Posted on 08/26/2016 7:41:07 AM PDT by Kaslin
Prediction: If Hillary Clinton wins, within a year of her inauguration, she will be under investigation by a special prosecutor on charges of political corruption, thereby continuing a family tradition.
For consider what the Associated Press reported this week:
The surest way for a person with private interests to get a meeting with Secretary of State Clinton, or a phone call returned by her, it seems, was to dump a bundle of cash into the Clinton Foundation.
Of 154 outsiders whom Clinton phoned or met with in her first two years at State, 85 had made contributions to the Clinton Foundation, and their contributions, taken together, totaled $156 million.
Conclusion: Access to Secretary of State Clinton could be bought, but it was not cheap. Forty of the 85 donors gave $100,000 or more. Twenty of those whom Clinton met with or phoned dumped in $1 million or more.
To get to the seventh floor of the Clinton State Department for a hearing for one's plea, the cover charge was high.
Among those who got face time with Hillary Clinton were a Ukrainian oligarch and steel magnate who shipped oil pipe to Iran in violation of U.S. sanctions and a Bangladeshi economist who was under investigation by his government and was eventually pressured to leave his own bank.
The stench is familiar, and all too Clintonian in character.
Recall. On his last day in office, Jan. 20, 2001, Bill Clinton issued a presidential pardon to financier-crook and fugitive from justice Marc Rich, whose wife, Denise, had contributed $450,000 to the Clinton Library.
The Clintons appear belatedly to have recognized their political peril.
Bill has promised that, if Hillary is elected, he will end his big dog days at the foundation and stop taking checks from foreign regimes and entities, and corporate donors. Cash contributions from wealthy Americans will still be gratefully accepted.
One wonders: Will Bill be writing thank-you notes for the millions that will roll in to the family foundation -- on White House stationery?
By his actions, Bill is all but conceding that there is a serious conflict of interest between his foundation raking in millions that enhance the family's prestige and sustain its travel and lifestyle, while providing its big donors with privileged access to the secretary of state.
Yet if Hillary Clinton becomes president, the scheme is unsustainable. Even the Obama-Clinton media might not be able to stomach this.
And even Clinton seems to be conceding the game is up. "I know there's a lot of smoke, and there's no fire," she said in self-defense this week.
She is certainly right about the smoke.
And if, as Democratic apparatchik Steve McMahon assures us that there is "no smoking gun," no quid-pro-quo, no open-and-shut case of Secretary Clinton taking official action in gratitude to a donor of the family foundation, how can we predict a special prosecutor?
Answer: We are not at the end of this scandal. We are at what Churchill called the "end of the beginning."
Missing emails are being unearthed at State, through Freedom of Information Act requests, that are filling out the picture Clinton thought had been blotted out when her 33,000 "private" emails were erased by her lawyers.
Someone out there, Julian Assange, Russia, or the rogue websites doing all this hacking, are believed to have many more explosive emails they are preparing to drop before Election Day.
And why is Clinton is keeping her State Department calendar secret from the AP, if it does not contain meetings or calls she does not want to defend? She has defied requests and the AP had to sue to get the schedule of her first two years at State.
Moreover, the AP story on the State Department-Clinton Foundation links was so stunning it is sure to trigger follow-up by investigative journalists who can smell a Pulitzer.
Then there are the contacts between Huma Abedin, her closest aide at State, and Doug Band at the Clinton Foundation, the go-betweens for the donor-Clinton meetings, which has opened a new avenue for investigators.
These were unearthed by Judicial Watch, which is not going away.
The number of persons of interest involved in this suppurating scandal, which has gone from an illicit server, to a panoply of Clinton lies to the public that disgusted the FBI director, to erased emails, to "pay for play," and now deep into the Clinton Foundation continues to grow.
All that is needed now, to bring us to an independent counsel, is calls for the FBI to reopen and broaden its investigation in light of all that has been revealed since Director Comey said there was not evidence enough to recommend an indictment.
If Clinton controls the Justice Department, calls for a special prosecutor will be resisted, but only until public demand becomes too great.
For there were independent counsels called in Watergate, Iran-Contra and the scandals that led to the impeachment of Bill Clinton.
Hillary Clinton says there is no fire. But something is causing all that smoke.
Prediction: If Hillary Clinton wins, within a year of her inauguration, she will be under investigation by a special prosecutor on charges of political corruption, thereby continuing a family tradition.
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I agree with Pat frequently, but here he is wrong.
Who is going to appoint a special prosecutor?
Nope,never in a million years will she allow a Special Prosecutor.And if,in the *very* unlikely event that the House moves to impeach her (which would not,in fact,bother her one bit) she knows that the Senate would *never* remove her.And the thought of serving only one term,and then announcing she won't run again due to "family" or "health" wouldn't bother her either.
IOW,if she's elected she knows she's home free in the ways that really count.I believe that that's what has stiffened her resolve to win here.Yes,she's always had the desire but fear of prosecution has strengthened it greatly.
Nah. I heard a replay of her talking to andy cooper the other night and she clearly decreed that there may be smoke but for sure no fire. So she has decreed, so it shall be. Orange jump suit, XXXL please.
Only if she loses.
A special prosecutor generally is a lawyer from outside the government appointed by an attorney general or, in the United States, by Congress to investigate a government official for misconduct while in office.
So if she is elected her attorney general will not appoint a special prosecutor. You can count on it.
Lots of smoke, and mirrors too.
Exactly.
“suppurating”
Hehe, Pat!
If the flames don’t get you, the oxygen deprivation and smoke inhalation will.
Herself is reaping the whirlwind, from all the chaos sowed over the past eight years. Will it, by some mischance of fate, carry Herself into the Oval Office?
For Herself, it would be the best of all possible worlds. But remember the example of Richard Nixon, who famously said, “When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.”
Not much of a defense when it came to Watergate. And what Herself has done, is doing, with the Clinton Family Foundation is so much beyond the “fixing” that the “plumbers” did in Watergate, and the conspiracy is so much wider, that Watergate pales into near insignificance.
The Clinton Crime Syndicate makes the Mafia look like pikers. Somewhere, they must have run afoul of the RICO statutes, but nobody is asking questions or taking action.
Herself tries so desperately hard to emulate Nixon, surpassing him in many ways, one is astonished that Herself despised Nixon so deeply and roundly.
And why is Clinton is keeping her State Department calendar secret from the AP, if it does not contain meetings or calls she does not want to defend? She has defied requests and the AP had to sue to get the schedule of her first two years at State.
This is all so terribly complicated, but I will take a stab at this one.
Guessing it shows Donor X gives small amount to foundation or asks Billy Jeff to speak - is granted a meeting with Sec of State followed by huge donation to foundation followed by Sec of State makes decision that greatly benefits Donor X.
Bribery flourishes in DC and the rule of law only applies to the little people.
She’s getting smoked by Trump!
With her having appointed her own pet AG? No chance.
What kind of smoke is Hillary! seeing?
Black smoke means the fire is on going.
White smoke means steam as the fire is put out.
Looks pretty black to me.
#blacksmokematters
Wonder why she is up ten points in some polls..........
Exactly.
So you are saying Hillary will appoint an attorney General that will insight her? Get real, if she is elected she will either die in office or retire very wealthy.
Clinton media polls, what else?
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