YOU paid for Hillary’s private server & the Clinton Foundation

Hillary Clinton On Her Cell Phone - BlackberryJust when I thought I would write a story about Hillary’s private server and why she really had it, this story came out on Thursday which dovetails perfectly with the original story I planned to emphasize from the Wall Street Journal.

Just when you think it can’t become more egregious — it becomes more egregious.

What?  What are you saying, you ask?

Roll with me here.  Give me a minute or so to ramp things up.  Let’s start at the start.  Remember this?

But wait.  Didn’t the Clintons “liberate” some items from the White House?  Why, yes, they did.  From — of all places — the LATimes.com:

Clintons Began Taking White House Property a Year Ago

WASHINGTON, Feb 10, 2001 — President Clinton and his wife started shipping White House furniture to the Clintons’ newly purchased home in New York more than a year ago, despite questions at the time by the White House chief usher about whether they were entitled to remove the items.

The day before the items were shipped out, chief usher Gary Walters said he questioned whether the Clintons should be taking the furnishings because he believed they were government property donated as part of a White House redecoration project in 1993, during Clinton’s first year in office.

The Clintons came under strong criticism after disclosing that they were taking with them $190,000 in gifts received over the last eight years. GOP lawmakers and others criticized Hillary Rodham Clinton in particular for accepting many presents just before she joined the Senate and became covered by strict ethics rules that prohibit accepting gifts worth more than $50.

Bowing to such criticism, the Clintons decided Feb. 2 to pay for $86,000 worth of gifts given them in 2000. This week, they agreed to return another set of gifts, including the four items questioned by Walters, and $28,500 more in furnishings identified by the Washington Post this week as having been legally designated as White House property by the National Park Service.

Isn’t in convenient that people don’t remember the Clintons were forced to pay for and return property they should not have removed or taken?  Further, but upon that, Hillary had the temerity to say they were “dead broke“?  Let us not forget that less than a week before the Clintons left the White House in 2001, they bought a replacement house 15 minutes down the road for $2.85 million.  Ahem.  $2.85 million dollars.  Could you have done that?

With this in mind, stay with me please.  I’m laying the foundation for a story that is going to send the average American Taxpayer into orbit.  That would be you.  And me.  You’d best sit down right about now.

From Politico.com:

Bill Clinton aides used tax dollars to subsidize foundation, private email support

by Kenneth P. Vogel

Bill Clinton’s staff used a decades-old federal government program, originally created to keep former presidents out of the poorhouse, to subsidize his family’s foundation and an associated business, and to support his wife’s private email server, a POLITICO investigation has found.

Oh my gosh.  But wait.  There’s more.  You have no idea.

Taxpayer cash was used to buy IT equipment — including servers — housed at the Clinton Foundation, and also to supplement the pay and benefits of several aides now at the center of the email and cash-for-access scandals dogging Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

Are your eyes beginning to open?  Are you starting to understand the implications of what Vogel is writing here?

The thousands of pages of newly uncovered records reveal sometimes granular detail about how Bill Clinton’s representatives directed the spending of taxpayer cash allocated by the GSA under the Former President’s Act.

The Act authorizes the GSA to fund the pensions, correspondence, support staff and travel of ex-presidents. It was passed in 1958 to “maintain the dignity” of the presidency by helping former commanders in chief avoid hard times like those that befell Harry S. Truman. He complained that, without help from Uncle Sam, he would be forced to “go ahead with some contracts to keep ahead of the hounds.”

Let’s review some history at this point.  Harry Truman, Democrat, who dropped two atomic weapons on Japan (because it was the proper thing to do in an historical context), had to move into his mother-in-law’s house when he returned to Missouri because there was no such animal as a presidential pension when he left in 1953.

He had no personal savings. He decided that he didn’t want to be on any sort of corporate payroll, because he thought it would “diminish the integrity of the nation’s highest office.” He also turned down numerous offers for commercial endorsements.  As a result he was, essentially, fiscally destitute. Once Truman left the White House, his only income was his old army pension of $112.56 per month.  There was no “benefits package” for former presidents or former Senators.  He received $37,000 from a book deal.  He sold property that he’d inherited.

The Clintons did not have this problem.

After leaving the White House “dead broke”, in the words of Hillary Clinton, they quickly raked in tens of millions of dollars from book deals, speaking fees and consulting gigs. At the same time, Bill Clinton was relying on his connections to some of the world’s deepest-pocketed donors, corporations and governments to seed a global philanthropy operation that overlapped with his consulting work and speaking fees and his wife’s work as secretary of state — and served as a jumping-off point for her presidential campaign.

CLINTONS CASHING INBill Clinton would customarily receive fees per speech ranging from $100,000 to $300,000.  The Clintons received more than $153 million in paid speeches from 2001 until spring 2015.  And in terms of cash post-presidency, please note this:

But even as the Clintons got rich and grew their foundation into a $2 billion organization credited with major victories in the fights against childhood obesity and AIDS — while paying six-figure salaries to top aides — Bill Clinton continued drawing more cash from the Former President’s Act than any other ex-president, according to a POLITICO analysis. The analysis also found that Clinton’s representatives, between 2001, when the Clintons left the White House, and the end of this year, had requested allocations under the Act totaling $16 million. That’s more than any of the other living former presidents — Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush — requested during that span.

There you go.  $16 million dollars of your money to the Clintons.  Taxpayer money.

Your taxpayer dollars supplemented the wallets of Clinton staffers, their medical benefits.  You also paid for their computers.

Here’s another lovely little tidbit:

An analysis of the records provided by GSA, combined with Clinton Foundation tax returns, found that at least 13 of the 22 staffers who have been paid by GSA to work for Clinton’s personal office also worked for the Clinton Foundation.

But using the GSA records, POLITICO pieced together a list of Clinton loyalists who at various times have had their earnings supplemented by federal payments of about $10,000-a-year using funds from the Former Presidents Act.

The list reads like a field guide to Clinton World.

Ah yes, the Clinton Foundation steps up to bat.

It includes longtime Bill Clinton aide Justin Cooper, who despite not having a security clearance, any apparent training in cybersecurity or a job at the State Department, in early 2009 helped set up the private email account that Hillary Clinton would use to send and receive classified information as secretary of state. Her use of that system has been dubbed “extremely careless” by the FBI director. Cooper continued working to maintain Clinton’s private email system — including advising her top aides, Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills, on attempted hacks — through at least 2012, according to emails released by the State Department.

Correct.  Your taxpayer cash helped set up Hillary’s private server.  And Justin Cooper, a very good Clinton “friend,” set up the private email account for Hillary despite having no cybersecurity training and no security clearance of any kind or, for that matter, a job at the State Department.  Cooper was paid, however, between 2011 and 2013 by your taxpayer dollars.

At the same time, though, Cooper was working with Doug Band, a trusted Bill Clinton lieutenant, and Declan Kelly, a top Hillary Clinton fundraiser-turned-State Department official, to launch a global consulting firm called Teneo. It did lucrative work for foundation donors and entities with business before Clinton’s State Department. And it signed a contract reportedly worth $3.5 million with Bill Clinton to serve as a “honorary chairman” (though the former president ultimately kept only $100,000 of that, according to his tax returns and a source familiar with the arrangement). Teneo also paid Abedin as a “senior advisor.”

As if it didn’t yet sufficiently stink of fish, here’s where we get to the “pay for play” aspect:

All the while, Band and Abedin were working together to broker meetings between Secretary of State Clinton and donors to the foundation, where Band served as an official until 2012, drawing an annual salary that in some years exceeded $111,000.

There you go.  Dots connected.  Thank you Kenneth Vogel.  Please read the rest of his article.

$16 million dollars in FEDERAL GOVERNMENT money from the American taxpayer — that was seed money from you and me to create the Clinton Foundation.

They needed a server for that, so we paid for the server and its maintenance, the software bleach, we paid for Huma, tech support, all as delineated above.

The Clintons haven’t even paid for one bad Tandoori takeout since leaving the White House.  But they were “dead broke,” you see.

Let’s make it plain, plain, plain: the AMERICAN TAXPAYER PAID for her “personal” server.  The American Taxpayer PAID for her server, we PAID for Doug Band, we PAID for the programs she used to wipe her servers, we PAID for her to write those emails.  So, with the logical extension, those emails are NOT hers, they belong to us.

There are 4,000 pages of documents that show precisely what the Clintons have done.  There is no “click-bait,” there is only the truth.

A $400,000 per year salary plus a $16 million slush fund after leaving office? Such a gig!

But wait, there’s even more. 

Here’s where I tie things up for you quite nicely.  It all dovetails.

Want to know why Hillary had a private server?  To keep thing occluded, of course, because she operates in secret and does not want to be held accountable or responsible — but mostly she wanted it to conduct private business for the Clinton Foundation and bill you, me, for it all.  Security was, at best, an ancillary issue.

From the WSJ.com:

The U.S. Department of Clinton

by Kimberly A. Strassel

The latest emails show that State and the foundation were one seamless entity.

This is the week that the steady drip, drip, drip of details about Hillary Clinton’s server turned into a waterfall. This is the week that we finally learned why Mrs. Clinton used a private communications setup, and what it hid. This is the week, in short, that we found out that the infamous server was designed to hide that Mrs. Clinton for three years served as the U.S. Secretary of the Clinton Foundation.

In March this column argued that while Mrs. Clinton’s mishandling of classified information was important, it missed the bigger point. The Democratic nominee obviously didn’t set up her server with the express purpose of exposing national secrets—that was incidental. She set up the server to keep secret the details of the Clintons’ private life—a life built around an elaborate and sweeping money-raising and self-promoting entity known as the Clinton Foundation.

Please read the rest of Strassel’s excellent article.

It took me a while to assemble, but there you have it in a nutshell, ladies and gentlemen.  Corruption of the highest order by the Clintons — an ex-president and a presidential candidate — that makes Tammany Hall’s Boss Tweed, Hoffa, Daley, Trafficant, Blanton and Dwyer all look like, well, the J.V. team, to coin a phrase.

Your federal tax dollars hard at work.

For the Clintons.

BZ

P.S.

Chelsea’s got some big shoes to fill.

 

Fed judge to State Dept: provide Clinton & Abedin documents in two weeks

Hillary Clinton On Her Cell Phone - Blackberry

“Security briefing?  I don’t need no stinkin’ security briefing.”

Just as I indicated last week was a bad week for Hillary, this week is turning out equally bad.  But you’d never know it because the American Media Maggots aren’t displaying her abrogations on page one, above the fold, or featured prominently up front on TV news segments.

Shocker, that.

From DailyCaller.com:

BREAKING: Judge Orders State Dept To Release Hillary’s Security Training Records, Or Be Deposed

by Richard Pollock

A federal judge ordered the Department of State Wednesday to produce for The Daily Caller News Foundation the security training records of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her aide Huma Abedin within two weeks, or face direct deposition of multiple government officials.

Oh my.  A direct deposition.  We can’t have that now, can we?

“I’m sure you can appreciate Mr. Lee, there is a certain time sensitivity on this issue,” U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Leon told Department of Justice Attorney Jason Lee, representing the State Department. “We’re looking down the barrel of a presidential election from now in two months.”

Gosh.  A federal judge whose eyes are actually open and recognizes the political importance of having these documents produced in a timely manner.  Score one for Judge Leon.

TheDCNF filed the lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act last November, after the State Department refused to turn over all records of the security training for Clinton and her top aides.

In a July 29 State Department filing before Leon, attorneys for the State and Justice departments claimed they failed to locate any security briefing documents for Clinton or Abedin.

They further stated the absence of any documents meant that the “courses were not completed” by the secretary or her aides. It is unclear if Clinton explicitly refused to attend the security briefings.

Let’s be honest for a moment, however.  Would Hillary Clinton really need to attend any sort of security orientation or briefing?  She is, after all, Hillary Rodham Clinton and security orientations are for little people, not her.

The lack of training may help explain why Clinton saw no problem with setting up a private server in her New York home to process her private email account.

I’m not convinced.  She is, after all, Hillary Rodham Clinton and security orientations are for little people, not her.  She has a “history,” you see.

Clinton deliberately skipped a cybersecurity briefing in 2011, and defied national security officials by continuing to bring her unsecured BlackBerry cellphone into the confines of her secure office at the State Department.

You know me; I love this paragraph:

“Judge Leon made it clear that State can provide the simple clarifications we’ve sought one of two ways: either now, in a cooperative manner, or in a few weeks in sworn depositions,” said attorney Bradley Moss. “The choice is theirs to make.” Moss represents TheDCNF in the suit.

But wait, there’s more.  Tomorrow I tell you just why Hillary Clinton had a private server.

BZ

 

Hillary voter fraud caught on video, Pt II — Google HIDES Hillary voter fraud

Ah yes, more Hillary voter fraud in Nevada (What is it with Nevada anyway?):

You, of course, already watched Part I yesterday; click here to see it.

After embedding this video, I wondered: just what would you get in Google if you searched “Hillary voter fraud”?

Being Google and all, and being extra superior about its auto-filling logarithms, I immediately noticed that Google absolutely did not “auto-fill” as I typed on the keyboard.  You had to type the complete phrase “Hillary voter fraud” into the field and, even with that, there was nothing provided below until you hit the ENTER key.

Try it.

Hmmm, I thought, I wonder what other search engines might be yielding?

So I tried Bing.com.  Which, oddly enough, I’ve never tried before.  This time, at the point I got to “Hillary voter” this is what appeared below:

  • hillary voter fraud
  • hillary voter fraud exposed
  • hillary voters meme
  • hillary voter registration
  • hillary voters stupid
  • hillary voters are suckers
  • hillary voters
  • hillary voter suppression

How odd, I thought.  “Hillary voter fraud” came up immediately and was at the top of the list.  My guess: this is precisely what most persons are searching for when they begin typing that phrase.

But wait, I thought.  There are other search engines.  I wonder what Yahoo.com would show?  I wrote “Hillary voter” in the field and this is what I received:

  • hillary voter fraud
  • hillary voters grave markers
  • hillary voters
  • hillary voter suppression
  • hillary voter cartoon
  • hillary voter registration
  • hillary voter stumped
  • hillary voter turnout
  • hillary voter fraud cartoon
  • hillary voter fraud lawsuit

Once again, “Hillary voter fraud” came out on top.  A real chin-scratcher, that.  But what the hell, let’s try it one more time.  I lastly went to Ask.com using the same methods.  It came up with:

  • hillary voter fraud
  • hillary voter fraud exposed
  • hillary voters meme
  • hillary voter registration
  • hillary voters stupid
  • hillary voters are suckers
  • hillary voters
  • hillary voter fraud iowa

I suspected I was starting to see a pattern.  It made me wonder: do you think that Google would in any way purposely jiggle its search engine AlGoreIthms with regard to Hillary Clinton or the Democrats or Leftists or voter fraud identification/information on behalf of the Democrats?

Would Larry Page or Sergei Brin or Alphabet or Eric Schmidt or Ruth Porat actually lean left on as serious an issue as this?  As in, purposely skewing or hiding results that became immediately obvious on other search engines?

Nah.

BZ

P.S.

Obama Meets Silicon Valley Tech LeadersAbove, please note Barack Hussein Obama meeting personally and intimately with Silicon Valley tech leaders on February 17, 2011, to include Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, Google CEO Eric Schmidt (far Left, imagine that) and Twitter CEO Dick Costolo.

 

State Department assists with Hillary’s corruption

Hillary Clinton CORRUPTWe already know that it took three years for the Associated Press — AP — to get records from the US State Department regarding Hillary Clinton’s meetings

The first story, from the NationalReview.com:

Clinton State Department Stonewalled AP for Three Years

by NRO Staff

It was a long wait. Today’s blockbuster report from the Associated Press about Hillary Clinton’s meetings with Clinton Foundation donors during her time as Secretary of State contained the following nugget: “The AP sought Clinton’s calendar and schedules three years ago, but delays led the AP to sue the State Department last year in federal court for those materials and other records.” Three years ago. The long wait was in keeping with a practice of slow-walking such requests for information.

Why was the AP stonewalled?  Because they suspected this:

Over 50% of the persons who met Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State ended up donating to the Clinton Foundation.

See my Thursday post entitled, Hillary’s corrupt “pay to play” — a three year AP story.

The very picture of corruption from Hillary Clinton and the Obama Department of State.

There is an update to this, clearly indicating more corruption and coverups from the Barack Hussein Obama Department of State, in order to assist fellow Demorat presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Let us not forget this cringeworthy video where the State Department shows its embrace of obfuscation and contempt for actual worthwhile questions.  “Am I not speaking English?” you have to admit, is likely one of the all-time greatest journalistic questions.

From the AP:

US: CLINTON CALENDARS WON’T BE RELEASED UNTIL AFTER ELECTION

by Ted Bridis

WASHINGTON (AP) — Seven months after a federal judge ordered the State Department to begin releasing monthly batches of the detailed daily schedules showing meetings by Hillary Clinton during her time as secretary of state, the government told The Associated Press it won’t finish the job before Election Day.

Please note the word “won’t” as opposed to “can’t.”

The department has so far released about half of the schedules. Its lawyers said in a phone conference with the AP’s lawyers that the department now expects to release the last of the detailed schedules around Dec. 30, weeks before the next president is inaugurated.

Perfect.  Just in time to shield Hillary Clinton as much as possible.

Under the present rate, a government attorney working on behalf of the State Department notified the AP’s lawyers, it will take about four and one-half months – or until Dec. 30 – to release all the remaining schedules through the end of Clinton’s term, in February 2013. The government’s notice late Thursday was the first time the State Department has provided the AP with a measure of how many pages were remaining and when it expected to complete the job.

Ladies and gentlemen, you would have to be a brain-addled dolt to not see the corruption that bleeds from Hillary Clinton, from the State Department and the Obama administration which surely is complicit.  All Mr Obama would have to do is make one telephone call in order to light a fire under the State Department.

But he won’t do it, because it’s part and parcel of the partisan cover-up and corruption endemic with Demorats and the Obama administration.

There is only ONE reason why the job won’t be finished until after the election.

Can you imagine a Republican administration or Republican former Secretary of State being able to get away with this in front of the American Media Maggots?

BZ

Hillary Clinton Muslim Contributions

Hillary’s corrupt “pay to play” — a three year AP story

Hillary Clinton Common Good

“Then I’m going to give them to the Clinton Foundation and, specifically, me and Bill.”

What a grand week for Hillary Clinton!

After all, isn’t it said that “any publicity is good publicity”?

Hillary has certain earned her publicity this week.

The phrase “pay to play” was brought back to the forefront this week when AP broke the story — after three years of legal wrangling against the US State Department.

From Yahoo.com via AP:

Many donors to Clinton Foundation met with her at State

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than half the people outside the government who met with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state gave money — either personally or through companies or groups — to the Clinton Foundation. It’s an extraordinary proportion indicating her possible ethics challenges if elected president.

At least 85 of 154 people from private interests who met or had phone conversations scheduled with Clinton while she led the State Department donated to her family charity or pledged commitments to its international programs, according to a review of State Department calendars released so far to The Associated Press. Combined, the 85 donors contributed as much as $156 million. At least 40 donated more than $100,000 each, and 20 gave more than $1 million.

Donors who were granted time with Clinton included an internationally known economist who asked for her help as the Bangladesh government pressured him to resign from a nonprofit bank he ran; a Wall Street executive who sought Clinton’s help with a visa problem; and Estee Lauder executives who were listed as meeting with Clinton while her department worked with the firm’s corporate charity to counter gender-based violence in South Africa.

And that is the real story; let it sink in and percolate about in your brain pan:

Over 50% of the persons who met Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State ended up donating to the Clinton Foundation.  Perhaps the better portrayal is this: “donating.”  Air quotes.

Combined, the 85 donors contributed as much as $156 million. At least 40 donated more than $100,000 each, and 20 gave more than $1 million.

The Clinton Foundation has already “taken in” — air quotes — more than $2 billion dollars in funding since its creation in 2000.  In that time, there have been roughly 6,000 “donors” — air quotes — to the foundation.

“There’s a lot of potential conflicts and a lot of potential problems,” said Douglas White, an expert on nonprofits who previously directed Columbia University’s graduate fundraising management program. “The point is, she can’t just walk away from these 6,000 donors.”

This is Orwellian Newspeak for “these people paid cash and they expect something in return.”  You know.  Pay to play.  And they expect some play for their pay.

Here’s a little clincher buried deep in the story.  Read it and interpret it.  I can interpret it no other way than one.

Former senior White House ethics officials said a Clinton administration would have to take careful steps to ensure that past foundation donors would not have the same access as she allowed at the State Department.

What does that say to you?  To me it screams: she did it.  She took money for access to her in her role as Secretary of State.  Corruption.  No other word for it.

Some of Clinton’s most influential visitors donated millions to the Clinton Foundation and to her and her husband’s political coffers.

Now it’s personal money — not just to the foundation, but to the Clintons themselves.

Please read the story in full — a story that took the AP a full three years to acquire because of legal obstacles placed in its way by the State Department.  You know: the same State Department from which Hillary was Secretary.  From the NationalReview.com:

Clinton State Department Stonewalled AP for Three Years

by NRO Staff

It was a long wait. Today’s blockbuster report from the Associated Press about Hillary Clinton’s meetings with Clinton Foundation donors during her time as Secretary of State contained the following nugget: “The AP sought Clinton’s calendar and schedules three years ago, but delays led the AP to sue the State Department last year in federal court for those materials and other records.” Three years ago. The long wait was in keeping with a practice of slow-walking such requests for information.

As in: the State Department did its level best to block, stall and obfuscate the acquisition of the truth about Hillary Rodham Clinton by the Associated Press.

Let’s see; this past week’s Hillary publicity included:

Ah yes.  What a wonderful, engaging and revelatory week it was for Hillary Rodham Clinton.

BZ