Why was Rich's pardon so bad?
Long story short? Rich bought his pardon.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/pardoned-financier-marc-rich-dead-at-78/
Rich funneled $1 million to the Democratic party, including more than $100,000 to Hillary Clinton's Senate Campaign in New York, and $450,000 to the Clinton Library foundation.
It was arguably the most controversial moment of Clinton's presidency. He went on to defend it, even citing the arguments of another controversial pardon receiver, one "Scooter" Libby.
http://legaltimes.typepad.com/files/121908-jamescomey.pdf
Then Deputy Attorny General Eric Holder argued for Rich's pardon. Eric Holder was Obama's first Attorney General
The pardon of Marc Rich was so controversial there was a federal hearing on it. It was originally prosecuted by Federal Prosecutor Mary Jo White, but she stepped down and was replaced by the current director of the FBI James Comey, who ultimately found "No evidence of criminal activity." According to the Washington Post.
http://nypost.com/2001/03/27/brits-seize-2-million-bound-for-marc-rich/
Just more evidence of Rich's drug ties.
The Clinton Pardons/Drug ties of People involved
Now, Marc Rich hard long standing ties to terrorist organizations and the drug trade.
For a moment, I want to focus on the latter, and not the former.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/26/us/roger-clinton-s-dogged-effort-for-drug-trafficker.html?ref=topics
Clinton considered pardoning a known drug trafficker after a man, one Tommy Gambino, approached Clinton's brother Roger Clinton on a golf course, handed him a rolex watch and had a conversation about presuading his brother to do so.
Roger Clinton's efforts to get Rosario Gambino pardoned were so persistent the FBI investigated them.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/23/us/clinton-pardons-brothers-siblings-who-often-emerge-unflattering-spotlight.html
Roger has a long history of involvment in cocaine.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/04/hillary-clinton-brothers-hugh-tony-rodham-116674
But Roger also received a pardon for cocaine conviction.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/04/hillary-clinton-hugh-tony-rodham
Hugh Rodham, Hillary Clinton's brother, received $434,000 to lobby for a pardon of a cocaine trafficker, and he did so successfully.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal
Now, some may say it's disingenous to say Eric Holder has drug ties. But he is tied to the late Marc Rich, and we should all remember the time he helped facilitate the transfer of firearms to Mexican Drug Cartels.
http://www.hsbc.com/news-and-insight/media-resources/media-releases/2013/former-us-deputy-attorney-general-joins-hsbc-board
Current FBI Director James Comey sat on the board of banking giant HSBC.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/outrageous-hsbc-settlement-proves-the-drug-war-is-a-joke-20121213
The same Banking Giant that launders drug cartel money. And has been caught, charged and fined for doing so.
https://investments.hsbc.co.uk/news/company/24989264/glencore-gallops-higher-as-liberum-bullish-on-china-s-coal-policy
HSBC is also responsible for many of Glencore's investments. Again, Glencore was founded by the criminal Marc Rich, who paid for a pardon by former President Bill Clinton. A pardon which was investigated by James Comey, who sat on the board of HSBC, which laundered drug cartel money, and did business with a company that worked intimately with drug traffickers. Comey found "No evidence of criminal activity."
Okay, so Glencore, the Clinton's, HSBC, the director the FBI are somehow all linked to eachother and to drug cartels. So what? Where does this lead.
Okay, now this is where things begin to get a little technical, and more questions have to get answered.