This story needs to spread like wildfire!!! It needs to be passed on to anyone you know because I have a feeling the mainstream media will not do it justice! The front page of the Huffington Post has great coverage so I will just put a link and a flavor of the article here!
Documents Expose Huckabee's Role In Serial Rapist's Release
Murry Waas writes his reasoning for this expose.
Now that Huckabee is running for president, and after consulting with the victims and their families, I have decided to proceed, given what his actions on the case - and his attempts to whitewash his involvement in it -- say about his judgment and integrity.
PLEASE RECOMMEND THIS IS IMPORTANT INFO AS HUCKABEE IS GAINING MOMENTUM and the MAINSTREAM PRESS IS GIVING HIM A PASS RIGHT NOW!! Diary is sinking fast and will soon slip into oblivion - this is important hope it does not!!
Well I tried Hope the story spreads!!!
More below....
Murray Waas has written an amazing expose! In nutshell Huckabee granted parole to a convicted rapist who had been convicted and sentenced to 50 years in prison and despite the letters and contacts from other victims. The letters stated the man was a ongoing threat but Huckabee ignored these because the victim whom the original conviction was made for, was a distant cousin of Bill Clinton. So he freed a rapist in a political vendetta with pressure coming to do so from the right wing.
The man then went on to rape and kill two women in Missouri, one who was pregnant at the time.
When furor over the pardon came out Huckabee claimed he had no knowledge of the danger of the man and no contact with the victims in an attempt to distant himself from this.
Huckabee kept these and other documents secret because they were politically damaging, according to a former aide who worked for him in Arkansas. The aide has made the records available to the Huffington Post, deeply troubled by Huckabee's repeated claims that he had no reason to believe Dumond would commit other violent crimes upon his release from prison. The aide also believes that Huckabee, for political reasons, has deliberately attempted to cover up his knowledge of Dumond's other sexual assaults.
Wow!!! Talk about a lie and a cover up. Lying about oral sex seems meek in comparison!!!
As for the motivation of the Hypocritical RIGHT and HUCKABEE
In 1996, as a newly elected governor who had received strong support from the Christian right, Huckabee was under intense pressure from conservative activists to pardon Dumond or commute his sentence. The activists claimed that Dumond's initial imprisonment and various other travails were due to the fact that Ashley Stevens, the high school cheerleader he had raped, was a distant cousin of Bill Clinton, and the daughter of a major Clinton campaign contributor.
Poor little rapist!! According to the right- if you are a Clinton supporter or relative you cannot be a victim of anything just a persecutor! Strange Orwellian World!!
Huckabee tried to cover up his participation by hold back records on the matter stating "he was concerned for the privacy of Dumond's victims and that the records contain sensitive law enforcement information." The Arkansas parole board also weaseled out stating the only only release comments by publics officials. However.....
most of the women assaulted by Dumond and interviewed for this story say that Huckabee could have made information public while guarding their privacy. Law enforcement authorities also scoffed at the idea that anything in the records would have harmed an ongoing investigation since Dumond is no longer alive .
And there were more attempts to cover this up by Huckabee, during the 2002 governor's election in Arkansas Huckabee and his team expressed concern about coming to light managed to keep it under the table and one the election narrowly. But he went further to try and hide this horrible lapse of judgement.
The staffer said that during that same period, another senior aide to Huckabee suggested asking other state agencies, which might have portions or even the entirety of the Dumond file, to transfer their records to the governor's office. If the files were transferred, the aide to Huckabee said, they would no longer be obtainable by reporters or political opponents under the state's Freedom of Information statute.
Arkansas has one of the most progressive Freedom of Information laws in the country. People need only to make requests orally whereupon state officials have to quickly respond and make them public. Governors, in sharp contrast, have wide latitude in deciding which of their own files to make public.
"The files had to be disappeared because there just wasn't a plausible explanation for the governor's stance," the former staffer said. "I mean, what could the governor say? That he believes these women made up their stories? That women lie when they say they are raped?
If you have the time go over to Huffington Post and read the entire article - it's long but but worth the read and has links to the text of the letters!
Please pass this one to anyone you know. This must somehow get to the mainstream media and if not be passed via word of mouth etc!!
Thanks and Peace!!!