Pay For Play? The Real Scandal Is Judicial Watch Misleading Gullible Media

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Bahrain's 2005 Clinton Global Initiative commitment doesn't fit any sane definition of "pay to play." But it does reveal the deception behind those screaming press releases from Judicial Watch, an outfit whose claims deserve to be treated like anthrax by any journalist with integrity.

Listening to the national media over the past few weeks, many Americans may now believe that the Clinton Foundation was set up as a "pay-to-play" scheme for Hillary Clinton to squeeze wealthy foreigners and rich Americans for millions of dollars. According to this theory, popularized by a lavishly funded right-wing organization called Judicial Watch, the Secretary of State would only deal with people and governments that had donated big money to her husband's foundation.

But that story is itself a scam and a fraud, perpetrated by Judicial Watch with misleading information fed to gullible and lazy Washington journalists.


Consider the tale of the Crown Prince Salman of Bahrain, head of state of one of America's primary allies in the Persian Gulf. Rummaging through thousands of Hillary Clinton's emails, Judicial Watch discovered that the prince had requested a meeting with the Secretary of State on a specific day in 2010, via an email from Clinton Foundation executive Doug Band to Hillary's aide Huma Abedin.

Read more here:

http://crooksandliars.com/2016/08/pay-play-real-scandal-judicial-watch

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So the money didn't go to the foundation and was committed long before Hillary went to work in the State Department. That doesn't fit any sane definition of "pay to play." But it does reveal the deception behind those screaming press releases from Judicial Watch, an outfit whose claims deserve to be treated like anthrax by any journalist with integrity.

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1. Glad to see crooksandliars is still there!

Judicial watch is just part of the vast right wing circle jerk.

[gademocrat7]

2. Judicial Watch needs to be shut down.

They are an evil group who have carried a vendetta against the Clinton family for years.

[meow2u3]

6. Larry Klayman needs to be disbarred

He's done little but start vexatious lawsuits that have little, if any, basis in fact.

[Ligyron]

3. If true, this is major news!

We'll probably hear the msm confirm this on the Sunday talk shows.

Riiight...

[PatSeg]

4. "Nothing to see here folks!"

So much lazy journalism these days. Maybe Joy Reid will cover it.

[2naSalit]

5. K&R!!!

[Wednesdays]

7. "... by any journalist with integrity"

There ain't no such animal. Anyone who tries to become one ends up on the unemployment line.