Slick Willy traded the Monica cigar for the journalists.
They don't call him Slick Willie because he DOESN'T know how to make a deal, but I shutter to think how he might expect the two gals to show their gratitude. 
Me and my dad were just discussing this. I bet at least one of them had to make some sort of personal sacrifice on the flight back.
I am happy for them and their families .. I suppose the end justifies the means in this case.
I am sorry that it took an ex-president of the USA to grovel with this maniac. I guess this is one way that Obama didn't have to grovel or get belligerent with the DPRK .. have Billy Boy do it.
"Clinton expressed words of sincere apology to Kim Jong Il for the hostile acts committed by the two American journalists against the DPRK after illegally intruding into it," the news agency reported. "Clinton courteously conveyed to Kim Jong Il an earnest request of the U.S. government to leniently pardon them and send them back home from a humanitarian point of view.
One of those 'other' sites has the headline;
"Bill Clinton picks up two Asian chicks.
That is HAWT!
Maude_Lynne