Hillary Clinton should release her transcripts

[peacebird]

According to the New York Times, Hillary Clinton made $11 million in 2014 and the first quarter of 2015 from 51 speeches she gave to banks, corporations and other interests. Goldman Sachs alone paid her $675,000. She has refused to release transcripts of those speeches.

As Secretary of State, she was the main architect of a U.S. foreign policy focused on making the world safe for investment and exploitation by U.S. banks and corporations. She was and remains a neocon war hawk committed to supporting the neocon goal to gain control of petroleum resources in the Middle East by destabilizing and replacing governments hostile to that goal. See The Project for the New American Century. "We came, we saw, he died," she said of Muammar Gaddafi, after he was deposed and murdered in Libya. Libya, like Iraq, and soon to be in Syria, is a failed state overrun by Islamic jihadists.

No one knows better than Hillary Clinton that our foreign policy is to use the military to make the world 'safe' for U.S. capitalism. That would be the Wall Street investment banks and U.S. corporations.

We have wasted hundreds of billions of dollars pursuing an aggressive and failed policy in the Middle East. Instead of a robust discussion about slashing our military budget in light of our failed foreign policy, our failed wars and our war crimes, Hillary Clinton talks about how we cannot afford single-payer health care and free education, even though citizens in other countries in Europe enjoy those benefits. Of course, they don't spend billions on their military forces.

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/mason/66184/hillary-clinton-should-release-the-transcripts-of-her-speeches-to-the-wall-street-banks

[Fred Sanders]

1. An opinion from "smirking monkey"....come on, one could do better if the desire is to smear.

[peacebird]

3. She personally was given 11 million dollars by Wall Street bankers in just over a year.

Voters deserve to know what pearls of wisdom she delivered to earn that kind of money.

That dollar amount does NOT include money to her campaign or superpacs.

[eggman67]

4. But of course as Bernie said

they gave her that "just for fun"

[Fred Sanders]

5. 11 million in one year just from "Wall Street"..... Made me laugh! The whole premise is false.

What year was that again?

[Jenny_92808]

2. She won't release them because

she spoke in support of wall street (crooks).

[Duckhunter935]

6. yes she should

[TexasTowelie]

7. What if there are confidentiality agreement in the contracts

that were signed for the events that she spoke? Confidentiality clauses are frequently used for those engagements so it would be foolish for her to expose herself to litigation by violating those agreements.

Furthermore, if she did break those contracts and revealed confidential information then it would only provide evidence to the critics that say that she is not trustworthy.

The events where she spoke and how much she was paid has been disclosed. Her speeches were by contract and she acted as any private citizen has a right to do. I certainly don't believe that I have the right to be aware of the contents of her speeches. It isn't any of my business what she said in her speeches.

If you were the person being paid to speak at an event and there was a confidentiality clause in the contract would you expose yourself to litigation by breaching the contract? I view the situation as being similar to pledging not to reveal information to another employer when receiving a severance package. From a legal point of view she is justified in withholding the transcripts, particularly if the other party in the contract objects to the release of transcripts even if that point of view is not popular on DU.

[yourpaljoey]

8. That is not the case

If it were she would tell us in a New York second.

[peacebird]

9. Exactly. And this isn't just a private citizen giving speeches. It is a candidate for President

Who was paid 11 million dollars in just over a year for speeches because they knew she was well connected and, face it, was more than likely going to run for President.

[TexasTowelie]

11. Actually she was a private citizen

and she had not announced her candidacy for president.

[peacebird]

12. But everyone knew she was going to, they were buying access & influence, not her advice on banks

[TexasTowelie]

13. That is most likely true,

but it still doesn't mean that the public has any right to see the transcripts of the speeches she gave as a private citizen. Most likely she is legally barred from disclosing any further information. It may not be the answer that you want, but it is legal and fair for a citizen to give speeches when they are no longer public officials. That has extended to other Democrats such as Jimmy Carter and many former governors and mayors who have only limited access and influence.

Did we ask for any of the other candidates (Webb, O'Malley, Chafee) to provide transcripts from their speeches when they were private citizens? Have we ever seen transcripts from speeches made to corporate entities by any highly influential person? I think that those transcripts are few and far between because of confidentiality/non-disclosure clauses.

[TexasTowelie]

10. Do you have copies of those contracts?

I suggest that you post links to that information since you appear to have information that the rest of the public doesn't possess.