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another one bits the dust
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Brian Fallon ?@brianefallon 51m51 minutes ago
Another of those HRC emails the IG said was classified last summer - to much fanfare- has now been OK'd for release http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/hillary-clinton-email-intelligence-216264
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State Dept. clears Clinton email that intelligence agencies wanted withheld
By Josh Gerstein
11/30/15 02:42 PM EST
The State Department has cleared for public release an email from Hillary Clinton's personal account that official watchdogs for the intelligence community and the department said over the summer contained classified information, a State spokeswoman said Monday.
The fresh evidence of disagreements within the government over classification of the contents of Clinton's emails emerged as State prepared to release nearly 8,000 pages of messages from the personal account and server that Clinton used during her four-year tenure as secretary of state.
Monday's document dump is the seventh public release of Clinton emails since she turned roughly 54,000 pages of messages over to her former agency in December after a top State Department official asked Clinton and three other former secretaries to provide copies of any official government records in their possession................
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upaloopa
(11,417 posts)right wing Clinton Cash scandal this week.
HerbChestnut
(3,649 posts)There's always going to be a few diehards out there, but most people never really bought into it. The large donations to the Clinton Foundation and the large speaking fees, however, are a legitimate concern.
upaloopa
(11,417 posts)candidate to raise his numbers.
Why thinking making up scandals to hurt Hillary is a good strategy is beyond me. She has been through this shit for so long now yet people keep trying.
Does the Benghazi hearing ring a bell?
https://www.hillaryclinton.com/the-briefing/fact-checking-clinton-cash/
10 Things You Should Know
A new book by Republican operative and friend of the Koch brothers, Peter Schweizer, makes a number of wild accusations about Hillary Clinton so wild that even the author admits he has no evidence to support them. Here are ten things you need know about his book, Clinton Cash.
#1: The entire premise of the book has been widely debunked.
ABC News' George Stephanopoulos, FOX News' Chris Wallace, the Sunlight Foundation's Bill Allison, and more all agree: There's no proof of the book's central thesis. Even Schweizer the author of the book admits he doesn't have direct evidence to back up his claims.
NBC News First Read, 4/27/15; ABC News This Week, 4/26/15; Fox News Sunday, 4/26/15; NBC's Today, 4/24/15
#2: Hillary Clinton did not have veto power over a uranium deal.
Schweizer claims Hillary Clinton had "veto power" and "could have stopped" Russia from buying Uranium One, a uranium mining company with large operations in the U.S. That's just false: Only the president has such power.
Source: FactCheck.org, 04/28/15
#3: Schweizer's claim that a Clinton Foundation donor benefited from the sale of the uranium company is false.
Schweizer spins a tale that in 2010, then-Secretary Clinton pushed the State Department to approve the sale of Uranium One to the Russian government in order to benefit a stakeholder who had donated to the Clinton Foundation. In reality, that donor said he sold his stake in the company 18 months before Hillary Clinton ever became Secretary of State, and three years prior to the sale.
Source: CEO.ca, 04/23/15
#4 Hillary Clinton "never intervened" with CFIUS committee on the Uranium One sale.
FactCheck.org notes that there was "no evidence" that Hillary Clinton was involved in the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States (CFIUS) approval process on the sale of Uranium One. Jose Fernandez, a former assistant secretary of state who represented the State Department on the committee, said, "Mrs. Clinton never intervened with me on any CFIUS matter."
Source: FactCheck.org, 04/28/15
#5: Bill Clinton did not receive payment for appearances for which the book claims he was paid.
BuzzFeed reports that neither Bill Clinton nor the Clinton Foundation were paid for two of three 2010 speeches for which Schweizer claims he received payment. Per BuzzFeed, the Foundation did receive a donation following one speech, but President Clinton was not paid for it.
Source: BuzzFeed, 04/28/15
#6: Schweizer deliberately butchers quotes to omit the positive work of the Clinton Foundation on the global HIV/AIDS epidemic.
In his book, Schweizer intentionally misrepresents a statement from Ambassador Princeton Lyman on the Clinton Foundation's work in Africa omitting the parts of the statement that said President Clinton "deserves a lot of credit" for his work on The Foundation. The truth? Jim Yong Kim, who was also misrepresented by Schweizer, says President Clinton "has been absolutely one of the most important people in the global response to HIV/AIDS."
Source: Media Matters, 04/29/15
#7: Schweizer constructs a "conspiracy" theory on the Colombia Free Trade Agreement that is "inconsistent with the facts."
In the Daily Beast, Michael Tomasky labels Schweizer's storytelling about the Colombia Free Trade Agreement as a sheer "conspiracy." What's more: Gabriel Silva, Colombian Ambassador to the United States at the time the trade deal was signed, told CNN that "I saw no evidence that any part of the treaty was impacted by any contribution made to the Clinton Foundation or any other group in the United States."
Source: CNN, 04/27/15; Daily Beast, 4/22/15
#8: Hoax cited by Schweizer was debunked years ago.
Schweizer cites a press release that was exposed as fake in 2013 as "evidence" that TD Bank influenced a State Department review on the Keystone XL pipeline.
Source: Think Progress, 04/21/15
#9: Schweizer's statement that a company had never received USAID grants prior to Hillary Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State is false.
As part of an inaccurate theory that a telecommunications company, Digicel, received USAID grant money because of its involvement with President Clinton, Schweizer claims the company had never received USAID grant money prior to Hillary Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State. Wrong: BuzzFeed reports that "Digicel received more than $29,000 in contracts from USAID in 2007 and 2008," according to federal records.
Source: BuzzFeed, 04/28/15
#10: Hillary Clinton's stance on the Indian Nuclear Deal was consistent while the book falsely claims she voted for a measure she opposed.
As reported by Politico, a key fact in the book's characterization of Hillary Clinton's stance on the Indian nuclear deal is false. She consistently supported the deal following a bipartisan agreement in the Senate. Politico also reported that one of the author's assertions that she had voted for a measure to cap India's fissile production was deceptive: she actually voted against the measure.
Source: Politico, 04/29/15
HerbChestnut
(3,649 posts)I'm talking about the AP article that was just released
upaloopa
(11,417 posts)You are aiding the right wing noise machine
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)I would hope that this ends this Clinton Rules smear here on DU, but that would be naive.
Thank you for truth!
2pooped2pop
(5,420 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)riversedge
(70,239 posts)Welcome Hillary to Boston. Shame on you.
2pooped2pop
(5,420 posts)No, it's making fun of how many of the union workers actually support Hillary and her small crowd. I was a union worker.
shame on me, my ass. Shame on you for trying to make what I said about the people and not what we both know it was about.
riversedge
(70,239 posts)laugh Shameful.
2pooped2pop
(5,420 posts)my family has a union background of over 40 years. I know that the union leaders are not always in line with the union workers. I know that many are pissed off at these endorsements that are union leader endorsements, not union member endorsements.
justhanginon
(3,290 posts)And you can bet your ass they will be voting.
riversedge
(70,239 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)riversedge
(70,239 posts)duct---
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)EOM
riversedge
(70,239 posts)Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)By the way, very few people actually thought there was anything more to this story than her poor judgement in using private servers which she herself acknowledged.
It is the poor judgement thingy that concerns us.
zalinda
(5,621 posts)I would have NEVER in my wildest imaginings think that ANY public official would use a private server. It begs to be investigated. How much money has now been wasted because of her poor judgement?
Z
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)With Clinton, we get constant smoke signals.