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By AMY CHOZICKAPRIL 19, 2015
The book does not hit shelves until May 5, but already the Republican Rand Paul has called its findings big news that will shock people and make voters question the candidacy of Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich, by Peter Schweizer a 186-page investigation of donations made to the Clinton Foundation by foreign entities is proving the most anticipated and feared book of a presidential cycle still in its infancy.
The book, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times, asserts that foreign entities who made payments to the Clinton Foundation and to Mr. Clinton through high speaking fees received favors from Mrs. Clintons State Department in return.
We will see a pattern of financial transactions involving the Clintons that occurred contemporaneous with favorable U.S. policy decisions benefiting those providing the funds, Mr. Schweizer writes.
His examples include a free-trade agreement in Colombia that benefited a major foundation donors natural resource investments in the South American nation, development projects in the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake in 2010, and more than $1 million in payments to Mr. Clinton by a Canadian bank and major shareholder in the Keystone XL oil pipeline around the time the project was being debated in the State Department.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/20/us/politics/new-book-clinton-cash-questions-foreign-donations-to-foundation.html
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)Peter Schweizer Is Releasing Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich. On May 5, HarperCollins Publishers will release Clinton Cash. A publisher's description claims of the book: "Meticulously researched and scrupulously sourced, filled with headline-making revelations, Clinton Cash raises serious questions of judgment, of possible indebtedness to an array of foreign interests, and ultimately, of fitness for high public office." HarperCollins is owned by NewsCorp, which is headed by Rupert Murdoch and is the sister company of Fox News parent 21st Century Fox.
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Serial Misinformer Peter Schweizer Is Releasing A New Anti-Clinton Book
Schweizer Is A Republican Activist And Consultant
Schweizer Retracted "Incorrect" Report About Sen. Whitehouse
USA Today Corrected Schweizer's False Reporting About Gore
Wash. Post: Schweizer's Group Launched "Bogus" Attack On Obama's Security Briefings
"A Fatal Shortcoming In Journalism 101": Reporters Debunked Schweizer's Obama-Sebelius Reporting
Fact Checker: Schweizer Couldn't Back Up Energy Reporting When Called Out For Errors
Fact Checker On Schweizer's Reporting About Pelosi: "The Facts Don't Fit Schweizer's Claim"
Seattle Times: Schweizer Flubbed Reporting About Rep. McDermott
Investigation: Schweizer's Facts "Do Not Check Out," And Sources "Do Not Exist"
Veteran Journalist Found Schweizer Book Practiced "Neither Journalism Nor History"
Schweizer "Tacitly Conced[ed] He Was Wrong" About Al Franken's Hiring Of Minorities
Serial Misinformer Peter Schweizer Is Releasing A New Anti-Clinton Book
http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/04/20/clinton-cash-author-peter-schweizers-long-histo/203209
bigtree
(85,986 posts)...actual benefit to the Clintons from donations which got to charitable causes.
HR_Pufnstuf
(837 posts)Troubles.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Everyone knows that's strictly on the up-and-up.
BainsBane
(53,031 posts)There was another story posted today and Murdoch and co are busy planting these stories and books about Clinton.