Oops! Bill Clinton Says He Accidentally Took $500,000 From Algeria During Key Arms Negotiations
This is a little unfair. If you have to play strictly by the rules, what's the point of having a slush fund?
http://downtrend.com/robertgehl/oops-bill-clinton-says-he-accidentally-took-500000-from-algeria-during-key-arms-negotiation-with-state-department
OOPS! BILL CLINTON SAYS HE ACCIDENTALLY TOOK $500,000 FROM ALGERIA DURING KEY ARMS NEGOTIATION WITH STATE DEPARTMENT
APRIL 5, 2016| BY ROBERT GEHL
Bill Clinton is claiming his foundation “accidentally” accepted money from foreign governments who were negotiating with his wife while she was Secretary of State – a definite no-no.
The Clinton Foundation received $500,000 from Algeria in 2010 while the country was lobbying the State Department for an increase in weapons export authorization.
The International Business Times says that “some of those export authorizations were for weapons classified as “toxicological agents, including chemical agents [and] biological agents.”
“[Critics] said, ‘Oh you got $500,000 from Algeria at very same time they were lobbying the State Department,’” Clinton said. “Those two facts are accurate but if you put them back-to-back they are incredibly misleading. Here’s why: I never considered that the Algerians gave me the money.”
Huh?
Clinton said that at the time of the donation, “We put out the word that if anyone wanted to send me money I would forward it on quickly to Haiti where it would do most good and would take zero overhead.” The sequence of the money and the lobbying, he asserted, “was just an accident. To me it was like a pass-through. I didn’t even think about it.”
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New E-mails Show
ABC News has obtained State Department e-mails that shed light on Bill Clinton’s lucrative speaking engagements and show he and the Clinton Foundation tried to get approval for invitations related to two of the most repressive countries in the world -- North Korea and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
While Hillary Clinton served as Secretary of State, Bill Clinton earned speaking fees around the globe totaling more than $48 million -- speeches that had to be vetted by the State Department to ensure there were no conflicts of interest with his wife's work as America's top diplomat. These newly revealed emails show speech requests that the State Department refused to approve.
The emails -- which have come to light because of a public records request by the conservative group Citizens United, which sued the State Department to get the documents -- show just how far Bill Clinton was willing to go to earn those lucrative fees -- seeking approval for appearances with ties to two of the most brutal countries in the world.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/bill-clinton-sought-state-department-paid-speeches-related/story?id=33369277
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I betcha if Hillary Clinton wasn't running for her husband's former job they'd be even richer right now thanks to North Korea and the DRC.
Sid
Thanks to the fact they didn't actually do squat and created a corruption scandal.
The Clinton Foundation and Haiti Contracts, The Wall Street Journal, March 8, 2015 http://www.wsj.com/articles/mary-anastasia-ogrady-the-clinton-foundation-and-haiti-contracts-1425855083
Development banks are the butt of jokes among economists because while they claim to fight poverty they are mostly good at empire building. The same might be said of the Clintons in Haiti. A few months after Hillary Clinton became secretary of state in 2009, Bill Clinton was named the U.N. special envoy to Haiti. That gave the Clintons a lot of power over U.S. foreign-aid decisions in the small country.
They accumulated more influence after the 2010 earthquake, when Bill was named co-chair of the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission. The State Department began directing parties interested in competing for Haiti contracts to the Clinton Foundation. Being on the right side of Bill matters if you want to benefit from U.S. foreign aid destined for Haiti.
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The IDB’s gifts are perhaps easier to understand since the State Department plays a key role in approving the bank’s U.S. funding. The IDB told me in an email it made a 2014 donation to the Clinton Foundation of $150,000 for “The Future of the Americas Meeting.” Between 2009 and 2013 it donated another $925,000 to “finance expenses and activities” for the planning and design of “7 public policy forums . . . in which leaders on key topics relevant to the work of the Bank were able to exchange ideas, enhance their understanding and forge new and stronger partnerships.”
The problem with the Clintons in Haiti is that everywhere you go, they are there with the appearance of a conflict of interest. Haiti is unlikely to triumph over its long struggle against corruption when the U.S. government grants a former U.S. president wide power, with little oversight, to dispense hundreds of millions in the midst of such destitution.
The article discusses the arrest of people who donated to the Clinton Get Rich scheme in Brazil who also work in Haiti, and how the same problems occurred there because Bill was in charge.
Hundreds of millions of dollars wasted, people there still destitute and children starving.
Well, Haiti is now perfect, right?
Thanks, Clintons! 
If only the Clinton's had some staff, some helpful advisor who could assist them in navigating these right wing traps.
Corrupt and evil people. Rotten to their pathetic core.
and people defending the use of right-wing smears from right-wing sources.
"In a decent universe you'd be PPRed for that sort of bullshit."
Sid
Jesus H Christ are they CORRUPT...
