More Leak Emails: Hillary Clinton Got Massive Commission to Announce Iraq Investment Zone

[FreakinDJ]

The U.S State Department spread out a series of E-mails for the media and opened electronic messages for public viewing, after the case heightened against Hillary Clinton regarding the original financial transactions fulfilled in the exchange of investment prospects in Iraq. There are some proved connections between the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and banks & companies like ‘JP Morgan’ and ‘ExxonMobil’. The candidate for U.S Presidential Hillary Clinton has made a number of agreements with many companies in order to get profitable financial contracts in Iraq by providing them facilities. She also said that financial assets of the JP Morgan bank has reached at more than 450 000 million U.S dollars and also improving the Exxon Mobil according to the letters of support the investment.

These statements came when an online site ‘International Business News’ reported that Hillary Clinton has modified her statements of larger public based interests and her support on war on Iraq. It is also said that she sent letters in 2011 to ‘U.S National Security Protection’ and stated Iraq as an Investment site. She also said that United States must recognize Iraq as a place of major business openings. These electronic connections identifying that Assistant of Hillary, Tom Naidz arranged a conference and invited more than 30 representatives from major investment companies, and also invited U.S and Iraqi government representatives in order to discuss much better ways to take advantages economically from Iraq.


http://www.iraqidinar123.com/more-leak-emails-hillary-clinton-got-massive-commission-to-announce-iraq-investment-zone/

[merrily]

1. Whew. Close call! This could have hit msm before the Iowa caucuses. Hell of a job, State!

[thesquanderer]

33. The article is 4 months old. (n/t)

[merrily]

34. OOPS. Thanks. No more posting after 11:30 pm for me!

[Octafish]

2. Darn you, WikiLeaks.

Using government office for gain is so, so, em, money trumps peace.

Amazing info, if confirmed. Thank you for the heads up, FreakinDJ!

[CorporatistNation]

32. Should ANYONE Be Surprised By Such A Revelation? Now See If MSM Mentions It?

Not likely....

[Arazi]

3. Quelle surprise eom

NOT

[amborin]

4. K&R

[AtomicKitten]

5. So, she facilitated war profiteering. Ugh. She is truly despicable.

k/r

[roguevalley]

6. omg. this is so terrible. she is just ... I have no words.

[840high]

7. I do. Won't use them here.

[JRLeft]

10. You can't because of the alert police.

[frylock]

8. knr

[askew]

9. Is this from a legitimate source?

[Uncle Joe]

14. The International Business Times had an article on this 9/30/15 but I haven't heard it

on the corporate media conglomerates' T.V.

BY DAVID SIROTA @DAVIDSIROTA AND ANDREW PEREZ @ANDREWPEREZDC ON 09/30/15 AT 8:37 PM


Campaign 2016: Hillary Clinton Pitched Iraq As 'A Business Opportunity' For US Corporations

When then-U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton voted to authorize the war against Iraq in 2002, she justified her support of the invasion as a way to protect America’s national security. But less than a decade later, as secretary of state, Clinton promoted the war-torn country as a place where American corporations could make big money.

“It's time for the United States to start thinking of Iraq as a business opportunity," she said in a 2011 speech.

The quote was included in an email released by the State Department on Wednesday that specifically mentioned JPMorgan and Exxon Mobil. JPMorgan was selected by the U.S. government to run a key import-export bank in Iraq and in 2013 announced plans to expand its operations in the country. Exxon Mobil signed a deal to redevelop Iraqi oil fields. JPMorgan has collectively paid the Clintons and the Clinton Foundation at least $450,000 for speeches, and Exxon Mobil has donated over $1 million to the family’s foundation.

Clinton’s comments pitching Iraq as a business opportunity for American corporations predated her declaration this year that her vote for the war was a “mistake.” Clinton’s rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination in recent months have signaled that the Iraq War could become a key way of setting themselves apart from the former secretary of state -- especially because her comments resurrect longtime concerns from war critics.

(snip)

In the email that referred to Clinton’s portrayal of Iraq as a business opportunity, the Clinton-run State Department called Iraq a “market where your companies can make money,” and said that in meetings with corporate executives, “U.S. government officials returned to the theme that the U.S. government stands ready to help U.S. firms operating in Iraq.”

The dispatch also noted that Clinton’s deputy, Tom Nides, hosted an event “on investing in Iraq with senior executives from 30 U.S. companies and senior representatives from the U.S. and Iraqi governments.”

http://www.ibtimes.com/campaign-2016-hillary-clinton-pitched-iraq-business-opportunity-us-corporations-2121999

[askew]

25. Eh, Sirota pushed a ton of BS articles about Obama that just weren't true.

I think we need a better source for this.

[grasswire]

27. please list the false Sirota articles

Links would be helpful. You made the claim. Back it up.

[madokie]

35. Crickets

Just too fucking many crickets around here sometimes. Just can't get the real story for them chirping away.
I only have one ear so I only hear the loudest sound so sometimes it makes it hard to follow a conversation. But, but this isn't listening this is reading and I have no problem with following a story in this median. So I repeat what you said to the poster, Links please.

[askew]

39. This is common knowledge. The guy used to post at OpenLeft during the primaries and was

Posting lies about Obama all the time. Once OpenLeft closed down, he came over to DailyKos and eventually got banned for picking fights with people who pointed out all his lies. Guys an unreliable nut job.

[grasswire]

40. you haven't provided any substantiation for your claims against Sirota.

Therefore, we will just ignore your comments.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

28. How about rebuilding the United States!!!! Start with FLINT!!!

[bkkyosemite]

11. If this is legit it needs to go viral but must be

verified.

[MauriceLawrence96]

12. Exactly. Watch the first part of this video:

For someone who said she "made a mistake" voting for the war, she didn't seem too remorseful until she was about to run for president.

[Ned_Devine]

29. Tremendous video

[madokie]

36. We really have to join forces

and defeat this woman at the primary level. It would be a disaster for her to be defeated at the general election. A disaster I say loudly and clearly, a disaster I repeat

[OilemFirchen]

13. Where in that muddled mess is there any information that supports the headline?

BTW, thanks for the indirect cite from IBD. A day without right-wing sourcing on DU is like a day without overflowing septic systems.

[Uncle Joe]

15. David Sirota is not a right winger. n/t

[OilemFirchen]

16. Nor me.

Sirota and I have something else in common: Neither one of us was cited in this "article".

[Uncle Joe]

18. From my post #14 on this thread.

BY DAVID SIROTA @DAVIDSIROTA AND ANDREW PEREZ @ANDREWPEREZDC ON 09/30/15 AT 8:37 PM


Campaign 2016: Hillary Clinton Pitched Iraq As 'A Business Opportunity' For US Corporations

When then-U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton voted to authorize the war against Iraq in 2002, she justified her support of the invasion as a way to protect America’s national security. But less than a decade later, as secretary of state, Clinton promoted the war-torn country as a place where American corporations could make big money.

“It's time for the United States to start thinking of Iraq as a business opportunity," she said in a 2011 speech.

The quote was included in an email released by the State Department on Wednesday that specifically mentioned JPMorgan and Exxon Mobil. JPMorgan was selected by the U.S. government to run a key import-export bank in Iraq and in 2013 announced plans to expand its operations in the country. Exxon Mobil signed a deal to redevelop Iraqi oil fields. JPMorgan has collectively paid the Clintons and the Clinton Foundation at least $450,000 for speeches, and Exxon Mobil has donated over $1 million to the family’s foundation.

Clinton’s comments pitching Iraq as a business opportunity for American corporations predated her declaration this year that her vote for the war was a “mistake.” Clinton’s rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination in recent months have signaled that the Iraq War could become a key way of setting themselves apart from the former secretary of state -- especially because her comments resurrect longtime concerns from war critics.

(snip)

In the email that referred to Clinton’s portrayal of Iraq as a business opportunity, the Clinton-run State Department called Iraq a “market where your companies can make money,” and said that in meetings with corporate executives, “U.S. government officials returned to the theme that the U.S. government stands ready to help U.S. firms operating in Iraq.”

The dispatch also noted that Clinton’s deputy, Tom Nides, hosted an event “on investing in Iraq with senior executives from 30 U.S. companies and senior representatives from the U.S. and Iraqi governments.”

http://www.ibtimes.com/campaign-2016-hillary-clinton-pitched-iraq-business-opportunity-us-corporations-2121999

[SoapBox]

19. I follow David Sirota on Twitter...

Really like him...very logical and measured.

[OilemFirchen]

20. OK.

Sirota wrote a piece for the right-wing IBD, in which he made no claim to support this gonzo headline.

Makes this entire OP an even more hot mess of bad journalism. I didn't think it possible.

[Uncle Joe]

24. Well IBT has only been launched since 2005 but apparently they do print articles that aren't

supportive of right wing ideology.

Election 2016: Elizabeth Warren Defends Bernie Sanders From Goldman Sachs Criticism

In January, Sanders pointed to billionaire Blankfein as a prime example of the corporate greed he says is harming the United States. Sanders also released a television ad in which he slammed Goldman Sachs by name, and he has criticized Clinton, a former senator and secretary of state, for accepting $675,000 of speaking fees and $930,000 of campaign contributions from the firm and its executives during her career. Goldman Sachs has donated at least $250,000 to her family’s foundation — which in 2014 held a donor meeting at the company’s Manhattan headquarters.

Blankfein responded to Sanders’ criticism on Wednesday in an appearance on CNBC, saying the intensity of the criticism created an environment that “has the potential to be a dangerous moment — not just for Wall Street, not just for the people who are particularly targeted, but for anybody who is a little bit out of line.”

Warren, a Democrat, disputed that notion in harsh terms, telling IBT that such statements show why American voters should focus on Wall Street’s power during the 2016 election.

“When Blankfein says that criticizing those who break the rules is dangerous to the economy, then he’s just repeating another variation of ‘too big to fail,’ ‘too big to jail,’ 'too big even to prosecute,'” she said. “That tells you here we are, seven years after the crisis and these guys still don’t get it. Seven years. That crisis cost an estimated $14 trillion, it cost jobs, it cost homes, it cost retirement funds. And Lloyd Blankfein stands up and says ‘Don’t even criticize me, I ran a company that was right at the heart of some of the biggest financial frauds in history and made money off it, but don’t you dare criticize me.’ That’s his position? That’s why we need voters to get really engaged.”

http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/election-2016-elizabeth-warren-defends-bernie-sanders-goldman-sachs-criticism

[OilemFirchen]

26. I'll admit to some confusion on my part.

As the OP references the non-existent "International Business News", I presumed that they were referring to IBD. I see that you're referencing IBT... about which I know nothing. They're simply not on my radar.

I'll retract my IBD claim, but stick with the central focus of my post: There is no reputable assertion that Clinton personally benefited financially from her time as SOS, as the headline suggests.

[ProgressiveCentrist]

23. A lot bundled up there

1. The Iraqi government asked for the help to foster investment.
2. The State dept is tasked with helping US companies overseas.
3. Sirota is not an honest broker
4. The Family foundation gets used by her adversaries on the right and left. None ever talk about the work it does.
5. Sirota likes to write about how awful corporations are, then writes about how awful the charities they donate to are.

Sirota and the legion of writes/activists like him set up a great circular affirmation ring.

The only people allowed to donate money are the pure, and they are only able to donate the purest money to the purest people.

If a priest takes drug money for the orphanage its because he must be a pedophile. That's Sirota 101.

[grasswire]

41. isn't it the job of a journalist to write "awful" things about corruption?

Does that make a journalist "not an honest broker"?

"Sirota and the legion of writers/activists" exposing corruption? That's good for democracy.

[Live and Learn]

17. Ugh! nt

[SoapBox]

21. Again...30+ years of the Clintons being in our face and into something...

I am SO over them.

No...More...Clintons.

[zentrum]

22. The United Company of America.

And as SOS she was just a top CEO.

More of the same if she gets the WH.

[Tab]

30. Again, I don't do math at 2 in the morning, but...

"She also said that financial assets of the JP Morgan bank has reached at more than 450 000 million U.S dollars and also improving the Exxon Mobil according to the letters of support the investment. "

Is 450,000 million the same as 450 billion? Or did I miss a zero? If not, it's a hell of a number.

[Fumesucker]

31. A British billion is a million million, in America a billion is a thousand million

So, yeah that's $450 billion.

[polly7]

37. Sickening! nt.

[ucrdem]

38. #feelthebogus