this story, Huckabee let a rapist, and soon to be murderer, free. Becasue he thought the person had been framed by Clinton:

New sources, including an advisor to Gov. Mike Huckabee, have told the Arkansas Times that Huckabee and a senior member of his staff exerted behind-the-scenes influence to bring about the parole of rapist Wayne Dumond, who Missouri authorities say raped and killed a woman there shortly after his parole.
Huckabee has denied a role in Dumond’s release, which has become an issue in his race for re-election against Democrat Jimmie Lou Fisher. Fisher says Huckabee’s advocacy of Dumond’s freedom, plus other acts of executive clemency, exhibit poor judgment. In response, Huckabee has shifted responsibility for Dumond’s release to others, claiming former Gov. Jim Guy Tucker made Dumond eligible for parole and saying the Post Prison Transfer Board made the decision on its own to free Dumond.

But the Times’ new reporting shows the extent to which Huckabee and a key aide were involved in the process to win Dumond’s release. It was a process marked by deviation from accepted parole practice and direct personal lobbying by the governor, in an apparently illegal and unrecorded closed-door meeting with the parole board (the informal name by which the Post Prison Transfer Board is known).

In brief, one of Clinton’s distant cousins was raped by Duman. A reporter for the Post ran a couple of columns claiming that - despite the mound of physical evidence - that Druman was innocednt and Clinton framed him, becasue, well, because he is Clinton. Huckabee got hold of this, went to pardon the man, and that blew up in his face. So, he said that he would wait on the parole board reccomendation. The parole board paroled him. Earlier this year, he was arrested in the rape and murder of two more young women (it has yet to go to trial, but again, there is a boatload of physical evidence, and the mo’s are similiar). When this came to light, Huckabee denied influencing the parole board’s decision. This story - backed by on the record testimony of parole board memembers - shows that the only reason the parole board acted as it did was becasue of Huckabee’s influence.

One women was destoryed in print, and tow more were simply destroyed, becasue a mainstream politician shared some of the right wing’s blind hatred of Clinton.

Thanks to Atrios, Daily Kos, and thinking it Through for the link.