Clueless Clinton thinks she is going to skate into the White House
Posted on 04/17/2016 8:01:51 PM PDT by kevcol
Iran ordered to pay $10.5 billion for 9/11 by US judge
https://www.rt.com/usa/335174-iran-damages-september-911-victims/
Clueless Clinton thinks she is going to skate into the White House
The only problem is that the 9/11 victim’s families didn’t donate enough to the Clinton Foundation.
Clinton is pay-to-play.
It was Iran.
Just as Iran’s proxy [and Syria’s proxy as well] ...Hezbollah... was responsible for the Khobar Towers bombing and for prepping AQ to bomb the USS Cole.
It’s why Iran made sure none of the hijackers were Iranian...only Saud muscle, and for the brains chose the Egyptian Atta to be the lead hijacker, along with a Lebanese guy and some fellow from the UAE as I recall.
911 was planned by Iran, who then hand picked Saudi Arabians who then orchestrated 911?
Was Saudi Osama bin Laden one of those hand picked Iranians too?
And if Iran orchestrated the 911 attack on the U.S. by using the Saudis, why did Bush go to war in Iraq instead of Iran?
Bush, Cheney, Obama, and a host of a hundred-odd political figures are all on the inside of this episode.
So, some senators from both the Republican and Democratic Parties are going to call them out and force them to stand in the public square.
You need to ask three basic questions.
1. From this 28-page top secret document which actually lists names of Saudi individuals who funneled help and money....since the report was finalized...what have these individuals been doing? Did they funnel money into Europe to cause death and destruction? Did they trigger ISIS to be created? If so, then Bush and Obama both need to be brought in for war-crimes charges.
2. What senators have accepted campaign money from Saudi backers connected to the jihad war against America? Name them. Force them to resign and go home in disgrace.
3. This threat to sell the 750-billion dollars in US securities? What’s the counter-threat? If Obama says none....he needs to be impeached and sent home.
All of this leaves a bad taste in my mouth, for both parties. As far as I’m concerned with Bush/Cheney....they are finished in any legacy department with me. They both slept with the Saudis and allowed 9-11 to occur, and then blamed Saddam as part of the Saudi agenda. We fought a useless war.
They do to brought up on charges and I fully expect Trump to have at least Bush prosecuted for his crimes. The driving force behind Trump's entry into this race isn't vanity, it's his hatred for the what the elites like Bush did to NYC and the country. We got suckered punched by the Saudis and Islam and then Bush sent us off on a wild goose chase while protecting KSA and telling us about how peaceful Islam is.
Looking at this after the weekend story...I’d say Bush could be facing a dozen charges minimum. Did he accept campaign money from them for election 1 and 2? Did they entice him to pick Cheney as part of their strategy? When he allowed their private jets to leave US airspace on 9-12...who called him and why’d he react to them? The whole war with Saddam and Iraq.....all fake and by the Saudi agenda? Allowing Ossama to walk away....by a Bush-Saudi agenda? The weapons episode in Banghazi and the dead ambassador....does it lead back to some CIA-Saudi agenda? The war in Syria....does it lead back to a Obama-Saudi agenda? Did the Saudis finance all of the terror acts in Europe over the past decade? Is the immigration crisis in Europe all connected back to a Saudi agenda?
Special prosecutor for both Bush and Obama is warranted now.
>Special prosecutor for both Bush and Obama is warranted now.
Yep, but don’t get your hopes up. The KSA hires tons of ex CIA and military guys when they retire and pays them big bucks. They have a ton of influence all over Washington. In order to get a conviction we have to collapse the KSA before going after Bush. I actually want Bush more than Obama because Hillery was the primary person pushing the disasters in Syria and Libya.
All questions pre-approved
She’s needing to appeap contemplative, and get passed the NY primary.
The next time the question is asked, if ever, she will have the delegates.
In the General, she will have the Saudi blessing to committ taqyilla, and speak out in favor the bill.
“It’s just amazing how much that building looks like a trailer.”
Remember the joke when it was first unveiled: “If this library’s rockin’, don’t come knockin’.”
BINGO. ..enuf said!!!
Maybe you missed my earlier questions.
You stated 911 was planned by Iran, who then hand picked Saudi Arabians, who then orchestrated 911? Was Saudi Osama bin Laden also one of those hand picked by the Iranians too?
And if Iran orchestrated the 911 attack on the U.S. by using the Saudis to do the dirty deed, why then did Bush go to war in Iraq instead of Iran?
Otaiba’s entrée to D.C. was aided by the UAE’s willingness to pour astronomical sums of money into improving its public standing in the U.S. It now spends more money on lobbying than any other foreign government ($14.2 million dollars in 2013). That’s in addition to hundreds of millions in philanthropic giving (UAE entities have given at least $3 million to the Clinton Foundation alone), as well as billion-dollar investments in U.S businesses. In a 2010 Aspen appearance, Otaiba made a point of remarking that the U.S. “is actually a beneficiary of our oil revenues," by way of at least $10 billion that the UAE had invested in various US projects just that year. One Washington operative who has the UAE as a client even created a video mashup of Dubai Ports World news footage, which he shows to wealthy Emirati to remind them of the importance of D.C.-oriented giving.
The Dubai Ports nightmare reel that one Washington operative uses to remind wealthy Emirati why they're spending so much money in DC.
Since Otaiba’s arrival, the UAE has made sizeable donations to a wide range of think tanks and policy centers, including the Center for American Progress, the Aspen Institute, the EastWest Institute and the Center for Strategic and International Studies—all institutions populated by former and soon-to-be-again government officials who formulate foreign policy conventional wisdom. (The Pentagon meeting Otaiba attended, which caught the attention of The Washington Post’s defense reporter, was organized by John Hamre, the CEO of CSIS.) This year, a UAE-based research institute also partnered with the Saudi Embassy in D.C. to launch the Arab Gulf States Institute, a think tank that has hired numerous recent administration officials as scholars and fellows (Otaiba's mentor, Wisner, serves as chairman of the board).
"[The UAE] are a potential gravy train for them when they leave government, and so there's a lot of incentive to kind of have that relationship intact,” says one senior U.S. government official.
“When you take your sabbatical from government you could head out to the UAE twice a year to give a speech or appear at a conference or something."
In his early years in D.C., it soon became clear that Otaiba, like MBZ, was driven by two key concerns: a deep antipathy for political Islam, especially the Muslim Brotherhood, and what the Wikileaks cable described as “a forceful and at times aggressive” stance on Iran. Thanks to Otaiba's understanding of the U.S., he is adept at interpreting American policy and communicating it to other Arab leaders. “He more than anybody helps explain the U.S. position not only back to the UAE but to others in the region,” says Mintz. But when it came to his tactics in wooing official Washington, what people really noticed were the parties.
♦ ♦ ♦ There is a group of powerful women in Washington who hold a private luncheon at the end of each year that can run up a pricey tab. The gathering includes lobbyists, publishers and women with philanthropic foundations named after them. The group always seeks someone to foot the bill, and after Otaiba arrived in D.C., he soon popped up on its radar. One member of the group recalls someone asking, "Who's the new person in town? Maybe Yousef will sponsor this." She adds, "He was very quickly known as an easy source of money with no strings attached.”
And when Otaiba throws a party, he doesn’t take half-measures. He’s headlined a cancer research gala in New York that featured performances by Beyonce, Alicia Keys, and Ludacris; when he threw a surprise 50th birthday bash for Joe Scarborough, it led the next edition of Playbook, the tipsheet of the D.C. establishment.
Last spring, Otaiba co-hosted the 2014 Children's Ball at the Ritz Carlton with Baier of Fox News, the network that caused the UAE so many headaches during the Dubai Ports World episode. One society veteran called the gala the “most over-the-top, insane event I've ever been to." Baier, whose son required open-heart surgery as an infant, has dedicated himself to fundraising for the Children's National Health System, and in Otaiba, he found a willing supporter. In 2009, the UAE donated an eye-popping $150 million to Washington Children’s Hospital. (Several years later, Otaiba and his wife had a child who also needed critical surgery at the facility.)
The 2014 gala was attended by National Security Advisor Susan Rice, Rahm Emanuel, and Majority Leader Eric Cantor, all of whom observed the "black tie/white dress" code specified in the invitation. "It looks like a roomful of vestal virgins, but it's anything but," quipped one lawmaker, who was annoyed at having to locate a white dress. Jennifer Hudson serenaded the guests, and on a video screen, George W. Bush and Pharrell Williams praised Otaiba and Baier for their work. The event netted more than $10.7 million, with contributions from numerous defense contractors Otaiba had dealt with as MBZ’s military adviser—Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Northrup Grumman and others—plus banks, lobby shops and assorted Gulf entities. The UAE’s two top political figures, MBZ and the UAE foreign minister, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed , kicked in a million dollars each.
At a charity event for Children's Hospital in January 2010, philanthropist Joe Robert lavished praise on Otaiba's offer to "be brave and shave" to raise money for the cause. "I said, 'Yousef, you don't have to do this, you guys just gave 150 million dollars to the hospital,'" Robert said. The giving, he told the audience, "says an awful lot about this man and his country. We really owe—I mean all of us here—a great debt to you."
One prominent society figure, who throws a high-profile annual event connected with fundraising for disease research, said that sometimes major gifts of this nature are made after a hospital saves the child of a fantastically wealthy person. More often, she says, the agenda is utilitarian. "The other reason people do it in general—other than the philanthropic and the bigger picture and blah blah blah—is you can sit at that Children's Ball and you've got every congressman and senator in the world, and every White House aide there, and you can have a conversation and get something done that you couldn't get [otherwise]," she says. (Baier describes Otaiba as “a tremendous person.” When asked why the Gulf might make such generous donations to a hospital in Washington, he said, “I don’t know the motivations of why they do what they do.”)
Otaiba's home in McLean, Virginia. (Courtesy of Bing Maps)
Otaiba also often invites members of Congress, staffers, White House aides and other influential Washingtonians to dinner at the UAE's monumental embassy off Van Ness Street or at his home, a mansion on the Virginia bank of the Potomac. White House spokesman Josh Earnest, pre-disgraced congressman Aaron Schock; Betsy Fischer Martin, the longtime executive producer for NBC’s Meet The Press, the New York Times’ Jonathan Martin; and CNN’s Jessica Yellin are among those who’ve dined at his house. The guests make themselves at home, Otaiba told the glossy D.C. magazine Washington Life in 2012. “Often that means having a Cabinet secretary stepping carefully over [his son] Omar’s lego set, or an admiral scratching the ears of our dogs Coco and Marley, or shooting a game of pool with a member of Congress,” he said. A reporter for a national publication who attended one of these private dinners recalls journalists, top politicians and aides being led by Otaiba in substantive, if stilted, conversation about policy and politics that would be periodically interrupted when Wolfgang Puck popped out from the kitchen to announce the next course. After dinner, the group adjourned to Otaiba’s basement, possibly the most impressive man-cave in the entire metro region, to watch basketball. “He had the largest television I’ve ever seen in my life,” the reporter recalls. These gatherings can sometimes serve as an audition. “If they come and they engage, what often follows is an invitation to travel to the UAE," says a former Hill staffer who was glad to land such an opportunity. An especially prized junket is the annual trip that Otaiba organizes to Abu Dhabi for the Formula One Grand Prix, a racing spectacle watched by some half a billion people around the globe. Guests have included Liz Cheney, retired Gen. John Jumper, D.C. philanthropist Adrienne Arsht and the Baiers. (Baier says he flew separately on his own dime and made it a work trip: He interviewed Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, the UAE foreign minister who donated a million dollars to the Children’s Ball.)
Otaiba and Amy Baier (center) in Abu Dhabi during Formula One weekend. (Courtesy of Facebook) Raoul Fernandez, Jean-Marie Fernandez, Bret and Amy Baier, Norma Ramsey, and Russ Ramsey in Abu Dhabi for the Formula One motor race.
This year, most guests were flown to the event in a private 747; once on the ground, BMWs ferried them to the Emirates Palace Hotel, where there is a gold bullion machine in the lobby. Over the course of five days, they enjoyed falcon-hunting excursions, performances by Jay-Z and Depeche Mode and, at the Formula One race itself, royal-level passes that gave them access to the pit. Most of the travelers come away impressed. “They have freedom of the press, to a point. The only rule is you can’t criticize the monarchy,” says one. “But why would you want to? I met the sultan, or what do you call him—the emir. He was a totally great guy.”
More at link..
Liz, THIS is why 'elites' in DC don't want Donald Trump messing up their scams... Oh, and the question on the table is do 'retired' military guys make massive hauls over the dead bodies of our soldiers... Speeches in the UAE anyone? Saudi friends? Yeah - and this IS a Huffington Post report...
Scary.
"The Foundation" may be showing signs of collapse.
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