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Tar Sands ActionCorruption scandal escalating at the Clinton State Department
Emails uncovered by Friends of the Earth reveal State Department employees in a cozy relationship with Paul Elliot, a leader on Hillary Clinton’s Presidential campaign turned head lobbyist for Keystone XL – offering personal favors, praise, advice, and generally cheerleading the project while it was under review. Some of the messages are just damning. Here are some quotes:
“It’s precisely because you have connections that you’re sought after and hired,” offered as praise for Elliot’s work
This is showing like a brewing scandal that could harm the Obama team. The president needs to reject the pipeline to show that their approval was not 'bought'
The emails released today are a smoking gun that show how oil industry lobbying money has corrupted the State Department’s review of Keystone XL. They come out just after it was revealed that the State Department relied on a major TransCanada contractor to conduct its environmental review and public hearings on Keystone XL, and Wikileaks cables showed that other officials at the department gave the company tips on how to get the pipeline approved.
Copies of some of the e-mails from
Mother Jones (pdf)moreWell, this is one way to get Obama to reject the pipeline: link it to corruption.
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