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The Clinton Foundation’s Global Bribery and Crony Access Scam (national disgrace)
The Observer.com ^ | August 25, 2016 | Austin Bay

Posted on 10/21/2016 4:49:01 PM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Hillary’s hybrid ‘Clinton State-Foundation’ is a national disgrace

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. “Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers,” says the frequently delusional Blanche Dubois near the bitter end of Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play A Streetcar Named Desire.

Ah yes, kind strangers. It’s a playwright’s loaded line. Put bluntly, Miss Blanche may practice intermittent prostitution. According to rumors, before her New Orleans travails, Blanche lost her Mississippi hotel digs because her scandalous associations with menfolk tarnished the joint’s reputation. This naughty gossip, Blanche’s louche behavior, her iffy relationship with what we might call the truth—the drip, drip, drip of on-stage evidence—leads many play-watchers to conclude, yeah, right, Tennessee Williams, I get it. That kind of kind strangers, the kind that tip the tart.

Blanche Dubois is a fictional character. Hillary Clinton often inhabits a fictional universe. Claiming she was targeted by snipers in Bosnia and telling Fox News interviewer Chris Wallace that FBI Director James Comey exonerated her grossly negligent mishandling of classified information are just two examples of Hillary’s fictional existence. However, Hillary’s State Department was no cheap Mississippi hotel, and the latest batch of emails confirming close, coordinated contact between Hillary’s top State aides and the kind strangers who donate to the Clinton Foundation ain’t rumors spread by traveling salesmen. Even The AP is troubled by the number of Clinton Foundation donors with quick access to Hillary’s senior staff. The second paragraph in the AP report has numbers, not rumors:

>>> “At least 85 of 154 people from private interests who met or had phone conversations scheduled with Clinton while she led the State Department donated to her family charity or pledged commitments to its international programs, according to a review of State Department calendars released so far to The AP Combined, the 85 donors contributed as much as $156 million. At least 40 donated more than $100,000 each, and 20 gave more than $1 million.”

“Released so far.” That’s the AP acknowledging the drip, drip, drip technique. More of Hillary’s emails continue to appear, including emails she swore she destroyed because they were personal.

Indeed, it appears evidence of an axis has emerged, drip by drip, an axis that operationally connected Clinton Foundation donors to Hillary’s State Department. That suggests from 2009 to 2013, when she was secretary of state, Hillary ran a hybrid organization—what we might call the Clinton State-Foundation—which served the needs of Foundation donors, in return for their… kindnesses.

If the Clinton State-Foundation looks like a pay-to-play bribery operation, well, it sure looked like Blanche Dubois was sleeping around a bit with kind strangers, didn’t it?

* * *

Rajiv Fernando was a kind stranger who, in 2011, thanks to the kindness of Clinton senior aide Cheryl Mills, ended up as a kind stranger in a strange land—or at least strange from the perspective of everyone else on International Security Advisory Board (ISAB).

Now, the ISAB’s portfolio is to provide advice on “arms control, disarmament, nonproliferation, international security, and related aspects of public diplomacy.” Fernando? He was a Democratic Party donor who had “given up to $5 million to the Clinton Foundation.”

Fernando had absolutely no experience much less expertise in security and diplomatic issues. Yet on one occasion when he attended a board meeting, members were discussing issues that required examination of top secret intelligence. As the Washington Examiner notes, it took a Freedom of Information Act request by Citizens United to shakeout the emails that revealed the “scramble” by Clinton’s aides when ABC News asked for Fernando’s resume.

Wouldn’t media bigshots call for a special prosecutor if a Republican administration had such a blatant appearance of compromise?

And what do the emails reveal about Kind Stranger Rajiv’s appointment to a prestigious national security board despite his complete lack of qualifications?

“We must protect the Secretary’s and Under Secretary’s name, as well as the integrity of the Board. I think it’s important to get down to the bottom of this before there’s any response,” the aide added. “The true answer is simply that S staff (Cheryl Mills) added him,” another official later wrote. “Raj was not on the list sent to S; he was added at their insistence.” “S” is an abbreviation often used to denote the secretary of state in documents. In this case, it was a reference to Clinton.”

Ouch. It appears Cheryl Mills, Hillary’s chief of staff and State-Foundation operative, added Rajiv Fernando, at Hillary’s insistence. When the veil was lifted the rats ran from the light. Kind Stranger Rajiv left the ISAB four days after his background was called into question. It was, so to speak, Fernando’s hideaway.

What does Rajiv Fernando actually do for a living? He says he is an investor. He certainly “invested” five million bucks in the Clintons. This kind stranger got his goody—the board position—but he didn’t get to keep it. Did Rajiv Fernando get anything else for his five million? We don’t know. It is, at this point—given the drip, drip, drip—a fair question to ask. It is a question that deserves an answer.

Prostituting the State Department isn’t a sly joke—it’s unethical, it’s a national disgrace and it’s probably criminal. It will take a special prosecutor to evaluate the criminality because the Obama Administration is culturally and ethically incapable of conducting an investigation. Attorney General Loretta Lynch is totally compromised by the Clintons. The late June 2016 meeting in Phoenix between Lynch and Bill Clinton followed by FBI Director Comey’s sell out of the law proved that.

* * *

Judicial Watch, after battering a stonewall of Obama Administration resistance, obtained emails detailing Clinton aide Huma Abedin’s thoughtful and careful concern for Clinton Foundation kind strangers.

“The Abedin emails reveal that the longtime Clinton aide apparently served as a conduit between Clinton Foundation donors and Hillary Clinton while Clinton was secretary of state. In more than a dozen exchanges, Abedin provided expedited, direct access to Clinton for donors who had contributed between $25,000 and $10 million to the Clinton Foundation. In many instances, Clinton Foundation top executive Doug Band, who worked with the Foundation throughout Hillary Clinton’s tenure at State, coordinated closely with Abedin.”

Follow the link to the Judicial Watch page—and follow the money as the Huma and Doug State-Foundation team helps Clinton Foundation donor Casey Wasserman solve a problem related to a “criminal charge.” Wasserman is identified as a “a millionaire Hollywood sports entertainment executive” who gave the Foundation somewhere between five and ten million dollars.

* * *

For three years the Obama Administration stonewalled The AP’ requests for information. The AP had to sue in federal court to get the information “released so far.”

Of course the AP isn’t the only outfit getting stiffed. Citizens United and Judicial Watch have encountered similar stonewall operations. The Obama Administration, on behalf of Hillary, is pursuing a Watergate-esque modified limited hang-out and stalling and stonewalling are part of the strategy.

The result is a clear cut case of waging war on honesty—war on honesty waged by the President and his Administration. Oh yes, indeed, it isn’t just the strategic falsehood. The Administration has justified its delays by tactical lies. See, it’s difficult to respond—time-consuming—because the questions are complex, so many pieces of information, and so forth, etc.

Buying time is the goal. An interim goal was buying enough time to knock Bernie Sanders out of the presidential race. They succeeded there. Now, as Politico pointed out August 24, 2016 the Administration and Team Clinton are trying to “run out the clock” in the general election..........................


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cgi; clinton; clintoncrimefamily; cronyism; hillary
Prostituting the U.S. State Department has always been a full time job for the Clintons. The only difference between Hillary Clinton and Blanche DuBois is in the frequency of the act. Hillary has worked it full time with the aid of Bill & Chelsea. Blanche was part-time.

Sleazy, self-serving and crooked to the core, that IS the Clinton Global Initiative.

1 posted on 10/21/2016 4:49:01 PM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

The bottom line on all of this is that we have reached a point at which there is nothing conceivable that can be revealed about the Hillary beast that will negatively affect her campaign or damage her standing with the low-info voters that are a large portion of her base.


2 posted on 10/21/2016 4:59:30 PM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: luvbach1

It may not matter.


3 posted on 10/21/2016 5:00:56 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Isn’t it sad that we as Americans cannot hope for anything to be done about all this corruption until AFTER we get Trump into the Oval Office...

All the things I have seen coming out just sickens me beyond words...


4 posted on 10/21/2016 5:03:45 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence 100%)
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To: luvbach1

Yep, it’s pretty bad when even the ole, ‘Live girl or dead boy’ is inapplicable.

A full blown seizure on live air might sway some votes.


5 posted on 10/21/2016 5:15:33 PM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Shaking down countries using the lives of America’s armed forces.

TREASON


6 posted on 10/21/2016 5:15:49 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

We need a hangin, on the whitehouse lawn!


7 posted on 10/21/2016 5:16:58 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: PGalt

Perhaps some of these retired generals or admirals would publicize the significance of the damage the CGI schemes have had upon the US military.


8 posted on 10/21/2016 5:19:24 PM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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To: ronnie raygun

It would need to be a mass gallows. 9-10 per side X 4 sides.

The clintons have not operated in a vacuum.


9 posted on 10/21/2016 5:22:02 PM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

May The Evil ClinToons Be Visited By Disaster!


10 posted on 10/21/2016 5:26:42 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

The corruption is endemic. The Clinton’s are just the best at doing it. But the whole country is in a malaise, our international relations are frayed and crumbling, our international stature is diminished greatly, and war drums are beating wherever there isn’t already a war being waged... and it is all because the people at the top are using their positions of power for their own self-enrichment and to protect the gravy train from which they all gorge. Duty to the country, acting in the best interests of the nation are a far secondary interest to them, more of an annoyance that gets in the way of their scheming but at least they can use these issues as another opportunity to collect graft.

Not one area of government is untainted by this corruption. Ambassadorships are sold to donors, and even seats on obscure committees are doled out for consideration like this Rajiv Fernando episode. Makes you wonder what has yet to be discovered, but you don’t have to think too hard on it. The details don’t matter. All of it is corrupted. The courts have essentially given absolute power to the institutions of state, and those in charge are thereby corrupted absolutely.


11 posted on 10/21/2016 5:32:51 PM PDT by monkeyshine
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Rajiv Fernando looks like a classic case of an intelligence officer needing to see what the other side knows.

Whether he is an amateur or a professional, it would be interesting to see who he really is and who finances him.

Huma, Mills and cHillary are quite the team.

12 posted on 10/22/2016 4:23:46 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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