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DAVE KOPEL: ?Former President Bill Clinton is back to practicing one of his core competencies: expl?

By Glenn Reynolds

DAVE KOPEL: “Former President Bill Clinton is back to practicing one of his core competencies: exploiting the 1995 mass murders in Oklahoma City for political advantage in order to suppress criticism of himself and his political allies. Accordingly, some persons might be interested in reviewing the multiple severe injuries that President Clinton inflicted on the Constitution in his ‘anti-terrorism’ bill and his public relations campaign for the bill, a topic which I explored in a 101 page article in a 1996 special memorial issue of the Oklahoma City Law Review.”

UPDATE: Ann Althouse: Why is Bill Clinton suddenly making such a spectacle of himself over the Tea Party? “There was nothing partisan about who lived and died in the Oklahoma City bombing. Children ? individuals who never thought about politics ? died that day. Yet here is Bill Clinton using his special prominence today to unleash a political attack to push back a populist movement that threatens his political party.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on April 19, 2010 (boomark / email).