The New York Times reports, “…the White House recently scuttled Mrs. Clinton’s effort to bring Sidney Blumenthal, a journalist and confidant of both her and former President Bill Clinton, into the State Department.” Read more: (New York Times, July 15, 2009) Law professor Jonathan Turley reports, “The White House has reportedly blocked Hillary Clinton’s effort to bring controversial columnist Sidney …
January 20, 2009 – February 1, 2013: Bill Clinton Cashed In When Hillary Became Secretary of State
“After his wife became Secretary of State, former President Bill Clinton began to collect speaking fees that often doubled or tripled what he had been charging earlier in his post White House years, bringing in millions of dollars from groups that included several with interests pending before the State Department, an ABC News review of financial disclosure records shows. Where …
January 13, 2009 – Clinton assures transparency during her Senate confirmation hearing for Secretary of State
(…) “So the work of the foundation, the confidence that it has created with donors who know that it has an extremely low percentage that goes to any overhead, it has a very transparent way that it uses the money, were very persuasive to the transition team, that we had to work out something to keep the foundation in business …
January 11, 2009 – Kamala Harris plagiarizes several parts of her book, “Smart on Crime”
(…) At the beginning of Harris’s political career, in the run-up to her campaign to serve as California’s attorney general, she and co-author Joan O’C Hamilton published a small volume, entitled Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer. The book helped to establish her credibility on criminal-justice issues. However, according to Stefan Weber, a famed Austrian …
2009 – Doug Band’s new corporate consulting firm, Teneo, is closely tied to the Clinton Foundation
(…)”As the foundation grew, so did the outside business ventures pursued by Mr. Clinton and several of his aides. None have drawn more scrutiny in Clinton circles than Teneo, a firm co-founded in 2009 by Mr. Band, described by some as a kind of surrogate son to Mr. Clinton. Aspiring to merge corporate consulting, public relations and merchant banking in …
2009 – FBI Director Mueller asks Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska to spend his own money and help rescue FBI agent, Robert Levinson in Iran
In 2009, when Mueller ran the FBI, the bureau asked Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska to spend millions of his own dollars funding an FBI-supervised operation to rescue a retired FBI agent, Robert Levinson, captured in Iran while working for the CIA in 2007. Yes, that’s the same Deripaska who has surfaced in Mueller’s current investigation and who was recently sanctioned by the …
December 17, 2008 – The Clinton Foundation reveals its donor list
“Former President Bill Clinton has collected tens of millions of dollars for his foundation over the last 10 years from governments in the Middle East, tycoons from Canada, India, Nigeria and Ukraine, and other international figures with interests in American foreign policy. Lifting a longstanding cloak of secrecy, Mr. Clinton on Thursday released a complete list of more than 200,000 …
December 17, 2008 – The Clinton Foundation reveals their donor list which includes foreign governments as well as business leaders.
“In 2015, the Washington Post will report that the 2008 list of donors “included foreign governments, such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar, which could ask the State Department to take their side in international arguments. And it included a variety of other figures who might benefit from a relationship—or the appearance of a relationship—with the secretary. A businessman close to …
December 12, 2008 – The Clinton Foundation makes an agreement with the White House over conflict of interest issues
“In late 2008, when it becomes clear that newly elected President Obama will nominate Hillary Clinton to be his secretary of state, the Clinton Foundation presents a very large conflict of interest problem. There is a particular concern that foreign governments could use donations to the foundation to influence the Clinton-led State Department. As a result, on December 12, 2008, …
November 2008 – DOJ lists Chicago Imam, Kifah Mustafa, as an unindicted co-conspirator in prosecution tying him to illegally funneling money to Hamas (and plotting jihad in America)
The FBI’s top agent in Chicago told Illinois State Police (ISP) officials that an imam under consideration to be the agency’s first Muslim chaplain wouldn’t pass a background test if it were up to his agency. That comment came before the State Police initially approved Imam Kifah Mustapha‘s appointment in 2009, a move they later rescinded after the Investigative Project on Terrorism published …