{"id":67599,"date":"2016-08-24T06:45:21","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T10:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67599"},"modified":"2016-08-24T09:20:32","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T13:20:32","slug":"more-evidence-of-clintoon-pay-for-play-sure-looks-like-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67599","title":{"rendered":"More Evidence of Clintoon \u201cPay-for-Play\u201d? Sure Looks Like It."},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve written before about the Clintoon Foundation\u2019s \u201cinteresting\u201d financial dealings.\u00a0 In fact, I\u2019ve observed<\/a> <\/em>\u2013 on more than one occasion<\/a> – <\/em>that appearances indicate there could\u00a0well be a \u201cpay for play\u201d component to the Clintoon Foundation\u2019s dealings while Clintoon was SECSTATE.<\/p>\n

Well the news today to me seems, as Alice said in Wonderland might have put it, \u201cCurioser and curioser\u201d.<\/p>\n

While Clintoon was SECSTATE, it turns out her chief-of-staff Cheryl Mills was in reasonably frequent contact with top executives at the Clintoon Foundaton.\u00a0 \u201cReasonably frequent\u201d here translates to 148 phone messages for Mills from senior Clintoon Foundation executives over a 2 \u2013year period (2010-2012)<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 State Department phone logs show that no other private individual or concern came anywhere close in terms of the number of contacts with Mills over this period.<\/p>\n

Further, regarding Mills there\u2019s also this:<\/p>\n

Last week, the State Department acknowledged that in June 2012, Mills spent two days traveling to New York to interview job applicants at the foundation. The State Department said Mills \u201cvolunteered\u201d to do so, but neither the department nor a spokesman for the Clinton presidential campaign, nor Mills\u2019s attorney, would say whether Mills used annual leave or unpaid days to perform that work \u2013 or whether it was done on the taxpayers\u2019 time<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If that was done while Mills was “on the clock” as a Federal employee, that means it was done on taxpayer’s nickle.\u00a0 If so, yeah – IMO that’s a serious problem on multiple levels.\u00a0 Ditto if taxpayers funded Mills’ travel.<\/p>\n

Moreover, some additional and previously unreleased email involving Clintoon confidante and prot\u00e9g\u00e9 Huma Abedin has also come to light.\u00a0 What it contains is similarly quite disturbing.<\/p>\n

Specifically, the public interest group Judicial Watch obtained a number of Abedin\u2019s emails recently.\u00a0 Collectively, these emails show a pattern of high-dollar donors to the Clintoon Foundation receiving expedited access to the SECSTATE<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0 Abedin appears to have been instrumental in coordinating that expedited access.<\/p>\n

. . . the messages show Clinton aide Huma Abedin \u201cprovided influential Clinton Foundation donors special, expedited access to the secretary of state.\u201d The documents include exchanges not previously turned over to the State Department.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can view the 725 pages of Abedin email recently released by Judicial Watch here<\/a><\/em> if you like.<\/p>\n

IMO, that\u2019s disturbing as hell.\u00a0 It appears to bolster the theory that Clintoon was engaging in \u201cquid quo pro\u201d trading of official influence (as SECSTATE) for contributions to the Clintoon foundation.<\/p>\n

And that’s not all, either. \u00a0It appears a total of over 150 non-government officials\u00a0representing private concerns met with Clintoon while she was SECSTATE. \u00a0The exact number appears to have been 154.<\/p>\n

So, how many of those private individuals have perchance\u00a0\u201cdonated\u201d to the Clintoon Foundation? \u00a0Glad you asked.<\/p>\n

Of those 154 private individuals, 85 – or over 55%<\/strong> of those individuals representing private concerns – also \u201cdontated\u201d to the Clintoon Foundation<\/em><\/a>. \u00a0At least 40 of those individuals – or nearly 26% –\u201cdonated\u201d in excess of $100k<\/em>. \u00a0And 20 of them – or roughly 13% – \u201cdontated\u201d $1M or more<\/span>.<\/p>\n

That makes the lower limit for those\u00a0\u201cdontations\u201d somewhere north of $22M. \u00a0It’s estimated that the total \u201cdontated\u201d could be\u00a0over $150M.<\/p>\n

One extreme case was that of the the Crown Prince of Bahrain, who had previously contributed $32M to the Clintoon Foundation for a \u201cscholarship fund\u201d. \u00a0That individual\u00a0was given virtually immediate access to Clintoon in terms of getting a personal meeting with her <\/em>after contacting Abedin.<\/p>\n

After seeing all of that, well, it\u2019s kinda hard to avoid the conclusion that there\u2019s a damn good chance that \u201cpay for play\u201d is indeed exactly what was going on. \u00a0Circumstantial? \u00a0Yeah, it is. But\u00a0here, the circumstances seem\u00a0persuasive as hell.<\/p>\n

Even so, Clintoon has her \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 weak-minded sycophants incapable of facing ugly reality<\/del> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0defenders. \u00a0 \u00a0 Predictably, both Clintoon and her defenders say that occurrences such as these are \u201ccoincidental\u201d.<\/p>\n

Yeah, right.\u00a0 And Al Capone was just a savvy businessman in Chicago in the 1920s and 1930s, too.<\/p>\n

Clintoon and her cronies might want to remember one thing, though.\u00a0 Capone didn\u2019t go to jail for racketeering.<\/p>\n

He ended up in prison because investigators \u201cfollowed the money\u201d.<\/p>\n

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(Edited to Add<\/span>:\u00a0 here’s an article from Yahoo News<\/em><\/a> giving more details.\u00a0 I don’t recommend you read it immediately after eating.)<\/p>\n

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Author’s Note<\/span>: \u00a0new or occasional readers may notice the spelling \u201cClintoon\u201d and assume that is a typographical error. \u00a0It is not. \u00a0That is intentional.<\/em><\/p>\n

In behavior, both famous Clintoons are IMO\u00a0exemplars\u00a0of the\u00a0stereotypical corrupt politician – and are such compelling\u00a0exemplars that they\u00a0appear to be near-cartoonish representations of same. \u00a0(However, though each is IMO thoroughly corrupted they do appear to be corrupted in different ways.) \u00a0Thus, referring to them as \u201cClintoons<\/span>\u201d simply seems\u00a0apropos.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve written before about the Clintoon Foundation\u2019s \u201cinteresting\u201d financial dealings.\u00a0 In fact, I\u2019ve observed \u2013 on … More Evidence of Clintoon \u201cPay-for-Play\u201d? Sure Looks Like It.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,213,185,9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-crime","category-foreign-policy","category-legal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}