Posted on 12/15/2007 2:05:37 AM PST by JohnHuang2
Bill Clinton's presidential library raised more than 10 percent of the cost of its $165 million facility from foreign sources, with the most generous overseas donation coming from Saudi Arabia, according to interviews yesterday.
The royal family of Saudi Arabia gave the Clinton facility in Little Rock about $10 million, roughly the same amount it gave toward the presidential library of George H.W. Bush, according to people directly familiar with the contributions.
The presidential campaign of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) has for months faced questions about the source of the money for her husband's presidential library. During a September debate, moderator Tim Russert asked the senator whether her husband would release a donor list. Clinton said she was sure her husband would "be happy to consider that," though the former president later declined to provide a list of donors.
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has made an issue of the large yet unidentified contributors to presidential libraries, saying that he wants to avoid even the appearance of impropriety in such donations. Obama has introduced legislation that would require disclosure of all contributions to presidential libraries, including Clinton's, and Congress has actively debated such a proposal. Unlike campaign donations, money given to presidential libraries is often done with limited or no disclosure.
The Clinton library has steadfastly declined to reveal its donors, saying they were promised confidentiality. The William J. Clinton Foundation, which funds the library, is considered a charity whose contributors can remain anonymous.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Some who donated to the Clinton Library
The idenities of the top 57 donors who gave $1 million or more, included members of the Saudi royal family, Arab businessmen, the governments of Duabi, Kuwait, Qutar, Brunei, and Taiwan, plus hollywood celebrities. The biggest unreported donations were made by Red China, The Sun reported.
Clinton Library Will Yield Details on Big Donations
The more detailed information is to turned over on Monday, although lawyers for the committee said there were no plans to make it public.
Wasn't that nice of them.
What did Congress know and when did it know it?
Is this thread in the SIDEBAR??? Should be!!
Clintons taking money from the Saudis. No surprise there.
“Is this a big money laundering scam?”
Not big. Back during Clinton’s Governorship in, Arkansas, AFDA was laundering $30 Million a DAY.
That is BIG.
Bank of America
Funny name.
For an Italian based bank.
Makes one wonder how many ‘banks’ are foreign owned.
“How do the Toons get a pass on this?”
Stroke of the pen, law of the land. Cool!
“Wonder where Hillry’s are stored?”
Just ask Bruce Lindsay.
Ya think those were anything like the "initiatives" they were running through Mena, Arkansas?
Hillary Clinton Campaign Donors October 21, 2007
...Shall I go on? What about the billions being funneled through your womanizing husband in the guise of donations to his "library" and the "Clinton Foundation". By the way Senator Clinton, have you EVER fully disclosed that "Clinton Foundation" located at a post office box where you live whose only officers are yourself, your husband, and your daughter? What money is being funneled through there?
Anyone know if there's anything to this, either the the PO box, or if those three are the only officers with access to it?
They probably have coin-operated toilet paper dispensers in the clinton “library.”
LOL. That dispense one square per payment.....
...and it’s broken; so tha—even after you have paid—you have to go ask for a piece at the desk.
Related link....
LOL. I just posted it here for future reference :) I’ll be amazed if the paper were to tell us anything we didn’t already know.
Good gad, it’s pretty bad when Mother Teresa gets less benefit of the doubt than the Toons.
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