Beyond Abuse of Power, What are the Policy Motivations?
Adequate answers to the above questions would shed light on the lawlessness and anti-constitutionality of yet another example of the abuse of force that has become a hallmark of the Clinton/Gore Administration and of Reno’s tenure as attorney general in particular. What is less likely to be explained, however, are the policy motivations that have led to an obvious and urgent insistence by the Administration that Elian be sent back to Cuba at all costs. (Literally, at all costs; expenses to INS and the U.S. Marshals as of May 3, 2000, totaled $762,000, including travel and overtime [abcNEWS.com, 5/3/00].) Thus, it is all the more imperative to understand what those policy motivations might be in light of the patently absurd justifications advanced to date by Administration officials (and nonofficial hirelings like Clinton impeachment defender Gregory Craig), such as a supposed concern for upholding the sacredness of parental rights by an Administration that has never before met a parent
