THE MARC RICH PARDON RETURNS IN 2016: The FBI has released information about Bill Clinton’s last-minute pardon of super felon Marc Rich. The Bureau released a heavily redacted file in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. Team Hillary is livid and questioning the release and its timing. Well, of course. Hillary has no respect for the FOIA. She created her home-brew email server to evade record keeping requirements and avoid FOIA scrutiny.

That noted, the timing is a bit curious, but we don’t know when the FOIA request was made.

Politico published the article. A sample:

…the atmospherics in the records are unhelpful to the Clinton campaign. The records repeatedly refer to the probe being handled by the “Public Corruption Unit” and make clear that the FBI was examining claims that Denise Rich’s Democratic Party “donations may have been intended to influence the fugitive’s pardon.”…“It appears that the required pardon standards and procedures were not followed,” the internal FBI memos said.

Now a plot twist: James Comey took over an investigation of the pardon and didn’t “seek any charges in the case.”

Another quirky deep background connection: VP Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, was Marc Rich’s attorney.