I think she took the job in exchange for the DNC writing off political debts. Although I have not read this anywhere as fact. I remember that she owed millions and there has not been any mention of it since.

I think the attacks on Hillary (well earned in most cases) was tied into alternating presidencies Bush I/Clinton I/Bush II /oh..no not Clinton II (too). I think it started to feel like political incest.

She’s left arguing against female mutiliation and rape to Africans, a significant minority, if not majority, holding the opinion it is their right if not their duty.
They have billboards in Liberia reminding women they have a right to say no, and reminding the men that rape is a crime.

This is a huge problem but did you notice the attention it got here by the MSM? She did something to tick off the media during the primaries, or was it Bill? The MSM had to prove their non-racist bona fides by dumping her for the Oneder.

I am sure that there was a dual-track from the get go considering the majority of the victims were Americans. Mueller’s letter would not have been written or released without a heads up from elsewhere here and was certain to try and assuage the pain and anguish from the families.

A ‘nameless’ state department is just such a vague response. Hillary Clinton, is the Secretary of State and seems like a good place to begin. Oddly enough (not really) you barely hear her speak on State matters. I have found it peculiar that the media has not been knocking on her door asking all sorts of questions.

Tonight the shadow foreign secretary, William Hague, redoubled calls for the government to release official records of conversations about the release, as Gaddafi increased the embarrassment by publicly thanking “my friend Brown, his government, the Queen of Britain, Elizabeth, and Prince Andrew who all contributed to encouraging the Scottish government to take this historic and courageous decision”.

The scale of fury in America was laid bare in a vitriolic letter from the director of the FBI, Robert Mueller – who as a justice department lawyer led the investigation into the bombing – describing the release in a scathing letter to MacAskill as a “mockery of the rule of law” and of the victims’ grief.

However, the Scottish government last night responded defiantly, insisting the US had made clear in discussions that, while it opposed Megrahi’s release, it regarded freeing him on compassionate grounds because of his terminal cancer as “far preferable” to a prisoner transfer deal that would have seen him in custody.

Fears that the US could retaliate against the British government were eased when Whitehall sources disclosed that the White House had made no complaint to Downing Street, reserving its ire for the Scottish administration.

http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_display.cfm/blog_id/22572

I’m not sure what to make of this claim. I assume those discussions were with the state department.

This is the result of sticking your hand in the lion’s cage.
Why would Scotland think twice about their decision, when our own President didn’t think once about how his ‘new and improved’ approach of Let’s Be Friends with the scum of the earth.

This is just a sampling of what happens when you feed the animals by hand or in my opinion, by mouth, when you speak ‘weakness’.

Mr Obama said: “We have been in contact with the Scottish government, indicating that we objected to this and we thought it was a mistake.”

He said he was now pressuring the Libyan government to keep Megrahi under house arrest.

Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, said she was “deeply disappointed” by the decision. “We extend our deepest sympathies to the families who live each day with the loss of their loved ones due to this heinous crime,” she said.

Eric Holder, the Attorney General, repudiated the legal grounding of Mr MacAskill’s decision. He said: “There is no justification for releasing this convicted terrorist whose actions took the lives of 270 individuals, including 189 Americans.”

BW, I applaud you for trying to find something positive to say about the Obama administation, but this may not deserve applause. I view the responses as tepid.
Obama sold himself as the man to lead us to a new relationship with our European allies. If by that he meant he would helplessly agree to European snivelry, new relationship established. Obama could’t even succede in keeping Al-Megrahi under house arrest during the supposed final months of his life.
What a change from 2004 when Kaddafi turned over nuclear bombing making materials. Thugs like Kaddfi, no doubt have noticed the difference.

This article chronicles Libyan terrorism and what the future bodes:
http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/21/al-megrahi-lockerbie-libya-scotland-opinions-contributors-terrorism-muammar-al-qaddafi.html

In the late 80′s, Libya funded and trained Charles Taylor, whose brutal incursion into Liberia, resulted in over 200,000 deaths during two civil wars lasting neary 14 years. Libyan operatives may have been resonsible for breaking Taylor out of a US prison prior to backing his Liberian invasion that turned into a region-wide conflict.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1910365,00.html?xid=feed-yahoo-top-linkbox

A US-based internet campaign at the website http://www.boycottscotland.com was opened after the decision. It urges Americans to avoid travelling to Scotland and buying British products.

Speaks volumes about the state of affairs in that one female governor had what Scotland was lacking – cajones with a moral compass.

BP chairman Peter Sutherland announced the firm was investing $900million – about £545million – to search for oil in Libya. If the firm strikes rich, it could be worth £13billion.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1207772/Blair-blood-money-Lockerbie-deal-Talks-Gaddafi-hours-BP-agreement.html#ixzz0Ow0oFGJm