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

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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

 

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John Kerry: the Islamic State is not Islamic

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Proving once and for all that John Kerry is clinically insane.

From FoxNews.com:

Islamic State not Islamic? Kerry, Obama questioned over ISIS claims

Secretary of State John Kerry insisted Thursday that the Islamic State is not Islamic, underscoring the effort to distinguish the terror group from mainstream Muslims – but also causing consternation that the administration may once again be underplaying the threat of radical Islam.

“They’re not a state, and they do not represent Islam,” Kerry said in testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Of course.  ISIS or ISIL does not represent Islam any more than George Soros represents Leftist cash.

Or crocodiles represent teeth.

“Islam is as Islam does” — as I have insisted for years — exists because it happens to be a fundamental truism.

Kerry almost became judgmental for a moment, but corrected himself thankfully:

At several points during the hearing, Kerry sought to describe the group in other terms. He called them a “militant cult masquerading as a religious movement.” At another point in the hearing, he used the phrase “Islamic radical groups” but immediately corrected himself.

“Islamic is the wrong word — radical religious extremists,” he clarified.

Thanks for the clarification.

BZ

 

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Saudis offer Russia secret oil deal if it drops Syria

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Kerry has said: “the bombing begins Thursday.”

Here is an important headline from Tuesday, from the UK Telegraph:

Saudi Arabia has secretly offered Russia a sweeping deal to control the global oil market and safeguard Russia’s gas contracts, if the Kremlin backs away from the Assad regime in Syria.

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

By 12:00PM BST 27 Aug 2013

The revelations come amid high tension in the Middle East, with US, British, and French warship poised for missile strikes in Syria. Iran has threatened to retaliate.

The strategic jitters pushed Brent crude prices to a five-month high of $112 a barrel. “We are only one incident away from a serious oil spike. The market is a lot tighter than people think,” said Chris Skrebowski, editor of Petroleum Review.

Leaked transcripts of a closed-door meeting between Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan shed an extraordinary light on the hard-nosed Realpolitik of the two sides.

That said, where does it leave the United States?  Hanging precariously?  Promises of oil contracts denied?  Broken?

Or does Saudi Arabia fear Russia — and its potential response — more than it fears the United States?

President Putin has long been pushing for a global gas cartel, issuing the `Moscow Declaration’ last to month “defend suppliers and resist unfair pressure”. This would entail beefing up the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF), a talking shop. 

Apparently, a clear Russian intervention if the US and/or other countries involve themselves in Syria.

The Putin-Bandar meeting was stormy, replete with warnings of a “dramatic turn” in Syria. Mr Putin was unmoved by the Saudi offer, though western pressure has escalated since then. “Our stance on Assad will never change. We believe that the Syrian regime is the best speaker on behalf of the Syrian people, and not those liver eaters,” he said, referring to footage showing a Jihadist rebel eating the heart and liver of a Syrian soldier.

Prince Bandar in turn warned that there can be “no escape from the military option” if Russia declines the olive branch. Events are unfolding exactly as he foretold.

Are you listening, Mr Obama?

BZ

 

 

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Attorney for Whistleblower: 400 US Missiles Stolen in Benghazi

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Clinton & Benghazi Lies

From Breitbart.com:

by AWR Hawkins 12 Aug 2013, 12:05 PM PDT 1231 post a comment

On August 12, Joe DiGenova, attorney for one of the Benghazi whistleblowers, told Washington D.C.’s WMAL that one of the reasons people have remained tight-lipped about Benghazi is because 400 U.S. missiles were “diverted to Libya” and ended up being stolen and falling into “the hands of some very ugly people.”

DiGenova represents Benghazi whistleblower Mark Thompson. He told WMAL that he “does not know whether [the missiles] were at the annex, but it is clear the annex was somehow involved in the distribution of those missiles.”

He claimed his information “comes from a former intelligence official who stayed in constant contact with people in the special ops and intelligence community.” He said the biggest concern right now is finding those missiles before they can be put to use. “They are worried, specifically according to these sources, about an attempt to shoot down an airliner,” he claimed.

Is this the unspoken nasty secret surrounding Benghazi and the reason the current administration thinks those four deaths mean nothing?  And why they’ll do anything to cover it up and minimize it to their best extent?

Perhaps this paragraph will shed some light:

Months earlier, following then-Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta’s February 7 testimony on Capitol Hill about the Benghazi attacks, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) suggested that one of the causes behind the terrorist attack “may have been that there was a gun running operation going on in Benghazi, leaving Libya and going to Turkey and [distributing] arms to the [Syrian] rebels.”

As may perhaps my previous posts here and here and here and here.

But no one seems to care.

Which tells me one thing: never work for the federal government.  Your death means nothing.

BZ

 

 

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Trey Gowdy: Obama administration HIDING survivors of Benghazi

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From the Greta Van Susteren show on Fox:

Trey Gowdy weighs in:

In an appearance on Fox News’ show ‘On The Record’ with Greta Van Susteren, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) said the Obama Administration is hiding the survivors of the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Gowdy also told Greta that the administration is dispersing the survivors to locations around the country, and also changing their names.

“Stop and think what things are most calculated to get at the truth? Talk to people with first-hand knowledge. What creates the appearance and perhaps the reality of a cover-up? Not letting us talk with people who have the most amount of information, dispersing them around the country and changing their names,”

But is this information bleated on every front page of every newspaper in this great nation?  On every American TV, internet and radio network?

Of course not.  Because such information would damage the wondrous and stupendous Administration of Barack Hussein Obama, and create doubt in the hearts of those who would consider the Next Big Demorat for president, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

A “phony scandal,” ladies and gentlemen?  Just why would you go so far out of your way to purposely cover up a so-called “phony scandal,” pray tell?

No, I will not let Benghazi die, damn me to Hell.

BZ

 

 

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