Saudis coughed up as much as $20M to clinton-library slush fund(TREASONOUS CLINTON QUID PRO QUOS?)

Robert Novak, Louis Freeh, Sean Hannity, Hannity and Colmes, The Opinion Journal, The New York Sun ^ | 10.7.05 | various

[Mia T]

 

Saudis coughed up as much as $20M to clinton-library slush fund
WERE THERE TREASONOUS CLINTON QUID PRO QUOS?

 

Our Friends the Saudis
... Reports columnist Robert Novak:

Bill Clinton not only received a $750,000 speaking fee for going to Saudi Arabia in January but came back with a hefty pledge for his presidential library in Little Rock, Ark., according to high-ranking Saudis. Estimates range from less than $1 million to $20 million.

A Clinton library spokesman told this column he had heard nothing about this contribution and would not tell us if he had. But Saudi sources say the pledge was made by the royal family, following a similar gift to the elder George Bush's presidential library. The Bush library lists a contribution by the family of Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Saudi ambassador to Washington, among "gifts of $1 million and above."

When Clinton was president, the Washington Times reports, he did a favor for the Saudis too:

The Clinton administration shut down a 1995 investigation of Islamic charities, concerned that a public probe would expose Saudi Arabia's suspected ties to a global money-laundering operation that raised millions for anti-Israel terrorists, federal officials told The Washington Times.

The Opinion Journal
BY JAMES TARANTO
Tuesday, April 2, 2002 3:19 p.m.

 

Saudis, Arabs Funneled Millions to President Clinton's Library

LITTLE ROCK, ARK. - President Clinton's new $165 million library here was funded in part by gifts of $1 million or more each from the Saudi royal family and three Saudi businessmen.

The governments of Dubai, Kuwait, and Qatar and the deputy prime minister of Lebanon all also appear to have donated $1 million or more for the archive and museum that opened last week....

The highest tier,"Trustees," includes donations from 57 individuals, couples, or other entities. IRS reports reviewed by the Sun show that the foundations at this level have generally given or pledged $1 million or more. The Wasserman Foundation of Los Angeles, founded by movie mogul Lew Wasserman, gave the Clinton library $3 million. The Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable Trust pledged $4 million. The Anheuser-Busch Foundation has given $200,000 annually for the last several years as part of what appears to be a $1 million pledge.The Annenberg Foundation also gave $1 million.

The Saudi royal family and the governments of Dubai, Kuwait, and Qatar donated at this "Trustee" level, as did the governments of Brunei and Taiwan. Also listed as trustees are three Saudi businessmen - Abdullah Al-Dabbagh, Nasser Al-Rashid, and Walid Juffali.

Other notables at the "Trustee" level include the deputy prime minister of Lebanon, Issam Fares; Hollywood director Steven Spielberg and his wife, actress Kate Capshaw, and an heir to the Wal-Mart fortune, Alice Walton....

The most controversial known donation to Mr. Clinton's library is also recorded at this level: a gift from a Manhattan socialite and singer, Denise Rich. Ms. Rich gave the foundation $450,000 while her fugitive ex-husband, Marc Rich, was seeking a pardon on tax-evasion and racketeering charges. Mr. Clinton granted the pardon hours before he left office, triggering a federal criminal investigation, as well as congressional inquiries.

As a result of that flap, a House committee voted in 2001 to require public disclosure of all large donations to presidential libraries. But the legislation stalled.

Another confounding aspect of the donor list available at the Clinton library is that, in nearly every case, it lacks any information beyond the name of the individual or company who gave. There are no hometowns or addresses for the donors and only in rare instances is there mention of an employer. Campaign finance records generally include this data....

The Chinese communist government may also have chipped in for Mr. Clinton's library. The Chinese Overseas Real Estate Development company gave at the $100,000 or higher level. So did the National Opera of Paris.

Fund-raising for the Clinton Library began in 1999, while Mr. Clinton was still in office. However, the fund-raising team reportedly refrained from soliciting gifts from foreigners or foreign governments until Mr. Clinton left the White House in January 2001.

... A Washington Post editorial on Thursday decried the lack of disclosure of the Clinton Library's funders, calling it "outrageous." Said the editorial,"the presidential libraries, though built and endowed with private funds, are public property, run by the National Archives. The public has a right to know who's underwriting them."

 Saudis, Arabs Funneled Millions to President Clinton's Library
BY JOSH GERSTEIN - Staff Reporter of the Sun
November 22, 2004

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NEWT: CLINTON COMMITTED ONE OF WORST CRIMES, ENDANGERED COUNTRY IF HIT ABDULLAH UP FOR CASH

by Mia T, 10.6.05

In another revelation, Freeh says the former president let down the American people and the families of victims of the Khobar Towers terror attack in Saudi Arabia. After promising to bring to justice those responsible for the bombing that killed 19 and injured hundreds, Freeh says Clinton refused to personally ask Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah to allow the FBI to question bombing suspects the kingdom had in custody -- the only way the bureau could secure the interviews, according to Freeh. Freeh writes in the book, "Bill Clinton raised the subject only to tell the crown prince that he understood the Saudis' reluctance to cooperate and then he hit Abdullah up for a contribution to the Clinton Presidential Library." Says Freeh, "That's a fact that I am reporting."

FBI FREEH UNLOADS ON CLINTON: 'CLOSETS WERE FULL OF SKELETONS'
Drudge Report | 10/06/05

October 6--Newt Gingrich, appearing tonight on Hannity and Colmes, was asked to comment on the revelations by former FBI Director Louis Freeh, that bill clinton, when president, attempted to extort money from the Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah for the Clinton Presidential Library by using the threat of siccing the FBI on the Khobar Towers bombing suspects the kingdom had in custody.

Gingrich, outraged, said that if clinton did this, he committed one of the worst crimes in modern history and endangered the country. He added that it would be important for Freeh and his sources to testify about this under oath.

WHY DID BILL CLINTON IGNORE TERRORISM?
Was it simply the constraints of his liberal mindset, or was it something even more threatening to our national security?
by Mia T, 8.18.05

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DISCUSSION

"I remember exactly what happened. Bruce Lindsey said to me on the phone, 'My God, a second plane has hit the tower.' And I said, 'Bin Laden did this.' that's the first thing I said. He said, 'How can you be sure?' I said 'Because only bin Laden and the Iranians could set up the network to do this and they [the Iranians] wouldn't do it because they have a country in targets. Bin Laden did it.'

I thought that my virtual obsession with him was well placed and I was full of regret that I didn't get him."

bill clinton
Sunday, Sept 3, 2002
Larry King Live

"Mr. bin Laden used to live in Sudan. He was expelled from Saudi Arabia in '91 and he went to the Sudan.

We'd been hearing that the Sudanese wanted America to start dealing with them again. They released him [bin Laden].

At the time, '96, he had committed no crime against America, so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him, though we knew he wanted to commit crimes against America.

So I pleaded with the Saudis to take him, 'cause they could have; but they thought it was a hot potato. They didn't and that's how he wound up in Afghanistan."

bill clinton
Sunday, Aug. 11, 2002
Clinton Reveals on Secret Audio:
I Nixed Bin Laden Extradition Offer

WRITTEN IN STONE: AN ARCHITECT DEFINES THE CLINTONS
virtualclintonlibrary.blogspot.com
 

 

by Mia T, 12-30-02

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f mutability of meaning was necessary for the survival of the clintons--their survival hinged ultimately on the deconstruction of words and laws--it is more than a little ironic, and a manifestation of the special sway and shortsightedness of the pathologic ego, that clinton's monument to himself will necessarily define the clintons with the permanence of great inviolate places of iconic architecture.

Whereas a huckster removes meaning from institutions--the wife picked up where the husband left off--an architect encodes meaning in buildings. James S. Polshek, the architect with the dubious distinction of having been commissioned to build the William J. Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, Arkansas, believes that a successful architectural solution must necessarily be rooted in relevance.

Just as Polshek's buildings have physical layers, so too do they have layers of meaning. His Rose Center for Earth and Space, for example, is informed formally and programmatically by the historic architecture of a designated landmark even as it redefines itself, (often too self-consciously, in my view), in Star-Trekian terms. Reduced to its essence, the building is the nascent universe before the Big Bang, the promise of the undifferentiated cell in its mother's womb.

The "bridge to the 21^st century" was, perhaps, clinton's most delusional conceit, so it is not surprising that it would become clinton's self-referential metaphor of choice. His library was to be that bridge, if he had anything to say about it...

 

The architect is often the master of the inside joke, witness Robert Venturi's postmodern chairs. Venturi exploited--unabashedly and with abandon--the vocabulary of Las Vegas, its stage-set-as-reality and its roadside culture--bright, clashing, ugly and fake. The architect's inside joke is his hedge against the sycophancy that comes with patronage.

The flip side of the encoded meaning of the architect is the terrorist's decoding of it. To bin Laden, the World Trade Center was Jewish capitalism encoded in urban space. If Polshek's vision of clinton's library is a bridge, the inside joke is that, at best, it is a bridge to nowhere.

More likely, it is a bridge to the 7^th century...or a doublewide to house clinton double-speak. Take your choice.

copyright Mia T 2002, 2005

 

deconstructing clinton… "just because I could"


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[thoughtomator]

The FBI needs to seize the Clinton Library financial records NOW before the clean-up crew arrives.

[Wristpin]

That was the thank you for vetoing ANWR twice!!!

[Wristpin]

That was the thank you for vetoing ANWR twice!!!

[gortklattu]

Klinton's Kleaning Krew was there long before you thought of this..........they understand legalities; you have to when you're that dishonest.

[chris1]

Please, someone get these two families out of our lives for good.

I am sick of both Clintons and Bushes. Is it not obvious why we do not drill our own oil now????

The elder Bush got the same gift. What was his obligation for such a gift??????

[mdittmar]

The Saudis have donated to every Pesidential library for 30 years,finding the QUID PRO QUOS will be interesting.

[HarleyLady27]

OHHHH my heart be still....could this possibly mean that the slickmister and his phony other half MIGHT spend some time in JAIL????

Are we going to let them 'lie' about everything like he did when he said...'I did not have relations with that woman'....

Oh if there is a God in Heaven, please let them two scum bags serve some time behind bars!!!!!!

[yankeedame]

The FBI needs to seize the Clinton Library financial records NOW before the clean-up crew arrives.

Then they need to have been there starting yesterday. B/c if we "the little people" know about this you can bet the Clintonistas sure as heck...

[EagleUSA]

..........they understand legalities; you have to when you're that dishonest.
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Klinton would do anything to anybody, for a "campaign" dollar. As his record shows. The ChiComs, The Riyadis, Johnny Chung, the Saudis, the list goes on ad nauseum. He should have never escaped the impeachment proceedings where he should have gone to trial in the Senate, thrown out of the Oval Office, and then prosecuted for innumberable high crimes.

There is no justice in Washington.

[samadams2000]

OMG!! Its like he was almost a traitor, a disgusting pig traitor to our country......ah..nevermind.....

[rocksblues]

And he gets to keep on keepin on!

[Siena Dreaming]

I was just thinking of that inauspicious opening of the Clinton library yesterday.

The picture of all those Presidential families having to sit in the rain getting soaked because the Clinton people didn't have a weather Plan B was hilarious.

I still remember Jimmy Carter having to swipe a big puddle from his folding chair.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

The money was obviously a big thank you for allowing them to spread the religion of peace around so much during his terms as president.

[Ann Archy]

The National Opera of Paris gave money????? ALL of these slush funds STINK!

[the Real fifi]

What concerns me a great deal more is the large number of retired US diplomats DoS and CIA officials who end up directly on the Saudi payroll or being paid by Saudi funded organizations. I think this practice shades their conduct when they are on our payroll.In the last election these people showed up in the Kerry camp, regularly written op eds and signing petitions complaining about the Bush doctrine.

[Mrs Zip]

ping

[Digger]

I am sick of both Clintons and Bushes. Is it not obvious why we do not drill our own oil now????

Sounds good to me.

[elli1]

Saudia Arabia was the next item on Saddam Hussein's shopping list after he invaded Kuwaite. Desert Storm prevented that from happening. In the scheme of things, $20 million is a small token.

[jla]

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