"Clinton Cash" Attacks Could End up Helping Hillary

[DonViejo]

BY JOHN CASSIDY

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On this front, my guess is that “Clinton Cash” (whose full title is “Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich”) could end up benefitting Hillary. With Hannity and other conservative media figures piling on, the Clinton campaign will be able to portray questions about the Clinton Foundation and the family’s finances as a political witch-hunt rather than a legitimate exercise in vetting Presidential candidates. And if that happens, many Americans may end up dismissing the whole thing as a partisan squabble.

Obviously, this is speculation. Not having read the book, which comes out on May 5th, I am relying on accounts from journalists who have. But if their versions of what the book contains are accurate, then Schweizer doesn’t back up his suggestions of wrongdoing with much in the way concrete evidence, which would allow the Clintons’ defenders to go on the offensive. Indeed, this is already happening. On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Tuesday, David Brock, the founder of Media Matters, the liberal-leaning media watchdog, who recently appears to have morphed into a Clinton campaign spokesman, said, “I think this is a political put-up job, and I can smell it from a mile away.”

Schweizer is a former fellow at the Hoover Institution and the author of several conservative policy tomes as well as books about the Bush family and the Reagan Administration. According to the biography on his Web site, he served as a speechwriting consultant to the Bush Administration from 2008 to 2009. He is now the president of the Government Accountability Institute, a conservative research organization based in Florida that, during the 2012 campaign, issued a report accusing the Obama Administration of illegally soliciting foreign donations. On the other side of the ledger, he has written two books about money and politics that criticized politicians from both parties, including Dennis Hastert, the former Republican Speaker of the House. One of them, published in 2011, was titled “Throw Them All Out.”

But most of Schweizer’s writing appears to have been directed at Democrats, and he is clearly a man of the right. In 2011, the Times reported that he was advising Sarah Palin on foreign policy. Brock, during his appearance on MSNBC, claimed that the Government Accountability Institute has received funding from entities affiliated with the Koch brothers, adding, “It’s subsidized by Hillary Clinton’s enemies.” On Tuesday night, according to Politico’s Gabriel Debenedetti, Brian Fallon, Clinton’s press secretary, circulated a memo to the campaign’s surrogates and allies, echoing Brock’s charges. “The book was backed by a Koch Brothers–linked organization and a billionaire family that is bankrolling Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign,” Fallon wrote.

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http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/clinton-cash-attacks-could-end-up-aiding-hillary?

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

1. Here is what we know for a FACT, there is NO FUCKING WAY, knowing she is going to

run for President 2016, that they create a foundation so they can then enrich themselves and leave any trail whatsoever.

Zero chance this happened.


I would think Hillary's WORST critic, especially all the ones around here, would back me up on this, admitting that Hillary and Bill would NEVER trade short term financial gain for the POWER and life long financial gain that comes from having been President, and the first woman president, no less.

So no, no chance AT ALL of ANY impropriety


How do we know this for a FACT?

Arent the Clinton's two of the smoothest and smartest politicians who ever lived?

think about it

[Thinkingabout]

2. On Frank Giustra, he has already given a statement.

Here is Giustra's statement:

http://crooksandliars.com/2015/04/frank-giustra-has-message-american-media

On Hillary's influence of Russia purchase of Uranium One, it was looked at by nine different agencies and Hillary was not involved.

Another interesting link:

https://medium.com/@brianefallon/clinton-cash-nyt-fail-to-prove-connection-between-clinton-russian-purchase-of-uranium-assets-797a71cb40b

Schweizer said he could not prove his writing but it does appear he could have disprove it and did not.

[OKNancy]

3. Here is Giustra's statement to the Times

The facts do not comport with the story in the New York Times. The reporter, Jo Becker, wrote a similar piece in 2008, which was eventually debunked by Forbes.

I began working on financing the purchase of mining stakes from a private Kazakh company in early 2005. The purchase was concluded in late 2005.

In late 2005, I went to Kazakhstan to finish the negotiations of the sale. Bill Clinton flew to Almaty a few days after I arrived in the country on another person’s plane, not on my plane, as the Times reported. Bill Clinton had nothing to do with the purchase of private mining stakes by a Canadian company.

I sold all of my stakes in the uranium company – Uranium One – in the fall of 2007, after it merged with another company. I would note that those were sold at least 18 months before Hillary Clinton became the Secretary of State. No one was speculating at that time that she would become the Secretary of State.

Other media outlets have insinuated that I influenced the decision by the U.S. to sign a free trade agreement with Colombia. At one point, I was an investor in Pacific Rubiales, a Colombian energy company. I sold my shares in Pacific Rubiales several years before the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, which, I will note, was approved by several U.S. agencies and the White House. To theorize that I had anything to do with that is sheer conjecture.

[CTyankee]

4. sounds like becker, who had been so vigorously defended by Jeremy Peters on Morning Joe

earlier this week, has some splainin' to do. But he won't.

Mika started downgrading her belief in this story today on Morning JOe (Joe wasn't around--"significant family celebration" they said). When he's not biting at her heels, she's better, more lucid.

By Monday, more will have come out. It will be interesting next week...