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Clinton Charity CEO Explains Tax Reporting "Mistakes"
Last week, Hillary Clinton had what we called a “Geithner moment” when a Reuters investigation revealed that the Presidential candidate’s family charities had failed to report “tens of millions” in contributions from foreign governments on annual tax returns. For its part, The Clinton Foundation was quick to point out that when it comes to charities, it is exemplary in terms being forthright, but the missing disclosures will likely serve to fan the flames for Republicans who claim Clinton’s ties to the charities could make her susceptible to the influence of outside interests.
Meanwhile, the Foundation’s claims to transparency will surely be put to the test as the former First Lady ramps up her bid to return to The White House and as questions linger regarding contributions from foreign governments while Clinton was Secretary of State. Here’s an excerpt from a Washington Post piece published in February:
The Clinton Foundation accepted millions of dollars from seven foreign governments during Hillary Rodham Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state, including one donation that violated its ethics agreement with the Obama administration…
Some of the donations came from countries with complicated diplomatic, military and financial relationships with the U.S. government, including Kuwait, Qatar and Oman…
Rarely, if ever, has a potential commander in chief been so closely associated with an organization that has solicited financial support from foreign governments.
Now, the Clinton Foundation is out with a public admission of its reporting “errors” as acting CEO Maura Pally describes, in a lengthy blog post, the supposedly innocent nature of the mistakes and the “unprecedented” steps the Foundation has taken in the past to avoid conflicts of interest between Hillary and foreign donors. Judge for yourself:
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A Commitment to Honesty, Transparency, and Accountability
By Maura Pally
Over the past few days, many questions have been raised about the Clinton Foundation, its initiatives, and the financial support that allows us to do the uniquely impactful philanthropic work that we do at home and around the world.
Without question the Foundation’s accomplishments stand on their own. From fighting obesity by helping create healthier learning environments for more than 16 million students; to working to combat one of our greatest global threats, climate change; to lowering the price of lifesaving antiretroviral drugs that have benefited more than 9 million people fighting HIV/AIDS; one thing is clear, the Clinton Foundation has not been afraid to take on big challenges and see real results.
Just as important as the results we see, is how the Foundation has transformed philanthropy into a collaborative effort by bringing NGOs, local stakeholders, government officials, private sector actors, and others together to maximize their collective investments. It seems logical, but fifteen years ago, that just wasn’t how philanthropy was done.
As the Foundation’s impact has grown, so too has its commitment to transparency. When Hillary Clinton was appointed Secretary of State, we took unprecedented steps to avoid potential conflicts of interest by going above and beyond what is required of any philanthropy and instituted voluntarily annual disclosure of all of our donors on our website. We also established a policy around the foreign government contributions we accept, recognizing that in order to continue our life improving work we rely on the contributions of government, as is the case with most large scale global charities.
Today, our donor disclosure and foreign government contributor policy is stronger than ever. Since Secretary Clinton decided to run for President, we have committed to disclosing all of our donors on a quarterly basis. In addition, we announced that we will only accept funding from a handful of governments, many of whom the Foundation receives multi-year grants from, to continue the work they have long partnered on.
The Foundation has 11 different initiatives, some of which function in organizationally different ways. One of these 11 initiatives is the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership (CGEP), which is focused on advancing innovative solutions to poverty alleviation on a global scale. CGEP has come under heightened scrutiny this past week and I want to explain how it operates.
The Clinton Foundation executes all of the work that CGEP does. CGEP does receive financial backing for projects from an independent Canadian charity called the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership (Canada), which Frank Giustra established so that Canadians could support the initiative’s valuable work and receive a charitable tax credit. CGEP (Canada) provides funding on a project-by-project basis and this money goes exclusively to CGEP projects, not to the Foundation’s general operating fund.
Like every contributor to the Foundation, the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership (Canada) is publicly listed as a donor on our website. But as it is a distinct Canadian organization, separate from the Clinton Foundation, its individual donors are not listed on the site. This is hardly an effort on our part to avoid transparency – unlike in the U.S., under Canadian law; all charities are prohibited from disclosing individual donors without prior permission from each donor.
I also want to address questions regarding our 990 tax forms. We have said that after a voluntary external review is completed we will likely refile forms for some years. While some have suggested that this indicates a failure to accurately report our total revenue, that is not the case. Our total revenue was accurately reported on each year's form – our error was that government grants were mistakenly combined with other donations. Those same grants have always been properly listed and broken out and available for anyone to see on our audited financial statements, posted on our website.
So yes, we made mistakes, as many organizations of our size do, but we are acting quickly to remedy them, and have taken steps to ensure they don't happen in the future. We are committed to operating the Foundation responsibly and effectively to continue the life-changing work that this philanthropy is doing every day.
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Who buys this shit?
Liberals.
Yep.
They like blah blah blah blah blah blah when it comes from their Idols.
When from another point of view it's racist, sexist, whatever ....
"Commitment to transparency", LOL.
They are transparent, all right. Transparently criminal.
Everything you need to know about the Clintons' so-called "Charity:"
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=230066
[HINT: It's a political pay-off fund that passes only 5.9% of contributions on to actual charity work...]
[Don't believe Karl? Read their tax return for yourself...]
In the words of Steve Martin, decades ago (Saturday Night Live) - "I forgot."
Second most corrupt politician behind Dear Leader Obama.
Corruption truly will be the downfall of it all...
http://galeinnes.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-aftermath-of-corruption.html
Obama has a long way to go before he has as many dead bodies piled up around him as the Clintons do.
The Clinton Foundation just announced that it will revise its tax returns for 2010, 2011, and 2012 after revelations by the Reuters news organization that it neglected to report foreign government grants on its tax returns as required by law. Charities are required to provide a breakout of their government grants, including from domestic and foreign sources, in Part VII, line 1e of IRS form 990. In a statement on its website, the Clinton Foundation explained that it had apparently "mistakenly combined" its foreign government funding with other funding.
This isn't just highly questionable... it's downright improbable.
Having served in senior management of a non-profit with the same tax status as the Clinton Foundation for nearly 30 years, I can testify that it's very hard to mess this up year after year. Not only would the Clinton Foundation's management need to get it wrong repeatedly, but its CPA would as well. And even if the CPA messed up, the errors most certainly would have been caught during an annual audit.
Auditors don't just take a charity's word for the sources and amounts of grants, but contact the sources to verify the information supplied is correct. So, I wondered which firms could have served the Clinton Foundation so poorly from 2010-2012.
It turns out that it wasn't two firms, but a single firm: the Little Rock, Arkansas branch of BKD, LLP. That the Clinton Foundation chose to use a single firm for both CPA services and its independent audit for multiple years is significant as it violates charitable best practices.
Ever since the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (formally, the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act) was adopted in 2002, the splitting of general accounting and auditing services has become standard practice, not just for publicly-held corporations but charities, too. The splitting of accounting and auditing services was a direct result of the Enron scandal.
And now, it appears that the Clinton Foundation may be the charitable equivalent of Enron. The accounting firm Arthur Andersen helped Enron cook its books because by doing so it could also keep much more lucrative contracts with the company.
During the early 1990s, Arthur Andersen learned that it could considerably boost its profits if its auditors approved what the Wall Street Journal called, in a 2002 article, "aggressive accounting tactics" by some of its clients. One of its first big financial successes from using these tactics was when it helped Boston Chicken hide franchise losses in advance of an IPO. In the auditor's performance review, he was praised for turning "a $50,000 audit fee into a $3 million full-service engagement."
BKD could have been the Clinton Foundation's Arthur Andersen, approving "aggressive accounting tactics" to hide millions of dollars in controversial government grants in the one document that the public has an absolute right to see - the Clinton Foundation's federal tax return. It is troubling, too, that like Arthur Andersen, BKD's professional conduct has been questioned by government regulators.
The Little Rock Arkansas branch of BKD, the very branch the Clinton Foundation used for its audit and other accounting services, is currently being sued by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) for $17.5 million in connection with the failure of the First Southern Bank of Batesville. Between December 2008 and September 2010, First Southern Bank purchased $23 million in fraudulent district improvement bonds from Little Rock attorney Kevin Lewis. BKD was the bank's accounting firm at the time and the FDIC says the firm failed to do its job.
Lewis was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2011 and BKD's association with the case certainly became widely known at that time. Yet, the Clinton Foundation did not make its curiously-timed switch to the firm Price Waterhouse Coopers until 2013.
If the IRS can free itself for a moment from its witch hunt of conservative non-profits, it might want to examine the books of the Clinton Foundation.
http://www.conservativeblog.org/amyridenour/2015/4/25/clinton-foundation...
"If the IRS can free itself for a moment from its witch hunt of conservative non-profits, it might want to examine the books of the Clinton Foundation."
Haha! Good one!
ClintonGate
Hillary is simply pulling a "De Niro":
Robert De Niro pays $6.4M after hit with IRS tax lien on Manhattan condohttp://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/irs-hits-robert-de-niro-...
Loopholes of the Rich & Famous? (What channel is that on .gov?)
You nailed it! Lies, my bumm.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/04/charity_watchdog_puts_clinto...
Charity Navigator, which rates nonprofits, recently refused to rate the Clinton Foundation because its “atypical business model . . . doesn’t meet our criteria.” ...
By the way, Charity Navigator is a good resource, I always look at the % they spend on administration verses what is disbursed mission wise.
Some charities are very good in that respect. Don't boycott them all.
Even the NY Post reported the above, and in more detail:
http://nypost.com/2015/04/26/charity-watchdog-clinton-foundation-a-slush...
Time for No Non Profits.
The whole concept of a company needing to be treated differently from a tax perspective because of its goals is stupid anyway.
Remove Non profits and remove 99% of the deductions. Just give a credit for a few at the extreme bottom.
Stop the 10% of the GDP that is wasted on beancounters and financial criminals.
Everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others.
How on Earth is that legal?
how on this Earth does that matter any more?
"Legal" is realative. Are you a prole or part of the ruling class? If prole, then STFU and eat it. She's still going to be your next president.
Why would anyone think that trivial ideas such as 'legality' matter? The world is run by the mafia, and this is just another day in its life.
And a big Thank You Pool Shark... nice catch!
The Clinton started their corrupt ways long before they polluted the White House, probably well before the governor's mansion. If she is elected, she will be the most corrupt president we ever had.
Don't forget homophobic Knukles. Honesty and integrity are merely words in a dictionary with no meaning in politics except for empty campaign promises......
Every law in this fucking country is designed to be negotiated away depending on the person or persons involved. At the highest level deals are made, Congressional Hearings never going anywhere designed to embarass but never to convict.
"The Law".......FUCK THE LAW. "The Law" is a disciminate club wielded by their lackey Praetorian Guard who are convinced of their moral superiority by the very kiss ass proles they club every day.
You should have read the NYT piece on Russians reading Obama's email. A whole lot of commenters were taking the stance that Clinton actually did a good thing by hosting her own email server and that this hacking thing proved how capable she is when it comes to national security.
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What does "Fighting Obesity" have to do with taking bribes from Foreign Nationals?
Have you seen the price of potato chips recently?
Exactly! It's supply and demand. Hillary is being a good martyr by buying up all the chips, creating an artificial demand-thus the increased price, and keeping said chips out of innocent hands by ravenously devouring them. Although, most of her devouring has been focused exclusively on innocent female groins. Oh, I'm sorry, did you think I meant she devoured the chips? Don't be silly!
The Great Uranium for Pringles Gambit
Once you pop (your soul), you can't stop!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJEj31jwtL8
Kettle brand chips, 13oz "party size" at five bucks now. They know how to get me.
Hey, Corzine made mistakes too. No big deal.
/s
see, we hired this chubby girl with really fat fingers...
"yes we operate an international shell corporation to allow saudis to fund our lifestyle we will be better at covering our tracks in the future"
The only "mistake" in corruption is getting caught.
And even that doesn't seem to matter anymore...
Certainly not since the days of the first TARP vote.
"Give us $700B or the economy gets it!"
"Again, if you were not trying to buy influence of some sort exactly why would you donate to a so-called "charity" that only spends 5.9% of the money received on actual charitable programs?"
rest here:
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=230066
"$144 million in direct contributions and grants; $149 million in total revenue (2013 numbers); of that $8.9 million went to grants paid (that is, about 5.9% of the funds that came in went to charitable causes.)...
....You might be interested in knowing that the "charity" had 35 employees with reportable compensation (that is, over $100,000) and their top five combined had $2.6 million in direct (that is, cash) compensation and another $278,000 in benefits for approximately $3 million -- or 1/3rd of all spending on "charitable causes". On a grossed-up basis the charity spent $21.8 million on salaries and wages or approaching three times what it spent on "charity."
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=230066
So the fund was a basically a private slush fund for the Clinton's disguised as a charity.
This is corruption on a level I frankly could not have imagined.
I knew the Clinton's were crooks. All politicians today in the U.S. are crooked.
How is this not a jailable offense?
But of course, nothing will happen, the people will soon forget and another sell out to the highest bidder will walk into the White House.
Why do you think Chelsea Clinton walked away from that $750,000 a year job at NBC? It's because the Clinton Foundation pays MOAR!
We...Are..Sorry...you know
Poor Hillery. She really is getting attacked on all sides. I feel sorry for the old girl.
Hah ha ha ha ha ha
look, the old nag had some problems. i'd say they shoot horses, but then there's kerry flapping his lips still.
LOL you have that right. Fucking Mr and Mrs ED
They wouldn't even make good glue, nothing ever seems to stick to them.
I like that.
My compassionate friends. She has accepted her grooming for many years, she has endured. Hillery stood by her man, she deserves a chance. America deserves this chance!
Yea full retard you are a fucking retard. Why not just put Satan in the Whitehouse it's not like it would be any different.
I wonder what the pillows are going to smell like?
If you know how the "Debt-Money-System" works. You do not belive anymore all the other storries around this System!
If someone can read german, there is a little Book which explains this Debt-Money-System perfectly!
Der globale Schuldgeld-Skandal http://www.verlag-anton-schmid.de/d_365_Der_globale_Schuldgeld_Skandal__...The people will continue to get nothing as long as they allow it. She has no more right to withhold information than the president. The entire concept of "executive prvilege" is just made up. It is not constitutional.
"THAT “executive” privilege they magically “found” is how they “justify” keeping 95% of all the secrets. Every conspiracy to screw the people requires secrecy. Executive privilege is how they claim to have the “constitutional right” to keep the BULK of the secrets they keep to spy on and control every aspect of your life." http://www.thetruthaboutthelaw.com/the-supreme-court-just-made-up-the-co...
You are 100% correct. WTF is this PRIVELEDGE Bullshit? I do think they shouyld have it driven up their fucking asses.
The Clinton campaign has an ARMY of trolls ready to overwhelm the comment section of any publication that carries any story about HRC, whether the story is "positvie" or negative.
The basic idea seems to be tor drown out any discussion and make it seem that many many readers are actually intested in her.. Who will bother to read 2000+ comments.
They'll show up here too. But then maybe the Managers have just written off ZH as hopeless
I don't really agree with the idea of an army of trolls paid by Hillary to do her bidding. The fact is that her trolls are paid for by various media corporations. As in everything else they do, someone else picks up the tab.
Conspiracy's petri dish.
"Yes, we sell our Country out at any opportunity. Next question."
Release all the emails to show it was just a "mistake" and not pay for access.
WHAT A LYING POS.
I'm so sorry. I made a math error on my taxes in the usual direction and the computers caught me. This time.
I haven't had a lot of heroes in my life. There is Herschel Walker, whose footsteps I traced. Thats it. I don't look to him to save me, I look at him and he says, I did it. You can too.
So I did.
A legal bribery scheme, nothing more.
"Yes, I was there, and I twisted the bayonet in Kaddafy's ass. As well as that fag diplomat I sent. So what?"
Let's just remember that it's not just Hillary's family charities that have been funded by foreign governments but also the whole United States by Chinese, Japanese etc bond buying.
Hillary is what she has always been and should be given credit for consistency despite it being a very unbecoming consistency.
If Hillary is the best that the US can come up with, then I am afraid the US is going to be a complete moral, financial and political Fukushima.
Credit for that worthless cunt? You have to be kidding.
Speaking of political Fukushimas - Remember this?
Radiating Americans: Fukushima rain, Clinton's secret food pacthttp://www.examiner.com/article/radiating-americans-fukushima-rain-clint...
Here is another "trade"
While Hillary Was Secretary of State, Foreign Corporations in Favor of TPP Paid Bill over a Million Dollarshttp://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/while-hillary-was-secretary-st...
This is all noise to give the illusion that there is a free and impartial press. Peope who are gonna vote "D" are voting Hillary. People who are gonna vote "R" are voting Bush Rubio". Does not make a damn bit of difference. There is no solution for the downward spiral. The Feds own us all. Until important decisions are made down at the county level again, we are fucked. That won't happen until it all unravels.
For those of you that are familiar with how these charities work, here is some history.
The Kennedy's have been running this scam in Massachusetts for decades. They get businesses and people to donate money to their Citizens Energy Fund or whatever it's called.
Then every Kennedy draws a $500k per year salary to manage the fund and they give people money to buy heating oil. So you say, well at least some people are getting some charity for heating oil. Well, a few years ago a news station did an expose and followed an oil guy around and he was delivering oil to these million dollar homes in the wealthier suburbs. When asked about it, the Kennedy's said it would be humiliating for the people requesting assistance to be asked to verify their financial situation. If there is no verification process what exactly are the Kennedy's being paid to "manage." So the charity really is Kennedy's make money and their wealthy friends get free heating oil. I am sure they give one deserving family some oil so they can put them in their marketing campaign.
Clintons just borrowed the scam on a much larger scale. Fighting obesity, racism, hunger, earthquakes, volcanoes, high tide, ...
I'm under the assumption that's how most "charities" operate nowadays. I would rather give a bum on the street corner a buck or two to get hooched.
That's just insane, insanelysane!
SOP in Mass. People use taxpayer funded cards (Romneycare) to pay for medical and then drive away in their brand new Cadillacs. It is pervasive in the People's Republic.
I am surprised they didn't use the excuse that the IRS hung up on them when they called to ask a question about reporting donations from foreign governments.
Statement from the Clinton Foundation -- "We will have our external review completed by January 2017, including the submission of amended tax returns, and will pass out copies right after Hillary's inauguration".
The hidden issue here is more than just the need to file amended tax returns -- it will be that everyone will get to see what and when and who gave money -- and be able to match those up with Hillary's schedule and her actions. That will keep this in the news for a ling time -- and unlike the book -- the proof will be in the tax returns for all to see.
Makes no difference, no one will ever be charged with any wrong doing. They lie, cheat, steal, kill, and millions of morons still cheer and faint when either Bill or the Bitch walk into a room!
Fucking pathetic but not surprising!
Her campaign theme should be Elton John's "The Bitch is Back".
People who make "nistakes" of this magnitude in the real world get fired. Of course screwing up is Shrillary Clinta Nostra tradition.
Translation: "Thank you for pointing out our lackluster efforts to hide bribes.kickbacks, and influence peddling; we will now implement policies to make sure this shit never again is discovered as we rake in the cash." Now I understand the French Revolution.
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Once again, "mistakes" are only admitted to AFTER being "caught"!!
I truly truly PRAY this cunt doesn't win the "presidency"!
Who the fuck is Maura Polly. I thought Chelsea Clinton-Yahudistein was CEO? What does she do for her $900,000 a year? Very little it appears.
It's probably bad form to comment on your own post. But what does it say about the Clinton Exceptionalism when this scandal comes out and Chelsea won't say a word. Send some no name out to take the hit and fall on her sword with the mumbo jumbo that nobody believes.
Chelsea should have stayed at NBC where the most she ever had to do was interview the GEICO gecko. That's about all she is capable of.
Mistakes weren't made. Choices were made. What really pisses me off is how contemptuous Cankles is for the people she needs to convince with her piss poor record, she could be the first female President. When in fact she has never been more than the cuckholded wife of her philandering husband.
Stand by your man.....now we know why.
All this Transparency is making me dizzy.
I believe i have a good poker face with no tells but there is NO way i could spin the corruption and deceit that has shadowed Billary for decades and keep a straight face.
Maybe she's been transparently evil the little poisoned dwarf that she is.
What the fuck Cankles. Make up your mind.
I thought it was "what does it matter" not "Oops. We made some 'mistakes'
Whadayamean? She "Clintons" all the time (half the population has a vague idea of what this means and they love it up)...it's her turn after all...after it's her Mom's turn I mean. ;-)
Whoops...I meant that to be a comment on your last post. LOLOLOL
first liar doesn't stand a chance.
the clinton hillbillies do it again.
It's only a mistake when they get caught.
So they are trying to dump as much possible early on here so everyone tunes out on the REALLLYYYY bad stuff that comes out later?
And what's the email retention policy on those servers?
I didn't know U.S. Government funds went into this foundation. Those funds were to be kept separate from other contributions. By another mistake they were comingled.
You have to give up on the people who want you to believe that they have what it takes to do what it takes.
Those days are gone forever.
Now, repeat after me, 'Hillary Clinton is full of shit right up to her ears'.
Again, 'Hillary Clinton is full of shit up to her ears'.
One more time: 'Hillary Clinton is full of shit right up to her ears'.
i notice the press release doesnt mention that only 15% of the money actually goes to grants.
3 times more went to salaries and "travel".
"There ain't nuthin uglier than an old white woman." Fred Sanford, Sanford and Son
"Liar, liar, pants on fire. Tongue as long as telephone wire."
"Liar, liar, PANTSUIT on fire. Tongue in Huma's crack as long as a telephone wire"
Fixed it for you....
If I de-snark for once....
Can we really admit what is going on? 40% of the American voting Sheeple are Dumbocrats. Doesn't matter who the troglodyte is, they will vote D. The other 40% are Republitards same thing.
That really leaves 20% in the undecided who claim to be "independents". What that really means is they aren't beholden to a party. Issues dont matter in the campaign, so it comes down to a popularlity contest. "Who do I despise the LEAST?"
And even then that 20% doesn't matter in the solid Blue and Red states. There are really only about 20 states "in play".
Ergo, by my liberal arts math. 20% of 40% of the the states.
10% of the voting popoulation, give or take, will decide 2016.
You see how royally Cankles has been fucking this up before the Primaries even start Jan. 2016, this is damaging her viability with that 10%. You don't see Jeb or the other pretenders on the R's making these unforced errors. It isn't coming from Karl Rove. Can't blame the "vast right wing conspiracy" on Severgate, Benghazi - We came, we saw, a gay Ambassador was anally raped tp death...he died; Now the Foundation looks like a crass pay for play where the money comes in but doesn't appear to go out. The usual heinous contributors: Ukrainian oigarchs, Saudi women haters. Russkie Uranium miners. Keystone hacks. Doesn't look good for Hillary. It makes her look the corrupt pol we know her to be. Not "transformational" Obama in a pantsuit leading Gash Nation to the promised land.
The goal of this enterprise is that someone in the Democratic Party (Valerie Jarreett, President Peace Prize) is making sure that Cankles is so compromised that the Dems are going to have to make a choice. Should we pull her as a lost cause before Jan. Or ride her out and hope that it doesn't get worse. Pray for a miracle
Obama is a venal bastard and will destroy the Democratic Party to take down Cankles and her wretched lot. Cascading scandals coming from all sides. Reuters has this one. WSJ and NYT prior on Servergate. It doesn't get better for her
Dead hag waddling...
She could eat a living baby during a live TV pay-per-view event and not only still get the nod, but the office. You are underestimating the fact that once Bilderberg makes a decision, (assuming she's it), no amount of scandal is going to derail the vote manipulation. Don't feel bad, though, lots of people still think their ballot makes a difference in who rules us.
And that's no fucking snarky.
Project Mayhem is working on a USB virus that will turn the election over to Peewee. Follow along: peewee.com.
Maybe Madeline Albright could spare one of the 500,000 Iraqi infants we killed for this public spectacle.
Hillary's campaign events will be like the geek show at the carnival. Instead of biting the heads off of live chickens, Hillary noshes on a baby live on pay per view.
Tastes like chicken?
Good post. For the TLDR (too long didn't read) crowd: 40% of people are innate communists. 40% of people are innate facists. The two party system creates an entrenched tax code (crony capitolism) that appeals to both, if for no other purpose than allowing them to live in denial of what their core condition/beleifs are. The 20% is a dispersed group of sheep under threat of state force, and will seek safety in a herd or find isolation. We are in a period of time whether neither is safe harbor, from either group.
Shoter CF:" We'll be happy to abide by the law now we've been caught. On this limited point only."
It isn't that the puppet masters of the Clintons, Bushes or any other president are so smart; it's just that the masses are so ignorant and naive.
When the last living thing has died on account of us,
how poetical it would be if Earth could say,
in a voice floating up perhaps from the floor of the Grand Canyon,
“It is done.” People did not like it here."
Kirk Vonnegut
Guess not, as the majority certainly doesn't care.
So to sum up: Clinton's position is to carry on with what has worked for Barry for 6+ years. Namely, claim to be "extremely transparent", state that "this is not unusual", then when the heat turns up a bit, you emphatically state you are "working hard to find out who is to blame here so that you the American people can rest assured any wrongdoings will be corrected (and we won't even ask for a thank you)"
2011: We came. We saw. He died.
2015: I came. I stole. I apologized.
So, um, they do not use a competent tax accountant?
Seems to more likely be intentional to obscure the obvious conflict of interest paper trail, just like erasing hard drives.
Hitlery's only mistake is getting caught out on more than 20 occasions; oh wait she's not doing any time.
It's hilarious that when the cunt comes under pressure she calls time out on her public work (snigger) usually preceded by a tumble over some item that one of her domestic staff has left lying around, ho hum.
Next time she has a tumble or accident could she do most of us a favour and not come out of a coma.
So she admitts its so that foreigners can buy influence outside the US. Convienient for them I guess, they don't even have to leave home. Oh, since when do we have to follow Canadian laws, This is America!? I can't bang underage chicks in the states and claim I was following the Canadian age of consent laws.
Oh little ms Armageddon witch Hillary castle of delete buttons is transparent alright!
Those charity activities in full: More assertion of state power over children; more destruction of the middle class under the rubric of "climate change"; and more deaths from poisonous medicines using the fraudulent HIV/AIDS connection. Does the Clinton Foundation do any "charitable work" that helps people instead of hurting them?