[WND] WASHNGTON ‐ Under Hillary Clinton’s leadership, the State Department was run like a mob-run shakedown operation, with more than half the visitors she met with from outside government paying money to the Clinton Family Foundation for the privilege, according to an Associated Press investigation of her calendars.
"It’s an extraordinary proportion indicating her possible ethics challenges if elected president," reported the largest news-gathering organization in the world.
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, the news agency reported Tuesday.
Combined the 85 "donors" contributed as much as $156 million ‐ with 40 donating more than $100,000 and 20 giving more than $1 million, according to the stunning report.
AP reports 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;
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.
The AP report, which represents the first systematic effort to calculate the scope of the intersecting interests of the Clinton Foundation donors and people who met personally with the secretary of state or spoke on the phone, said "the frequency of the overlaps shows the intermingling of access and donations, and fuels perceptions that giving the foundation money was a price of admission for face time with Clinton. Her calendars and emails released as recently as this week describe scores of contacts she and her top aides had with foundation donors."
The 154 did not include U.S. federal employees or foreign government representatives.
Related story: That’s not all! Hillary helped a crook get $10 million in taxpayer funds for a Haiti scam that left 500 earthquake victims homeless.
But, Clinton met with representatives of at least 16 foreign governments that donated as much as $170 million to the Clinton charity, but they were not included in AP’s calculations because such meetings would presumably have been part of her diplomatic duties.
The Clinton Foundation’s finances are so messy that the nation’s most influential charity watchdog put it on its "watch list" of problematic nonprofits last month.
Meanwhile, an investigation of the Clinton Foundation’s $140 million in grants and pledges in the year 2013 found that only $9 million went to direct aid to charities. The bulk of its revenues went to administration, travel, and salaries and bonuses, with the fattest payouts going to family and friends.
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Nobody who is currently supporting her will change their mind and vote for Trump or anyone else, or will stay home on election day, because of this.
Hillary could run against anyone on the planet and they would still vote for her having heard this story.
I wish it were otherwise but while people like those of us who visit Rantburg are voting for president to try and put in someone who will do the very few things government SHOULD do well, her supporters are voting for a mercenary who will defend their paychecks and indulgences from the regulatory leviathans, period, stop.
It's good to document her corruption and to have some record of our slide into banana republic status but I fear it will affect the outcome in November not one bit.
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Sadly nmu, I believe you have nailed it. It is difficult however, for me to reconcile my association with a people and nation [evidently now a majority] whose belief system has been so corrupted. The phrase "In the world, not of the world" comes to mind.
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There's always the 2nd Amendment option. The founding fathers did not have duck hunting in mind when they put it in the Constitution. The left would like to see the 2nd disappear from the Constitution so they can green light the kinds of crap going on now without any scrutiny or oversight controls. Of course there are often unintended consequences to everything. Al Capone and Idi Amin would have been envious of the slickness and insidiousness way the gnawing away of freedom had been done in such a short time.
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Despite the exposed corruption and lies... the donks will still support her. After all, they have their noses in the trough too and like their handouts.
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Some will claim ignorance of her crimes. But they are in fact complicit, and cannot claim that they have not been told.
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Meanwhile, an investigation of the Clinton Foundation’s $140 million in grants and pledges in the year 2013 found that only $9 million went to direct aid to charities. The bulk of its revenues went to administration, travel, and salaries and bonuses, with the fattest payouts going to family and friends.
Sounds like the Clinton Foundation's favorite charity is the Clintons.
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Despite the exposed corruption and lies... the donks will still support her.
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You realize that if there was a quid pro quo system at the State Dept for Clinton donations, it neatly explains why our foreign policy is so screwed up.
Nobody bid high enough.
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...I believe that's Putin's position and since wet jobs are out of the question, expect a lot of surprises between now and November. BTW, she looks tired doesn't she?
[HOSTED.AP.ORG] More than half the people outside the government who met with Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as The Heroine of Tuzla and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Hamilton Fish ... 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 News Agency that Dare Not be Named. 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.
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This woman should have never ever been running for POTUS. Ethical standards have been tossed out the window.
[USNEWS] Donald Trump is calling for a special prosecutor to investigate whether Clinton Foundation donors were able to exact favors from Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as The Heroine of Tuzla and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Daniel Webster ... 's State Department, accusing federal Sherlocks of failing to adequately probe whether the charitable organization was used to cross legal and ethical lines.
"After the FBI and Department of Justice whitewash of the Clinton email crimes, they certainly cannot be trusted to quickly or impartially investigate Hillary Clinton's crimes," Trump told an audience in Akron, Ohio, on Monday night. "The Justice Department is required to appoint an independent special prosecutor because it has proven itself to be a political arm of the White House."
Trump's call followed the disclosure of emails from top Clinton aide Huma Abedin in connection with a lawsuit by the conservative group Judicial Watch, which has raised new questions about whether Clinton granted special access and favors to high-rolling donors to her family's foundation.
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...In fairness, sometimes a cigar is just a...really big cigar.
Mike
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Big buzzooms too.
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So reality is her alternate-reality.
And didn't she just stonewall the FBI by claiming she didn't feel well?
Stomach virus and dehydration; what happens when you drink your dinner.
But ok. Spongebobbing to balloons and bubbles.
Question: We know nothing unscripted, even if poorly scripted, but why pickles?
Yeah, the story: Oh! Just happened to have a jar of unopened pickles here, go ahead and prove you are not the old lady who can't open pickles.
OK, beets, definitely old grandma stuff. Mayo, definitely too white. Why not something else? Even if the jar had already been opened, she doesn't seem to have a problem getting into pickles.
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So Bill likes 'big balloons'.
This leaves Hillary where exactly?
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Fertility: Craving for gherkins!
Big Mother has no use for merkins.
Her stairway to power
Sure messed up our shower.
Poor Hillary... Anthony Perkins?
Geez. Wikipedia's gut more or less nuthin on Buddy, let alone Pickles. OTOM.
[LI] The MSM can’t stop talking about Donald Trump having brought onto his campaign the Chairman of Breitbart News.
But Hillary’s closest aide being for 12 years an editor of an Islamist magazine that among other things blamed the US for 9/11? Meh!
On today’s With All Due Respect, guest co-host Alex Wagner seconded the excuse that the Clinton campaign is shopping. Said Wagner: "as you and I have both worked on magazines, we know that there are a lot of editors who do absolutely nothing but are listed on mastheads anyway."
John Heilemann similarly argued that while his title at Bloomberg Politics is Managing Editor, he doesn’t do any managing or editing. He went on to assert that not many voters care about Huma Abedin "one way or the other." Added Heilemann: "I know people on the right will hate me for saying that."
Heilemann and Wagner’s excuses don’t pass the smell test. For purposes of argument, let’s assume that in fact Huma didn’t do much work at the mag. But Huma surely knew what the magazine was about and what was in it: her mother was the editor-in-chief! So what was in it? Among other things, an article in essence blaming the US for 9-11. Another implying that women wearing suggestive clothing brought sexual violence on themselves. Another arguing that "single or working moms and gay couples with children should not be classed as a family," etc.
While dismissing the importance of Huma’s involvement with the mag, Wagner did acknowledge that her mother being editor-in-chief could be problematic for the Clinton campaign. But that misses the point, which is that Hillary Clinton has chosen as her longtime, closest adviser someone from a family that espouses these kinds of views. And far from rejecting her heritage, Huma chose to associate herself with that radicalism by, at the very least, having her name displayed as an editor for more than a decade.
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Magazines have long been a tool of propaganda and radical inspiration. Abadin's connection to the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs should come as no surprise.
Johnson, Ian. "A Mosque In Munich" Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010: 107
The most influential political movement to come out of this tradition was the Muslim Brotherhood, al ikhawan al-mulimum, more literally translated as the Society of Muslim Brothers (or Brethren), was founded in 1928 by Hasan al-Banna, a schoolteacher from a small town in the Nile Delta. At the time, Egypt was still under British colonial rule. It was modernizing quickly, going through wrenching economic and social changes: Cairo was industrializing, the peasants were moving to the cities, traditions were breaking up, and social mores were in flux. An avid reader of Rashid Rida's magazine [al-Manar], Banna was appalled by the combination of national opposition and rapid social changes.
Pay for Play among the elite word merchant organizations, the government and the Clinton Foundation. The morphing of the American main stream media into a propaganda organ for the left (otherwise know as the Donk Party). The Donk Party is not the party of your fathers and mothers.
[Politico] NBC Universal, News Corporation, Turner Broadcasting and Thomson Reuters are among more than a dozen media organizations that have made charitable contributions to the Clinton Foundation in recent years, the foundation's records show.
The donations, which range from the low-thousands to the millions, provide a picture of the media industry's ties to the Clinton Foundation at a time when one of its most notable personalities, George Stephanopoulos, is under scrutiny for not disclosing his own $75,000 contribution when reporting on the foundation.
The list also includes mass media groups like Comcast, Time Warner and Viacom, as well a few notable individuals, including Carlos Slim, the Mexican telecom magnate and largest shareholder of The New York Times Company, and James Murdoch, the chief operating officer of 21st Century Fox. Both Slim and Murdoch have given between $1 million to $5 million, respectively.
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Given that Rupert Murdoch does not plan to live forever, and the fact that his two sons are flaming liberals, the rumors that Ailes, Hannity and a few others (Trump's name is circulating) are planning a new news entry into television makes sense.
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