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Sunday, January 10, 2021

Fact: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler got President Clinton to pardon terrorist Susan Rosenberg, who planted a bomb outside the US Senate chamber in 1983 to try to assassinate Republican senators

Here's the story from the New York Post.

AND THEN THERE'S THIS FROM WIKIPEDIA:
Susan Lisa Rosenberg (born 5 October 1955)[1] is an American activist, writer, and advocate for social justice and prisoners' rights. From the late 1970s into the mid-1980s, Rosenberg was active in the far-left revolutionary terrorist May 19th Communist Organization ("M19CO"), which according to a contemporaneous FBI report "openly advocate[d] the overthrow of the U.S. Government through armed struggle and the use of violence". 
M19CO provided support to an offshoot of the Black Liberation Army, including in armored truck robberies, and later engaged in bombings of government buildings.[3] After living as a fugitive for two years, Rosenberg was arrested in 1984 while in possession of a large cache of explosives and firearms. 
She had also been sought as an accomplice in the 1979 prison escape of Assata Shakur and in the 1981 Brink's robbery that resulted in the deaths of two police and a guard,[4] although she was never charged in either case. 
Rosenberg was sentenced to 58 years' imprisonment on the weapons and explosives charges. She spent 16 years in prison, during which she became a poet, author, and AIDS activist. Her sentence was commuted to time served by President Bill Clinton on January 20, 2001,[5] his final day in office. 
Rosenberg was charged with a role in the 1983 bombing of the United States Capitol Building, the U.S. National War College and the New York Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, but the charges were dropped as part of a plea deal by other members of her group.[7][12]
The Nov. 7, 1983, blast at the Capitol blew a hole in a wall outside the Senate chambers, damaging five paintings and knocking the door to the Senate majority leader's office off its hinges. Besides that explosion, bombs were detonated outside the National War College at Fort McNair here on April 26, 1983, the Washington Navy Yard Computer Center on Aug. 18, 1983, and the Washington Navy Yard Officers' Club on April 20, 1984. 
Bombs were also placed at the F.B.I.'s office on Staten Island on Jan. 28, 1983, the Israeli Aircraft Industries Building in New York on April 5, 1984, the South African consulate in New York on Sept. 26, 1984, and the New York Patrolmen's Benevolent Association on Feb. 23, 1985. 
Bombing Charges Dropped 
As part of the deal, Government prosecutors agreed to drop bombing charges against three other members of the leftist group who are serving long prison sentences for possession of explosives. 
The six defendants are members of a radical group that variously identified itself as the Armed Resistance Unit, the Revolutionary Fighting Group and the Red Guerrilla Resistance Unit. 
The group is linked to the $1.6 million armed robbery of a Brinks armored car near Nyack, N.Y., in 1981 in which two police officers and a guard were killed. Ms. Buck is serving a 50-year sentence for participating in the Brinks holdup and four other armed robberies. Unlock more free articles. 
The plea agreement filed by United States Attorney Jay B. Stephens said the disposition of the bombing case was ''in the interest of justice,'' but gave no reason for the Government's agreeing to settle the case. Lawyers said a Supreme Court decision in May in a New York case on the issue of double jeopardy figured in the Government's willingness to drop the charges against the three other radicals, Susan L. Rosenberg, Timothy A. Blunk and Alan Berkman. 
Ms. Rosenberg and Mr. Blunk are serving 58-year sentences for possessing more than 600 pounds of explosives. They were caught loading the explosives into a rented storage bin in Cherry Hill, N.J., in 1984.

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