Clinton Foundation memos

[Chris0nllyn]

Last week, WikiLeaks dropped a 2011 memo by top Bill Clinton aide Doug Band that lays bare Team Clinton’s sordid financial dealings when Hillary Clinton was secretary of State.

Band describes how the Clinton Foundation served as a conduit for what he called “Bill Clinton Inc.” — the former president’s for-profit arm. Other documents show State Department involvement.
The result is an unsavory mix of charity work, profiteering, and pay-to-play politics that potentially reaches the highest levels of US foreign policy and screams for IRS and Department of Justice reviews.

At center is Band and his consulting firm Teneo. Band served as gatekeeper to all things Bill Clinton. Those wanting a former president as golf partner ponied up. Requests for Foundation dough followed. Next came Clinton Inc. — the steady stream of speeches, books, and honorary titles that enriched Bill Clinton. Teneo managed it all.

At one point Band even had Clinton staff calling British lawmakers for Dow Chemical “on behalf of President Clinton.” Band justified the set up arguing, “I believed, rightly or wrongly, that Teneo’s further development of its clients to be bigger donors to the Foundation and CGI was an important priority.”

The Daily Beast reviewed lobbying records and found Teneo clients Alibaba, Coca-Cola, and Dow received State Department munificence.

Alibaba — criticized for helping the Chinese government crackdown on internet freedom — lobbied State on intellectual property rights.

Coca-Cola double dipped by receiving excise-tax help with Pakistan and Thailand.

Dow avoided liability in India for a predecessor company’s accident that killed thousands because the Obama administration helped it avoid Indian courts.

Maybe it’s all coincidence.

But Band also influenced State in other ways. He procured jobs at the prestigious agency. When he said one person was “important to take care of,” Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin responded, “(State Department) personnel is sending him options.”

He got Dow executives invited to State functions with Secretary Clinton in Japan. And Abedin consulted him to ensure people requesting a meeting on a foreign trip were “legit cgi people.”

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-bl...-bill-and-hillary-partners-in-crime-literally

 

[vraiblonde]

And the say the Republicans are the party of greed. Good grief.

 

[Chris0nllyn]

And the say the Republicans are the party of greed. Good grief.

And you say this is "my girl". Weirder things have been said.

 

[Gilligan]

And you say this is "my girl". .

Finally having second thoughts?

 

[Chris0nllyn]

Finally having second thoughts?

I never had one thought about voting for Clinton.

 

[Hijinx]

I never had one thought about voting for Clinton.

It's funny: The Democrats should be leaving this sinking ship like the rats they are, but as yet not one in the Congress or senate has stood up and said enough.
She has them all by the balls.

Must have been some good stuff in those FBI files.

 

[somdwatch]

Democorrupts!

Those that perform the corrupts acts and those that don't protest the acts that are being committed under their political beliefs. The party is and continues to be a corrupt bunch, that are guilty if they continue to call themselves democrats and continue to vote for the policies that make them so.

A true leader, would drop out by the damage she potentially cause to the constitution.

If HRC gets elected. We are the largest Banana Republic.

 

[Hijinx]

Kennedy said ask not what your country can do for you , but what you can do for your country,

If Hillary is elected it will be by those asking what the country can do for them.