Hillary Clinton, coin-operated policymaker

Washington Examiner ^ | 2/26/2015 | Timothy P. Carner

[HomerBohn]

The latest tales of State Department ethics violations, foreign money, and special access would be surprising if they were about anyone but Hillary Clinton.

Throughout her political career Clinton has always blended cash and policy. She’s not merely corporatist by disposition, like, say Tim Geithner or Lindsey Graham. She’s not simply sloppy on ethics, like Bob McDonnell or John Kitzhaber.

Hillary is blatantly transactional in her fundraising and policymaking. And she wants to be president.

Here’s the background on the latest Clinton story:

During her tenure as Secretary of State, Clinton openly had an unsavory relationship with foreign money. Her family’s Clinton Foundation, now named the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, raised hundreds of millions of dollars from foreign governments while she led our diplomatic efforts and steered our foreign policy.

The Obama White House allowed this, on condition that these donations were recurring donations — more or less annual gifts that began while she was a Senator.

But even those weak constraints were too much for the Clintons, Rosalind Helderman and Tom Hamburger reported in the Washington Post on Wednesday night. Specifically, the Clinton Foundation took $500,000 from Algeria’s government in 2010, without notifying ethics officers at the State Department.

The Algerian government could have given $500,000 to Haiti relief efforts through more direct channels. Funneling through the Clinton Foundation looks like an effort to gain access. And it looks like it worked. The Post reported:

“[T]here was an increase in 2010 in State Department meetings held with lobbyists representing the country — with 12 visits to department officials that year, including some visits with top political appointees. In the years before and after, only a handful of State Department visits were recorded by Algeria lobbyists.”

Innocent explanations are possible here. But when Hillary Clinton is involved, less innocent explanations are more likely true. Her history is full of donations coinciding with access or favorable policies.

There was her relationship with Corning Inc. in Upstate New York. “The Clinton-Corning partnership is very rewarding for both of us,” Corning CFO James Flaws said when she was in the Senate. Flaws was correct. Through her Senate career, Hillary brought in $240,000 in donations from Corning employees, including Flaws and the company’s Washington lobbyists. Corning’s political action committee gave $33,000 to Hillary and her leadership PAC.

Hillary in return showered Corning with earmarks, mandates, and regulations that forced or paid businesses to use Corning products, such as specialty tailpipe filters and catalysts. The New York Times covered this dynamic in a 2006 article headlined “Company Finds Clinton Useful, and Vice Versa.”

The Times reporters wrote: “In April 2003, a month after Corning's political action committee gave $10,000 to her re-election campaign, Mrs. Clinton announced legislation that would provide hundreds of millions in federal aid to reduce diesel pollution, using, among other things, technology pioneered by Corning.”

Most conspicuously, Corning executives switched from backing her Republican opponent Rick Lazio in October 2000 to flooding her campaign with donations. A few weeks later, her husband’s administration issued an emissions rule that a local reporter called “a big Christmas present [dropped] in the lap of Corning Inc.”

Clinton’s contribution-policy overlap applied in the drug industry, too. In 2006, Barr Laboratories CEO Bruce Downey made his first contribution to Clinton’s reelection. Within a month, Hillary announced she would block a George W. Bush Food and Drug Administration nominee until the agency made Barr’s “Plan B” morning-after contraceptive available over the counter. In those same days, she introduced legislation to subsidize Plan B.

In 2008, Barr Executive Vice President Frederick J. Killion donated $1,000 to her campaign one day after Clinton introduced another bill to prop up Plan B.

In all corners of the economy, Clinton has these symbiotic relationships. The Washington Post reported in 2014 that Clinton has "functioned as a powerful ally for Boeing’s business interests at home and abroad," while Boeing "invested resources in causes beneficial to Clinton’s public and political image."

Hillary and her husband have been collecting six-figure checks for speeches to corporations and foreign governments. With most politicians, you could take their word that the money paid for the speech and nothing else. But with Hillary Clinton, whenever anyone pays up, you have to wonder what policy they're seeking in return.

Johnny Chung, a Taiwan-born businessman donated $366,000 to Bill Clinton's 1996 re-election, and in return got to visit the White House more than 40 times. He described aptly how things work with the Clintons: "The White House is like a subway: You have to put in coins to open the gates."

[HomerBohn]

Martha Stewart got six months for doing next to nothing. Ms Clinton should get a lifetime stretch in Guantanamo due to her stunning work on terrorism and her murder of Vince Foster.

Mustn't forget the trail of dead bodies that follow the dynamic duo from Arkansas to the White Hut to New Yarkansas to Washington.

Wonder what Craig Livingstone is doing these days? Probably cleaning his guns.

[Diogenesis]

Clinton and Obama are a new type of sociopath.

They are MSM-enabled criminal sociopaths
who lie, steal, and probably murder, without a single
neuron showing discomfort.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

And every Democrat in the US knows Hillary’s history.

[Liz]

Protesters Gathered at Clinton Foundation to Complain of 'Missing State Dept US foreign aid Money' for Haiti Recovery

Protesters gathered outside the Clinton Foundation in Harlem to complain about "missing money" from the US State Dept's recovery effort for the 2010 Haitian earthquake:

"New Yorkers with roots in Haiti protested, saying the picture [of the Haiti recovery] isn't so rosy," said the NY1-TV anchor. "People raised their voices to call attention to the missing money.

They protested outside the offices of the Clinton Foundation, which helped lead the reconstruction fund."

The protesters claimed that the US State Dept's $10 billion meant to help rebuild Haiti did little to help the country after the devastating 2010 quake. And that much of the money went to non-Haitian companies. Said one proteser, “The Haitian people are still living in very difficult conditions, still living under tents, while Bill Clinton and his cronies--they waste this money." As secretary of state under the Obama administration, Hillary Clinton devoted much of her time in 2010 to the Haiti recovery.

1/15 By Daniel Halper (author of Clinton, Inc.: The Audacious Rebuilding of a Political Machine).

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POINTS TO PONDER:

<><> The State Dept recently issued a "special management alert"-----that it had "no idea" what happened to $6 billion used to pay its contractors.....it warned “significant financial risk and a lack of internal control at State has led to billions of unaccounted dollars over the last six years....under Hillary's watch.

<><> Bill Clinton got his hands on hundreds of million of dollars while Hillary ontrolled the State Dept checkbook..... monies that were meant for Haiti (the place where the Clintons spent their honeymoon).

<><> CLINTON BUSH HAITI FUND--donor to Clinton Global Initiative

WEB SITE http://www.clintonbushhaitifund.org/

The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded after Haiti’s January 12, 2010 earthquake, when President Barack Obama asked former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush to assist the Haitian people in building their own country back better. The Fund is using these donations to make grants, loans, and equity investments in organizations promoting job growth and smart, sustainable economic development.

[Liz]

WHY DOES BILL CLINTON NEED 21 PHONE NOS? Court documents in Clinton pal Jeffrey Epstein's underage sex investigation show that Epstein had 21 private e-mail addresses and phone numbers listed for Clinton and Clinton factotum, Doug Band.

Epstein kept Bill Clinton on speed dial as reports surfaced about Clinton attending sex parties at Epstein's "Orgy Island." Lawyers perusing documents stumbled upon e-mail addresses and 21 phone numbers for the fun-loving ex-president and his personal aide, Doug Band, stashed away in Jeffrey Epstein’s electronic directory, according to court documents.

QUESTION: Why does Clinton need 21 phone numbers? Does every phone number have an address and/or PO box number? Because L/E knows multiple phone no's is an indication of possible money-laundering and tax evasion.

CASE IN POINT One two-year federal investigation revealed an elaborate web to carry out multiple frauds. The frauds were carried out using non-existent people using fake identities, fraudulent SS nos, and phony tax ID numbers.

A sophisticated system of telephone voice-mail accounts and post office boxes were created to avoid detection. The charges involved racketeering, money laundering, wire fraud, making false statements, and bank fraud.

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HSBC Leak Exposes Shady Clinton Associates
Washington Free Beacon ^ | February 9, 2015 | Andrew Stiles / FR Posted by lbryce

A massive leak of documents from HSBC’s Swiss banking arm has revealed an array of sketchy dealings with wealthy individuals, including dictators and arms traffickers, through which the bank helped unsavory characters dodge taxes and avoid government scrutiny.

Among the unsavory characters exposed in the leak are a number of prominent donors to the Clinton Foundation. For example, the leaked documents detailed a five million Swiss franc cash transaction to British business mogul Richard Caring:

HSBC staff explained handing Caring the huge sum of cash by quoting a statement by him that he planned to deposit the cash with another Swiss bank, and did not want either bank to be aware of the other. They wrote: “RC goes to great lengths to maintain discretion.” …

The files show Caring, a major donor to British politics, transferring $1 million to the Clinton Foundation, a nonprofit set up by the former U.S. President Bill Clinton with the stated mission to “strengthen the capacity of people in the United States and throughout the world to meet the challenges of global interdependence.” (Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...

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One of the most common M/L T/E scams is one foundation writing a check to another foundation----the check receiver takes a cut then deposits the rest offshore for the donor's use later---all tax-free.

[The Antiyuppie]

There will be a lot of people and organizations who will be pretty damn mad if she does NOT run...they made an investment and they expect results.

[BobP]

Hillary "Hooch" Clinton, coin-operated policyshotmaker

Legally illicit!

[HomerBohn]

What America desperately needs: a foul-mouthed bitch who hates Jews.

[surrey]

If she’s breathing, she’s running.

[bert]

and that loathes the military while throwing ashtrays

[ReaganGeneration2]

“MSM-enabled”

Yep. She will not get a single question about this from the media, ever.

[PGalt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtH7iv4ip1U

[Afterguard]

Heh. That may be one of the best political headlines I’ve ever seen... Well done.