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.
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JOHN! It’s so good to ‘see’ you again. Where have you been???
Citibank just got a bunch of money from a middle eastern country (can’t remember which one though). They were given millions because they needed bailing out. We’re slowly but surely being taken over. Goodbye America, we loved ye.
Nero fiddled while Rome burned.
Thanks for the ping!
“They were given millions because they needed bailing out.”
And foreign banks that need bailing out will get it, while domestic banks won’t.
Invasion forces don’t always wear military uniforms and carry guns.
As I have said before here on FR, We LOST AMERICA. We are now fighting to get it back.
(nice tag line!)
Thanks. I have to remind myself that HE’s in control and not our government. I have to do that A LOT! America’s not lost yet but we do have to fight to gain back what we’ve lost from the socialists and the liberals in our great nation.
Ring a ping. ..ping. . .ping for Hillary. . .
Call me crazy, but I ALWAYS thought Hillary Clinton was somehow involved in 9/11. I mean Barbara Olsen, her chief critic and author of the book HELL TO PAY, Barbara’s plane just happened to crash into the Pentagon. I used to really enjoy Barbara’s critique of Hillary on a regular basis on Fox News. Now that Barbara is gone there has been no one who even comes close to filling her shoes! And look at it, that book about the Clinton Pardons that Barbara wrote wasn’t even published yet. The book detailed Hillary’s ambitions for the White House. I don’t think it is a coincidence. I very strongly consider the fact that Barbara’s plane crashed on 9/11 as circumstancial evidence of Hillary’s invovlement. I am not kidding I am very serious and will always hold that opinion.
“Could this be connected - if only in Hillary’s mind - that this is why the price of oil will go down - she ‘promises’ - after her inauguration? What are the Saudis looking for here; ‘safekeeping’ from Hillary? Will we ever her more about Uma Abedin?”
Interesting that you said this. When the news report came out about Hillary’s remark regarding the price of oil, that was my thought exactly, but I didn’t even know how to come close to expressing the idea. You did good. I am sure we are not the only two who are thinking those thoughts.
I do not agree with Senator Obama’s liberal politics, but I will give respect where it is due. And you have to respect someone who is willing to say that he would like an accounting of all contributions to Presidential Libraries, even for the Clintons. You have got to give respect where it is due, it’s only right!
“Havent they always thought of only the children?”
Anyone who supports the late term abortion of babies isn’t for the Children. I would like to see Hillary asked how does she square being for the children when she supports such a Hitler like proceedure on our most innocent ones among us? I would like to see her asked that during a presidential debate if she is nominated. It’s a fair question. It needs to be asked. I am sick of this cold women getting away with claiming to be for the children. As a mother to be, I want the witch to stay away from my child!
As much as I share your contempt for HRC, I can't agree that she was involved in 9/11. If she were out to get Barbara Olsen, it would be kind of foolish to crash four planes instead of one.
As for Fox News, you should know that the head honcho at Fox, Rupert Murdoch, has become cozy with the Clintons in the last few years. So don't expect anyone to be filling Barbara Olsen's shoes there any time soon.
I stand corrected: it was the Saudi ambassador’s residence.
It’s news to me that there were cameras at the ambassador’s residence “pointed at the park” at the time of the incident. Even in that event, there would be no way that those cameras could have recorded the the activity in the park in the area where Foster’s body was dumped. That’s because the many trees - in full leaf in July - would have obstructed the view.
Incidentally, personnel at the ambassador’s residence were interviewed in the official VWF investigations. When asked if they heard a gunshot on that day, all answered “No.”
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