Add the 1994 Crime Bill to the list of Bill Clinton laws or initiatives (NAFTA, "Don't Ask Don't Tell," etc.) that his wife is now running away from. At Saturday's Iowa minority affairs forum, Hillary Clinton took her shot at the law-and-order measure, but she blamed the House and Senate for its most controversial elements, including stiffer drug sentences, 60 new death-penalty offenses and its millions for prison construction.
The bill, she said, created "an unacceptable increase in incarcerations across the board and we have to address that... There were reasons why the Congress wanted to push through certain penalities and increased prison construction... [but] we've got to take stock of the consequences."
Glenn Thrush