Posted on 10/30/2016 8:39:57 PM PDT by randita
This Wall Street Journal story is such a blockbuster in every way that arguably the most significant news comes in the 14th (!) paragraph:
New details show that senior law-enforcement officials repeatedly voiced skepticism of the strength of the evidence in a bureau investigation of the Clinton Foundation, sought to condense what was at times a sprawling cross-country effort, and, according to some people familiar with the matter, told agents to limit their pursuit of the case. The probe of the foundation began more than a year ago to determine whether financial crimes or influence peddling occurred related to the charity.
Some investigators grew frustrated, viewing FBI leadership as uninterested in probing the charity, these people said. Others involved disagreed sharply, defending FBI bosses and saying Mr. McCabe [a top FBI official whose wife got huge donations from Terry McAuliffe for a Virginia political race] in particular was caught between an increasingly acrimonious fight for control between the Justice Department and FBI agents pursuing the Clinton Foundation case.
It isn’t unusual for field agents to favor a more aggressive approach than supervisors and prosecutors think is merited. But the internal debates about the Clinton Foundation show the high stakes when such disagreements occur surrounding someone who is running for president.
Yes, you read that right: the FBI has been investigating the Clinton Foundation. The story goes on to detail how the investigation has been tearing the bureau apart and creating a rift between the FBI and DOJ:
In February, FBI officials made a presentation to the Justice Department, according to these people. By all accounts, the meeting didn’t go well.
Some said that is because the FBI didn’t present compelling evidence to justify more aggressive pursuit of the Clinton Foundation, and that the career anticorruption prosecutors in the room simply believed it wasn’t a very strong case. Others said that from the start, the Justice Department officials were stern, icy and dismissive of the case.
“That was one of the weirdest meetings I’ve ever been to,” one participant told others afterward, according to people familiar with the matter. Read the whole thing. Maybe twice.
Note the trailing underscores, must include them too.
still gives me suspended notice
Given that Trump has already taken down the RNC, it will be an interesting political situation after the election, party-wise.
Lynch is FILTHY, just like Holder.....Obama and Clinton don’t hire DECENT people....they like them DIRTY like they are.
WHERE did you get THAT info?
Mon-o-man,
I’d bet the farm, Mr. and Mrs. Clinton have not slept too well the last few nights.
Course this ALL has to be grating on poor ILL Hillary.
Bet she does a face plant or goes spastic again at one of her events in the next few days.
Thank you, randita, for posting this!
When’s the last time there was a candidate under not one, but —two— federal investigations?
Here we’ve got the emails/national secrets and the foundation/$.
Ping to federal investigation of the Clinton foundation:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3487021/posts?page=1#1
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3487021/posts?page=39#39
Falconspeed’s link works; I just tried it now.
Hillary Was Paid Off By The King Of Morocco: Bill Clinton got paid speeches, Clinton Foundation donations, and, in return, then-Secy Hillary would give US support from the State Dept. Despite Morocco's human rights abuses, Hillary was viewed as being “among its most ardent supporters in the Obama administration.”
WIKILEAKS---"This was HRC’s idea, our office approached the Moroccans and they 100 percent believe they are doing this at her request. The King has personally committed approx. $12 million both for the endowment and to support the meeting.”
Abedin said Clinton’s attendance at the CGI event was a condition of the $12 million contribution. “Just to give you some context, the condition upon which the Moroccans agreed to host the meeting was her participation. If HRC was not part if it, meeting was a non-starter,” Abedin said.
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REALITY CHECK--In 2008, the US State Dept's Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) commenced a five-year, $697.5 million compact with the Kingdom of Morocco to reduce poverty and stimulate economic growth.
The State Dept's MCC compact invests in expansion of fruit tree agriculture (including olives, nuts, and dates), support for small-scale fisheries and fish-markets, enhancement of the artisanal sector in the city of Fes, and training for small-scale businesses across all these sectors .........with an emphasis on training for women and youth including literacy training.
2012---Former Secy of State Hillary Clinton shakes hands with Morocco's
Foreign Minister Saad Eddine Othmani in Rabat Feb 26, 2012.
2015--Former US president Bill Clinton, on a private visit to Morocco, was received in the Rabat royal palace by HM King Mohammed VI.
ABC News reported in may 6, 2015 that ex-president Bill Clinton and the Clinton Foundation’s Global Initiative were being hosted at a five-star luxury hotel in Morocco by one of the world's most controversial mining companies, criticized for "serious human rights violations" by the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice.
The Moroccan government-owned mining company OCP operates in disputed international territory in a remote part of the Saharan Desert and the firm has been criticized for removing the resources without adequately compensating the impoverished people who live there.“
Any time the human rights of a population are systematically suppressed in this type of way it's a serious concern, and I think it's worthy of attention,” said David McKean, who has studied the issue for the RFK center.
OCP mining paid $1 million to help host the event and throw a private cocktail reception, to the dismay of human rights activists.
source http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/clinton-foundation-taking-accused-rights-violator/story?id=30840212
2016 UPDATE Pres O gave Mrs O $100 million tax dollars from the State Dept's Millennium Challenge Corporation on her visit to Morocco for "teaching Muslim girls"...... to be administered by the post-presidency tax-exempt Obama Foundation.
Michele, her daughters and her mother in Morocco's palace.
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(hat tip LORIANNE) The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) is a bilateral US foreign aid agency established by the US Congress in 2004, applying a new philosophy toward foreign aid. It is an independent agency separate from the State Department and USAID.
The MCC Board is made up of representatives. These include the MCC's CEO, the U.S. Secretary of State who is the chair, the Secretary of Treasury who is the vice chair, the administrator of USAID, the U.S. Trade Representative and other private-sector or development-related officials.
The Democratic Party often warns us that mixing big money and politics will corrupt democracy. They must have nominated Hillary Clinton to prove it.
The Clinton Foundation was ostensibly set up to solve the world’s most pressing problems. Though it’s done some fine work, its most fruitful program has been leveraging Clinton’s position in the State Department to enrich her family, friends and cronies.
It’s against federal law for charities to act in the interests of private business or individuals. Yet the Clinton Foundation secured high-paying gigs for its namesakes and helped for-profit corporations with family ties set up lucrative deals. As it turns out, that’s probably the least corrupt part of the story.
It is becoming clear the foundation was a center of influence-peddling. Rock stars. Soccer players. Conglomerates. Crown princes. All of them paid in. All of them expected access to the US government. Want a seat on a government intelligence advisory board even though you have no relevant experience? The Clinton Foundation may be able to help.
Recently released emails prove the charity’s officials had sought access to State Department personnel while Hillary was in charge. Folks like the prince of Bahrain, who donated $32 million to the foundation, needed to get in touch.
An Associated Press investigation finds that more than half the private citizens who met or spoke with Clinton while she was secretary of state also happened to donate to her foundation. What are the odds? (Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
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ANALYSIS Hillary brazenly goes on Jimmy Kimmel to clown around, to open a pickle jar, as an excuse to talk about her “boring” e-mails.
Keep in mind this was a setup---a person of Hillary's stature gets to tell the show's producers what she wants to talk about (for lesser guests, its the other way around. They are told what the host wants to talk about).
So Hillary connives to lay it out there....that her emails are boring and irrelevant. If that were so, why was she hiding them from the Justice Dept? If it’s no big deal, why did it take four years and a lawsuit against the State Department to gain access to her planning schedules?
More significantly, why did she lie to the American people? Erase tens of thousands of e-mails? Set up a private server in the first place?
Hillary claims running the State Department gave her the "experience and temperament" necessary to be president. But if anything, it reminds us of the Clintons’ propensity for scandal and dishonesty....(and outright lies if the price is right).
He/she was suspended after a series of posts about insider trading.
He/she was suspended after a series of posts about insider trading.
There's reason to the madness - people who are compromised are easier to handle.
“This guy sez it’ll be raided tomorrow (10/31).
Sez lots of other stuff too. We’ll see !”
1066AD: That guy’s Twitter account has been suspended - Twitter is CENSORING him. What was it he had said?
Make sure you include the trailing underscores in the url.
Working fine here. https://twitter.com/0HOUR1___
Try twitter.com then typing it in, /0hour1 then three underscores.
Also see https://twitter.com/hashtag/HillaryForPrision?src=hash
Note prison spelled wrong, this is deliberate.
Nobody seems to be discussing the likelihood that Huma Abedin has continued her family’s work as members of the Muslim Brotherhood........missionaries of Jihad!
Does anyone else remember the email from Huma, in Pakistan, concerning a request for someone to move a TOP SECRET DOCUMENT IN HER CAR from the passenger area to the trunk.....?
Was Huma’s car being used as a ‘Mail drop’ for routing intell to an Islamic terrorist organization? Was Huma’s car the drop for the return of the Classified Document after it had been reviewed by a clandestine contact?
The Muslim Brotherhood is considered the central coordinating organization for Islamic fundamentalist expansionism & terrorist operations....Huma would be a considered a Jew-marrying, lesbian/disgraced enemy of her family if she were not a well-placed operative...
Google “Clinton Foundation Transfer Qatar.”
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