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POPS Illegal And Unrecorded Closed-Door Meeting With The Parole Board Murray Waas' prize-winning article for the Arkansas Times in 2002. In 2005, long before Mike Huckabee had been mentioned as a serious presidential candidate, the Arkansas Times ran a reprint of a horrifying article. ...Huckabee has denied a role in Dumond’s release, which has become an issue in his race for re-election against Democrat Jimmie Lou Fisher. Fisher says Huckabee’s advocacy of Dumond’s freedom, plus other acts of executive clemency, exhibit poor judgment. In response, Huckabee has shifted responsibility for Dumond’s release to others, claiming former Gov. Jim Guy Tucker made Dumond eligible for parole and saying the Post Prison Transfer Board made the decision on its own to free Dumond. Ace has more on Huckabee's 1,033 clemencies.
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POPSThat Inexplicable Clinton Magic I have never quite understood what it is about Bill Clinton that provokes hatred to such a degree that even otherwise fairly sensible people are perfectly willing to commit obvious and outrageous perversions of justice in what generally turned out to be futile efforts to discredit him. It turns out that this perverse "magic" predates his presidency and, of course, Ken Starr.