Connecting the dots on Hillary Clinton

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Church of Scientology Lobbied Hillary’s State Department

The Church of Scientology started a big-money lobbying relationship with the U.S. State Department during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state.
What do you think?
Greg Mitchell, proprietor of The Mitchell Firm, is Scientology’s official Washington lobbyist. A church member, Mitchell works to help the church gain mainstream credibility and to lobby on behalf of issues the church cares about, like criminal justice reform and religious freedom in foreign countries.

Mitchell features a photograph on his firm’s website that shows him posing with Bill and Hillary Clinton.
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The Mitchell Firm

As TheDC reported, Mitchell also lobbied President Obama’s White House four times during Obama’s first term, in 2009 and 2012.
What do you think?
The State Department and the Church of Scientology did not return requests for comment by press time.

http://dailycaller.com/2015/06/21/church-of-scientology-lobbied-hillarys-state-department/

 

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A lobbying firm had a lobbyist that wanted to lobby the state department?

wow....great find Walter....I mean we all know that hasn't been happening for decades.

You and Russ should form your own investigation team.

 

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[h=2]For-Profit Schools Target Vulnerable Vets, Give to Clinton Foundation[/h]Hillary Clinton’s attempt to defend veterans highlights her hypocrisy
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Hillary Clinton at a roundtable event with veterans in Reno, Nev. / AP​

BY: Brent Scher
June 23, 2015 5:00 am

Hillary Clinton took aim at the for-profit education industry last week saying it lies to military veterans to boost profits, but the industry’s most predatory schools are Clinton Foundation donors.
Clinton during an event in Nevada last Thursday accused for-profit schools of exploiting the so-called 90-10 rule in order to “target service members, veterans, and their families with false promises and deceptive marketing”; the rule, established by the amended Higher Education Act of 1965, caps the percentage of total revenue for-profit schools can receive from Title IV federal financial aid. The rule forbids for-profit schools from receiving 90 percent of their revenue from federal financial aid—but the amount of federal money they receive in the form of veterans’ benefits is not restricted—making service members and veterans attractive prey for the revenue hungry industry.
The school relying on veterans’ benefits most has been the for-profit University of Phoenix, which took in nearly $1 billion in G.I. Bill funds from 2009 to 2014 according to PBS.
The Apollo Group, which is the parent company of the University of Phoenix, has donated up to$100,000 to the Clinton Foundation and at least part of that donation came as recently as 2014.
The University of Phoenix is highly effective at recruiting veterans. The school’s San Diego campus, which has a high veteran population, took in $95 million through the G.I. Bill during that five-year span, which is more than any other college in the country.
Unfortunately, much of that money is going to waste. A recent study found that only 16 percent of University of Phoenix students graduate within six years. For online students, the graduation rate is just 5 percent.
Brown Mackie College, also a 2014 Clinton Foundation donor, is part of the Education Management Corporation (EDMC), which is the country’s second largest for-profit college company.
A lawsuit from whistle-blowers against EDMC that became public in 2014 alleged that it was recruiting veterans by overpromising on post-graduate employment prospects, and that EDMC was lowering the reported incomes of its applicants with the goal of receiving more G.I. Bill funds.
“[EDMC’s] business is not that of an educational institution. It is a sales company,” argued the attorneys in the suit. “Defendants place virtually no stock in providing students with quality educational services and therefore are not entitled to participate in the federal financial aid program.”
An earlier lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice argued many of the same points, stating that EDMC disqualified itself from $11 billion in federal and state funds due its recruitment practices.
The DOJ complaint stated that EDMC, which is partially owned by Goldman Sachs, operated a “boiler-room style” sales team.
Recruiters were instructed to “exploit applicants’ psychological vulnerabilities,” and targeted applicants “who were unable to write coherently, who appeared to be under the influence of drugs, or who sought to enroll in an online program but had no computer,” according to the suit.
Clinton’s criticism of the industry extended beyond its abuse of the 90-10 loophole.
“Unfortunately there are some programs that take people’s money and do not produce the results that were promised, and we’ve got to crack down on that and put them out of business,” said Clinton last week during an event at Trident Technical College.
The Laureate International Universities, partially owned by the liberal billionaire George Soros, have donated between $1 million and $5 million to the Clinton Foundation. New York Magazine characterized Bill Clinton as the “face” of Laureate, which enrolls 800,000 students worldwide.
Clinton was paid an undisclosed salary for his “honorary chancellor” position with Laureate, butresigned earlier this year.
Laureate has been criticized for “turbocharging” enrollment at its schools and lowering admission standards to the point that its schools are now “the place you go when no one else will accept you.”
The Clinton Foundation also received money from Kaplan in 2014, which earlier this year made a$1.3 million settlement payment to DOJ for using unqualified instructors to teach students that were paying for their education with federal funds.
Kaplan has been criticized for targeting students who would likely drop-out—so it can receive government aid money without providing any service.
The main target was “African-American women who were raising two children by themselves,” according to a whistle-blower. Other markers that those in the sales department were looking out for were “low self-esteem, reliance on public assistance, being fired, laid off, incarcerated, or physically or mentally abused.”
Kaplan derives 88 percent of its revenues from federal funding.
The Clinton campaign did not return a request for comment.

 

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[h=1]NY POST: ‘CLINTON CASH AUTHOR DEMOLISHES HILLARY’S SELF-DEFENSE’[/h]

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by BREITBART NEWS22 Jun 20151161

Clinton says she should be judged on record
WMUR - Manchester, NH
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[h=2]Clinton Cash author and Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer writes in the New York Post:[/h]Grave incompetence or brazen dishonesty?
Those are the only two conclusions one can reasonably come to after reviewing Hillary Clinton’s stunning Sunday interview on local New Hampshire TV.
When WMUR local TV host Josh McElveen asked Hillary Clinton why her State Department greenlit the transfer of 20 percent of all US uranium to the Russian government, Clinton claimed she had no involvement in her own State Department’s decision to approve the sale of Uranium One to Russia.
“I was not personally involved because that wasn’t something the secretary of state did,” said Clinton.
The transfer of 20 percent of US uranium — the stuff used to build nuclear weapons — to Vladimir Putin did not rise to the level of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s time and attention?
Beyond being an admission of extreme executive negligence on an issue of utmost national security, Hillary’s statement strains credulity to the breaking point for at least three other reasons.
First, nine investors who profited from the uranium deal collectively donated $145 million to Hillary’s family foundation, including Clinton Foundation mega donor and Canadian mining billionaire Frank Giustra, who pledged $100 million.
Since 2005, Giustra and Bill Clinton have frequently globetrotted together, and there’s even a Clinton Foundation initiative named the Clinton-Giustra initiative.
But Hillary expects Americans to believe she had no knowledge that a man who made a nine-figure donation to her foundation was deeply involved in the deal? Nor eight other mining executives, all of whom also donated to her foundation?
Second, during her Sunday interview, Clinton was asked about the Kremlin-backed bank that paid Bill Clinton $500,000 for a single speech delivered in Moscow. Hillary’s response? She dodged the question completely and instead offered this blurry evasion.
“The timing doesn’t work,” said Clinton. “It happened in terms of the support for the foundation before I was secretary of state.”
Hillary added that such “allegations” are being “made by people who are wielding the partisan axe.”
The reason Hillary ignored addressing the $500,000 direct payment from the Kremlin-backed bank to her husband is because that payment occurred, as the Times confirms, “shortly after the Russians announced their intention to acquire a majority stake in Uranium One.”
And as for her comment that the timing of the uranium investors’ donations “doesn’t work” as a damning revelation, in fact, the timing works perfectly.
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[h=1]CLINTON WH COUNSELOR: HILLARY’S OBAMATRADE WAFFLING, SILENCE ON PUBLIC CORRUPTION MAY COST HER NOMINATION[/h]

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by BREITBART NEWS22 Jun 2015142

Hillary Clinton’s silence on public corruption and refusal to take a firm stand on Obamatrade may cost her her party’s presidential nomination, argues President Bill Clinton’s former White House counselor.
Writing in Salon, Bill Curry blasts Clinton for trying to have it both ways on the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal that Clinton once called the “gold standard” in trade agreements but the party’s left-wing primary voters oppose.
“No one plays the game better than Hillary Clinton, the Harry Houdini of syntax,” Currywrites before noting that Clinton’s Obamatrade rhetoric “is of a piece with her entire 2016 campaign.”
He also notes that Clinton is “weakest on the sleeper issue of 2016: public corruption and the general debasement of politics and government.”
Because of the numerous Clinton Foundation and pay-to-play scandals that Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large and Government Accountability Institute President first exposed in Clinton Cash and mainstream media outlets independently confirmed later, Clinton has not only been silent on public corruption but completely avoided the media while Clinton Cash overshadowed her campaign launch for the last two months.
“Voter disgust is so deep even consultants who make their real livings off corporate clients tell their political clients to talk about it,” Curry notes. “Unlike nearly every Republican announcing for president, she never mentioned ethics or corruption.”
Obamatrade and crony capitalism pit the permanent political class on one side against regular Americans on the other. And curry notes on those issues, in addition to others like the surveillance state and wars, Clinton is not on the side of “populism” or “reform” by any stretch of the measure.
Curry called Clinton out for not taking a firm stance on Obamatrade when she finally spoke out on the issue in Iowa and vaguely expressed support for House Minority LeaderRep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) without expressly opposing the deal.
“Without changing her position, without even taking one, she repositioned herself on an issue roiling her party and nation,” Curry marveled. “As message politics goes, it was state of the art. Too bad for Clinton it isn’t working.”
Though Clinton wants to mimic Obama’s two election victories, the robotic Clinton doesn’t have Obama’s personality and her trying to have it both ways on nearly every issue reinforces her sense of inauthenticity. That is why, according to Curry, Clinton cannot “spout populist rhetoric without any policy specifics to back it up” in a way Obama was able to do en route to the White House.
“Clinton insiders also ingratiate themselves to reporters by dishing about her need to seem more authentic,” Curry writes. “Someone should tell them it’s hard to seem real when you won’t tell people what you really think.”
Curry notes that “Clinton Democrats,” famous for their triangulation, just “hate to admit there are issues you can’t finesse or that they must ever choose between the middle class and the donor class.”
“Clinton better figure it out now,” he notes. “When the data’s all in it will be too late.”
Though Curry notes that Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-VT) candidacy “is still an improbable” one, Sanders, he claims, “is the only candidate in either party who seems to feel the tectonic plates of our politics shifting.”
“If he clears out the second tier, his battle with Hillary could become epic, forcing not just her but the Democratic Party to choose between the middle class and the donor class; between corporate and democratic rule; the battle over trade carried over into a presidential election,” he writes. “Democratic elites don’t want to hear it but Hillary Clinton’s in trouble. It isn’t in all the data yet though you can find it if you look.”
If Democrats end up helping pass Obamatrade, left-wing primary voters may revolt like they did against the Iraq War, which may give Sanders an opening against Clinton. Courting Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)’s (D-MA) supporters, Sanders has been electrifying left-wing activists by calling Clinton out on Obamatrade and emphasizing that he and Warren are allies in the fight against it.
“I frankly don’t understand how you could be a major candidate for president of the United States–Hillary Clinton, or anybody else–and not have an opinion on that issue,” Sanders has been saying on the stump.
Curry notes that Sanders came within 8 points of Clinton at a recent straw poll at the Wisconsin Democratic convention and trails Clinton by ten points in two recent New Hampshire polls. Majorities of voters do not find her “honest and trustworthy” and Clinton has been trailing or been tied with Republicans like Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) andSen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) in some swing states, which Curry notes shows Clinton’s considerable weaknesses as a candidate. Clinton’s allies have even been lowering expectations, saying they would not be surprised if Sanders won Iowa or New Hampshire.
“If Sanders can poll 40% in a Wisconsin straw poll in June he can do it an Iowa caucus in January,” Curry writes. “Imagine a Hillary Clinton who just lost Iowa and New Hampshire to Bernie Sanders. It’s still hard to picture but it gets easier every day.”
Though Sanders may shock Clinton in either Iowa or New Hampshire, Sanders’s greatest challenge will be cutting into Clinton’s support among minority Democrats, who make up a greater percentage of the party’s primary electorate in states that vote after New Hampshire. In a recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, Clinton was the first choice of 91% of minority Democratic primary.

 

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More breitbart spam. You should be ashamed of yourself Russ. Didn't you learn your lesson the last 7 years? You are too dumb to connect any dots.....especially those that don't exist.

 

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NY POST: ‘CLINTON CASH AUTHOR DEMOLISHES HILLARY’S SELF-DEFENSE’

Richard Ellis/Getty Images

by BREITBART NEWS22 Jun 20151161

Clinton says she should be judged on record
WMUR - Manchester, NH
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Clinton Cash author and Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer writes in the New York Post:

Grave incompetence or brazen dishonesty?
Those are the only two conclusions one can reasonably come to after reviewing Hillary Clinton’s stunning Sunday interview on local New Hampshire TV.
When WMUR local TV host Josh McElveen asked Hillary Clinton why her State Department greenlit the transfer of 20 percent of all US uranium to the Russian government, Clinton claimed she had no involvement in her own State Department’s decision to approve the sale of Uranium One to Russia.
“I was not personally involved because that wasn’t something the secretary of state did,” said Clinton.
The transfer of 20 percent of US uranium — the stuff used to build nuclear weapons — to Vladimir Putin did not rise to the level of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s time and attention?
Beyond being an admission of extreme executive negligence on an issue of utmost national security, Hillary’s statement strains credulity to the breaking point for at least three other reasons.
First, nine investors who profited from the uranium deal collectively donated $145 million to Hillary’s family foundation, including Clinton Foundation mega donor and Canadian mining billionaire Frank Giustra, who pledged $100 million.
Since 2005, Giustra and Bill Clinton have frequently globetrotted together, and there’s even a Clinton Foundation initiative named the Clinton-Giustra initiative.
But Hillary expects Americans to believe she had no knowledge that a man who made a nine-figure donation to her foundation was deeply involved in the deal? Nor eight other mining executives, all of whom also donated to her foundation?
Second, during her Sunday interview, Clinton was asked about the Kremlin-backed bank that paid Bill Clinton $500,000 for a single speech delivered in Moscow. Hillary’s response? She dodged the question completely and instead offered this blurry evasion.
“The timing doesn’t work,” said Clinton. “It happened in terms of the support for the foundation before I was secretary of state.”
Hillary added that such “allegations” are being “made by people who are wielding the partisan axe.”
The reason Hillary ignored addressing the $500,000 direct payment from the Kremlin-backed bank to her husband is because that payment occurred, as the Times confirms, “shortly after the Russians announced their intention to acquire a majority stake in Uranium One.”
And as for her comment that the timing of the uranium investors’ donations “doesn’t work” as a damning revelation, in fact, the timing works perfectly.
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More deceptive headlines. Making it seem like it is a ny post story when it's an opinion piece from a breitbart hack.

You liars do this a lot.

 

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Vitard is really going downhill. He does not get it and he never will. Defending Hillary is a waste of time and a deflection of truth and reality. She is what she is and exposing her is getting easier and easier. If he does not see himself as the liar then he is exposing himself just as rapidly as is Hillary. What a pair lol.

 

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[h=1]EXCLUSIVE: Hillary arrives by private jet for Ferguson-area speech on race relations and Charleston 'terrorism' – but friend of Michael Brown hammers her: 'Where you been, Hillary? It's been ten months, girl!'[/h]

• Democratic presidential front-runner spoke about race relations to a mostly black audience in a church just a stone's throw from Ferguson, Missouri
• Ferguson was last year's race-riot flashpoint after the police-shooting death of a young black man named Michael Brown
• The event was added to her itinerary after a high-dollar fundraiser was already planned in a wealthy part of St. Louis.
• Clinton arrived Tuesday in a private jet, walking briskly down the plane's steps and into a waiting van for the ten-minute ride to the church
• But in Ferguson, locals doubt Clinton can feel their pain, and resent any politician who comes looking for street cred nearly a year after Brown's death

By DAVID MARTOSKO, US POLITICAL EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM IN FLORISSANT, MISSOURI




PUBLISHED: 22:47, 23 June 2015 | UPDATED: 01:21, 24 June 2015
Hillary Clinton arrived in a private jet on Tuesday to talk race relations at a church whose rooftops can see Ferguson, Missouri. And she left some in St. Louis's urban black community feeling cold, coming to town for a campaign speech nearly a year after the riot-inducing shooting death of Michael Brown.
In the neighborhood where Brown died in August 2014, his longtime friend Robert Nettles told DailyMail.com that Clinton's brief visit to the scarred town is 'just a little late.'
'Where you been, Hillary?' Nettles asked Tuesday afternoon. 'It's been ten months, girl!'
Clinton's somber talk at an all-black church just up the road from the Ferguson riots' boarded-up windows was a stark contrast from her high-flying arrival at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, in a private part of the facility most people never see.


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CHARIOT'S A-COMING: Hillary Clinton arrived for her campaign stump event in St. Louis in a privaet jet, and wuickly got into a nondescript van for a brief ride to a church in the city's riot-torn black suburbs

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'RACIST TERRORISM': Clinton condemned last week's mass-shooting of nine black church parishioners by a white man who was obsessed with starting a race war

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'WHERE YOU BEEN?' Robert Nettles, a friend of the late Michael Brown, chided Clinton for being a Hillary-come-lately in the midst of campaign season as he pointed to the spot where Brown died

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SMILE! Clinton is in the unusual netherworld of capitalizing on 'white privilege' while simultaneously denouncing it for a black auidience

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IT'S ALL GOOD! Hillary left the church after more than an hour and a half inside, accompanied by pastor Traci DeVor Blackmon and a super-earnest Secret Service agent



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Exclusive DailyMail.com photos show her descending the steps of a large private jet and getting into a white van for a 10-minute ride to Christ the King United Church of Christ in nearby Florissant.
She will hold court Tuesday night at a $2,700-per-person fundraising event in St. Louis's deepest pocket of wealth, hosted by an Anheuser-Busch heiress at an wildlife preserve once owned by President Ulysses S. Grant's family.
But in the afternoon her rhetoric was focused at the chronic street-level drama that has pitted black against white, and calmly wrapped itself up in last week's racist mass-murder at a South Carolina church – an event that she called 'an act of racist terror.'
'I know it's tempting to dismiss a tragedy like this as an isolated incident,' Clinton told the mostly black audience, 'to believe that in today's America bigotry is largely behind us, that institutionalized racism no longer exists.'
'But despite our best efforts and our highest hopes, America's long struggle with race is far from finished. We can't hide from hard truths about race and justice. We have to name them, own them and change them.'


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NO MIDDLE SEATS: Clinton's plane arrived on the back side of the St. Louis airport, at the Signiture Flight Support terminal that serves the jet set who prefer sofas and TVs to cramped seating

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JUST LIKE US: Clinton receives constant Secret Service attention as a former US first lady, and takes full advantage while campaigning – as she's escorted from place to place in motorcades no other presidential candidate can match

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TIME TO PASS THE PLATE: Clinton left the church for a fundraiser at Grant's Park, a nature preserve now owned by the Busch family of Anheuser-Busch fame but which was once owned by Ulysses S. Grant

And speaking about this week's swift move in South Carolina toward removing a Confederate battle flag from the state capitol grounds, Clinton said still more action is needed.
Republican Gov. Nikki Haley, she said, was right to see the flag 'as a symbol of our nation's racist past that has no place in our nation's present or future.'
'It shouldn't fly there,' Clinton said. 'It shouldn't fly anywhere.'
Clinton herself is now facing public doubts about the role of the Confederate 'stars and bars' emblem in her own campaign, along with those of her husband Bill when he was governor of Arkansas.
Ebay on Tuesday was offering auction sales of Confederate flag-festooned memorabilia from Clinton's failed 2008 presidential campaign even as it pledged to stop selling anything bearing the emblem.
The Clintons presided over eight years of Confederate Flag Day commemorations as Arkansas' first couple.
Bill, himself a future president, signed a bill in 1987 that declated the Arkansas state flag must include a blue star to commemorate the slaveholding confederacy.
Four separate interviews in Ferguson suggest African-Americans at the epicenter of last year's marquee race-politics story aren't ready to have Clinton lead America out of its past and into a more color-blind future.
Christopher, a 24-year-old man who asked DailyMail.com not to print his last name, said 'it just ain't enough for someone to drop into the community when it's time to collect money and votes.'
LaKeisha Jones, a thirty-something single mother, agreed. 'That goes for all of them. If you ain't been with us when it matters, don't think we gonna be with you when it's important to you.'

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SMILES ALL AROUND: THe day's somber topic didn't damped the sunshine outside, as Clinton and her top aides were all grins during the brief walk across the church parking lot

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FERGUSON TODAY: Scars still show ten months after the race riots that consumed the town on St. Louis's north side

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NO F***ING PEACE: One Ferguson resident said politicians shouldn't 'drop into the community when it's time to collect money and votes'

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POLITICS: A 'Black Lives Matter' sign – the rallying cry of racial justice warriors since the Ferguson riots in 2014 – hung near the Christ the King United Church of Christ and included the parish's logo endorsement


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Nettles was the most descriptive.
'She can never feel my pain,' he said, adding that Clinton 'don't know what we went through.'
'We were tear gassed and maced' as the 2014 riots consumed Ferguson, he said. 'Chemicals were dropped from the air. Kids and babies, you know, they were all messed up.'


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If Clinton wants to make genuine inroads, Nettles added, she has to come back to Ferguson over and over again – and skip the C-SPAN photo-ops.
'Hillary could do it,' he said. 'But she's – I really think she'll have to really reach out to the community. For real, I mean. Not one of these TV speeches where she pretends to be one of us.'
'Not at a church. I think the best spot is for her to go to – it would be at the McDonald's on West Florissant. That's the best spot for her to actually reach out.'
'That's what I would actually do,' he said. 'That McDonald's right there. Come and talk to us. Come and talk to us. Come on.'
Ferguson itself shows little sign of a rebound 10 months after strip malls were looted and stores erupted in flaming anger.
One burned-out store is covered with graffiti. Part of it reads 'No justice, no f***ing peace.'
Locals have scrubbed out the first three letters of the curse word, but no one has rebuilt the business where the sentence stands.
Another brick wall that once protected a store's inventory is now covered with the message: 'Let us purge white Amerikkka.' The vandals drew a crude picture of a gun at the top.
The most peaceful-seeming place in Ferguson is Canfield Drive, where Michael Brown died after charging a police officer.

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HERE WE GO AGAIN: The fatal August 2014 confrontation between the hulking teen Michael Brown (left) and policeman Darren Wilson (right) sparked riots just a few miles from where Clinton will speak Tuesday

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MARKS THE SPOT: Michael Brown died on this patch of street pavement, which has been removed and replaced by fresh asphalt

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PREACH: Clinton's event was put together as an afterthought following last week's Charleston shootings. She already had a high-dollar fundraiser on the schedule for Tuesday night

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JUST A MILE AWAY: Rubble is everywhere along West Florissant Avenue in Ferguson, left behind when race rioters torched and looted builings after Michael Brown's killer, policeman Darren Wilson, wasn't indicted for his death



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A spray-painted 'R.I.P Mike' can still be read near where city officials have removed a slab of pavement that once held his blood. New asphalt now holds the road instead.
Nettles said Clinton and other well-meaning pols are missing the bigger picture.
'It's not like Mike was the only one that's been killed out here,' he said. 'There's been other deaths. Other murders. One of them was a witness to the shooting.'
Nettles said he didn't know the man's name, but knew his father by his street name, 'Bone.'
'Bone's son, he got gasoline poured on him and he was lit up and he died. He saw Mike get shot,' he said.
Sure enough, a makeshift memorial marks that scene, complete with more than a dozen stuffed animals surrounding a tree.
'We had all kind of stuffed animals here for Mike too,' Nettles recalled, talking through clenched teeth.
He claimed police and 'other white folks' had set fire to them, leaving scorch marks on the pavement and on a streetlight pole.
'Who gonna fix that?' he asked, talking about both the physical damage and a perceived insult to the community's injury.
'It's just sad. Ain't no one going to fix it.'

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[h=1]Hillary Clinton facing questions over involvement in Uranium One sale[/h][h=2]Clinton scrutinized after interview on CloseUP[/h]UPDATED 12:20 AM EDT Jun 24, 2015

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MANCHESTER, N.H. —New problems have arisen for the Hillary Clinton campaign following an exclusive interview with WMUR that aired on Sunday.

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The controversy involves the sale of a Canadian company, Uranium One, to the Russian government during her time as secretary of state.
Critics said her answers surrounding it pose major questions.
The question posed to Clinton during the interview with News 9 Political Director Josh McElveen focused on big money paid in the form of a $500,000 speaking fee to her husband, former President Bill Clinton, by a Kremlin bank, one of the players involved in the Uranium One deal.
Her answer is sparking major questions about her honesty and leadership.
"There's no basis for any of that. The timing doesn't work. It happened in terms of the work for the foundation before I was secretary of state,” Clinton said in the interview. "There were nine government agencies that that had to sign off on that deal. I was not personally involved because that’s not something (the) secretary of state did.
Click to watch the full interview that aired on CloseUP.
The question itself was born of allegations made by the conservative author of the best-selling but highly critical book, "Clinton Cash," and on Tuesday, author Peter Shwiezer blasted Clinton’s answers on CloseUP in an op-ed that has gone national, insisting his timelines are correct, and that at the time of the sale of Uranium One, Clinton was negotiating directly with the Russian government over civilian nuclear technology in the so-called Russian reset.
“For her to claim that somehow she was not involved in this decision strikes me as extremely odd,” said Shwiezer. “If, in fact, she was not involved in this decision, it goes to the heart of leadership because the secretary of state should be the one to sign off on transferring 20 percent of U.S. uranium to the Russian government.”
ABC News political director Rick Klien offered an ominous prediction of the implications this issue could present Clinton moving forward.
“This is a lot more serious in one way than the (email scandal), because the emails were about transparency and disclosure. But when you talk about actions as secretary of state … you start to talk about official actions and you question her honesty, her trustworthiness, point-by-point, in the case that's made against her, and that’s where I think there is real vulnerability,” said Klien.
Mike Vlacich, Clinton’s campaign manager in New Hampshire, released a statement in response, saying, "These stale attacks are based on sloppy research and attacks pulled out of thin air with no actual evidence. And they are missing the most important thing of all: the facts."
Shwiezer said he stands by everything in his book, however, pointing out his research has been verified by investigative teams ranging from the New York Times to ABC News.

 

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[h=2]Clinton Aide Worked on UAE Project While at State Department[/h]Experts suggest activity could violate conflict of interest provisions
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Cheryl Mills on a State Department trip to Haiti / AP​

BY: Alana Goodman
June 24, 2015 5:00 am

Hillary Clinton’s top aide Cheryl Mills held several outside roles, including a board position with a UAE-funded university in Abu Dhabi, while working as chief of staff and counselor at the State Department, theWashington Free Beacon has learned.
After joining the State Department in the beginning of 2009, Mills continued to serve as general counsel for New York University for several months. She also sat on the board of the “NYU in Abu Dhabi Corporation,” the fundraising arm for the university’s UAE satellite campus. The school is bankrolled by the Abu Dhabi government and has been criticized by NYU professors and human rights activists for alleged labor abuses.
Mills resigned both positions in May 2009, according to a university spokesperson. Although she did not receive a direct salary from the Abu Dhabi board, she collected $198,000 over four months from NYU.
While the State Department told the Free Beacon that Mills did not start working as Clinton’s chief of staff until May 24, 2009, internal agency documents indicate she began months earlier.
Mills is identified as Clinton’s chief of staff in several U.S. diplomatic cables prior to May 2009. One confidential dispatch published by Wikileaks described a Feb. 5, 2009 meeting in Washington between Haitian President Rene Preval and Secretary Clinton.
“On the U.S. side, U.S. Ambassador to Haiti Janet Sanderson … Special Advisor Vicki Huddleston, and Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills joined the Secretary,” said the cable, which was sent from Hillary Clinton’s office to the U.S. embassy in Port au Prince on Feb. 11, 2009.
Mills is also copied on over a dozen internal State Department memos vetting Bill Clinton’s paid speaking engagements between February and May 2009. The documents were released last year under a Freedom of Information Act request from Judicial Watch.
In the memos, drafted by the State Department’s deputy legal advisor, James Thessin, Mills is identified as “Counselor and Chief of Staff, U.S. Department of State.”
On February 17, 2009, Thessin sent a memo to Bill Clinton’s scheduler, recommending “To expedite these [conflict of interest assessment] requests in the future, you may wish to forward the request directly to me, with a copy to Waldo (Chip) Brooks, my Senior Ethics counsel … his deputy, Violanda Botet … and Cheryl Mills.”
As the Free Beacon previously reported, Mills was still on the board of the William J. Clinton Foundation during this time.
A Clinton Foundation official told the Free Beacon that Mills resigned from its board in March 2009, but did not provide the specific date. The official also said the position was unpaid and “there was no board activity [involving Mills] after December 2008.”
While Mills is also listed in some Clinton Foundation records as a director until as late as 2012, the foundation and its filing vendor told the Free Beacon this was due to an inadvertent filing error.
Mills’ outside roles could have opened her up to potential criminal conflict of interest violations, according to ethics experts.
“A key element of those laws is whether the executive branch employee is making decisions or playing an important role in a particular matter which involves their other interest,” said Ken Boehm, chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center, a government watchdog group. “At the minimum the whole thing is fraught with danger.”
Mills would have been exempt from some ethics restrictions if she was granted “special government employee” status at the time, which would allow her to work in a part-time consulting role at the agency.
Last year, the State Department released a list of all of its SGE employees under Hillary Clinton in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from ProPublica. According to the list, Mills was classified as an SGE in 2013 but she is not listed in 2009.
The State Department told the Free Beacon on Friday that it is currently trying to determine whether Mills was a special government employee in 2009. It was not able to produce a response by publication time. Mills did not respond to request for comment.
Another Clinton aide, Huma Abedin, was classified as an SGE during her last few months at the State Department. During this time, Abedin also worked as a consultant at the Clinton Foundation and Teneo, a company founded by long-time Clinton associate Doug Band.
Ethics experts said even if Mills did have special government employee status, she could not be involved in government matters that would help NYU or the Clinton Foundation financially.
“The only rule that applies to both [SGE’s and regular government employees] is that she cannot participate in matters that would financially benefit a current employer, for example NYU,” said Richard Painter, who served as chief White House ethics counselor under President George W. Bush. “Same for anyone else or any foundation she worked for while working at State.”
The Clintons maintained close relationships with NYU and the UAE during and after Hillary Clinton’s time at the State Department.
The secretary of state gave the NYU commencement address on May 13, 2009.
Bill Clinton was paid $175,000 in November 2009 for a speech in Abu Dhabi, according to Peter Schweitzer’s book Clinton Cash. He also reportedly received $600,000 for a UAE government event in 2011. Since then, the former president has given additional paid speeches in the UAE, including acontroversial 2013 address at NYU’s Abu Dhabi campus.
The Clinton Foundation has also received between $1 million and $5 million from the UAE government.
“Federal of conflict interest statutes are very strict, and they want to ensure that federal employees, especially very senior special employees like Cheryl Mills, do not have any conflicts of interest in any matter that they have a hand in,” said Boehm. “Given her position, the dual position of counselor and chief of staff, presumably she would have access to almost any decision of importance that came out of the State Department.”
Mills currently runs the BlackIvy Group, a consulting firm that focuses on Sub-Saharan Africa. In 2013 she rejoined the board of the Clinton Foundation.

 

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[h=2]Clinton Silent as Number of Worldwide Refugees Reaches Record Level[/h]Failed to address crises as secretary of state that resulted in nearly 60 million displaced persons, critics say
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BY: Daniel Wiser
June 23, 2015 4:55 pm

Hillary Clinton’s policies as secretary of state failed to address several crises that have produced a record number of displaced persons worldwide, according to a Republican group that also noted her lack of a commemoration for World Refugee Day.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said in a report last week that there were 59.5 million people who were forcibly displaced at the end of 2014, the largest number ever recorded. More than half of the displaced persons were children. Refugee levels spiked in the Middle East, Europe, and sub-Saharan Africa, all regions where Clinton’s policies faced criticism during her tenure as secretary of state.
America Rising PAC, a GOP opposition research firm, pointed out that Clinton—the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination for president—did not make a statement on World Refugee Day, this past Saturday.
“Secretary Clinton’s silence on World Refugee Day was extremely telling,” Colin Reed, executive director of America Rising, said in a statement to the Washington Free Beacon. “Under her failed leadership at the State Department, the world became less stable and more dangerous, and her policies led to the global unrest that has contributed to the number of refugees reaching record levels.”
The UNHCR said one of the main contributors to the burgeoning refugee total is the four-year civil war in Syria, where an average of 42,500 people were displaced each day of last year. Syria has the world’s most internally displaced people (7.6 million) as well as refugees that have fled to other countries (3.88 million).
In March 2011, Clinton said the United States did not intervene in Syria because of the perception that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was a “reformer.” Critics later derided Clinton for the comment when Assad escalated his crack down on the country’s opposition and began to kill his own people, including with chemical weapons. The civil war has claimed more than 200,000 lives.
Clinton reportedly supported efforts to arm more moderate rebels early in the civil war but failed to persuade President Obama to do so.
Terrorist groups, including al Qaeda and the Islamic State (IS), capitalized on the chaos in the Syrian war to expand their territory. In June 2014, IS launched an offensive across the Syrian border into western and northern Iraq, seizing the key city of Mosul and eventually other cities in Iraq’s Anbar province. More than 3.3 million Iraqis have been displaced by IS.
Last June, Clinton said she “could not have predicted the extent to which [IS] could be effective in seizing cities in Iraq and trying to erase boundaries to create an Islamist state.” Intelligence officials have said their efforts to monitor IS were made more difficult by the U.S. withdrawal of troops from Iraq in 2011. Clinton largely supported the removal of U.S. forces from Iraq and dismissed criticism of the Obama administration, which was unable to secure a status of forces agreement permitting a residual troop presence.
In Ukraine, the conflict between the Ukrainian military and Russian-backed separatists has displaced1.2 million people in the country and resulted in more than 6,000 deaths since last April. Clinton infamously presented a “reset” button to Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, in 2009 to promote more cooperation between the two countries, though the Russian word on the button actually translated into “overcharged.” Amid Russia’s ongoing destabilization of Ukraine and continued support for Assad, the reset policy is now widely regarded as a misguided move. Nonetheless, Clinton said last year that the reset “worked” on issues such as nuclear nonproliferation and the transport of supplies to U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
Additionally, the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram has forced more than 1.5 million people, including 800,000 children, to abandon their homes. Hundreds of Nigerian teachers and schoolchildren were killed last year. Despite pressure from some U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies, Clinton declined to name Boko Haram a terrorist group while she was secretary of state. Sen. David Vitter (R., La.) has speculated that Clinton’s decision might be related to Gilbert Chagoury, a Nigerian construction magnate and Clinton Foundation donor with substantial business interests in the country.
A Clinton spokesman did not respond to a request for comment on World Refugee Day and her policies as secretary of state.

 

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[h=1]NY POST: ‘CLINTON CASH AUTHOR DEMOLISHES HILLARY’S SELF-DEFENSE’[/h]

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[h=2]Clinton Cash author and Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer writes in the New York Post:[/h]Grave incompetence or brazen dishonesty?
Those are the only two conclusions one can reasonably come to after reviewing Hillary Clinton’s stunning Sunday interview on local New Hampshire TV.
When WMUR local TV host Josh McElveen asked Hillary Clinton why her State Department greenlit the transfer of 20 percent of all US uranium to the Russian government, Clinton claimed she had no involvement in her own State Department’s decision to approve the sale of Uranium One to Russia.
“I was not personally involved because that wasn’t something the secretary of state did,” said Clinton.
The transfer of 20 percent of US uranium — the stuff used to build nuclear weapons — to Vladimir Putin did not rise to the level of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s time and attention?
Beyond being an admission of extreme executive negligence on an issue of utmost national security, Hillary’s statement strains credulity to the breaking point for at least three other reasons.
First, nine investors who profited from the uranium deal collectively donated $145 million to Hillary’s family foundation, including Clinton Foundation mega donor and Canadian mining billionaire Frank Giustra, who pledged $100 million.
Since 2005, Giustra and Bill Clinton have frequently globetrotted together, and there’s even a Clinton Foundation initiative named the Clinton-Giustra initiative.
But Hillary expects Americans to believe she had no knowledge that a man who made a nine-figure donation to her foundation was deeply involved in the deal? Nor eight other mining executives, all of whom also donated to her foundation?
Second, during her Sunday interview, Clinton was asked about the Kremlin-backed bank that paid Bill Clinton $500,000 for a single speech delivered in Moscow. Hillary’s response? She dodged the question completely and instead offered this blurry evasion.
“The timing doesn’t work,” said Clinton. “It happened in terms of the support for the foundation before I was secretary of state.”
Hillary added that such “allegations” are being “made by people who are wielding the partisan axe.”
The reason Hillary ignored addressing the $500,000 direct payment from the Kremlin-backed bank to her husband is because that payment occurred, as the Times confirms, “shortly after the Russians announced their intention to acquire a majority stake in Uranium One.”
And as for her comment that the timing of the uranium investors’ donations “doesn’t work” as a damning revelation, in fact, the timing works perfectly.
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NY POST: ‘CLINTON CASH AUTHOR DEMOLISHES HILLARY’S SELF-DEFENSE’

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Clinton Cash author and Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer writes in the New York Post:

Grave incompetence or brazen dishonesty?
Those are the only two conclusions one can reasonably come to after reviewing Hillary Clinton’s stunning Sunday interview on local New Hampshire TV.
When WMUR local TV host Josh McElveen asked Hillary Clinton why her State Department greenlit the transfer of 20 percent of all US uranium to the Russian government, Clinton claimed she had no involvement in her own State Department’s decision to approve the sale of Uranium One to Russia.
“I was not personally involved because that wasn’t something the secretary of state did,” said Clinton.
The transfer of 20 percent of US uranium — the stuff used to build nuclear weapons — to Vladimir Putin did not rise to the level of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s time and attention?
Beyond being an admission of extreme executive negligence on an issue of utmost national security, Hillary’s statement strains credulity to the breaking point for at least three other reasons.
First, nine investors who profited from the uranium deal collectively donated $145 million to Hillary’s family foundation, including Clinton Foundation mega donor and Canadian mining billionaire Frank Giustra, who pledged $100 million.
Since 2005, Giustra and Bill Clinton have frequently globetrotted together, and there’s even a Clinton Foundation initiative named the Clinton-Giustra initiative.
But Hillary expects Americans to believe she had no knowledge that a man who made a nine-figure donation to her foundation was deeply involved in the deal? Nor eight other mining executives, all of whom also donated to her foundation?
Second, during her Sunday interview, Clinton was asked about the Kremlin-backed bank that paid Bill Clinton $500,000 for a single speech delivered in Moscow. Hillary’s response? She dodged the question completely and instead offered this blurry evasion.
“The timing doesn’t work,” said Clinton. “It happened in terms of the support for the foundation before I was secretary of state.”
Hillary added that such “allegations” are being “made by people who are wielding the partisan axe.”
The reason Hillary ignored addressing the $500,000 direct payment from the Kremlin-backed bank to her husband is because that payment occurred, as the Times confirms, “shortly after the Russians announced their intention to acquire a majority stake in Uranium One.”
And as for her comment that the timing of the uranium investors’ donations “doesn’t work” as a damning revelation, in fact, the timing works perfectly.
Read the rest of the article here.
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