In 2010, in response to a reporter's questions about a case in which 10 Americans were being held on child abduction charges in Haiti, a State Department spokesman said that the department would not get involved, CNN reported State Department rebuffs call for Clinton intervention in Haiti case": "Washington (CNN) -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will not get directly involved in the case of the 10 Americans detained in Haiti on child abduction charges, a State Department spokesman said Tuesday. "It would be highly unusual for the secretary of state to intervene in a case involving the judicial process of another country," spokesman P.J. Crowley said in an off-camera question-and-answer session."
In the case, an Idaho church worker, Laura Silsby, said she was in Haiti to rescue orphans found outside of collapsed orphanages, but it turned out most of the children had parents. Silsby claimed she planned to build an orphanage in the Dominican Republic, but a State Department diplomatic cable revealed that authorities in the country said she never submitted an application. Silsby also contradicted herself by saying first that the children were going to a new orphanage, then saying they would be put up for adoption. Haiti has very strict laws and a long process for the removal of any child from the country without its parents.
Secretary Clinton intervened anyway, as reported in the Sunday Times, and sent Bill Clinton to negotiate the release of Silsby, whom Haitian prosecutors wanted to sentence to prison for the attempted kidnap of 33 children. Instead Silsby was convicted of a lesser charge and released for "time served." Hillary Clinton's interest in the case was further documented in a Wikileaks release of her emails.
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Hillary gets involved over some church worker she hardly knew?
Bill Clinton travels there to help someone he hardly knew?
Nope.
Hillary getting involved when Silsby was bobbing and weaving and lying through her teeth about what she was up to - when children were involved.
And children were involved... and Hillary got involved...no one is surprised...
Thanks for the posts; much obliged.