In what I can only call Pandering at it's worse Sen. Lieberman is handcarrying a Pardon Request for Eduardo Arocena, who is currently serving a life sentence. This news is spreading rather quickly and I am pleased to help.
- Before addressing a pro-McCain event in Florida on July 20, 2008, Senator Joe Lieberman was recorded on video telling Miriam Arocena, wife of Eduardo Arocena, the Federally-convicted leader of the Cuban-American terrorist group Omega 7, that he will carry back to Washington her request for a Presidential pardon for her husband. Arocena is serving a mandatory life sentence and was convicted on 25 Federal counts in New York and 24 counts in New York.
Lieberman said:
"It's my responsibility, it's my responsibility. I will carry it [the pardon request] back. I will carry it back. Yeah. I feel...I think of you like you were my family.... I'll bring it back. I'll do my best."
In this Video below you can watch it yourself. Pay attention to the statements made around 3 mins. into the video. While you are watching the video please keep in mind the charges this Terrorist was convicted of and of his real actions.
Appeals Court Judge Lumbard summarized Omega 7's string of terror attacks like this:
"From 1975 to 1982, Omega 7 conducted a series of bombings in the New York metropolitan area that injured bystanders and damaged homes, businesses, and a church. The bombsites included Avery Fisher Hall, Madison Square Garden, JFK Airport, the ticket office of Aeroflot (the Soviet airline), and the Cuban Mission to the United Nations." http://thehavananote.com/...
This is from the New York Times in Feb of 1985:
In October, Mr. Arocena was sentenced in New York to life plus 35 years in the slaying of a Cuban diplomatic attache, Felix Garcia, and as the organizer of 25 bombings in 10 years of terrorism by Omega 7. http://query.nytimes.com/...
If you are interested in reading more I direct you to Steve Clemons article at the Washington Note. Are There Some Terrorists that are OK by Lieberman? A Call for Senator Lieberman to Recant In this article Steve has this to say:
Lieberman may not care that the FBI prosecuted and jailed the terrorist in question, but the US military that he so often speaks in reverential terms about has its own concerns about the brand of radical extremists Joe Lieberman may want to see pardoned
It is time to remove Sen. Lieberman from his Chairmanship overseeing Homeland Security, the sooner the better.