During Honduras Crisis, Clinton Suggested Back Channel With Lobbyist Lanny Davis
During Honduras Crisis, Clinton Suggested Back Channel With Lobbyist Lanny Davis
By Lee Fang @lhfang Today at 12:01 PM
The Hillary Clinton emails released last week include some telling exchanges about the June 2009 military coup that toppled democratically elected Honduran president Manuel Zelaya, a leftist who was seen as a threat by the Honduran establishment and U.S. business interests.
At a time when the State Department strategized over how best to keep Zelaya out of power while not explicitly endorsing the coup, Clinton suggested using longtime Clinton confidant Lanny Davis as a back-channel to Roberto Micheletti, the interim president installed after the coup.
During that period, Davis was working as a consultant to a group of Honduran businessmen who had supported the coup.
In an email chain discussing a meeting between Davis and State Department officials, Clinton asked, “Can he help me talk w Micheletti?”
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https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/06/clinton-honduras-coup/
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It was created by the 'United Students Against Sweatshops' and hung from the top of the building directly across the street from Lanny Davis' office, to make sure he got a really good look at it.
Thank you for the photo of that banner!
