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Hillary Accepted Qatar Money Without Notifying Government, While She Was Head Of State Dept
Zero Hedge ^ | 11/05/16

Posted on 11/05/2016 6:34:45 AM PDT by Enlightened1

Three weeks ago, when we first reported that Qatar had offered to pay the Clinton Foundation $1 million after a hacked Podesta email disclosed that the ambassador of Qatar “Would like to see WJC [William Jefferson Clinton] ‘for five minutes’ in NYC, to present $1 million check that Qatar promised for WJC’s birthday in 2011”, we said that in this particular case, the Clinton Foundation may also be in violation of State Department ethics codes.

Fast forward to today when overnight Reuters reported that the Clinton Foundation has confirmed it accepted a $1 million gift from Qatar while Hillary Clinton was U.S. secretary of state without informing the State Department, even though she had vouched to let the agency review new or significantly increased support from foreign governments.

Clinton signed an ethics agreement governing her family's foundation in order to become secretary of state in 2009. The agreement was designed to increase transparency to avoid appearances that U.S. foreign policy could be swayed by wealthy donors. According to the agreement, if a new foreign government wished to donate or if an existing foreign-government donor, such as Qatar, wanted to "increase materially" its support of ongoing programs, Clinton promised that the State Department's ethics official would be notified and given a chance to raise any concerns.

Alas, it now appears that the agreement was nothing more than a piece of paper to Hillary Clinton, who violated its terms on at least one occasion, and potentially on .

Clinton Foundation officials last month declined to confirm the Qatar donation. In response to additional questions, a foundation spokesman, Brian Cookstra, this week said that it accepted the $1 million gift from Qatar, but this did not amount to a "material increase"..

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: accepts; hillary; money; qatar

1 posted on 11/05/2016 6:34:45 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1

Does anything Hillary does come as a shock???


2 posted on 11/05/2016 6:43:03 AM PDT by Sasparilla (Hillary for Prison 2016)
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To: Enlightened1

Just the Qataris making a down payment for American blood to get their gas pipeline run through Syria.


3 posted on 11/05/2016 6:43:21 AM PDT by henkster (Clinton delenda est)
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To: Enlightened1

Doesn’t surprise me. She is the most dishonest candidate ever


4 posted on 11/05/2016 6:45:51 AM PDT by realcleanguy
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To: Enlightened1
In 2003, the U.S Congress was made aware that a plethora of charities based in Qatar was supporting al-Qaeda’s activities by helping move and launder funds for the terrorist group

The small Arab country of Qatar has long been accused of allowing terror financiers to operate within its borders. The country has been called “the Club Med for Terrorists” and “most two-faced nation in the world, backing the U.S.-led coalition against the militants of the Islamic State while providing a permissive environment, in the words of one top American official, for terrorist financiers to operate with impunity."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar_and_state-sponsored_terrorism

5 posted on 11/05/2016 6:47:38 AM PDT by saywhatagain
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To: Enlightened1

Well, that can’t be legal.


6 posted on 11/05/2016 6:49:40 AM PDT by fhayek
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To: Enlightened1
Will she be pardoning herself or will Obola have to do it? It all depends on what happens on 11/8.
7 posted on 11/05/2016 6:52:53 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: Enlightened1

No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.

But you know, living Constitution and all that...how could the Founding Fathers have anticipated the modern need for such foreign munificence?


8 posted on 11/05/2016 6:53:49 AM PDT by Loyalist (Hillary 2016: Thirty years experience under her belt, nothing above it!)
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To: Enlightened1
Clinton Foundation officials last month declined to confirm the Qatar donation. In response to additional questions, a foundation spokesman, Brian Cookstra, this week said that it accepted the $1 million gift from Qatar, but this did not amount to a "material increase"..

A million bucks isn't a material increase? What is it then? It sure as heck isn't the burden of an old, thrice re-gifted fruitcake.

9 posted on 11/05/2016 6:59:54 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (If Trump loses, America dies)
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To: Sasparilla

Does any crime or act of treason Hillary commits come with any consequences of justice?!?


10 posted on 11/05/2016 7:07:38 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: Enlightened1

This one should be an instant felony and years in prison.
How can she talk her way out of taking a million while SOS and not reporting it (for starters)?


11 posted on 11/05/2016 7:15:08 AM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Enlightened1

So why doesn’t she have to give it back and go to prison? If it was me I would, plus owe the IRS.


12 posted on 11/05/2016 7:17:21 AM PDT by Licensed-To-Carry (Every time you vote for a democrat, you put another nail in the coffin of the USA.....)
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To: Carl Vehse

Quotations is full of anti-America radicals.
In Beverly Hills we had two racing in the suburbs with kids around at 90mph. When being filmed be a reporter they told the reporter they would kill him for filming.


13 posted on 11/05/2016 7:17:55 AM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Enlightened1

Lock her up.


14 posted on 11/05/2016 7:18:24 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic ( “Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.”)
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If somebody with a high security clearance doesn’t report $ coming into their bank account ( even inheritances!) it is a violation ...

LOCK. HER. UP. !!!!


15 posted on 11/05/2016 7:36:27 AM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: Enlightened1

That is not news. Hillary will accept any amount of money from anyone. Ditto the Clinton Foundation.


16 posted on 11/05/2016 7:43:02 AM PDT by sport
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To: henkster

Payment for info on Extortion 17?


17 posted on 11/05/2016 9:36:21 AM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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