Hillary's Long and Winding Road to Tonight

WASHINGTON -- Here we are again with Hillary Rodham Clinton confronted by charges of obstruction of justice, perjury and general improbity. Such behavior has been going on with her for a long time. Some journalists who today chronicle the charges facing the Clintons were not even born when it all began.

For those of us with unflagging memories and abundant experience, it goes back decades. I would date the first official charges of Hillary Clinton's crookedness and reckless disregard for the law to Watergate in 1974 when she improbably served on the Watergate impeachment staff. Her boss then was the general counsel and chief of staff for the House Judiciary Committee, Jerry Zeifman, a Democrat. In a personal evaluation of Clinton's performance he wrote, "I decided that I could not recommend her for any future position of public or private trust." Why? Zeifman had learned that in this historic undertaking "she had lied" to him and to others repeatedly. Had Americans been attentive then, or at least had Democrats been attentive, America might have been spared Clinton's decades-long cavalcade of mendacity and intrigue.

Looking back on her bouts with Republicans, the media, and what are generally referred to as the authorities, not much has changed. To some of us Clinton-watchers, her scrapes with the law have been endlessly amusing, but in truth we have seen it all before. I suppose her negligence about security at Benghazi is new, but before 2009 she had never been responsible for security anywhere. Had she been responsible for the lives of ambassadors and others earlier, we would doubtless have been witnesses to the cover-up, the stonewalling, and such melodrama as her Congressional lament: "What does it matter?" Aside from her career at State, there is nothing new on her record.

Back in Little Rock in the late 1970s and 1980s, she and Bill were always entoiled with shady fundraising schemes concluded just before Bill's elections, to say nothing of such scams as her cattle future transactions and Whitewater (for which Bill boasts today that no one was convicted. I count 15 convictions). In fact, back in 1993, The New York Times reported in exhaustive detail about the Clintons' many dubious loans, often from rural Arkansas banks. Then the Times seemed to suffer amnesia when the Clintons engaged in such fundraising in Washington with foreign donors, disreputable tycoons and sleepovers in the Lincoln Bedroom. Now, of course, we see that Secretary of State Clinton waived or ignored department restrictions on foreigners and foreign governments that contributed to the Clinton Foundation and to Bill's speaking engagements. Again there is nothing new here. It all began in Arkansas at some hayseed bank.

One can trace Clinton's missing email caper back at least to her White House days when she or her aides secreted Vince Foster's documents and the Rose Law Firm billing records for nearly two years from government subpoenas. They finally popped up in the White House family quarters, but by then investigators had moved on to more pressing business. Back in the 1990s, The American Spectator even had an employee of the Rose Law Firm on the record as destroying documents at the firm at night lest they fall into the hands of Ken Starr, but again the nation's attention span wavered.

Even using the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Library as a kind of halfway house for the Clintons' cronies has its precursor. Back in the White House, the Clintons fired the professional staff in the White House travel office in favor of a cousin of Bill's and various other Arkansas cronies. In fact, there was talk when the Clintons moved in of bringing their trusted Arkansas troopers with them to replace the Secret Service.

I could go on, but you get my drift. There is a long record of blatant corruption up to the very present, and though the American taxpayer might not remember other markedly unsavory figures have taken note. When Hillary Clinton arrived at State greedy fellows in, for instance, Moscow, Kazakhstan and Nigeria made their plans. They saw Bill traveling the world with is hand out and the Clinton Foundation open for business. Peter Schweizer in his latest book, "Clinton Cash," has recorded how they got the business. Now the question is after all these years, will the American electorate put an end to the Clintons' business? If Clinton ever makes it to the White House her corruption could be fatal to our Republic.

WASH TIMES: Hillary began helping Bill's fat cats while in Senate... Favors to foundation donors stretch back to Hillary Clinton’s Senate days Earmarks, legislative action benefited husband’s benefactors / By Kelly Riddell - The Washington Times, 6/10/15

Hillary Rodham Clinton’s efforts to provide favors to major donors to her husband’s global charity or her own political career stretch back far earlier than her tenure as America’s top diplomat, dating to the time she served as a U.S. senator and had the power to earmark federal funds and influence legislation, records show.

For instance, Mrs. Clinton introduced a bill when she was New York’s junior senator that allowed a donor to the Clinton Foundation to use tax-exempt bonds to build a shopping center in Syracuse, New York, public records show.

She also went to bat for Freddie Mac, working to defeat legislation that would have subjected the mortgage giant to tougher regulations before the housing bubble burst and led to a major recession. That same year, Freddie Mac donated $50,000 to $100,000 to her husband’s charity, originally called the William J. Clinton Foundation records show.

Mrs. Clinton also used her leverage as a senator to help persuade the Chinese government to reduce tariffs on Corning Inc.’s fiber optic products. The central New York company’s employees and executives contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to her campaigns and political action committee.

Analysts on political money have said the pattern of Mrs. Clinton’s intervention on behalf of donors to her husband’s charity raise troubling ethical questions. It seems like the Clinton Foundation operates as a slush fund for the Clintons,” Bill Allison, a senior fellow at the Sunlight Foundation, a government watchdog group, told the New York Post in April after conflict-of-interest reports started surfacing between the Clinton Foundation and Mrs. Clinton’s political work. Mr. Allison declined to be interviewed. --SNIP--

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jun/10/hillary-clintons-favors-to-foundation-donors-stret/

Certain street beggars, for all their appearance of abject misery and outward aspect of grinding poverty, actually do quite well in terms of monetary return for their daily vocation of begging.

Now, the Clinton Foundation has taken the business of begging big time and global in scope. The Clintons, both of them, have offered up very little of what composes themselves, and a great deal of influence they can peddle in the international marketplace. For this, they have been rewarded almost beyond the dreams of avarice, like the plutocrats of old, cackling and crooning over their “stash”, very little of it earned by gainful employment. It has always been by getting leverage, and being able to work a “deal” under the table in many instances, hedging their futures with promises they, neither one, meant to keep.

Her opponent, Bernie Sanders is "for the people". He regurgitated his disgust with Wall Street, and those he feels contribute to inequality in America. It was a real tear-jerker when "kindly compassionate" Bernie stoutly defended Hillary's criminality WRT her State Dept emails....as Hillary glowed w/ approval.

Looks like Bernie loves Hillary but hates Wall Street
hogging all the wealth leaving the working classes w/ nothing.

I JUST CAN'T WAIT Will be such fun to see Bernie defend THIS Hillary.

Then-US Sen Clinton and then-Sen Corzine on the Capitol steps.

EXHIBIT ONE Corzine was fresh out of Goldman Sachs executive suite, buying his NJ Senate seat office for $65 million; then buying the NJ governorship. Out of office, he ran a hedge fund where $1.5 B went missing....that employed both Bill Clinton and then-Secy of State Hillary's top aide Huma Abedin.

EXHIBIT TWO When Chelsea Clinton's husband started a hedge fund, he gained access to investors who had ties to the Clintons and to Goldman Sachs. Back in 2011, Mezvinsky, now 37, and two former Goldman Sachs'ers — Bennett Grau and Mark Mallon — began raising money for Mezvinsky's Eaglevale Partners LP hedge fund.

Some of Mezvinsky's investors included Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein. Blankfein, a slavish Democrat supporter, said he had "always been a fan of Hillary Clinton."

The WSJ reported extensively on the hedge fund's underperformance since its inception and Mezvinsky's mediocre investing and strategizing.

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There's a saying in Congress---"One hand washes the other." You vote for my bill; I vote for your bill.

So did Did Hillary vote for Corzine's legislation....giving tax breaks for a Japanese bank Corzine's "blind trust" owned?

EXHIBIT THREE Then-US Sen Jon Corzine (D-NJ), used his office to pass a special tax exemption for a Japanese bank he owned----his Goldman Sachs crony, Christopher Flowers---adminstrator of Sen Corzine's "blind trust"--- used Corzine's assets to takeover the Japanese bank.

LAUGH BREAK Corzine later said he "did not know" the legislation he sponsored "benefited" him.

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So what other Wall Street deals did Corzine make w/ Hillary to enrich himself...and her?

"Bernie, I insist you go first."

ROTFLMAO.

Hillary Clinton got to where she is by being an arrogant, nasty, vengeful, persistent little snot.

It’s too late in her life for her to change.

She is not particularly bright. She is not likeable. She is not well-educated and lacks experience in being an effective executive.

She will spit and hiss and arch her back like a kitten. You just grab her by the nape of her neck and throw her out and let her try that act with the coyotes.

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