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.
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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.
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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Why should USAID attempt to clean up their act? No one in government ever gets PUNISHED for negligence and outright theft.
A clear cace of HillaryCide.
It was just a small part of the much bigger and to her more important, uranium/foundation deal.
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.
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...
Throughout all history before a country collapses the insiders loot the treasury.
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