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Watchdog names Clinton most corrupt politician of 2015
Personal Liberty ^ | 12/22/15 | Sam Rolley

Posted on 12/24/2015 4:32:13 AM PST by Libloather

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The watchdog says Clinton has displayed similarly corrupt behavior on the campaign trail.

The group has asked the IRS to investigate whether Clinton violated State Department rules when her family foundation made payments of nearly $350,000 to her failed 2008 campaign to rent Clinton's email list after she failed to secure the Democratic nomination. At the time of the transactions, Clinton's State Department position prohibited her from doing certain types of fundraising on behalf of the campaign.

FACT is also requesting the Federal Elections Commission investigate the current Clinton campaign after it received an email list of 4 million potential supporters from a pro-Hillary super PAC. The list, according to FACT, constitutes an in-kind donation, which federal election laws prohibit candidates from accepting directly from PACs.

Clinton's political corruption could also ensnare top Senate Democrats if FACT is successful in getting the Senate Select Committee to launch an additional investigation into whether Clinton campaign aides conducted political business in official Senate offices where campaign activities are prohibited.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2015; clinton; corrupt; watchdog
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To: justiceseeker93

whatever color collar hillary may be wearing..at any given moment...colors the sort of crime she’s going to commit on any given day


21 posted on 12/25/2015 3:47:21 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><> GO CRUZ!!!!)
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To: justiceseeker93

Thanks for the ping.


22 posted on 12/25/2015 4:09:18 PM PST by GOPJ (No one in power is on our side.No one in power is on our side. Absolutely no one. freeper marron)
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To: mazda77; vette6387; HarleyLady27; MinuteGal; Nachum; Liz; seekthetruth; JLAGRAYFOX; IrishMike; ...

PING


23 posted on 12/25/2015 4:11:21 PM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: justiceseeker93

I recall that all of the White House security cameras went down that day, so there was no evidence of anyone’s comings and goings.


24 posted on 12/25/2015 5:13:13 PM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: justiceseeker93

I am astounded at the free pass Hillary has gotten for the most phony suicide of them all. She needs chappaquiddicking. Vince’s murder points to her more than OJ’s ugly ass shoes pointed at him.


25 posted on 12/25/2015 6:10:51 PM PST by Yaelle (Since PC is not actually "correct," it should be renamed Political Pandering.)
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To: justiceseeker93

“So though the posted article in this thread talks about HRC in the context of non-violent “white collar” criminality, things may be even uglier than that.”

May be uglier?

If you aren’t convinced by know, would you believe Osama bin Laden?

Al Qaeda doc recovered in Afghanistan it’s a letter from OBL to Mullah Omar listed as Doc# AFGP-2002-600321 in what was the CTC at West Point’s Harmony Database.

In the doc OBL tells you where you need to look for 90% of the preparation for the battle.

These preparations OBL are talking about can’t be made by the terrorist themselves they can only be made by people in this country and very few people even then.

When you know where to look for 90% of the preparations for the battle it doesn’t take long to figure out just who it is that’s making the preparation.

Care to take a guess where OBL tells us to look for 90% of the preparations for the battle?

I’ll give you a little hint.

It wasn’t just a coincidence following these last 2 terrorist attacks in Paris and CA, the news media was falling all over themselves praising Hillary for having the insight for her comments made before the attacks on the need to look into confiscation of guns.


26 posted on 12/26/2015 6:37:14 AM PST by IMR 4350
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To: Yaelle; exit82; Fedora; ExTexasRedhead; firebrand; juliej; AJFavish; theothercheek; Cicero; ...
I am astounded at the free pass Hillary has gotten for the most phony suicide of them all. She needs chappaquiddicking. Vince’s murder points to her more than OJ’s ugly ass shoes pointed at him.

There's an alibi HRC already has down pat if someone in public life had the guts to link her to the Foster murder: "I was out of the country for a couple of weeks before the incident, and only got back to Arkansas hours after it occurred. Poor Vince! If we could only understand what caused him to take his own life."

The old "suicide-in-the-park" mantra is not consistent with all the credible circumstantial, physical, and forensic evidence in the case.

And when one comes to the determination that Vince Foster's death was a homicide, neither does HRC's "travel abroad" alibi necessarily stand up. It doesn't rule out the possibility that the date had been set weeks earlier, so that she knew exactly when to come home and to schedule her travel accordingly. She had access to adequate henchmen and women in and around Washington who could devise a homicide plot and carry it out in her absence.

"Chappaquiddicking"? That's an interesting term. True, you might say that exposure of the facts of Chappaquiddick cost Ted Kennedy a chance at the Democratic presidential nomination. But he only got a wrist slap from the criminal justice system. HRC, as Yaelle noted, has gotten a complete free pass on the Foster matter, despite the fact her role in Foster's death may have been even more egregious than Teddy's role in the death of Mary Jo. The distinguishing factor is that Mary Jo's death was NOT premeditated.

27 posted on 12/26/2015 9:35:06 AM PST by justiceseeker93
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To: IMR 4350
It wasn’t just a coincidence following these last 2 terrorist attacks in Paris and CA, the news media was falling all over themselves praising Hillary for having the insight for her comments made before the attacks on the need to look into confiscation of guns.

Agreed that the relative presence or absence of guns in the civilian population is an important consideration in evil minds of terrorists when they decide which location to hit. To that extent, the gun control fanatics like HRC are playing into the terrorists' hands, whether deliberately or unwittingly.

28 posted on 12/26/2015 9:40:17 AM PST by justiceseeker93
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To: justiceseeker93

the alleged 900...FBI files .....may hold the answer to hillarys control over thise who might choose to hold her legally accountable for ANYTHING.

I seriously doubt it the number of files was any less then 9 Thousand..and considering the free access they had to any and all FBI files...I wouldnt be surprised if she and her cronies have more NSA data than anyone could IMAGINE.


29 posted on 12/26/2015 10:59:55 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><> GO CRUZ!!!!)
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To: exit82; theothercheek; ml/nj; ExTexasRedhead; doug from upland; Sean Hannity; Cicero; Clemenza; ...
I recall that all of the White House security cameras went down that day, so there was no evidence of anyone’s comings and goings.

The White House campus has possibly the most extensive security of any piece of real estate in the world. So the chances all of the White house security cameras being down on the day of Vince Foster's death are as remote as the chances that the 9/11/12 Benghazi attack on the American facility was precipitated by an Internet video.

But the government claim that the White House security cameras were down is an important clue in and of itself. That's because IF Foster drove himself in his own car from the White House campus to Fort Marcy Park to commit suicide there, which is the official government story, the government would have gladly released the video security camera footage of the Foster Honda leaving the premises shortly after noon on the fatal day. And it may have also released security footage of Foster's car entering the premises earlier in the morning. That's because we know from reliable eyewitness statements that he was indeed on the White House premises on foot early that morning and was last seen there on foot shortly after noon. The absence of visual (or any other) evidence of Foster's vehicle ever being anywhere on the White House campus that morning while he himself was there pretty much debunks the "he-drove-himself-to-the-park-and-committed-suicide-there" theory because he seemingly had no access to the car that he allegedly drove to do that! There is no documentation that the Foster Honda ever arrived at the White House that particular day, in contrast to just about every workday since he arrived in Washington.

30 posted on 12/26/2015 9:03:31 PM PST by justiceseeker93
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To: justiceseeker93

VF was left-handed, and there was no dust on his shoes when his body was discovered in Fort Marcy Park.

31 posted on 12/26/2015 9:42:54 PM PST by LucyT
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To: LucyT; ml/nj; ExTexasRedhead; exit82; Fedora; MeshugeMikey; MadMax, the Grinning Reaper; ...
Yes, post # 31 is the famous close-up photo of the deceased Vince Foster's right thumb in the trigger guard next to his leg as his body lay in the grass at Fort Marcy Park.

That photo alone is inconsistent in several ways with the official government "suicide in the park" conclusions:

If Foster shot himself in the mouth with that gun, the recoil of the gun would cause the gun to be found at a distance from the body, NOT right along side his leg.

If Foster shot himself in the mouth with that gun, the barrel of the gun would have noticeable blood on it, whereas in fact it did not.

The gun seen in the photo was manufactured way back in the WWI era (which makes one question whether or not it was even functional) and there was no evidence that either Foster nor any friend or relative of his ever owned it.

The only rational conclusion one can draw is that the scene in the photo was staged after Foster's death, and staged poorly at that, in an awkward attempt to simulate a "suicide." The gun in the photo was merely a "drop gun."

VF was NOT left-handed, but that hardly matters. The lack of grass or soil stains on his shoes tells us that, contrary to the official government conclusions, he could not have walked from his car in the parking lot to the location where the body was discovered.

32 posted on 12/28/2015 7:32:44 AM PST by justiceseeker93
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To: justiceseeker93

I remember my utter shock on being confronted with the Foster suicide photo....

It does take a degrees in,,well ANYTHING except common sense to determine that there was so much WRONG “with it”

Freegards


33 posted on 12/28/2015 7:48:18 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><> GO CRUZ!!!!)
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To: Boardwalk

“...she has a butt for 2 that takes an extra long break to wipe,..”

As a friend of my from Texas would say, “She has an a$$ like a government mule!”


34 posted on 12/28/2015 9:22:02 AM PST by vette6387
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To: justiceseeker93
Hillary Clinton wants voters to know she is no friend of Wall Street. But Wall Street has frequently been a friend to her.

In the 18 months prior to announcing her second campaign for president, the front-runner for the Democratic nomination addressed private equity investors in California, delivered remarks to bankers in Hilton Head, South Carolina and spoke to brokers at the Ritz-Carlton in Naples, Florida.

Her efforts capped a nearly 15-year period in which Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, made at least $35 million by giving 164 speeches to financial services, real estate and insurance companies after leaving the White House in 2001, according to an Associated Press analysis of public disclosure forms and records released by her campaign.

The long and lucrative relationship between the Clinton family and the nation's finance industry has emerged as a key issue in her Democratic primary race. Her rivals, including Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, accuse her of being too cozy with Wall Street and the industry she once represented as a senator from New York.

Her backers at financial firms say they have little expectation her family's personal profits will influence her policymaking, noting their own opposition to her plan to raise taxes on the hedge fund and private equity profits known as carried interest.

"She and Bill were both government servants all of their life and there was a set period of time when they could make money," venture capitalist Alan Patricof, a longtime Clinton fundraiser, said of the Clintons' paid speechmaking. "She had to maximize her earning potential."

The Clinton campaign also points to her record, saying it shows a history of working to regulate the industry. Negative ads run by a group called Future 45, a super PAC backed by six-figure checks from hedge fund managers, demonstrate that Wall Street expects her to follow through on her proposals, aides said.

"Any honest look at Hillary Clinton's record shows she spoke out early and often against Wall Street's excesses in the run-up to the financial crisis," said campaign spokesman Brian Fallon. "It's clear they believe she will take action as president to crack down on the industry's abuses ================================================

The bulk of the Clintons' paid speeches to the financial industry came after the 2008 economic crash. From 2009 to 2014, the couple made $26 million from 109 appearances sponsored by banks, insurance companies, hedge funds, private equity firms and real estate businesses, and at those industries' conferences and before their trade organizations.

With Hillary Clinton serving as secretary of state for most of that period, her husband brought in the bulk of the funds, earning nearly $17 million. That included $250,000 Bill Clinton made for mingling with investment managers in New York on May 12 — thirty days after Hillary Clinton released a video announcing her second bid for the White House.

What the Clintons said in their speeches is hard to find. Although many of the remarks were given to large groups, any broadcast or transcription was typically barred — along with the press. Still, some details have trickled out. Sometimes the subject was foreign affairs. Sometimes it was more personal.

"It's so important for women like us to get out of our comfort zones and be willing to fail. I've done that, too, on a very large stage," she said, according to a report in the real estate blog The Real Deal, which attended her October 2014 speech to the annual convention of the Commercial Real Estate Women Network in Miami Beach.

35 posted on 12/28/2015 10:19:54 AM PST by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing can penetrate it.)
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To: All
News reports say the notorious tax-exempt Clinton Foundation charity setup a money-making private equity fund in the corrupt country of Columbia. Why Columbia?

WIKI REFERENCE---In 2000, the Bill Clinton administration committed $1.3 billion in US foreign aid to the corrupt country of Columbia...... and up to five hundred military personnel to train local forces.

An additional three hundred civilian personnel were allowed to assist in the eradication of coca. This aid was an addition to $330 million of previously approved US aid to Colombia. $818 million was earmarked for 2000, with $256 million for 2001.

The Clinton-era appropriations for his Columbia Plan made Colombia the third largest recipient of foreign aid from the United States at the time.

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As of 2008, the U.S. has provided nearly $1.3 billion to Colombia through Clinton Plan Colombia nonmilitary aid programs:

<><> Alternative Development (2000-2008 cost: $500 million)

<><> Internally Displaced Persons (2000-2008 cost: $247 million)

<><> Demobilization and Reintegration (2000-2008 cost: $44 million)

<><> Democracy and Human Rights (2000-2008 cost: $158 million)

<><> Promote the Rule of Law (2000-2008 cost: $238 million)

LONG READ--REST AT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_Colombia

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The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) is a project of the Center for Public Integrity, focused on issues such as "cross-border crime, corruption, and the accountability of power".

In 2013, the consortium had 160 member journalists from 60 countries. The ICIJ brings together teams of international journalists for different investigations (over 80 for Offshore leaks). It organizes the bi-annual Daniel Pearl Awards for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting.

The ICIJ's director since 2011 is Gerard Ryle; other staff members include Michael Hudson, while the Advisory Committee in 2013 includes Bill Kovach, Phillip Knightley, Gwen Lister, and Goenawan Mohamad.

The ICIJ might examine ALL of Clinton-era foreign aide disbursements---and Hillary's foreign assistance....to determine if the Clintons have offshore accounts in those countries....or if so-called charities have been setup by the notorious Clinton Foundation to money-launder by siphoning off kickbacks. 11/27 MY POST---The Clinton Colombia connection: a secret investment fund (primed w/ billions in foreign aid) Hillary Clinton is upping her anti-Wall Street rhetoric, amid reports that the Clinton Foundation is running a private-equity company down in Colombia.The same private-equity field dissed by 2008 Obama in hundreds of millions of dollars of negative ads against Mitt Romney b/c Romney earned his fortune w/ a PEF.

The Clinton Foundations Bogota-based Fondo Acceso, started in 2010 by Bill Clinton, Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim and mining millionaire Frank Giustra....$20 million seed funding supposedly came from the foundation’s Clinton-Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative and Carlos Slim's the SLIM Foundation, the Washington Free Beacon reports. In an ominous sign, Fondo Acceso took down its Web site once the Beacon broke the story. Plus the venture wasnt even registered as a private-equity fund in Colombia, thereby skirting government oversight.

A good move for an investment firm linked to the US secretary of state. The National Legal and Policy Center, notes, At the minimum, the Clinton Foundation should disclose every company that received investment funds, because the public is entitled to know whether those companies benefited from any State Department foreign-aid rograms. Not to mention the ethical murk of having two charities co-own an investment fund in a developing nation. Especially when one of those charities is the family nonprofit of a presidential candidate who has raised tens of millions from the financial sector shes promising to reform.

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INCONVENIENT FACTOIDS

<><> 181 Clinton Foundation donors lobbied Hillary's State Department for political favors.

<><> The Clinton Family Foundation and the Clinton Library received millions from Muslim Qatar, as well as donations from FIFA, the soccer organization now enmeshed in a bribery and corruption.

<><> The Clintons have a secret 'pass-through' company, WJC, LLC; Hillary's State Department approved $165 billion worth of commercial arms sales to 20 nations whose governments have given money to the Clinton Foundation.

<><> The WSJ listed at least 60 companies that lobbied Hillary's State Department while she was there, companies donated a total of more than $26 million to the Clinton Foundation, while Hillary used the power of the US govt to perform political "favors" for the donors.

<><> FOREIGN Donations to the Clinton Foundation jumped 73% from 2013-14, when Hillary Clinton was preparing to run for the presidency. Foreign donations for presidents are illegal, but ex-pres Bill Clinton had no problem receiving donations from Communist China while he was president.

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There are plenty of shady dealings between the Clinton Foundation and its foreign donors that relied on Hillary Clinton for favors. How shady? The Charity Navigator, a nonpartisan organization that provides information on charities, placed the Clinton Foundation on its Watchlist, due to its "atypical business model."

Is the Clinton Foundation a fraud? They acknowledge over $2 BILLION dollars income......but IMHO that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Maybe that's why the Clintons have such a hard time remembering to accurately file their TAXES, because they have a lot to hide.

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Hillary Clinton with Frank Giustra

Hillary Clinton with Frank Giustra (far left), Louise Arbour and U.S. Ambassador Thomas Pickering (right). CREDIT: Flickr

Bills Clinton and Giustra made a big show of The Clinton Foundation's do-goodism in earthquake-ravaged Haiti.

Bill and Canadian mining tycoon Frank Giustra in Haiti June 2014,
to launch the "Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership" Acceso Peanut
Enterprise Corp.
(Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images)

36 posted on 12/28/2015 10:28:13 AM PST by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing can penetrate it.)
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To: Libloather

She is a pathological liar - her lies indicate somebody not very smart. Her lies about ISIS using Trump in recruiting videos backfired - it was her husband Bill who appeared in them.


37 posted on 12/28/2015 10:32:15 AM PST by Dante3
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To: Liz; All
Hillary Clinton wants voters to know she is no friend of Wall Street. But Wall Street has frequently been a friend to her.

Contrary to what the MSM would have everyone believe, political contributions from "Wall Street" and the financial industry have been overwhelmingly DEMOCRAT for every election in the last two decades. In fact, the idea that Republicans are the party of "big business" hasn't been the case since the Clinton years, and maybe even before that. The underlying general reason may be is that big government regulation of industry helps the fat cats at the expense of smaller competitors.

38 posted on 12/28/2015 2:17:39 PM PST by justiceseeker93
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To: Liz
Her efforts capped a nearly 15-year period in which Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, made at least $35 million by giving 164 speeches to financial services, real estate and insurance companies after leaving the White House in 2001, according to an Associated Press analysis of public disclosure forms and records released by her campaign.

The long and lucrative relationship between the Clinton family and the nation's finance industry has emerged as a key issue in her Democratic primary race. Her rivals, including Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, accuse her of being too cozy with Wall Street ...

Maybe since it's Bernie 'saying it' the press will get their heads out of the sand and cover this story in a real way... One can dream, right?

39 posted on 12/29/2015 10:16:30 AM PST by GOPJ (Trump's instincts are as formidable as his courage,he sees the nation bleeding out..DWest)
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