CLINTON ADVISOR WOLFSON'S FIRM HELPED EMIR OF DUBAI TAKE OVER U.S. DEFENSE PLANTS!! HIL VOTED YES!!

[Dems Will Win]

SENATOR CLINTON VOTED YES TO ALLOW THE EMIR OF DUBAI BUY U.S. FACTORIES MAKING TANKS AND MILITARY AIRCRAFT

HAD ANYBODY HEARD OF THIS?? This never received any press at all. This is a true sellout -- letting the Emir or terror-ridden, corrupt Dubai buy defense plants in the United States? How many Hillary supporters think this was a godd idea? HMMM? This is far worse for Hillary because she actually voted YES on this one (because it was not in the spotlight like Dubai Ports World)

Clinton aides had hand in Dubai deal

Clinton advisers' outside lobbying work for firm to take over defense plants accents their awkward position
BY GLENN THRUSH | Newsday Washington Bureau
September 14, 2006
WASHINGTON - In the spring, when Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton was denouncing the Dubai Ports World deal, a consulting firm run by her top advisers was quietly lobbying for a Dubai takeover of two U.S. defense plants, Newsday has learned.

The Glover Park Group, whose principals include Clinton insiders Howard Wolfson, Joe Lockhart and Gigi Georges, was paid about $100,000 to help the government-owned Dubai International Capital Corp. in its acquisition of the British engineering firm Doncasters Group Ltd.

...

Clinton and Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), who helped to sink the takeover of port operations by a Dubai company, supported the Doncasters acquisition, saying it didn't pose nearly as significant a security threat.

Glover Park's contract with Dubai was channeled through the Los Angeles law office of Raj Tanden, the brother of longtime Hillary Clinton policy adviser Neera Tanden, according to people familiar with the situation.

Raj Tanden, who represented the emirate's royal family in its 2005 acquisition of $1 billion in U.S. real estate holdings, declined to comment. His sister didn't return a message left at her office yesterday.

Neera Tanden served as a congressional liaison for Bill Clinton before moving on to become a key Hillary Clinton campaign aide and the senator's legislative director.

The Doncasters takeover was much less controversial than the ports deal, mainly because Dubai officials submitted to a full review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. The Bush administration infuriated Congress by forgoing a review for the ports takeover, provoking a powerful bipartisan backlash that doomed the deal.

Doncasters, which makes tank and aircraft turbines in its Connecticut and Georgia plants, was approved by the government foreign investment committee in May. Some critics, including Rep. John Barrow (D-Ga.), argued that Mideast officials shouldn't be allowed to control factories used by defense contractors. (DUH- YA THIN? – DWW)

Considering the firestorm that surrounded the Dubai Ports World proposal, it's surprising that the controversy-allergic Clinton team agreed to lobby for Dubai at all.

The contract was signed April 13, only a month after the ports deal went down in flames over concerns the emirate was a breeding ground for some of the Sept. 11 hijackers.

...

Who was involved

The Glover Park Group - known as the "White House in Exile" - was founded five years ago by a group of top advisers to Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton, including former White House communications director Joe Lockhart and key Hillary Clinton advisers Gigi Georges and Howard Wolfson, who don't engage in lobbying but are apprised of the firm's lobbying efforts.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usclin144890633sep14,0,4200190.story?coll=ny-leadnationalnews-headlines

PLEASE RECOMMEND IF YOU ARE SHOCKED HILLARY VOTED TO ALLOW THE EMIR TO BUILD TANKS AND JET ENGINES IN OUR NATION

[blm]

1. Same Dubai royals Clinton protected throughout 90s when he deep-sixed BCCI matters

for GHWBush, Jackson Stephens and their dealings with Dubai and Saudi royals, Bin Ladens, AQ Khan, Marc Rich, WalMart and Chinese industrialists.

Clintons have been WEARING THE DONKEY MASKS for the Global Fascist Agenda.

SNAP OUT OF IT, Democrats! Clintons are NOT on our side.

[KittyWampus]

22. Hey BLM, it's as if Bill Clinton used his clout as ex-POTUS to lobby for foreign nationals

and foreign corporations.

He has done and is doing what Democrats usually abhor- using the public trust for private gain after leaving elective office.

[blm]

25. I wonder why he didn't use his 'clout' to speak against Iraq war which he now claims he was against

'from the beginning' doesn't he?

[Window]

2. K/R.

:kick:

[blm]

3. PS: Recommending but NOT SHOCKED. Dubai $$ staked BCCI, the bank of the BFEE.

Bill's benefactor, Jackson Stephens brought BCCI into this country for BushInc, and Clintons' political careers were groomed to provide protection for BushInc and the Global Fascist Agenda.

[TwilightGardener]

9. I think you are right.

[leveymg]

17. Same ME money conduit that supports Bush family also groomed the Clintons

Same group of corrupt Saudi bankers (bin Mahfouz) and Saudi intel officers (Kamal Adham), and deep-pocket Emirs bankrolled Bush's business ventures also funded Bill and Hillary's earlier political campaigns now financing Bill's retirement account and Hillary's presidential bid.

Disgusting that the MSM hasn't focused on the obvious - two-family dynasty rule is esssentially a front for the oil sheikhs and allied multinationals attempted takeover of the United States.

TREASON IS Vile and Disgusting.

[Zachstar]

36. This cycle of Bush/Clinton needs to end soon!

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

55. *

:think:

[AntiFascist]

41. Not surprising since Saudi interests have invested so heavily in the US media...

it also explains media support for the Clintons. :puke:

[madrchsod]

56. i give you credit

you`ve been posting this for at a long time now and i was wondering when this was going to break open...looks like it is

[blm]

62. Thanks. And this isn't even 1% of the deceit of the alliance. 9-11 should NEVER have happened.

.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

4. What A Bunch Of Swiftboating Bullshit. Free Republic Treats Our Candidates Better.

:puke:

[Dems Will Win]

5. You can't call me a Swiftboater! That is a YES vote in the US Senate as told by Newsday!

To allow the Emir of Dubai to run defense plants in the US.

I guess you approve of Hillary's vote then?

You just can't handle the truth that the Clintons are sell-outs...

[blm]

14. Duers are against BushInc up until the point Clintons are seen protecting them. Then they side

for the protection of BushInc to continue.

[TwilightGardener]

6. What won't you defend for her? Cultist.

[Dems Will Win]

8. Howard? Is that you?

[ProSense]

11. Oh BS! The truth is not swiftboating. More former Clinton officials involved:

Scramble to Back Port Deal: Making of Political Disaster

By ANNE E. KORNBLUT
Published: February 25, 2006

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 — Carol M. Browner and Thomas J. Downey, a classic Washington power couple, are not used to being rebuffed. But that is what happened when those two Democratic advisers approached Senator Charles E. Schumer last week about their client, Dubai Ports World.

<...>

Initially, the question seemed like a bump that could be handled with a few calls to the senator. Instead, it snowballed into a political disaster, one that has become a paradigm of failed crisis prevention here. It has also spawned bizarre alliances, putting President Bush on the same side as two former members of Bill Clinton's cabinet and at least briefly pitting former Senator Bob Dole against his wife, Senator Elizabeth Dole, Republican of North Carolina.

<...>

Lawyers and lobbyists at Alston & Bird, the big law firm based in Atlanta, put together the commercial deal for Dubai Ports, quietly helping win approval from the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States of the $6.8 billion acquisition of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company, the British company that has contracts to manage several United States ports.

No one, it appears, mapped a strategy to break the news to Congress that the country where two Sept. 11 attackers were born would be running ports here, an obvious thicket, even if it posed no real security risk.

<...>

At another point, Ms. Browner contacted Joe Lockhart, a press secretary for President Bill Clinton, about taking up the Dubai Ports cause. That arrangement would have added an even more unusual alliance. But Mr. Lockhart said he declined.

link

Here's Hillary supporter Jon Corzine on the deal:

"Dangerous men, tainted blood money and nuclear technology have moved across UAE borders," said Corzine, who is suing to block the government-approved acquisition by Dubai Ports World, a state-run company.

"We were told that the president didn't know about the sale until after it was approved. For many Americans, regardless of party, this lack of disciplined review is unacceptable," Corzine said.

more

[blm]

27. Always the same group of fascists Bill and Poppy Bush pal around with for DECADES

and we are all supposed to pretend none of it is connected.

[rucognizant]

37. Yes Gov. Corzine!

I've been keeping my eye on him.........WHen he was a Senator he attended the Bilderberg! SOme say that preceeds the Presidency.............. Bill CLinton whent back in the r=early 90's............I'm still waiting. John Edwards has also been there 2003 I think it was!

[blm]

12. Free Republic SHOULD treat Clintons better - they want BushInc protected more than most Dems do,

don't they?

[Zachstar]

51. They want Clinton so badly it hurts!

They have almost everything that one can POSSIBLY find READY to DESTROY Clinton with if she makes it to the GE.

They know that if Obama gets into the GE the chances that Bush and many other republicans throughout the years will be tried and likely jailed for their crimes. Some against humanity. GREATLY increases. They are desperate and Clinton making it to the GE is their last BEST hope at having till 2012 to try to slime it so people will forget.

[Barack_America]

19. "Swiftboating" is making shit up, without facts to back it up. Like Rezko.

There are, unfortunately, ample facts to back up the OP's claim regarding the Clintons and Dubai.

[SKKY]

28. Come on now OMC, you know you can't compare the two...

...the Swiftboating of Kerry was all based on hearsay. There will be paper trails and votes attached to this. Either way, it's better to vet this stuff now than in the GE, whomever wins the nomination.

[Zorro]

50. You said it

Who the fuck is Doncasters? They're not exactly a household defense company name.

Just because they make some widgets used by the military hardly qualifies them to be considered as some sort of major player.

[11 Bravo]

84. As I explained to MonkeyFunk on another thread, it's posted entirely in caps.

DON'T YOU KNOW THAT MAKES IT AN UNQUESTIONABLE TRUTH?

[Carolina]

89. you need some deprogramming

the truth will set you free.

[EmilyAnne]

93. To swiftboat someone is to lie about someone. This OP is proven. Sorry.

[easy_b94]

7. OK I see why Billary wants to get back into the whitehouse.....

to make $$$$$$$$$$$$$

[midnight]

10. If this story is accurate. She already has access to that money.

[blm]

13. Dubai put 20 million into Bill's account recently thru Yucaipa. But we're supposed to pretend

he deep-sixed BCCI matters innocently.

[The Backlash Cometh]

15. holy sh*t

I don't know what to think anymore.

[Zachstar]

34. Think about the future.

And think about what could have happened if we did not expose this now and Clinton got into the GE.

It is a damn good thing this gets exposed to the voters now so we must keep going on!

[Barack_America]

16. Hmm. Any money from Dubai on those tax returns?

Why OF COURSE there is!

From the Wall Street Journal

Bill Clinton May Get Payout of $20 Million
By JOHN R. EMSHWILLER
January 22, 2008; Page A1

Former President Clinton stands to reap around $20 million -- and will sever a politically sensitive partnership tie to Dubai -- by ending his high-profile business relationship with the investment firm of billionaire friend Ron Burkle.

Mr. Clinton is negotiating to end his relationship with Mr. Burkle's Yucaipa Cos. as part of a broader effort to protect the presidential campaign of his wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton, from potential conflicts of interest. Details of Mr. Clinton's involvement in Yucaipa and his efforts to unwind it come from documents and interviews with people familiar with the matter.

The former president has had links to Yucaipa since early 2002, when Mr. Burkle -- a longtime friend and political contributor -- offered him a role there. Mr. Clinton's association with the firm began at a time when he was looking to earn large amounts of money, partly to pay heavy legal bills accumulated to defend himself and Mrs. Clinton from several investigations during his presidency.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120097424021905843.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

[blm]

23. The BIG money wouldn't show up till next year when they expected to have won the WH by then.

Clever Clintons. But some of us have noticed their proclivity to protect BFEE players like Dubai and Saudi royals for too long and put the puzzle pieces together.

[Chasing Dreams]

18. Vote Hillary! Vote for the Military Industrial Complex!

I wonder if she could have defeated McCain for the Republican nomination?

[Barack_America]

20. Puts that Kyle-Lieberman vote in a new perspective, eh? n/t

[Dems Will Win]

21. You are smart! That's right, the Emir is Sunni, so they would want the US to attack Iran!

[Zachstar]

31. No

Because we are just barely touching the tip of the iceburg. The research done here is NOTHING compared to 8 years of research the Republicans Have been doing on Clinton. They have been waiting for her and everything is ready for her run.

The crap Kerry got is NOTHING compared to the storm of shit that will be thrown at her that we could have not thought of researching about.

Keep in mind that the republicans know that more than a few of them possibly including Bush himself face jail time after their shit gets exposed under a democratic white house. They are DESPERATE to get another 4 years to clean up house.

[HeraldSquare212]

24. I wonder if anyone will ask Wolfson about this on air.

[Dems Will Win]

26. Everyone seeing this should email to Olbermann and the Obama campaign

[Zachstar]

30. Well please call the networks and see if they will report this and start asking about it!

They will think they have a story that gets them ratings so it is a win win.

This needs to be exposed!

[Zachstar]

29. I suggest everyone bookmark this and check your bookmarks regularly.

I am fucking sick of this shit of giving control of weapons (Selling or otherwise) to Oil rich nations who DO NOT have our interests at heart other than when it involves money.

K and Fucking R!

[OzarkDem]

32. Yawn. Obama IS the Ken Starr candidate.

more faux scandals.

Can't Obama supporters campaign on issues instead of coming up with these tinfoil hat scandals?

You guys are as lame as the GOP.

[blm]

42. Ken Starr went after faux scandals and CURIOUSLY would NOT examine Rose Law Firm's biggest

client involved in bankrolling Clinton's political career and bringing BCCI into this country.

Because Whitewater was cover to get INTO Rose Law Firm so Bushies could scrub Stephens' dealings with BCCI and GHWBush, Dubai and Saudi royals.

Gee - would Clintons put up with that discomfort in exchange for the WH?

[damndude]

46. there is very little.........

i think they wouldn't give up for the presidency. once they let go of their morality, dignity, concern for their reputations, principals, and the loyalty of the party they represent whats left?

[progressive_realist]

49. But Rezko is a real scandal?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

I don't give a flying f*** if our next President has connections to some shady slumlord in Chicago. I care a lot if our next President is just as beholden to Arabian sheiks as Bush is. In fact, considering that Osama Bin Laden has not yet been brought to justice, I might consider this the single most important issue in choosing our next President.

Clinton's financial obligations to Dubai would likely prevent her from getting us out of Iraq or going after Bin Laden. That is an issue. Two actually.

[Zachstar]

95. You have a point there.

Even tho the Rezko is bull that means nothing compared to a leader getting money from foreign nations that do not like us that much.

[Dems Will Win]

60. This is an issue because the Clintons will be pursuing a foreign policy that might not always be in

the best interest of Americans, just as their support of NAFTA, WTO and Permanent TRade Approval for China was not good for the country either.

This is really the issue here and why she does not want to release her 2000-2006 tax returns.

[Carolina]

90. get thee to a deprogrammer

Truth and some meds should do the trick to relieve you of your willful blindness AKA Hillaritis.

[Arkana]

33. But the press is pro-Obama!

Oh, wait...

[Zachstar]

97. LoL!

I hope the press starts covering this stuff because soon enough the republicans will.

[Scurrilous]

35. Kick

:kick:

[Zachstar]

39. Kick 2.0!

:kick:

[OhioChick]

38. K&R

:kick:

[AntiFascist]

40. K&R, this is the kind of 'experience' we would be getting with Clinton...

selfish foreign influence put before the interests of the nation.

[FrenchieCat]

43. There is so much more of this in the Clinton's Pandora's box.....

why anyone would want to defend the indefensible is beyond me.

This is serious shit.....and personally, I'm tired of it.

There are simply too many people in these United States, bright, intellegent and thoughtful enough (like Barack Obama) that we do not need to sell ourselves short in order to support the notion that Bush/Clinton/Bush/Clinton is somehow the legacy that this nation needs. We have fucked up bad enough to date as it is, but for Democrats to want to nominate a family member that generates controversy, hate and divisiveness everywhere it goes is beyond scary.

[Clintonista2]

44. CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL

[FrenchieCat]

59. Is that seriously your comment on this story?

If it is, it must mean that this is gonna be hard of Hillary to defend!

[ima_sinnic]

79. wow, I guess there really is no way to defend it, then

no way to defend it, so attack the "caps lock" key!

poor widdle HRC supporters, clinging desperately to their illusion that she is NOT "like this" with bushco, that she somehow "cares about" them or this country.

[Carolina]

92. yeah, that's why we heard HRC say so often and so

vociferously: "shame on you" to GWB for the past 7 years (her ONLY experience):sarcasm:

[trevjr]

45. There is some serious shit on those tax returns

Has the MSM even reported on the April 15th dodge? where are the 2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006 returns?
Where is the story about Hillary's camp calling the Canadians?
CNN is still reporting this as Obama only.
By the way,most major news sites have not updated the delegate count, Obama picked up delegates in NY and California this week after recounts.

[Dems Will Win]

54. Exactly -she's saying she'll turn in 2007 on April 15, but 2000-2006 are still OFF THE TABLE

[NDambi]

47. No surprise here! Standard for the Clintons.

[fascisthunter]

48. She Voted to Sell Off America... gee. What a "Decider" (nt)

[bluesmail]

52. K & R

flip flop flip flop, HA! I don't believe there's going to be a GE.

[berni_mccoy]

53. K&R!

[snappyturtle]

57. Disgusting. I think the blue collar supporters of the Clintons should

stop and think who their competition is.

:puke:

[blm]

61. Most blue collar workers have NO IDEA Clintons protect BushInc and Dubai and Saudi royals.

.

[madrchsod]

58. this grover park group?

"At the White House, in Congress, and in the private sector we have built careers tackling complex policy initiatives, delicate political negotiations, and intricate communications campaigns."

http://www.gloverparkgroup.com/content/services/services_legislative.shtml
Glover Park Group . Services

[Sultana]

63. Damn!

For some reason I am not shocked, typical shady behavior of those two.

K&R :kick:

[Az_lefty]

64. the Clinton's took their lead from the bush crime family...

there's no difference between them and you can be guaranteed that Hillary will never investigate the crimes of little george w.

[mod mom]

65. Research Jackson Stephens connections to the Clintons before voting for HRC.

Jackson Stephens was the financier of the Bushs' /Clintons/ BCCI/ Walmart /East Liverpool OH Toxic Waste Incinerator besides other things.

[1776Forever]

66. The Wall Street Journal reported on this Feb. 22, 08 as follows:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120364037189484545.html?mod=opinion_main_review_and_outlooks

His and Her Finances
February 22, 2008; Page A14

(snip)

Is America a great country or what? Only seven years ago the Clintons were swimming in legal bills. They've since cashed in on their celebrity to pay off a $2 million mortgage on their Washington D.C. home, and are now able to lend $5 million to Mrs. Clinton's campaign. The Senator has had her own success, earning more than $5 million for her "Living History" memoir. But the real income source has been the former President, who has been giving $450,000 speeches, and in general parlaying his political fame into personal riches.

Mr. Clinton is now trying to unwind a business relationship with billionaire pal Ron Burkle. This deal made him a partner -- along with the ruler of Dubai -- in the Yucaipa Global Fund. How much did Mr. Clinton earn from a partnership with men whose business interests might be affected by the policy actions of a President Hillary Clinton? The Clintons and their accountant know, but the public doesn't.


Mr. Clinton has also been raising cash for the Clinton Foundation, which funds his charitable activities and Presidential library. The foundation has raised more than $500 million, but Mr. Clinton has refused to release a donor list.

(snip)

We've seen this nondisclosure before. During the 1992 campaign, the Clintons claimed to be coming clean by releasing their tax returns from 1980 forward. But they steadfastly refused to release their returns for prior years, and only later did we learn that 1978 and 1979 were the tax years when Mrs. Clinton reported her 10,000% cattle-futures trading profit. Remember Red Bone and Jim Blair, and how she claimed she had made the investment on her own after reading the Wall Street Journal? For that matter, remember the other characters who provided cash for the Clintons in return for nights in the Lincoln Bedroom, among other things?

Senator Clinton has said she'll make her tax returns public only if she wins the Democratic nomination. Mr. Clinton has said he'll disclose his future donors only if she is President. Once again they're trying to block disclosure until it's too late to inform the judgment of voters.

Mr. Obama has released his tax returns and has suggested Mrs. Clinton do the same because "the American people deserve to know where you get your income from." If the Clintons continue to keep his and her finances under wraps, the public would be wise, given their history, to assume they have something to hide.

...........

And yet she is the one that places herself above Obama and talks about Rezko. There is so much on the Clinton's that cannot be dismissed. I cannot believe the blindness of her supporters not to believe in the huge amount of information available with a simple Google search!

:nopity:

[Divine Discontent]

77. they have blind allegience to the Bill.... he was good, but not good enough

ultimately, as a pres. he should have been harder on the GOP in the early years and risked more to keep them from beginning the dismantling of the welfare system, and other issues. I almost feel at times, like they're a joke anymore. They've become caricatures of themselves... I almost laugh at Bill now when he says something negative about Obama. I often think, sounds like what they said about you when you were running for Pres, Bill! PS 1776forever, J is not feeling good, but sleeping.

[JPZenger]

67. Wolffsen never apologized for Ken Starr Remark

Today, on Sam Seder's show on Air America, a caller asked a good question. When Obama's advisor, Samantha Powers, made an unkind remark about Hillary, she quit and Obama apologized. That occurred even though she intended the remark to be off the record and even though she is probably a volunteer.

Then Wolfsen, who is one of Clinton's top staff-people and who made several hundred thousand dollars from her campaign in January says that Obama is like Ken Starr because he asked her to release her tax returns. The Clinton campaign stands by those remarks, and Wolfsen still has his top job.

Seder was blasting Hillary's tactics. He called it a "scorched earth" policy that is trying to force people into a decision of McCain or her, with Obama being unqualified to be president.

[dailykoff]

68. So that's who was calling at 3 a.m.

[robertpaulsen]

69. Proud to make this a 5 star thread. Keep exposing the truth, Dems Will Win!

:kick:

[shance]

70. Clintons = Bushes = Clintons = Bushes =Corporate Elites = Elites

n/t

[Dems Will Win]

71. Kick!

[Catherina]

72. K&R

:kick:

[Laurab]

73. K & R n/t

[tabasco]

74. The Clintons are the Manchurian candidates installed in the Democratic party.

Their mission is to turn the Democratic party into the republican party-lite.

Time for Democrats to take out the garbage.

[ooglymoogly]

75. The subterranean dealings of the Clinton's just get curiouser and curiouser.

No wonder their tax returns will stay under lock and key. What skulduggery may come if she mysteriously wins the primary.

[psychopomp]

76. Secret deals or open government

The choice is yours, America.

[ekwhite]

78. K&R

It is about time we exposed the type of sleaze surrounding the Clintons. They will not think twice about selling our country down the river for personal gain.

[classykaren]

80. Yes But how do we get this info out to the masses? n/t

[Dems Will Win]

83. Start a viral email to the media and yr friends

[AzDar]

81. No more Clintons, No more Bushes. No more taking it in our tushes!!

(Now, I wait for HRC supporters to show up and chastise me for being 'immature'....:rofl:)

[oviedodem]

82. Hmmm? No wonder taxes have not been released.

[lisainmilo]

85. Recommended, but not shocked.

This does not surprise me at all. What will shock me is the release of Clintons TAX records, then we can really see what people she is really supporting. Clinton allows speculation and mistrust by not being forthright, if we see her TAX records we will be able to see the real direction she intends on taking us, but just like Bush we have to do our own digging to get to the truth.

Clinton: Bought and Paid for By Saudi Arabia and China
by The Bagof Health and Politics
Fri Mar 07, 2008 at 10:39:46 AM PST

There's a reason she hasn't released her tax returns--Bill is on the payroll of the Saudis and the Chinese Communist Party.

* The Bagof Health and Politics's diary :: ::
*

Hillary Clinton still hasn’t released her tax return. We don’t know what she’s hiding, but if her tax return was clear, we’d have long since seen the return (which was filed in April of 2007). After 8 years of Dick Cheney raiding the public treasury for the benefit of his Halliburton stock, we must know the financial interests of potential future Presidents and the conflicts they pose. Since Clinton won’t release her tax return, I will speculate as to what may or may not be contained therein.

Bill Clinton has been active on the international scene. We already know about the $131 million kickback Bill took from an Asian dictator. Still, Bill has been remarkably secretive about the funding for his presidential library. The full list of donors has never been released. But we know two things: the Clinton Library cost $165 million to build and fully 10% of that cost was covered by Saudi Arabia.

Since he left office, Bill Clinton has mainly earned a living as a speaker, writer and "consultant." Companies, governments, and organizations pay him huge fees to speak at a gathering or lend his name to the business. Bill has lent his name to shady businessmen, like Ron Burkle. Clinton’s speeches have earned him millions; a typical speech with the former President costs href="25,000. Foreign interests in Japan, Australia, and Europe have all been more than happy to throw money at the Clintons. This has led the man who was making $45,000 a year as Governor of Arkansas to spectacular wealth; the kind of wealth that can buy million dollar vacation homes. Worse, this is also the kind of wealth that can cause politicians to be indebted to foreign interests and undermine our national interests and security.

According to the Washington Post, a Saudi Arabian investment company with ties to the Saudi government and Royal Family has paid Bill Clinton at least $600,000 in lecturing fees. A quick search on Bill’s travel itinerary reveals that Bill Clinton met with the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia in Riyadh in June of 2003. Two years later, Clinton met with the Crown Prince again, this time in the United States. One wonders what Bill promised in exchange for the $600,000 check. Other foreign interests who have paid Clinton include: $650,000 from a pro-NAFTA Canadian investment firm and $200,000 from a real estate firm which is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party.

This is all money which can be turned around by the Clintons to support their political interests. By law, Hillary Clinton is entitled to use half of her spouse’s wealth to back her presidential campaign. In this campaign, she has already done this by donating $5 million to her campaign. Let’s think about the net effect of this; this allows Bill’s income to be used for political purposes. In effect the Saudis have given a $300,000 donation to her campaign, the Canadians have donated $325,000, and the Chinese Communist Party has donated $100,000.

With gas at $4 a gallon, I don’t want anybody who is on the Saudi payroll near the Oval Office. It’s clear that foreign governments and the Clintons have been colluding to buy off the American process and open the store to foreign interests—like the Saudis and the Chinese Communist Party. This is why Hillary Clinton must be defeated in the Democratic Primary. Our national security depends on it.

Hillary Clinton knows this. It is why she won't release her tax returns. Those returns will prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that she and her husband are on the payroll of corrupt foreign entities--like the Chinese Communist Party and the Saudi Arabian government. Enough is enough; let's not elect the Democratic version of Dick Cheney to the Presidency and allow this country to be swindled into poverty.

Updates: Ourhispanicvoices wrote a diary yesterday which shows that the Clintons are also receiving large sums of cash from Dubai--the nation which tried to buy our ports!

More from Toledo Talk: http://www.toledotalk.com/cgi-bin/tt.pl/article/13530/Clinton__Bought_and_Paid_for_By_Saudi_Arabia_and_China


Clinton Library Got Funds From Abroad

Bill Clinton's presidential library raised more than 10 percent of the cost of its $165 million facility from foreign sources, with the most generous overseas donation coming from Saudi Arabia, according to interviews yesterday.

The royal family of Saudi Arabia gave the Clinton facility in Little Rock about $10 million, roughly the same amount it gave toward the presidential library of George H.W. Bush, according to people directly familiar with the contributions.

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Hillarys Curious Campaign Loan

Only days before the make-or-break "Super Tuesday" primaries, Hillary Clinton dipped into her personal finances to lend her campaign $5 million, a move she kept secret until the day after she had battled Barack Obama to a standstill in the coast-to-coast voting.

If she had disclosed the loan before Super Tuesday, it might not only have generated troubling questions about the financial health of her campaign; it might have focused unwanted attention on the sources of the Clintons' money.

Unlike other well-to-do politicians, the Clintons did not inherit their wealth or amass a fortune during a prior business career. Just seven years ago, on leaving the White House, the Clintons were millions of dollars in debt due to the costs of fighting legal battles.

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Still, the bulk of the family income derives from Bill Clinton's speeches and his participation in business ventures, which -- when combined with the multi-million-dollar fundraising for his foundation and his presidential library -- have come to be known as "Clinton Inc."

Last month, the Wall Street Journal reported that former President Clinton stands to make $20 million as he unwinds a complicated business relationship with Yucaipa Cos., the investment firm of his longtime supporter, billionaire Ron Burkle, which has connections to the ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum.

A week ago, the New York Times described the help Clinton gave Canadian mining financier Frank Giustra in securing a lucrative uranium deal with the repressive government of Kazakhstan in 2005, shortly before Giustra made an unreported $31.3 million donation to Clinton's foundation.

Sen. Clinton's most recent financial disclosure form showed that the former president also earned $10.2 million for giving 57 speeches in 2006. Of those speeches, 31 were delivered outside the United States for $6.4 million.

From 2001 to 2007, Bill Clinton collected nearly $40 million in speaking fees, according to a review by the Washington Post. His paid speeches - with fees as high as $400,000 - included appearances before landlord groups, biotechnology firms, food distributors, charities and leadership organizations all over the world.

The legal significance of Hillary Clinton's assertion that the $5 million loan came from her portion of the couple's wealth relates to the political sensitivity - and questionable legality - of a husband or wife financing the campaign of a spouse. Federal law only allows the candidate to make unlimited contributions to his or her own campaign.

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Clinton's acknowledgement of the loan also threatens to attract new interest in the overseas financial ties of the Clintons and some of their supporters.

According to a review of records by the Center for Investigative Reporting and ABC News, several top fundraisers for Hillary Clinton's campaign have lobbied on behalf of foreign governments and sometimes helped their clients gain access to Clinton as a U.S. lawmaker.

The review found that six Clinton "Hillraisers," specially designated fundraisers who have collected at least $100,000 for her presidential campaign, are registered with the Justice Department as lobbyists for foreign governments.

As ABC News reported, "Two of Clinton's top moneymen, John Merrigan and Matthew 'Mac' Bernstein, are part of a lobbying team hired by the rulers of Dubai to defend against a U.S.-based lawsuit alleging that the rulers had enslaved young boys to race camels."

Merrigan's and Bernstein's firm, DLA Piper, arranged a meeting with Clinton and three other senators last year on behalf of Dubai, according to filings. Dubai paid the firm $3.7 million for a year's work.

Merrigan and Bernstein also lobbied on behalf of the Turkish government in March 2007 to prevent "the introduction, debate and passage of legislation and other U.S. government action that harms Turkey's interests or image."

Specifically, the lobbyists opposed a resolution, co-sponsored by Clinton, that would term the World War I-era massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turks a genocide.

Although Clinton was an original co-sponsor, she soon qualified her support for the resolution, telling the Boston Globe editorial board that "the adamant expression of real dismay and outrage by this Turkish government has to be factored into this."

Merrigan and Bernstein have since pledged to raise at least $250,000 for Clinton's presidential campaign, and DLA Piper employees now represent the largest bloc of contributors to Clinton's presidential campaign, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

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Clinton's acknowledgement of the loan also threatens to attract new interest in the overseas financial ties of the Clintons and some of their supporters.

According to a review of records by the Center for Investigative Reporting and ABC News, several top fundraisers for Hillary Clinton's campaign have lobbied on behalf of foreign governments and sometimes helped their clients gain access to Clinton as a U.S. lawmaker.

The review found that six Clinton "Hillraisers," specially designated fundraisers who have collected at least $100,000 for her presidential campaign, are registered with the Justice Department as lobbyists for foreign governments.

As ABC News reported, "Two of Clinton's top moneymen, John Merrigan and Matthew 'Mac' Bernstein, are part of a lobbying team hired by the rulers of Dubai to defend against a U.S.-based lawsuit alleging that the rulers had enslaved young boys to race camels."

Merrigan's and Bernstein's firm, DLA Piper, arranged a meeting with Clinton and three other senators last year on behalf of Dubai, according to filings. Dubai paid the firm $3.7 million for a year's work.

Merrigan and Bernstein also lobbied on behalf of the Turkish government in March 2007 to prevent "the introduction, debate and passage of legislation and other U.S. government action that harms Turkey's interests or image."

Specifically, the lobbyists opposed a resolution, co-sponsored by Clinton, that would term the World War I-era massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turks a genocide.

Although Clinton was an original co-sponsor, she soon qualified her support for the resolution, telling the Boston Globe editorial board that "the adamant expression of real dismay and outrage by this Turkish government has to be factored into this."

Merrigan and Bernstein have since pledged to raise at least $250,000 for Clinton's presidential campaign, and DLA Piper employees now represent the largest bloc of contributors to Clinton's presidential campaign, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

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[Bread and Circus]

86. I hate how our government from Hilly to Bush fellate people like this.

[northzax]

87. SCARY BROWN PEOPLE ALERT!!!

they're going to kill us all, rape our wives, sodomize our children and take away our right to eat with our left hands! look! they wear fucking towels on their heads! Terrorists wear towels on their heads! See!

Sure, I mean I'll get a blow job from that negro hooker, but it's not like I am going to bring her into the house, THOSE types of people don't belong with our sorts of people.

phsaw. Arabs build TANKS? right, White people build tanks, Arabs ride camels, everyone knows this.



in case you are wondering, yes, I consider the objection to this deal to be entirely racist. entirely. it's this decade's fear of Japan from the early nineties. we buy their oil, and then get pissed off when they want to actually own something of ours. well, let's be clear: if you own a car, this is your fault. you are the one who who will buy your crack from a guy, but slam the door when he comes to your house. you sir, are a bigot using the scary image of a muslim to imply terrorists are at the door. It's disgusting.

[Medusa]

88. Another Hillary vote that can't be explained

or spun.

[catgirl]

91. Just another sleazy Clinton deal

Add it to the growing list. This will all come out in the general if HRC is the
nominee. All democrats should be aware of this.

[Carolina]

94. K&R!

[Dems Will Win]

96. kick