Topic: Is Hillary Clinton Trustworthy? - page 81. (Read 234761 times)

In short words: She's not. Corruption is everywhere.

Clinton Foundation paid Blumenthal $10K per month while he advised on Libya

Sidney Blumenthal, a longtime confidant of Bill and Hillary Clinton, earned about $10,000 a month as a full-time employee of the Clinton Foundation while he was providing unsolicited intelligence on Libya to then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, according to multiple sources familiar with the arrangement.

Blumenthal was added to the payroll of the Clintons’ global philanthropy in 2009 — not long after advising Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign — at the behest of former president Bill Clinton, for whom he had worked in the White House, say the sources.


While Blumenthal’s foundation job focused on highlighting the legacy of Clinton’s presidency, some officials at the charity questioned his value and grumbled that his hiring was a favor from the Clintons, according to people familiar with the foundation. They say that, during a 2013 reform push, Blumenthal was moved to a consulting contract that came with a similar pay rate but without benefits — an arrangement that endured until March.

A Clinton loyalist who first earned the family’s trust as an aggressive combatant in the political battles of the 1990s, Blumenthal continues to work as a paid consultant to two groups supporting Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign — American Bridge and Media Matters — both of which are run by David Brock, a close ally of both Clinton and Blumenthal.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/clinton-foundation-sidney-blumenthal-salary-libya-118359.html#ixzz3bVHE8u6I

EXCLUSIVE: 'Don't let Bill back in the White House, he abused women and he'll do it again.' Paula Jones warns against voting for Hillary - because she also lied about sex case which almost cost him presidency

She was the woman who almost brought down the president, with her allegations of sexual harassment.
But 21 years after Paula Jones accused Bill Clinton of lurid behavior, she is speaking out against Hillary and insisting that his wife is not fit to be President either - because of her husband's history of bad behavior.
In an exclusive interview with Daily Mail Online Jones delivers her own verdict on Hillary's bid to become president, saying that her husband's attitude towards women disqualifies Bill from re-entering the White House - while what she calls Hillary's 'lies' disqualify her from the Oval Office.
'There is no way that she did not know what was going on, that women were being abused and accosted by her husband,' she says. 'They have both lied.'
Jones, 48, became a national figure when in 1994 she sued President Clinton for sexual harassment after an incident in an Arkansas hotel room three years earlier.
Her lawsuit led to Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky being uncovered and led to Clinton being impeached, accused of lying about the nature of his relationship with the White House intern.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3096653/Don-t-let-Bill-White-House-abused-women-ll-Paula-Jones-warns-against-voting-Hillary-lied-sex-case-cost-presidency.html#ixzz3bVE9WzJz

Arizona State Has Doubled Tuition On Students, While Still Managing To Give $500,000 To Clinton Foundation






While Arizona State University has almost doubled its tuition over the past 10 years amid claims that it needs more state money, the school somehow had the funds to give half a million dollars to the Clinton Foundation.

According to The Arizona Republic, the public university paid $500,000 to the Clinton Foundation to host the former president-Bill Clinton; former-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; and their daughter, Chelsea, during a Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) event in 2014. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Bill’s wife, is the current front-runner for the Democratic nomination for the 2016 presidential race.




http://campusreform.org/?ID=6534

Did Clinton ask Blumenthal to look for information about Libya?



ProPublica and Gawker uncovered a secret intelligence network that was feeding unsubstantiated intelligence to Hillary’s private email server. The network included former Clinton aide Sidney Blumenthal who was prevented from taking a job at State in 2009 by the Obama White House. Mr. Blumenthal had circulated some “unflattering” stories about the president during the 2008 campaign.

We also know that Mrs. Clinton used two separate email addresses ([email protected] and [email protected]) while she was at the State Department. Clinton’s legal team asserted that the latter address did not exist during her tenure as our top diplomat. When the initial reports of the secret intelligence network came to light, we did not know if Hillary read or even corresponded with Blumenthal’s emails. Now, it looks as if she did read them, and even forwarded a few to a State Department staffer.

Last week, in Iowa, Mrs. Clinton said the Blumenthal emails were “unsolicited” (via Politico):



Clinton downplayed Blumenthal’s influence in answers to reporters’ questions this week in Iowa, describing the emails as useful to ensure that she wasn’t “caught in a bubble” with information coming only “from a certain small group of people.”

“He sent me unsolicited emails which I passed on in some instances, and I say that that’s just part of the give and take,” Clinton said Tuesday.

“I have many, many old friends and I always think that it’s important when you get into politics to have friends you had before you were in politics and to understand what’s on their minds,” she said. “And he’s been a friend of mine for a long time.”


Now, the Washington Post’s David Ignatius wrote that someone told him that Blumenthal approached a former CIA officer, Tyler Drumheller, and said to him that “his friend Clinton” was “looking for information” on Libya


Blumenthal’s missives on Libya appear to be mostly repackaged information from a former CIA officer named Tyler Drumheller , who is now part of Alphom Group, one of the many consulting firms in Washington that employ former spooks to harvest their old contacts for salable information. A principal of Alphom told me that Blumenthal had approached Drumheller and said his friend Clinton was “looking for information” about Libya.



Drumheller was named as someone who collected the intelligence and prepared the reports when the initial ProPublica/Gawker story broke. Yet, this nugget comes from one person at this consulting firm. If this is corroborated, it just added another notch regarding Clinton’s lack of transparency and secretiveness that confirms old biases people have against the Clintons. She’s turning into the most flawed of flawed candidates. Moreover, it could undercut any attempt to highlight her tenure at State. Such back-door communications have happened before, and often led to bad policy:


Michael Morell, a former deputy director of the CIA and author of “The Great War of Our Time,” says that Blumenthal’s missives never came to the attention of senior agency personnel and never got into the paper flow of the National Security Council. That’s good, given that it was the CIA’s job to report on Libya, for real.

But the Blumenthal papers were taken seriously at State. Clinton sent them on to her overworked aide, Jake Sullivan, with such notations as “Useful insight, pls circulate,” or “very interesting,” or, in one instance, “We should get this around asap.”

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These memos recall other dubious back channels involving oil-rich Middle East nations. Libya snared President Jimmy Carter’s brother, Billy, as an emissary in the late-1970s. The Iran-contra scandal began in 1985 with an Iranian information peddler named Manucher Ghorbanifar, whom the CIA dubbed a “fabricator” but the White House embraced, anyway.

The danger of Washington’s courtier ethos is that it can lead to bad policy, or no policy. You can’t escape the feeling that Clinton and her aides were passing around Blumenthal’s e-mails when they should have been framing a better plan to deal with Libya’s disintegration.




We shall see what happens regarding Ignatius’ Alphom source. In the meantime, it should come to no one’s surprise that Mr. Blumenthal has been subpoenaed by the House Select Committee on Benghazi regarding these communications.  As Ed wrote earlier today, Blumenthal was also paid $10,000 per month by the Clinton Foundation while on this little mission.


http://hotair.com/archives/2015/05/28/did-clinton-ask-blumenthal-to-look-for-information-about-libya/

Campaign fever is hitting the comic book stands. The Times’s ArtsBeat culture blog reports that Bluewater Productions is set to release “Hillary Clinton: The Road to the White House,” written by Michael L. Frizell and illustrated by Joe Paradise.


http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/05/27/coming-to-a-comic-book-store-near-you-hillary-clinton/?_r=0

It's certainly not normal.  A clear attempt to obfuscate, with the excuse it was 'more convenient than carrying two phones', which is utter bullshit.   The same phone could handle multiple incoming e-mail accounts and it's not as if she's carting her own luggage like some sherpa.  That excuse is an obvious lie, told to cover up what is an obvious obfuscation.

Nobody seems to really care, however, so she'll likely get away with it.  The left's darling must not be touched, so she can do anything, say anything and they'll turn a blind eye.  If they'll do it with this, they'll do it with anything.

Corrupt FIFA Has Clinton Foundation Ties; World Cup Host Qatar Gave Millions






And just like that, another Clinton Foundation donor is in the news.

The Clinton global charity has received between $50,000 and $100,000 from soccer’s governing body and has partnered with the Fédération Internationale de Football Association on several occasions, according to donor listings on the foundation’s website.

Several top FIFA executives were arrested Wednesday in Zurich and face corruption charges stretching back two decades, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Involvement with the embattled body extends beyond the foundation to Bill Clinton himself. The former president was an honorary chairman of the bid committee put together to promote the United States as a possible host nation for the 2018 or 2022 World Cup.

When the U.S. lost the 2022 bid to Qatar, Clinton was rumored to be so upset he shattered a mirror.

But apparently Qatar tried to make it up to him.

The Qatar 2022 Supreme Committee, partnering with the State of Qatar, “committed to utilizing its research and development for sustainable infrastructure at the 2022 FIFA World Cup to improve food security in Qatar, the Middle East, and other arid and water-stressed regions throughout the world,” according to the Clinton Foundation website.

The cost of the two-year project is not listed on the Clinton Foundation website, but the Qatar 2022 committee gave the foundation between $250,000 and $500,000 in 2014 and the State of Qatar gave between $1 million and $5 million in previous, unspecified years.

FIFA, which has never been a bastion of ethics, was heavily criticized for awarding the 2018 and 2022 World Cup to Russia and Qatar, respectively, in part because of their abysmal human-rights records.



http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/27/corrupt-fifa-has-clinton-foundation-ties-world-cup-host-qatar-gave-millions.html

Clinton Foundation paid Blumenthal $10K per month while he advised on Libya

Some officials at the charity grumbled that his hiring was a favor from the Clintons.



Sidney Blumenthal, a longtime confidant of Bill and Hillary Clinton, earned about $10,000 a month as a full-time employee of the Clinton Foundation while he was providing unsolicited intelligence on Libya to then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, according to multiple sources familiar with the arrangement.

Blumenthal was added to the payroll of the Clintons’ global philanthropy in 2009 — not long after advising Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign — at the behest of former president Bill Clinton, for whom he had worked in the White House, say the sources.

While Blumenthal’s foundation job focused on highlighting the legacy of Clinton’s presidency, some officials at the charity questioned his value and grumbled that his hiring was a favor from the Clintons, according to people familiar with the foundation. They say that, during a 2013 reform push, Blumenthal was moved to a consulting contract that came with a similar pay rate but without benefits — an arrangement that endured until March.

A Clinton loyalist who first earned the family’s trust as an aggressive combatant in the political battles of the 1990s, Blumenthal continues to work as a paid consultant to two groups supporting Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign — American Bridge and Media Matters — both of which are run by David Brock, a close ally of both Clinton and Blumenthal.


Yet Blumenthal’s financial and personal connections to the Clintons and their allies have emerged as subjects of intense scrutiny as Clinton seeks to gain momentum for her presidential campaign.

Blumenthal’s concurrent work for the foundation, the Brock groups and a pair of businesses seeking potentially lucrative contracts in Libya underscores the blurred lines between her State Department work and that of her family’s charitable and political enterprises.

Blumenthal has been subpoenaed by the U.S. House committee investigating the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and Clinton’s handling of it. He is expected to testify next week about a series of memos containing sometimes specious intelligence on the situation in Libya, which he sent to Hillary Clinton’s personal email account.

The committee is said to be interested in exploring Blumenthal’s connections to any entity that may have stood to benefit from Clinton’s decisions in Libya. Benghazi Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) also wants to probe how seriously the State Department took Blumenthal’s advice, which recently released emails show were met with skepticism at times.


Clinton, whose efforts to hire Blumenthal as an adviser at the State Department were rebuffed by top aides to President Barack Obama, last week defended her relationship with her old ally but also minimized his influence. Describing him as “a friend of mine for a long time,” Clinton, who also plans to testify before the committee, said “he sent me unsolicited emails which I passed on in some instances, and I say that that’s just part of the give and take.”

In his own statement last week, Blumenthal suggested that he did not write the memos on behalf of the foundation or any other entities with which he may have been associated, but rather as “a private citizen and friend” of Clinton’s.

His lawyer, former Deputy Attorney General James Cole, told POLITICO on Wednesday that Blumenthal did not have any financial interest in the efforts of the two companies pushing to win contracts in Libya — Osprey Global Solutions and Constellations Group.

“He never got any money from — and has no continuing relationship with — Osprey or Constellations,” said Cole.

The Clinton Foundation declined to comment.

Blumenthal’s move to a consulting contract came at about the time he signed a deal with Simon & Schuster to write a four-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln, the first installment of which is set for release in April.

The move from the foundation’s full-time staff roster exempted him from requirements that any outside work done be vetted and approved by the foundation. The shift also coincided with an effort to professionalize the foundation. More rigorous fiscal and organizational policies were implemented, while the portfolios of other longtime Clinton confidants were diminished, such as the president’s old Arkansas lawyer Bruce Lindsey, his former bodyman Doug Band and former White House policy adviser Ira Magaziner.

Media Matters spokesman Zac Petkanas wouldn’t provide details on Blumenthal’s relationship with the group. “We’ve worked with various consultants over the years,” he said. “As a matter of policy, we do not discuss the details of any of these arrangements.”


But Blumenthal’s work for American Bridge and Media Matters is described as ongoing, even as those groups come to Clinton’s defense by trying to neutralize attacks on her related to Benghazi and her use of a private email account and server for official business, while assailing the prospective Republican rivals leveling those attacks.

One source familiar with the work said Blumenthal regularly reaches out to suggest ways in which the groups can inject themselves into ongoing political fights.

“I’m not sure if his ideas are very helpful,” said the source, suggesting Blumenthal’s value comes more from his connection to the Clintons. “This is all about helping someone who is a friend of the Clintons.”

The super PAC arm of American Bridge reported paying Blumenthal $2,500 in June 2013 for “Strategic Consulting Services,” though payments also could be directed to him through a consulting firm. And it’s possible he’s paid by the nonprofit arm of the group, which, like Media Matters, is registered under a section of the tax code — 501(c) — that does not require detailed disclosure of expenditures.

Likewise, Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign did not disclose any payments made directly to Blumenthal.

Clinton’s campaign did not immediately respond to a question about whether Blumenthal would be involved this time around.


http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/clinton-foundation-sidney-blumenthal-salary-libya-118359.html

What does trust have to do with politics?  It flew the coop long ago...

Hillary's mouth just sound more soothing than soothing than GOP's offering... just like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo4cFViNLes

I think running her own email server was a huge blow to trust.   Was just not normal behavior.   

That being said I DO NOT think it will effect her running and winning majority of party.

That doesn't mean that people aren't actually considering her less trustworthy. It simply means that we shouldn't be surprised that they are doing so, based on past trends.

Not all of them have been replaced.  It does the cause a disservice to write them off, just when they are ripe for re-education and possible conversion.

Plenty of them are raising hell about Hilldog's coronation, and supporting the old socialist guy and the hawt younger dude's insurgent primary campaigns.  Plus they mostly love Snowden as much as they hate the Totalitarian Surveillance State (AKA 'The Man').

Some of them have even left the Democrat plantation for the Green Party!   

Yep, it's the race card, or the gender card, or the rich card, or the old angry white man card, whatever it takes to brush an opposing viewpoint aside without actually answering to it.  Their minions suck it up like manna, and then spew it wherever they can.

Logical fallacy run amok.

It's not as if both/all parties don't do it, although I'll agree that the Dems have it down to an art form.  My personal theory is that it is because their party is cobbled together largely by special interest groups, all of which think they're victims of one sort or another, so this speaks to what they themselves truly believe in the first place, which is that "it" is always someone else's fault and "they" do what they do out of some prejudice or desire "to keep us down". 

That is not to say there aren't smart Dems also with which we simply have differing viewpoints.  It's more about the larger populace that both sides do their best to manipulate with these sorts of labeling schemes.  It's easy and it works, largely because of the 'stupidity of the American voter' as pointed out by that asshole Gruber.

Yes. Progressives have been replaced by borgs. Accepting anything, as long as the dude doing it has a D next the name. Critical thinking for them is an unknown construct now.


 

Great quip by Glen.  I love it when he makes Rachel Madcow and her fellow travelers have a big sad.   

Many on the honorable-but-misled left are (now) (also) sick and tired of their radical Marxist/feminist wings' unrelenting identity politics.

The backlash began when even Good Progressives couldn't criticize Obama for his Dubya-like warmongering without being called racist.

It intensified when even Good Progressives couldn't criticize Hilldog for her Dubya-like warmongering without being called sexist.

Few things anger people more than having their sincere informed individual opinions pre-judged, invalidated, and brushed off as mere 'Mansplaining' and/or 'Whitesplaining.'

Many male tools also.  I know the left fairly well.

Another person who knows the left is Glen Greenwald.  I got a kick out of his prediction that after Hillary the Liberals will probably run a faggot.  This is particularly amusing since Greenwald himself is a homosexual.  Needless to say this prediction got under the skin of a lot of Liberals and caused significant discomfort.

That should go without saying but sadly there'll be so many female tools that will pull the lever for her if she runs that it will be sickening. This is why we Rand as the GOP nominee to provide a plethora of substance to at least put the issues of freedom and the status of this country out there for everyone to consider.

Clinton Foundation Donors Got Weapons Deals From Hillary Clinton’s State Department…


Even by the standards of arms deals between the United States and Saudi Arabia, this one was enormous. A consortium of American defense contractors led by Boeing would deliver $29 billion worth of advanced fighter jets to the United States’ oil-rich ally in the Middle East.

Israeli officials were agitated, reportedly complaining to the Obama administration that this substantial enhancement to Saudi air power risked disrupting the region’s fragile balance of power. The deal appeared to collide with the State Department’s documented concerns about the repressive policies of the Saudi royal family.

But now, in late 2011, Hillary Clinton’s State Department was formally clearing the sale, asserting that it was in the national interest. At a press conference in Washington to announce the department’s approval, an assistant secretary of state, Andrew Shapiro, declared that the deal had been “a top priority” for Clinton personally. Shapiro, a longtime aide to Clinton since her Senate days, added that the “U.S. Air Force and U.S. Army have excellent relationships in Saudi Arabia.”

These were not the only relationships bridging leaders of the two nations. In the years before Hillary Clinton became secretary of state, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia contributed at least $10 million to the Clinton Foundation, the philanthropic enterprise she has overseen with her husband, former president Bill Clinton. Just two months before the deal was finalized, Boeing — the defense contractor that manufactures one of the fighter jets the Saudis were especially keen to acquire, the F-15 — contributed $900,000 to the Clinton Foundation, according to a company press release.


http://www.ibtimes.com/clinton-foundation-donors-got-weapons-deals-hillary-clintons-state-department-1934187

I can't say i'm a fan of Hillary Clinton
Her ties with monsanto bother me and I for one do not want more GMO's in my food to many risks with to little surveilance and that would only get worse if she becomes the President due to her backers who have a vested interested in that industry.