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Bill Clinton defends foundation, says GOP should be ‘scared’ of Hillary
Washington Times ^ | June 14, 2015 | Ben Wolfgang

Posted on 06/15/2015 6:26:40 AM PDT by Zakeet

The Clinton Foundation never rewarded donors with political favors and accusations to the contrary are “personal attacks” that prove other politicians are scared of Hillary Rodham Clinton, former President Bill Clinton said Sunday.

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“Nobody even suggested it or talked about it or thought about it until the political season began,” he said.

But Mr. Clinton also could not guarantee that foreign donors to the Clinton Foundation weren’t expecting favors in return.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016election; clintonfoundation; corruption; hillary

You Freepers need to shut up and listen for a change ... you boneheads can be assured that nobody ever rewarded our donors with political favors ... nobody even suggested it or talked about it or thought about until the political season began ... your Right Wing Nut accusations to the contrary are personal attacks that prove you are scared of Hillary!

1 posted on 06/15/2015 6:26:40 AM PDT by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

All of America should be “scared” of Hillary.


2 posted on 06/15/2015 6:29:44 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Without God there would be no science.)
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To: Zakeet
For those who may have forgotten what kind of a President Bill Clinton was:

1) Clinton’s own words show his often expressed innate hostility to, and utter contempt for, the core principles of the American founding:

``If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government’s ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees.’’ -- President Bill Clinton, August 12, 1993

``The purpose of government is to reign in the rights of the people’’ –- Bill Clinton during an interview on MTV in 1993

``We can’t be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans…that we forget about reality.’’ -- President Bill Clinton, quoted in USA Today, March 11, 1993, Page 2A, ``NRA change: `Omnipotent to powerful’’’ by Debbie Howlett

“When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly… that they would work for the common good, as well as for the individual welfare… However, now there’s a lot of irresponsibility. And so a lot of people say there’s too much freedom. When personal freedom’s being abused, you have to move to limit it.” – Bill Clinton, April 19, 1995

2) Clinton inevitably pursued his own political advantage at the expense of American interests and national security. Here is just one of many possible examples:

It is well documented that Clinton and the Democrats took illegal campaign money from groups and individuals tied directly to the Chinese People’s Republican Army. It is therefore not surprising that In January 1998 Clinton went against the advice of then-Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Pentagon experts by lifting long-standing restrictions against the export of American satellites to China for launch on Chinese rockets. Not only did he move control over such decisions from the more security-focused State Department to the Commerce Department, but he intervened in a Justice Department investigation of Loral Space & Communications, retroactively enabling Loral to sell critical missile technology to the Chinese. Interestingly enough, Clinton’s decision was made at the request of Loral CEO Bernard Schwartz, whose earlier $1.3 million campaign donation made him the single biggest contributor to the Democratic election effort.

The result, as stated eloquently by syndicated columnist Linda Bowles, was that “the Democrats got money from satellite companies and from Chinese communists; China got supercomputors, advanced production equipment and missile technology; Loral got its satellites launched at bargain basement prices . . . and the transfer of sensitive missile technology gave China [for the first time] the capability of depositing bombs on American cities.” Incidentally, Loral ultimately failed to benefit from this permanent injury to America’s security interests: in July 2003, the company filed for bankruptcy protection, and in order to raise cash was forced to sell its most profitable business – a fleet of communications satellites orbiting over North America.

3) On two occasions, Clinton used military action for the specific purpose of distracting the American public from the fallout of the Lewinsky affair:

• On August 20, three days after Clinton finally admitted publicly to the Lewinsky affair, the news media was poised to focus on that day’s grand jury testimony by Monica Lewinsky. That same morning, Clinton personally went on national television to gravely announce his bombing of a Sudanese “chemical weapons factory,” and a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan. It was the first time most Americans ever heard the name of Osama bin Laden. The factory bombing in Sudan killed an innocent night watchman, but accomplished little else. It later was proven that the plant was making badly needed pharmaceuticals for people in that poverty-stricken part of the world, but no chemical weapons.

Several months later, the U.S. Center for Nonproliferation Studies, part of the Monterey Institute of International Studies, stated: "...the evidence indicates that the facility had no role whatsoever in chemical weapons development." Kroll Associates, one of the world's most reputable investigative firms, also confirmed that there was no link in any way between the plant and any terrorist organization. As for the Afghanistan bombing, it failed to do any damage at all to bin Laden or his organization. Clinton’s action was accurately characterized by George W. Bush when he said right after 9-11: "When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt.

Clinton’s pointless and murderous military actions did not make Americans safer that day, although they did destroy an innocent life, and for all the good they did certainly could have been delayed in any case. But they did succeed in diverting media attention from Lewinsky’s grand jury testimony for a 24-hour news cycle, which was the main point. So I guess, they weren’t a total loss.

•On December 16, 1998, on the eve of the scheduled House vote on his impeachment, Bill Clinton launched a surprise bombing attack on Baghdad. As justification for this exploit, he cited the urgent threat that Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction posed to America, and the need for immediate action. Almost immediately, the House Democrats held a caucus and emerged calling for a delay in the impeachment proceedings. House minority leader Dick Gephardt made a statement: "We obviously should pass a resolution by saying that we stand behind the troops. I would hope that we do not take up impeachment until the hostilities have completely ended."

Conveniently, a delay so near the end of the House term would have caused the vote to be taken up in the next session – when the newly elected House membership would be seated with more Democratic representation, thereby improving Clinton’s chances of dodging impeachment.

The Republicans did, in fact, agree to delay the hearings, but only for a day or two. Amazingly, Clinton ended the bombing raid after only 70 hours -- once it became clear that in spite of the brief delay, the vote would still be held in the current session.

Once the bombing stopped, Clinton touted the effectiveness and importance of the mission. As reported by ABC News : “We have inflicted significant damage on Saddam's weapons of mass destruction programs, on the command structures that direct and protect that capability, and on his military and security infrastructure,” he said. Defense secretary William Cohen echoed the point: “We estimate that Saddam's missile program has been set back by at least a year.”

Whether or not one buys Clinton’s assessment of that mission, it is difficult to believe that its timing was so critical that it required commencement virtually at the moment the House was scheduled to vote on the impeachment¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬. I think the most reasonable conclusion is that Clinton cynically deployed US military assets and placed military personnel in harm’s way for purely political reasons.

4) Clinton’s reckless sexual behavior was a threat to American national security:

Clinton and his supporters have been very effective in persuading large numbers of Americans that the Lewinsky scandal was “only about sex.” But I see a bigger issue here, because Clinton is on record as saying that he would have done anything to keep knowledge of the Lewinsky affair from becoming public.

To me, that statement raises a very serious question: What if, instead of sending her recorded Lewinsky conversations to Ken Starr, Linda Tripp had instead secretly offered them for sale, say, to the Chinese government? Or to the Russians? Or even to agents of Saddam?

What kind of blackmail leverage would those tapes have provided to a foreign government in dealing with America on sensitive trade, security or military issues? One of the few things Clinton ever said that I believe is that he would have done anything to keep the Lewinsky affair secret. Given his demonstrated track record of selling out American interests for personal or political gain (and there are more examples that I could have cited here), how far would he have gone in compromising America’s real interests in order to protect his own neck when threatened with blackmail?

Pretty far, I believe. Equally distressing is the prospect Clinton might, in fact, have succumbed to foreign black mail on other occasions in order to hide different sexual episodes that ultimately did not become public. There is no way to know, of course, but I prefer presidents for whom such a scenario is not a plausible possibility.

And don’t even get me started on the war crime in Kosovo.

WAR IN KOSOVO

During Bill Clinton’s 1999 NATO-led war in Kosovo – which according to some estimates cost as much as $75 billion – we bombed Belgrade for 78 days, killed almost 3,000 civilians, and shredded the civilian infrastructure (including every bridge across the Danube.)

We devastated the environment, bombed the Chinese embassy, came very close to engaging in armed combat against Russian forces, and in general, pursued a horrific and inhumane strategy to rain misery on the civilian population of Belgrade in order to pressure Milosevic into surrendering.

Why did we do all that? The US did not even have an arguable interest in the Balkans, and no one ever tried to claim that Serbia represented any kind of threat to our nation or our interests.

But for months the Clinton administration had told us that Milosevic was waging a vicious genocide against Albanian Muslims, and needed to be stopped. The New York Times called it a “humanitarian war.” In March 1999 – the same month that the bombing started – Clinton’s State Department publicly suggested that as many as 500,000 Albanian Kosovars had been murdered by Milosevic’s regime. In May of that year, as the bombing campaign was drawing to a close, Secretary of Defense William Cohen lowered that estimate 100,000.

Five years after the bombing, after all the forensic investigations had been completed, the prosecutors at Milosevic’s “War Crimes” trial in the Hague were barely been able to document a questionable figure of perhaps 5,000 “bodies and body parts.” During the war, the American people were told that Kosovo was full of mass graves filled with the bodies of murdered Albanian Muslims. But none were ever found.

BILL CLINTON ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE

During the election cycle of 1992, George H.W. Bush lost his job after Bill Clinton hammered him relentlessly for having caused the “worst economy of the last 50 years.”

In fact, as CNN’s Brooke Jackson has reported: “Three days before Christmas 1992, the National Bureau of Economic Research finally issued its official proclamation that the recession had ended 21 months earlier. What became the longest boom in U.S. history actually began nearly two years before Clinton took office.” See (See http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/10/31/jackson.recession.primer.otsc/).

By the same token, Clinton is generally perceived as having a stellar economic record during his own presidency, in spite of the fact that the economy was already starting to decline during the last year of his term after the stock market crashed in March 2000.

According to a report by MSNBC: “The longest economic expansion in U.S. history faltered so much in the summer of 2000 that business output actually contracted for one quarter, the government said Wednesday in releasing a comprehensive revision of the gross domestic product. Based on new data, the Commerce Department said that the GDP — the country’s total output of goods and services — shrank by 0.5 percent at an annual rate in the July-September quarter of 2000.” See: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3676690/ns/business-stocks_and_economy/t/gdp-figures-revised-downward/.

3 posted on 06/15/2015 6:30:29 AM PDT by Maceman
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To: Zakeet

It’s all a Vast Right Wing Conspiracy. Against a grandmother. How shameful.


4 posted on 06/15/2015 6:33:22 AM PDT by McGruff (Never Forget)
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To: Maceman

We should fix it so Billery and Hitlery can share a cell, 10 by 10.


5 posted on 06/15/2015 6:34:08 AM PDT by exnavy (socialism and communism are indistinguishable.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Yes the mean woman turned ISIS loose from Libya. She is a selfish, greedy, sad woman.


6 posted on 06/15/2015 6:38:01 AM PDT by Lumper20 ( clown in Chief has own Gov employees Gestapo)
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To: Zakeet

Well excuse me sir, but (among many other things) why did your foundation take money from Saudi Arabia and elsewhere where women really are treated like property and yet Hillary is still treated as god by feminists and their kindred spirits in Hollyweird and Manhattan?


7 posted on 06/15/2015 6:38:03 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("Keeping your stick down used to be a commandment, but not anymore" Harry Sinden, 1988)
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To: Zakeet

Bill Clinton is right - all Americans should be scared of Hillary. he should know; he’s obviously scared of her.


8 posted on 06/15/2015 6:39:47 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: Zakeet

The GOP is scared of their own shadow.


9 posted on 06/15/2015 6:41:05 AM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance.)
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To: McGruff

Leftists are nuts. How do they think the reincarnation of Leona Helmsley is going to work out?


10 posted on 06/15/2015 7:00:55 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (If a border fence isn't effective, why is there a border fence around the White House?)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Oh, I am scared of Hillary, but not so much that I’ll vote for Jebster.


11 posted on 06/15/2015 7:01:57 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Zakeet

America’s Greatest Crime Family ALERT!

Threats on behalf of Hillary from William Jefferson Criminal.

Hillaryous.

FUBill and the skank you rode in on.


12 posted on 06/15/2015 7:04:04 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: Zakeet

Hillary and her campaign are both Pear Shaped


13 posted on 06/15/2015 7:04:58 AM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: Zakeet

We are scared of the Old lying Hag,she is unable to tell the truth,she has lied her entire pathetic life.
I can really understand why she does not want go back to YESTERDAY,all her lying would be exposed,not by her adoring butt kissing media who are in the bag for the bilge spewing clown,but by the people who love this Country and are sick of her lying and horrible treatment of people who work around her,the women who have been victimized by her horn dog husband.
Hillary Is a despicable individual who should not even be allowed on a White House tour


14 posted on 06/15/2015 7:23:37 AM PDT by ballplayer (hvexx NKK c bmytit II iyijjhihhiyyiyiyi it iyiiy II i hi jiihi ty yhiiyihiijhijjyjiyjiiijyuiiijihyii)
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To: Zakeet
You two filthy people should be afraid of us... http://counterjihadreport.com/tag/huma-abedin/ Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin —Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin WND, by Aaron Klein, June 1, 2015: TEL AVIV – A full review of Hillary Clinton’s personal emails released last Friday by the State Department finds Clinton’s senior aide, Huma Abedin, was exposed to highly sensitive U.S. government information. It was Abedin who forwarded to Clinton’s personal email address details about the initial establishment of the U.S. special mission in Benghazi, updates about security threats to both the mission and Ambassador Chris Stevens, intelligence on the growing terrorist threat in Libya and insider information on the Sept. 11, 2012 attack in Benghazi. Abedin was privy to emails that contained the exact movements of Stevens while he was stationed in arguably one of the most dangerous zones in the world for any American diplomat. http://counterjihadreport.com/tag/huma-abedin/
15 posted on 06/15/2015 7:27:13 AM PDT by PLD
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To: Zakeet

Die you finger wagging pos.


16 posted on 06/15/2015 7:38:13 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: All
There he goes again.....Billy Boy resorts to making himself and Hillary into "victims of the right-wing" ..... complete w/ that hillbilly hangdog look of his. The "victim act" serves to divert attention from the real issues.

HERE'S "THE VICTIM" AT HIS FINEST: Bill told Jake Tapper that then-Secy of STate Hillary "never looked at his donor list" (in order to made official decisons that benefited his donors).

WAIT A MINUTE the question Americans want answered is what was Bill doing while these entities were lobbying Hillary?

<><> Was Bill hovering over the Chappaqua server getting wealth-building emails from State?

<><> Was he using classified information to set-up lucrtive deals for donors?

<><> Was he dictating notes to Huma Abedin at Teneo and Goldman Sachs at his SIL's hedge fund?

<><> Was Bill's globe-trotting to places like far-off Kazakhstan that ended up as a lucrative uranium deal just a coincidence?

I could go on and on and on...but you get the picture.

That nose of Bill's does a lot more than sniff lines on the coffee table....this guy can sniff out money-making deals from miles away.

17 posted on 06/16/2015 4:55:00 AM PDT by Liz (Another Clinton administration? Are you nuts?)
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Wall Street analyst, Charles Ortel, checked it out and found “irregularities” of a “sufficient magnitude” that the Clinton Foundation should be shut down.

Ortel says “if any of the 50 state attorneys general present the evidence to a federal district judge, an injunction would be ordered, shutting down the Clinton Foundation and placing the organization in receivership.”

CONCLUSION A good start might be AG's in the 26 states that were recently victorious---bringing charges against vote-crazed Obama's suck-up to gravy-train riders.

18 posted on 06/16/2015 5:00:50 AM PDT by Liz (Another Clinton administration? Are you nuts?)
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To: Zakeet

Indeed, Slickmeister, the entire nation should be frightened of that psycho, incompetent, liar.


19 posted on 06/16/2015 12:09:07 PM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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