I don't get to read much, what with working, writing, selling our home, restoring our destroyed rental property and all. So I have not had a chance either to acquire or peruse the book "Clinton Cash", the amazing stories compiled by Peter Schweizer detailing the abject corruption by Hillary and Bill Clinton during her time as Secretary of State.
We might have wondered -- well, I didn't, but you might have -- what possessed Hillary Clinton to have decided to begin to set up that private email server on the day her confirmation hearings started. It's clear that it was done to "keep the personal communications private", and to avoid prying FOIA inquiries.
What becomes more clear now, of course, is what that "personal communication" was, that she was so desperate to protect from public scrutiny. And the picture is not pretty.
Having not had a chance to read the book, I was appreciative that Breitbart News has provided a free link to the movie that was made of the "Clinton Cash" book, and I provide the link for you here so you can take a valuable hour to watch it.
Maybe I creep out a little too easily, but I expect you will as well, and the depravity in accepting personal payments and cash directed to their "Foundation" paints a portrait of the Clintons that desperately needs to be shared. I kind of wish the RNC had run the film at 10:00 Eastern time one of of the televised nights of the convention.
The movie goes from one country to another -- Rwanda ... Congo ... Nigeria ... Colombia ... Haiti ... Kazakhstan ... Canada ... Iran ... Russia. Time after time, bad actors in the nation find a way to get favorable State Department treatment from the Hillary secretariat in return for mighty payments -- overpriced speeches from Bill Clinton, huge donations to the Clinton Foundation -- even when the outcome is detrimental to the USA and to the citizens of the nation in question.
I cringed at the Haiti stories because, as I wrote a year ago, I have so much respect for one fraternity brother who has made the restoration of Haiti, after the Port-au-Prince earthquake, a life's mission. He has sacrificed so much, and the people of Haiti have suffered so much, yet ... if he only knew (or, one can hope, already knows but soldiers on regardless).
We remember the stories of good old Bill Clinton rushing to Haiti after the earthquake, sometimes with former president George H. W. Bush, and becoming the visible symbol of our nation's leadership on the recovery effort. If only the truth were as gratifying.
Oh, Bill rushed to Haiti all right. And he certainly took a leadership role in the subsequent activities. Except that in doing so, he shut out the Haitians from deciding what needed to be done. The Haitians wanted repair and restoration of their roads, bridges and other infrastructure. Bill Clinton wanted the relief funds spent with contractors and with the retail companies of cronies that had just happened to have made big recent donations to the Clinton Foundation.
The result? A factory got built by a Clinton donor, with a promise of 60,000 jobs to follow. The 60,000 jobs turned into only 5,000 actual jobs. Despite what the Haitians asked for and needed, the factory was built in northern Haiti, which had not been hit by the earthquake, so it did nothing for the actual victims. And, thanks to the State Department under you-know-who (hint: her initials are "Hillary Clinton"), its products could be shipped back to the USA relatively duty-free, a benefit enjoyed primarily by the retailers who had made the donations to the Clinton Foundation, don'tcha know.
One Clinton donor and crony was engaged to evaluate land areas for resettlement of displaced Haitian victims. They got paid, all right, and paid a lot -- for a report that recommended locations to build resettlement homes that were literally on the steep sides of mountains. The areas were so unsuitable for construction that one evaluation of the report described it has having been written "as though the guy never even got out of his SUV to look at the sites."
Another of the contractors billed the relief effort twice the promised amount, for fewer than half the number of new homes it had committed to build. The Clinton Foundation did not seem to make a stink about it; Bill Clinton did not make a stink about it, and to this day Mr. Bill waves around his performance in Haiti as evidence of his sainthood.
Haiti, at least, was "only" a humanitarian disaster, I guess, if you don't care about Haitians. Time after time, though, country after other country, murderous dictators in places like Rwanda and Kazakhstan were saluted in public by one or both Clintons -- while dictator-connected businessmen in those countries received huge concessions by Hillary's State Department after big-payday speeches by Bill or huge donations to the old Foundation.
It is almost definitionally corrupt when you take money to take action or unduly influence an outcome contrary to your public statements -- and the desires of your supporters. Remember the old Keystone XL pipeline, the one that Barack Obama stopped but Donald Trump will fast-track in his first days in office? Do you also remember that it was originally approved by the Hillary Clinton State Department?
I think you probably already know where this is going, since the Clintons claim to believe in those environmental factions that vote for Clintons all the time and get lit up about global warming. But no, $2 million in Bill Clinton speeches later, the last in May 2011, bang -- a positive environmental impact study. Those speeches were bought by the TD Bank Investment Group -- one of the largest shareholders in the Keystone XL pipeline -- who neither before nor since have hired Bill Clinton to speak.
More? How about $750,000 from the Swedish company Ericsson Communication for a single Bill Clinton speech, that resulted in the State Department pulling a proposal to include electronics equipment in a list of embargoed items going to Iran. Does it get more corrupt than that?
The movie concludes with the saddest segment of all. Amazingly, with the apparently adequate amount of payment to the Clinton Inc. cartel, Canadian donor and Clinton crony Frank Giustra was able to buy U.S. mines and mining concessions totaling 20% of our nation's entire production of uranium. This was done through a dummy Giustra company called UraniumOne. Want to guess who got wind of that purchase? Yep, Vladimir Putin, your friend and "mine."
Sure enough, Giustra -- who had already gotten State blessing for a deal to deforest part of Colombia's rain forest in yet another pay-for-play deal, ultimately resold to Russia one-fifth of our uranium resources at a 40% overpay. Putin still owns them. The payments to the Clinton Foundation to get needed State Department approval of the sale to Russia? Over $140 million, from Giustra, from different individual owners of UraniumOne and from a dummy Canadian finance company, Salida Capital, owned by Rosatom, the Russian firm that controls Russia's nuclear arsenal and builds reactors in Iran. The last payment was $500,000 straight to Bill Clinton for a speech in Moscow, paid for by another dummy company associated with the Russian intelligence service.
You just want to cry. But don't cry. Please make sure that everyone who has a vote takes the time to see this film. Make sure that everyone who has even a 1% chance of casting a vote for Hillary Clinton sees this film. Make sure that they understand why this type of abject corruption must be purged from American politics and certainly from American leadership.
Maybe we can't get her put in prison. But it's almost as good if we can detach her from the levers of power, here or anywhere else.
Thank you for reading this far.
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