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EXCLUSIVE: Former U.S. Diplomat Slams Clinton For Accepting Russia Expulsion Order
Daily Caller ^ | July 17 2017 | Richard Pollock

Posted on 07/18/2017 5:32:12 AM PDT by Whenifhow

Ronald Glass ....condemning then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s inaction after Russia banished the USAID program from its borders in 2012.

“She was absent. The silence was deafening,” Glass said in an exclusive interview with The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group. Glass, who is now retired, also worked for USAID on “democracy governance issues” in Afghanistan, Honduras and Columbia, as well as Russia. ....

Glass, who described himself as a “social liberal,” said he was prompted to come forward by the “mind boggling” assertions from the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee and other leading Democrats who claim they were tough on Russia. Glass has never previously commented on Clinton’s failure to respond to the Russian expulsion.

“No push back on this global issue? I never expected it of my own government. Never,” Glass said, calling the expulsion “one of the most strategic moments in U.S.-Russia bilateral relations ever.”

“I can say even the most liberal people at USAID — and even the Hillary supporters I talked to at the time — were quite upset the mission was closed,” Glass said. “For them the closure was just a tragedy and a travesty.”

Then-President Barack Obama’s failure to issue any official complaints or protests limited public awareness of USAID’s expulsion, while the national news media covered the story for a single day.

A review by TheDCNF of the 30,490 official government emails Clinton stored on her private server and turned over to the State Department in 2015 revealed that neither she nor her aides addressed Russia’s expulsion of the agency.

Only two Clinton emails on the subject — both news clips — were released by the State Department. “When we have no emails in her stash that relates to this watershed moment, that was a big deal,” Glass said.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Russia
KEYWORDS: hillaryclinton; russia; usaid

1 posted on 07/18/2017 5:32:12 AM PDT by Whenifhow
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To: All; Liz; GregNH; LucyT

More from article which is long

“It’s a serious indictment of the mass media and their failure to speak out,” Edwards said. “There is an incredible double standard that’s being implied in this situation.”
Comparing the Russian explosion order to the current media frenzy about allegations President Donald Trump’s campaign’s “colluded” with Russia, “shows how partisan the media have become.”
When USAID departed Russia, the Kremlin intensified its already harsh crackdown on pro-democracy activities. Bloggers with more than 3,000 daily readers, for example, were required in 2014 to register with the government, while internet providers were required to allow the authorities to access users’ information.
That same year the government’s top prosecutor labeled 24 reform-minded non-governmental organizations as “foreign agents” under a 2012 law.


2 posted on 07/18/2017 5:36:43 AM PDT by Whenifhow (when, if and how will Obama be gone?)
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To: Whenifhow
USAID is structured US meddling in foreign elections. If other countries asserted their will in the US, in a similar fashion, there would be outrage.
3 posted on 07/18/2017 5:44:00 AM PDT by Cboldt
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Watchdog says State Dept. failing to adequately track foreign aid
The Hill ^ | 07/01/2017 | John Bowden / FR Posted by ForYourChildren

The State Department and the the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) have failed to adequately track the more than $30 billion they spend annually on foreign aid, according to a government watchdog report released Friday.

The report released by the State Department's Office of the Inspector General noted that the department has failed to build infrastructure for tracking billions of dollars in foreign aid despite being ordered to do so in 2015.

"Because the Department had made such limited progress in building the capacity to centrally track foreign assistance data, [the Office of Inspector General] strengthened and reissued the recommendation in the original report and made an additional recommendation focused on the need for executive leadership to address this Department-wide management challenge," it read. {..snip..}

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4 posted on 07/18/2017 6:15:28 AM PDT by Liz
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Seen anyone at State or any other federal government agency do the perp walk over the past decade for Fraud, Waste and Abuse yet?

Why should USAID attempt to clean up their act? No one in government ever gets PUNISHED for negligence and outright theft.

5 posted on 07/18/2017 6:24:22 AM PDT by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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To: Whenifhow

A clear cace of HillaryCide.


6 posted on 07/18/2017 6:33:35 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country.)
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To: Whenifhow

It was just a small part of the much bigger and to her more important, uranium/foundation deal.


7 posted on 07/18/2017 7:21:04 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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Yep, we seriously pissed off Putin in 2011 when Joe Biden visited Russia and did everything but go on an anti-Putin campaign tour.

Biden’s own official speech at the time shows he was meddling.

Moscow Times saw it as even worse. In their words “Biden opposes 3rd putin term”

https://themoscowtimes.com/news/biden-opposes-3rd-putin-term-5538

Hillary did the same thing in Dec 2011 with parliament elections.

Putin wasn’t trying to help Trump. He was striking back against Hillary and the dems.


8 posted on 07/18/2017 7:35:20 AM PDT by xzins ( Support the Freepathon! Every donation is important.)
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The State Department and the the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) have failed to adequately track the more than $30 billion they spend annually on foreign aid, according to a government watchdog report released Friday.

The crooks in the State Department have good reason to 'leak and lie' against Trump - - 'cause Trump's gonns stop them from stealing taxpayer money...

9 posted on 07/18/2017 9:36:52 AM PDT by GOPJ ( MSM Snowflakes: if you don't like President Trump's tweets don't read 'em.)
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To: TADSLOS

Throughout all history before a country collapses the insiders loot the treasury.


10 posted on 07/18/2017 5:00:08 PM PDT by Don Corleone (.leave the gun, take the canolis, take it to the mattress.)
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