It turns out that he hates her because one of the few criminals Bill Clinton didn’t pardon was someone Geffen thought should have been pardoned.

Feb. 22, 2007 — The sharpest political snipes among the Democratic 2008 presidential hopefuls can be traced beyond media mogul David Geffen to a jailed man named Leonard Peltier.

Peltier, convicted of murder in 1977 for allegedly gunning down a pair of FBI agents in a shootout at South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, was one of the primary reasons cited by Geffen for jumping ship from New York Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign in favor of fellow Democratic Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois.

Lawyers have been challenging Peltier’s conviction for the past 30 years. He has become a cause celebre, with critics arguing that the government’s successful prosecution was corrupt.

In 2001, Geffen, a key Democratic supporter with deep pockets and influence among Hollywood’s elite, was one of many high-profile backers of a clemency campaign for Peltier, an American Indian activist, during the final days of Bill Clinton’s presidency.

FBI supporters, however, fought back, launching an aggressive campaign of their own to keep a man who they believed killed two agents behind bars. Among their tactics were full-page newspaper ads and a march on the White House to influence Clinton’s decision.

Ultimately, Peltier was left off a list of 140 people granted presidential pardons by Clinton during his second term.

Geffen threw money at getting Peltier out of jail, and in the end it didn’t work.

How ironic would it be if one of the few crooked deals the Clintons didn’t make came back to derail Hillary’s career.