Clinton administration and Democrats advocate in prosecuting the GWOT. It should scare people to think that a Democratic Congress, or a Democratic administration, would prosecute the GWOT in America’s courthouses.

In 1999, [Clinton]pardoned 16 members of the FALN terrorist organization which, as Investors Business Daily editorialized last month, “carried out more than 150 bombings in the U.S., including the lunchtime bombing of Fraunces Tavern in New York on Jan. 24, 1975, that killed four.” (Former Clinton advisor Dick Morris has indicated that this was done to help then-First Lady Hillary Clinton win the votes of Puerto Ricans in the anticipated New York Senate race.)
On January 20, 2001, moreover, Clinton’s very last acts in power included pardons for two convicted Weather Underground terrorists, Susan Rosenberg and Laura Sue Whitehorn.
Lynne Stewart is a figure who straddles the September 10 and September 11 worlds, the divergent Clinton and Bush counterterrorism models. As the lead-up to her sentencing shows, it matters a great deal which model we choose.

This section of McCarthy’s article should scare people because Lynne Stewart is just the tip of the iceberg. Here’s what Discover the Network said about Stewart:

Stewart is on record supporting terrorism against defenders of “capitalism” and “racism.” “I don’t believe in anarchist violence but in directed violence,” she told the New York Times in 1995. “That would be violence directed at the institutions which perpetuate capitalism, racism, sexism, and at the people who are the appointed guardians of those institutions and accompanied by popular support.”

That’s the Lynne Stewart that was sentenced to 28 months in prison, which is likely to get appealed. It’s even possible that that appeal might result in her getting the sentence zeroed out.

There’s nothing comforting coming from this sentence, whether you consider Judge Koeltl’s ruling, Jo Ann Harris’ running interference in the sentencing of Ms. Stewart or the thought of another Clinton Justice taking pity on a terrorist-enabler or the thought of a Hillary Justice Department.

Rush spent most of his first hour talking about this, too. The most salient point he made about this election was stating that a Democratic Senate wouldn’t let a strict constructionist get to the courts. We’d be well advised to remember that when we think about this November’s elections.

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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

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