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[h=1]Hillary's 'Clinton Cash' dismissal is dead in the water[/h]

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By DYLAN BYERS | [h=5]4/23/15 5:07 PM EDT[/h]
Right about the time Drudge Report splashed a link to Jonathan Chait's latest column across its homepage, I got a g-chat from a Democratic strategist: "This is a big deal," he wrote. "My gut tells me it elevates this story to something bigger and more needing of her response. I think this might take away the chance of this ordeal being seen as a partisan witch hunt."
The story in question is, of course, the revelation that Clinton Foundation donations and Clinton family speaking fees may have influenced Hillary Clinton's actions as Secretary of State -- which, if true, would be an extraordinary conflict of interest. In the last 24 hours, The New York Times, POLITICO, The Washington Post, Reuters, Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal have all published reports on such possible connections, based off the forthcoming book by conservative author Peter Schweizer, “Clinton Cash."
Just yesterday, The New Yorker's John Cassidy argued that the "Clinton Cash attacks could end up aiding Hillary," because it would enable her campaign to dismiss the book as partisan. Indeed, Clinton and her team have been doing just that. "We are back into the political season and there are all kinds of distractions and attacks," the candidate said on Wednesday. Meanwhile, her press secretary Brian Fallon has been writing internal memos and public posts dismissing the whole thing as an agenda-driven smear campaign."
The fact that Schweizer's revelations have now been vetted and reported out by the likes of the Times, POLITICO, etc., means the Clinton campaign can no longer be so dismissive. And while Chait's column is probably not the definitive nail in that coffin -- "I think the stories themselves achieved that," he told me Thursday -- it is certainly an added blow, if only because it is so damning in its assessment of what he dubs the "disastrous Clinton post-presidency."
"[T]he best-case scenario is bad enough: The Clintons have been disorganized and greedy," Chait writes. "The news today about the Clintons all fleshes out, in one way or another, their lack of interest in policing serious conflict-of-interest problems that arise in their overlapping roles."
Chait also places the "Clinton Cash" revelations in the context of larger Clintonian secrecy: "The Obama administration wanted Hillary Clinton to use official government email. She didn’t. The Obama administration also demanded that the Clinton Foundation disclose all its donors while she served as Secretary of State. It didn’t comply with that request, either."
"The Clintons’ charitable initiatives were a kind of quasi-government run by themselves, which was staffed by their own loyalists and made up the rules as it went along," Chait concludes. "Their experience running the actual government, with its formal accountability and disclosure, went reasonably well. Their experience running their own privatized mini-state has been a fiasco."
In the eyes of my Democratic strategist, this damning critique "gives a VERY strong retort to the argument that the New Yorker said they were going to push... which is that this is a Fox News/Koch brothers-pushed story."
"Now one of the biggest liberal voices at a big liberal mag is calling them out in the harshest terms possible makes that argument nul and void," he wrote.
Chait is more modest: "It's really overestimating my influence to suggest something I wrote changes things," he said Thursday. "Look, reporters are going to ask about this, I doubt the campaign's response will be shaped by my piece in any way."
However, he later added: "I'm sure they don't like having a liberal criticize them. It might, in some very marginal way, help open up more space for a Democratic challenger."



 

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^^^^^^ from the above:

Right about the time Drudge Report splashed a link to Jonathan Chait's latest column across its homepage, I got a g-chat from a Democratic strategist: "This is a big deal," he wrote. "My gut tells me it elevates this story to something bigger and more needing of her response. I think this might take away the chance of this ordeal being seen as a partisan witch hunt."
 

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This Russ dude is just simply one of, if not THEE (in my best Jim Mora impression) kookiest kooks on this site. Just unreal...
Yep. He has a mental disorder. The guy has no clue that he's a sheep. He's probably been this way his entire life. Just a clueless old fool.
 

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[h=1]A Quick Guide to the Questions About Clinton Cash[/h]A new book and foundation records raise conflict-of-interest concerns about the Democratic presidential hopeful.




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Après Schweizer, le déluge. At the start of the week, The New York Times revealed that Peter Schweizer, a Republican researcher, was close to publishing a book delving into the financial dealings of the Clinton Foundation. The book focuses on how donations from foreign governments to the Clinton Foundation correlated with favorable decisions from the State Department while Hillary Clinton was secretary. What's more, several news organizations had agreements with Schweizer to report on the findings in the book.
It's been clear for some time that the Clinton Foundation presented tricky and novel conflict-of-interest challenges for the candidate, and now the specific stories of those challenges are emerging. In fact, it can be tough to keep them straight. Here's a quick rundown.
1. The State Department, Uranium, and the Russian Government
This one is complicated, in part because many of the relationships are carefully kept at arm's length for legal and ethical reasons, but The New York Times lays it out in a lengthy story. In 2005, Canadian businessman Frank Giustra acquired uranium interests in Kazakhstan, on a trip with former President Bill Clinton. The following year, he gave more than $31 million to the Clinton Foundation. In 2007, Giustra's UrAsia merged with Uranium One, a South African company, and acquired U.S. uranium concerns. In 2009, the Russian atomic energy agency, Rosatom, reached a deal to take a 17 percent stake in Uranium One. In 2010, it increased that to a controlling 51 percent stake, and in 2013 acquired the rest of the company.
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Because the U.S. considers uranium a strategic asset, the acquisition had to be approved by a government commission. Hillary Clinton, as secretary of state, sat on the commission. As Rosatom gradually increased its stake, million of dollars flowed to the Clinton Foundation, including $2.35 million from the family foundation of Uranium One's chairman. Despite an agreement forged with the White House when Hillary Clinton became secretary, requiring the Clinton Foundation to disclose all of its donors, these donations were not disclosed. In total, people affiliated with Uranium One or its predecessor gave more than $8 million to the Clinton Foundation between 2008 and 2010. Meanwhile, Bill Clinton received $500,000 for a speech in Moscow, paid for by a bank boosting Uranium One stock.
The Times notes that it's impossible to prove any clear connection, and Hillary Clinton's campaign said that the donations had not affected her judgment, and noted that many other agencies also had to sign off on the deal.
2. The Tax Returns With the Missing Foreign Donations
For years before Hillary Clinton became secretary of state, the Clinton Foundation reported tens of millions of dollars in donations from foreign governments on its tax forms. In 2010, that suddenly dropped to zero. Reuters reports:
Those entries were errors, according to the foundation: several foreign governments continued to give tens of millions of dollars toward the foundation's work on climate change and economic development through this three-year period. Those governments were identified on the foundation's annually updated donor list, along with broad indications of how much each had cumulatively given since they began donating.
After Reuters asked about the discrepancy, the foundation said it would refile five years' worth of returns. "No charity is required to disclose their donors," a spokesman said. "However, we voluntarily disclose our more than 300,000 donors and post our audited financial statements on our website along with the 990s for anyone to see." But of course, no other charity is run by a former president whose wife used to be secretary of state and who is running for president.
3. How Bill Clinton Benefited From Hillary Clinton's Cabinet Job
While the Times story focused on the policy implications of money coming into the Clinton Foundation, it also pointed to the other side of that coin—that Hillary Clinton's time at Foggy Bottom was lucrative for the Clinton family. ABC digs more deeply into that, and finds that Bill Clinton's speaking fees doubled or tripled once his wife become secretary of state:
Where he once had drawn $150,000 for a typical address in the years following his presidency, Clinton saw a succession of staggering paydays for speeches in 2010 and 2011, including $500,000 paid by a Russian investment bank and $750,000 to address a telecom conference in China.
Some of the groups shelling out to hear the former president speak also had business before the State Department. Department ethics officials reviewed the speaking engagements, but apparently rarely, if ever, objected. As with the other cases, there's no clear proof of a quid pro quo, but it's also hard not to imagine that those paying Bill Clinton might have hoped it would give them extra access or sympathy with Hillary Clinton. ABC's scoop partly follows on Schweizer's book.
4. The Clintons' Intertwined Personal and Charitable Interests

In another story based in part on Schweizer's book, The Washington Postconsidered the close ties between the Clinton Foundation's charitable work and the Clinton family's income. Bill Clinton received at least $26 million in speaking fees from organizations that are also donors to the foundation, Rosalind Helderman reports. "The multiple avenues through which the Clintons and their causes have accepted financial support have provided a variety of ways for wealthy interests in the United States and abroad to build friendly relations with a potential future president," she notes.
 

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Piecing Together The Hillary Jigsaw

Hillary Clinton’s Foundation and its donors have put her in a world of hurt. The news out today that Clinton failed to disclose foreign donors — conspicuously during her 2009-13 tenure as Secretary of State, for which the government has no oversight on her emails — has certainly compounded the issue, and led to a voluntary audit.

Clinton, of course, insists she has a clean past and that accusations concerning possible conflicts of interest are preposterous. With each new headline though, her dismissals are getting harder to believe.


These are the key points of the ongoing story:


1. Today on Fox News, The New York Times reporter Jo Becker revealed that the Clintons straight-up lied to her about whether Bill Clinton had attended a key meeting.


The Caller’s own Alex Griswold writes, “One of the revelations in the Times piece is that Bill Clinton played a key role in the insuring acquisition of key uranium mines from the Kazakh state-owned uranium mining company Kazatomprom to Canadian millionaire Frank Giustra. After the transaction, Giustra gave over $30 million to the Clinton Foundation.”

Later, they would tell Becker the meeting never happened.


2. In 2001, Clinton’s husband, former President Bill Clinton, founded the Clinton Foundation,
which has grown into one of the world’s largest philanthropic endeavors. Hillary didn’t officially join the foundation until 2013, but both Bill and her daughter Chelsea Clinton have been closely involved for far longer.


3. While Clinton was Secretary of State, the Clinton Foundation accepted tens millions of dollars in donations from foreign governments.
At least one of these donations explicitly violated an ethics agreement the foundation had made with the Obama administration in order to avoid exposing Clinton to possible foreign influence.


4. The Foundation didn’t just take donations from governments, but also from at least one foreign company
whose business interests intersected with U.S. strategic concerns.


5. In some instances, companies with close ties to the Clinton Foundation were also given contracts or favors from the U.S. government.
General Electric, for instance, had the U.S. government lobby on its behalf for a contract with the Algerian government, and after landing that contract the company made a substantial donation to the Foundation. Similarly, the German pharmaceutical firm Bayer, for example, received a $4 million contract to spray insecticides in Ethiopia three months before it announced a major collaboration with the Clinton Health Access Initiative to cut the price of contraceptives in poor nations.


6. Despite these tens of millions of dollars in donations, the Clinton Foundation falsely claimed that it didn’t receive any money from foreign governments.
Now, with evidence emerging to the contrary, the foundation is admitting that “errors” caused them to not report tens of millions in contributions, and is refiling its tax returns.


7. Since leaving the White House in 2001, the Clintons’ family income has exceeded $100 million.
More than $26 million of that wealth was generated from speaking fees paid to Bill Clinton by companies that are also big donors to the Clinton Foundation, indicating close links between the charitable efforts of the Clintons and their own economic success.


8. While working at State, Clinton maintained a private email account for the vast majority of the business she conducted,
which would make it relatively easy for her to mix personal and government business without falling under close scrutiny. This private email server contradicted White House policy and was apparently used to thwart Congressional and media investigations.


9. After leaving the cabinet, Clinton deleted all of her personal emails
, making it impossible for any future investigation to read them and determine whether foreign donations could have potentially influenced Clinton’s decision-making. While Clinton says she had all her emails examined before deleting them and turned over copies of everything involving government business to the State Department, the determination of what emails to pass on and what to delete were made entirely by Clinton and her personal attorneys.


Thus far, Hillary’s newly-launched presidential campaign has condemned any suggestions that she could even conceivably have been exposed to undue foreign influence as “far-fetched conspiracy theories.” It seems time will tell, but if the trend is any indicator, Clinton’s troubles are far from over.

http://dailycaller.com/2015/04/23/clinton-scandal-email-foundation-donations/
 

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Lmao. Walter and Russ on overload spam. Nobody is buying the lies....just like they didn't buy the spam lies in 2008 and 2012.

Conservatives are the dumbest people on the planet.
 

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Lmao. Walter and Russ on overload spam. Nobody is buying the lies....just like they didn't buy the spam lies in 2008 and 2012.

Conservatives are the dumbest people on the planet.

Hahaha, it's just such a joy to watch their retarded minds at work. And they truly believe after the 10,000 previous spammed articles failed them, that the next article is the "one". It's friggin hilarious. Don't they realize that if there were a single thing that Hillary could be found guilty of, the billions of dollars spent to try and find it, would have already found it. Not some connect the dots Drudge report, lol. They are so dumb but amusing at the same time.
 

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Hahaha, it's just such a joy to watch their retarded minds at work. And they truly believe after the 10,000 previous spammed articles failed them, that the next article is the "one". It's friggin hilarious. Don't they realize that if there were a single thing that Hillary could be found guilty of, the billions of dollars spent to try and find it, would have already found it. Not some connect the dots Drudge report, lol. They are so dumb but amusing at the same time.
I'm enjoying their posts because every single thread is a bump opportunity for me in 2016.

Same dumb people doing the same dumb shit. Even though Walter keeps changing his name here his predictions remain the same.
 
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I'm enjoying their posts because every single thread is a bump opportunity for me in 2016.

Same dumb people doing the same dumb shit. Even though Walter keeps changing his name here his predictions remain the same.

and 2019, 2021 and 2024.
 

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I'm enjoying their posts because every single thread is a bump opportunity for me in 2016.

Same dumb people doing the same dumb shit. Even though Walter keeps changing his name here his predictions remain the same.

It's crazy man. That's why where ever you go on the Internet it is nonstop conservative fear mongering. I mean taking advantage of these poor mental midgets like Russ, Dave, Scott, Ace, Joe, JDouche, etc... is a frikkin goldmine. They can literally write anything and they believe it. Haha. "An anonymous white house staffer said Hillary is bad"... lol! Really you got to question the morals of these conservative sites. Taking advantage of people that don't know any better and can't think for themselves is wrong. But at the same time you can't blame them for taking their money. Even Sarah Palin gave up working so she can just go around making millions of dollars saying 1 line quips to these idiots, haha!! I honestly can't believe these are adults. It shocks me anyone over the age of 8 could be so easily manipulated.
 
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Walter, Russ, Dave dead by 2019(-220)
rx poly forum dead by 2019 (+185)

No chance, man. Based on life expectancy and guessing their ages, they all have 10+ years to go. This sub-forum is a net negative around here, I'm surprised it has been shitcanned already.
 

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No chance, man. Based on life expectancy and guessing their ages, they all have 10+ years to go. This sub-forum is a net negative around here, I'm surprised it has been shitcanned already.
Not sure man. They are old miserable lonely people with only hate to live for. It's either lay the 220(which is more of a Jdeucebag type play than me) or pass in my opinion.
 

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Here you go Russ... maybe you should start by trying to connect these dots instead. More on your level.

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Hahaha, it's just such a joy to watch their retarded minds at work. And they truly believe after the 10,000 previous spammed articles failed them, that the next article is the "one". It's friggin hilarious. Don't they realize that if there were a single thing that Hillary could be found guilty of, the billions of dollars spent to try and find it, would have already found it. Not some connect the dots Drudge report, lol. They are so dumb but amusing at the same time.

The lard-ass loner continues his streak of being WRONG on EVERYTHING...

Hillary Clinton has a baggage problem
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

Hillary Clinton struggles to contain media barrage on foreign cash
http://www.politico.com/story/...

Hillary Clinton’s Lawyer Says No Need for Private Interview in House Benghazi Inquiry
http://www.nytimes.com/politic...

First Read: Foundation Questions Continue to Plague Clinton
http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-th...

MSNBC’s Donny Deutsch: People Just Want to Turn the Page on Hillary Clinton:


Loser!@#0
 

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You can tell the libtards are in a panic and taking it up the ass when they start bumping worthless threads from years ago.

Their "epitome of perfection" is such a train wreck they can't even discuss current events.

"Not some connect the dots Drudge report, lol." -- aaaktard

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Loser!@#0
 

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