Iran-Contra Affair was TREASON that went unpunished.

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66. archived article on Bosch

Note: I have author's permission to reprint this article, which is obscurely archived by Online Journal:

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02-28-01: A tale of two presidential pardons:
Fugitive tax cheat-humanitarian vs. fugitive serial terrorist-bomber.
By Exxxxxx Sxxxxxx

February 28, 2001-For two days, three professors and two archivists and
one university research librarian helped me look for a full list of the
77 pardons issued by President George Herbert Walker Bush. No luck. The
list is not available in archived and indexed periodicals, not in millions of
government documents available on the web, not in web sites devoted to the
presidential pardon and not in news stories. Not findable even by experts
specializing in presidential pardons and political science.

It's beginning to look as if George Herbert Walker Bush doesn't want that
full list made available. The revelation might be terribly embarrassing to
the Bushes. Here's why.

At the end of his presidency, Bill Clinton pardoned a wealthy capitalist
turned tax cheat, who was arguably a fugitive from justice. Clinton is
accused of receiving monetary donations in exchange for the pardon.

Toward the end of his presidency, George Herbert Walker Bush also
pardoned a fugitive from justice-an anti-Castro Cuban national named Orlando
Bosch, who is reported to be responsible for planning and/or executing the
lengthy list of terrorist actions below.

The pardon of Orlando Bosch was urged by Jeb Bush. The payoff for his
father, the president, was Florida votes in the 1992 presidential
election. George Herbert Walker Bush traded the pardon of a serial
terrorist for votes. And Jeb delivered Florida to him.

Bosch's reported crimes …

With Poder Cubano (Cuban Power) 1968-69:

Bomb sent in a suitcase to Havana, Cuba.

Bombs placed in various commercial establishments in the United States.

Bomb against Mexican consul in Miami, United States.

Bomb placed at the residence of the British consul in Miami.

Bomb placed at a restaurant owned by Cuban emigrants in the United
States.

Bomb placed (but did not explode) at the Chilean consulate in the United
States.

Bomb placed at a pharmaceutical company in the United States.

Source: http://cuban-exile.com/doc_051-075/doc0057.htm

Here's the story on Bosch:

A pediatrician by education, Bosch secretly left Cuba for Miami the year
after Castro took power. He immediately began violent actions with the
terrorist organization "MIRR" (Insurrectional Movement of Revolutionary
Recuperation) and with the "Movimiento Nacionalista Cubano" (Cuban
Nationalist Movement).

In 1968, Bosch was arrested by U.S. authorities, tried and sentenced to
10 years in prison. In 1972 he was released, and made his way without
permission and against the provisions of his U.S. parole to Venezuela
where he was arrested for the bombing of the Cubana airliner in which 73
people were killed, including the entire Cuban fencing team.

He languished in prison there, while still directing terrorist actions
detailed above. He eventually was freed on humanitarian grounds after a
long hunger strike, and in 1988 returned to the U.S. without papers,
where he was arrested for parole violation and then eventually remanded to the
custody of INS (U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service).

Cuba asked for the return of Bosch so that he could be tried for
terrorist actions, but Bosch petitioned for asylum in the U.S., stating that he
would not receive a fair trial in Cuba (a la Marc Rich's claim!). The
petition for asylum is available at http://cuban-exile.com/doc_051-075/doc0055.htm

In January 1989, the request for asylum was denied. An acting deputy
attorney general wrote: "For 30 years Bosch has been resolute and
unwavering in his advocacy of terrorist violence . . . He has repeatedly
expressed and demonstrated a willingness to cause indiscriminate injury
and death."

More than 30 countries refused to allow Bosch entry. The INS District
Director in Miami excluded Bosch from remaining in the U.S. on the
following grounds:

* There is reason to believe he would seek to enter the United States
solely, principally, or incidentally to engage in activities prejudicial
to the public interest. (8 U.S.C. 1182 (a) (27)).

* That he is or has been an alien who advocates or teaches or has been a
member of an organization that advocates or teaches the duty, necessity,
or propriety of assaulting or killing officers of any organized
government. (8 U.S.C. 1182 (a) (28) (F) (ii)).

* That he is or has been an alien who advocates or teaches or has been a
member of an organization that advocates or teaches the unlawful damage,
injury or destruction of property. (8 U.S.C. 1182 (a) (28) (F) (iii)).

* That he is or has been an alien who advocates or teaches or has been a
member of an organization that advocates or teaches sabotage. (8 U.S.C.
1182 (a) (28) (F)(iv)).

* That there are reasonable grounds to believe that he probably would,
after entry, engage in activities which would be prohibited by the laws
of
the United States relating to espionage, sabotage, public disorder, or
in
other activity subversive to the national interest. (8 U.S.C. 1182 (a)
(29)).

In addition, the notice alleged that Bosch also is excludable on the
grounds that he has been convicted of a crime of moral turpitude (other
than a purely political offense), 8 U.S.C. 1182 (a) (9), and that he did
not possess valid entry documents. 8U.S.C. 1182 (a) (20). See
http://cuban-exile.com/doc_051-075/doc0054.htm

Then began the campaign to use political pressure to free Orlando Bosch
and allow him to reside in America.

Jeb Bush, who had ingratiated himself with the highest orders of power
in the anti-Castro communities of Florida, was the campaign manager for
right-wing Republican Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. Jeb arranged a
meeting for her with his father, President George H.W. Bush, to
"negotiate" the release of Bosch. (New York Times August 17, 1989)

On July 18, 1990, Bosch was paroled on the recommendation or order of
George Herbert Walker Bush, and lived under some supervisory
restrictions in Miami, although being allowed to walk the streets there and
mingle with members of the community.

In 1992, Bosch was pardoned by George Herbert Walker Bush. (See
http://library.thinkquest.org/18355/the_torricelli_act.html) The
official pardon papers have been requested from the Bush Presidential
Library.
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