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Clinton Foundation Broke Transparency Promise To Obama, "Strong Armed" Charity Watchdog
A few weeks back, we outlined what we called The Clinton Foundation’s “Geithner moment,” where, after a Reuters investigation revealed discrepancies, the charity decided to refile five years worth of tax returns and review filings dating back as far as fifteen years. At issue are disclosures around contributions from US and foreign governments which Reuters claimed totaled “tens of millions” of dollars in a typical year but which mysteriously disappeared altogether from the organization’s 990s starting in 2010. As we noted at the time, the Foundation was quick to point out that when it comes to charities, it is exemplary in terms of 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.
A few days later, the charity’s acting CEO penned a lengthy blog post explaining the “mistakes” and assuring voters that the organization goes to great lengths to avoid conflicts of interest. Finally, a few days after that, IB Times questioned whether a $200,000 payment made to Bill Clinton by Goldman Sachs (ostensibly as compensation for a speaking appearance) was an effort to influence the State Dept’s decision making process surrounding a loan from the Export-Import Bank to a company that was set to purchase planes from a Goldman-backed supplier.
The latest on what will surely be one of politics’ most well-covered stories over the next 18 months, comes again from Reuters who reports that despite the Clinton Foundation’s recent attempts to play down the missing 990 disclosures, information on government funding is still not publicly available.
Via Reuters:
The Clinton Foundation has acknowledged that the government funding totals omitted from their tax returns cannot be found on their website either, despite the foundation's acting chief executive officer earlier suggesting they were available there.
The foreign government funding received by the globe-spanning charities of Hillary Clinton's family has received particular scrutiny in recent weeks as Clinton seeks to become the Democratic nominee in the 2016 presidential election.
The foundation's acknowledgement means precise totals for government grants to the charity for the last three years of Clinton's four-year tenure as secretary of state have still not been publicly disclosed. All U.S. charities have to separately disclose each year how much they get in government funding, both domestic and foreign.
Shortly before taking office in 2009, Clinton promised the Obama administration heightened transparency concerning donors to her family's charities to avoid accusations of conflicts of interests when she became the nation's most senior diplomat. In recent months, the charities have said they did not comply with some parts of the agreement.
In April, Maura Pally, the foundation's acting chief executive officer, said it was a mistake not to separately list government grants on its public tax forms for 2010, 2011 and 2012 after a Reuters review found errors, but added that the public could find the break-outs elsewhere.
"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," she wrote in a statement on the foundation's website.
The audited financial statements, however, do not break out government grants separately, foundation officials told Reuters.
Instead, they combine them with an unspecified amount of funds from private grant-making organizations, in keeping with generally accepted accounting principles, the foundation officials said. The revenue tables in the statements do not make explicit that any revenue at all comes from governments.
Asked if Pally's statements were therefore incorrect or misleading, a foundation spokesman, Kamyl Bazbaz, said no, because it was not necessary to separately break out government grants on audited financial statements.
Meanwhile, NY Magazine alleges that the Foundation attempted to "strong arm" influential charity watchdog Charity Navigator (which we discussed late last month) after the group put the Clinton charities on a "watch list." Here's more:
After being the subject of a spate of negative newspaper accounts about potential conflicts of interest and management dysfunction this winter — long before Clinton Cash — the Clinton Foundation wound up on a "watch list" maintained by the Charity Navigator, the New Jersey–based nonprofit watchdog. The Navigator, dubbed the "most prominent" nonprofit watchdog by the Chronicle of Philanthropy, is a powerful and feared player in the nonprofit world. Founded in 2002, it ranks more than 8,000 charities and is known for its independence. For a while, the Clinton Foundation was happy to promote Charity Navigator’s work (back when they were awarded its highest ranking). In September 2014, in fact, the Navigator's then-CEO, Ken Berger, was invited to speak at the Clinton Global Initiative. Of course that was before the Foundation was placed on a list with scandal-plagued charities like Al Sharpton's National Action Network and the Red Cross.
Since March, the Foundation has embarked on an aggressive behind-the-scenes campaign to get removed from the list. Clinton Foundation officials accuse the Navigator of unfairly targeting them, lacking credible evidence of wrongdoing, and blowing off numerous requests for a meeting to present their case. "They're not only punishing us for being transparent but are not being transparent themselves," Maura Pally, the Foundation's acting CEO, told me by phone from Morocco last week. "Charity Navigator doesn't disclose its donors, but we do and yet that means we're suffering the consequences"...
Navigator executives counter that the Foundation has demanded they extend the Clintons special treatment. They also allege the Foundation attempted to strong-arm them by calling a Navigator board member.
And here is the play-by-play:
The trouble with Navigator started on Wednesday morning, March 11. Foundation officials became alarmed when they received an anonymous email from the watchdog's Donor Advisory committee informing them they would be added to the list on Friday, March 13, unless they could provide answers to questions raised in newspaper accounts...
Over the next few days, Foundation officials desperately attempted to contact Navigator executives to rebut their claims but, inexplicably, couldn’t get through to anyone on the phone. On the evening of Friday, March 13, Pally sent a detailed email rebuttal...
It didn't work. During a tense phone conversation on the afternoon of March 17, Pally and Berger argued over the merits of the media's claims about the Foundation. Pally said they were without substance; Berger insisted that since the newspapers published the articles, they were relevant..
The Navigator invited the Foundation to respond publicly on their website. Instead, Pally asked Berger to meet and review confidential copies of the Foundation's handbook, “Global Code of Conduct,” and board bylaws. Berger declined, feeling it was another effort of backroom dealing and spin.
All of this serves to underscore both the degree to which the Clintons will be put under intense scrutiny as Hillary ramps up her campaign to return to The White House (this time as commander in chief) but also speaks to the fact that despite the protestations of politicians, transparency into Washington's dealings with foreign governments is sorely lacking, a fact which serves to keep Americans mired in a perpetual state of ignorance when it comes to the geopolitical wrangling that ultimately shapes the course of world history.
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What difference at this point does it make?
Obama broke transparency promise to Obama, so f**k him! She was playing follow the leader.
Ya what difference does it make? "Nobody died this time"
"Nobody died this time"
You don't know that.
The Clintons leave a trail of bodies like some homicidal train-hopping hobo serial killer.
Can we please stop calling this a charity. It is a slush fund. Ain't no fucking charity about it.
pods
It's 10% charity, 90% slush fund. The normal ratio.
Liars lying to liars. Agenda taking priority over agenda. Narrative trumping narrative. BFD. I don't trust any of them.
Clinton charity. Oxymoron of the day.
Transparency? Obama's?, Clinton's? This is what is called the proverbial classic: The Pot calling the kettle black..."
These people are tempting God to strike down the entirety of Humanity, FFS.
But not to worry, the bad news is being yelled for the rooftops well before the elections such that the Perceptions Management Spin Doctors will have Plenty of Time Left to Establish New Bonafides, A Whole New Persona
I would PAY to see this bitch perp-walked in orange jumpsuit and shackled.
Looney
Mayweather Packy took in some $600MM from tickets and television.
Imagine the PPV haul for a day of good olde fashioned medieval retribution.
I thought some of my friends were crazy for paying 100$ for tht shit. But for what you just described, 100$ would be a bargain.
Hilary would start drooling in her shakles and leering at her buxom big nurse prison guard.
I always appreciate a big bust in the mouth! :>D
I would pay to see that over Mayweather dancing in the ring for 12 rounds. Plus, there would be an absolute outcome!
Knukles & Carl, A great big Bingo to both of ya!
The biggest problem with Hillary, is that her head is still
attached to the rest of her. Roll Guillotines!
Remember. Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives
should be the name of a convenience store,
not a Govt. Agency!
You surely would pay all right, as evil is only ever defeated by an even greater evil. I can only imagine the horrors to come if the current class of evil-doers is usurped.
Evil is only overcome by God
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXUsEcxQN4o
Clinton Foundation's biggest donor was Ukrainian oligarch
Foundation....what is a "Foundation", why do they exist to begin with?
The whole purpose of a "Foundation" is to avoid taxation. Which means the entire concept of a "Foundation" is really an IRS phenomenon.
So WHERE IS THE IRS in these investigations!!! This "FOUNDATION" should not have FOUNDATION status! And if it didn't have Billary attached to it, and if the IRS VIPs weren't puppets of the DNC then then there's no way in hell this foundation would keep it's tax exempt status.
disgusting.
I looked it up, "The Clinton Global Influence Peddling Scheme" is synomous with "The Clinton Global Initiative".
Wow, this is just rich! What's so hard to understand about the concept of "their law?"
FYI, the IRS shouldn't exist either, but hey, evil somehow finds a way.
Some folks got Arkancided. (quite a few actually).
It makes none.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbOx8TyvUmI
The Smiths - "What Difference Does It Make?"
Seymour Hersh: Clinton's Entire Account Of Vince Foster's Death Is One Big Lie; This Is What Really Happened
although official reports claim that vince foster rode to work on his unicorn raised in bunudu-land, the truth is that his unicorn was raised by a pakistani boy in a ranch south of mexico city.
more details can be found in the 10,000 word story, which settles once and for all the mysteries about vince foster.
When Obama gets pitchforked...hell take Hitlery with him.
Forget about all that, isn't it time for a woman president yet?
as a foreigner and alien, can't say. in fact, I don't understand exactly why Americans are so fond about the Presidency as institution
Brits had a six-week long electoral campaign for a whole parliament for five years, and spent a fraction of a fraction of what clear losers of this presidential race will spend
meanwhile, Hillary Clinton is already in campaign mode and we don't even know who she will campaign against yet. so we will again endure a two-year long race, costing billions of Super-PAC money... all for one freaking person with way too much power to begin with
Bush told us "you are either with me or against me". Obama? Pivoted to Asia, whatever that means. And now we hear that foreign affairs will be very important for the next race... shall we be... anxious about what that means?
I'll make you a suggestion: let us in the Rest Of The World vote. We'd nominate, of course, George Cloony for President and Jon Stewart for VP ;-!
Gee Ghord, that's quite a horse-race analysis of the grand puppet-show ya got there.
Especially given your own fondness of puppet-show institutions that exist only to separate humans from humanity.
I do find it hilarious though that a statist like yourself would admit that government gives any single person too much power.
Perhaps there's a peaceful ideology lurking in your incoherent world-view after all, eh?
N/A, I'm for sure not a convinced statist. "The State" is an institution I would happily do without, if it was feasible
but we have over one hundred of those beasts prowling the planet, and there are striking differences among them
including how they are built, and this matters a lot
is my world-view incoherent if I postulate that we have not found yet how to get on without states?
btw, state does not mean war. you don't need a state for a war. but you still need a state for a ... <damn>... peace
bring it on: a peaceful territory without state. I'm the first to come and cheer
Named Elizabeth Warren, with VP Bernie Sanders
Lets hope that we can have just 1 day without the assault of this skanks image..
The Carter Foundation also has gotten lots of foreign donations. Namely from the Saudi's
http://www.cartercenter.org/donate/partners/archives/alwaleed-bin-talal-...
The Alwaleed Bin Talal Foundation is chaired by HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud of Saudi Arabia, and vice chaired by HH Princess Ameerah Al-Taweel. The Foundation has donated a total of U.S. $2.4 billion to initiatives
There is a very long pattern of Saudi influence for the past 40 years. It started with Jimmy.
It's finally starting to creep out because it cannot be hidden anymore due to the level of technology we use now.
So, in case the Saudi fucktards haven't figured it out yet, THERE ARE NO MORE SECRETS.
This is going to get interesting because the troubles of America can now be traced, and those traces always seem to end up with the Saudi's...
There aren't anymore secrets.
This was produced in israel:
https://youtu.be/HB780oK6F9M
Believe it or not. It's true.
If she gets elected, buy everything you can. She's hung out her shingle to the banks (ours, theirs, whoever): "Everything's for sale and you own a printing press". That should be her campaign slogan.
It's gonna be fucking EPIC.
dark ages will come back, you will ask for Barry xD
NPR is going full tilt for Hillary.
Yup... Hillary for Prez. We all know it is coming. Express train to hell. All aboard.
(might as well just get on with it).
The way I see it, a vote for Hillary is a vote for the "great reset" happening sooner rather than later.
I'm voting straight Democrat ticket this year. The Rs are making too many noises like they want to fix stuff. I don't want anything fixed. I want it good and fucking broken.
Yeah, the Rs and Ds want the same thing. I just want the LEAST COMPETENT, MOST CORRUPT leaders in high office we can get. That's looking like Hilly and Co. to me.
+1 on that. Vote straight up what the radio says and blank checks for congress. Let's get this party kicked into high gear!
The hidden danger from being 'Zero for too long'.
The type of misery that you desire can last well beyond your lifeline.
If the Puerto Ricans can get SS disability for not being able to speak English you can surely get it for being Zerofied.
My thoughts exactly.
"The way I see it, a vote for Hillary is a vote for the "great reset" happening sooner rather than later."
What this kind of statement does is underscore just how immoral voting is. Voting is an act of violence. Someone who votes for Hillary...or Jeb...or Mario...or whoever is simply using a proxy to impose their will on others. Nobody has the moral authority to appoint a legal and political leader over others against their will. I haven't voted since 1996 and won't ever again for that reason.
As I tell people all of the time, "Feel free to choose any leader you want to follow. Choose mine though, and we've got issues, as you're pure evil, and I want nothing more to do with your violent ways of organizing society. Your solution is nothing more than putting a gun to my head."
Then when I get that confused look from them, I make a finger gun, point it at their heads, and with as much malice in my voice as I can muster, tell them "Do as I say, or I'll fucking kill you while stealing everything you own."
Then I ask, "Now is this any way for a peaceful society to organize?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muHg86Mys7I
Truly the greatest evil in the world is representation. (See real meaning of 2nd Commandment, ie accepting an image as the real.)
Y'all come to shop at Clinton's Big Bargain Barn! (formerly Bill & Hills Five & Dime)
We've gradutated to the Big Leagues from nickle and diming it. Come with your bribes, send your bagmen, no offer is to big and no amount of cash unwashable.
Spend a million or more, and you will receive a completely untraceable e- mail account with auto-delete if supenoaed button.
Soooo come on down to Clinton's...please.
Lawrd do I love me a good Clinton bash!
This couple sent HIV tainted blood from the Arkansas Prison system that was laundered via the red cross (yeah, vampires), inspite of repeated warnings about the possibility of contamination.
AIDS (symptoms) exploded amongst th epopulations of Japan, France and India, the primary recepients of said tainted blood.
This couple, the fact that they even stand a frigging CHANCE of being back in the WH is a slap on the face of the American collective and a pat on the back of the controllers.
Bush V Clinton 2016....beyond bizzaire if it happens....
FSA is growing by the day.....it will march for twinkies.
Think about that. What is anyone doing to stem the SNAP tide? TPP?
The word inexhorable comes to mind, barring some deus ex machina....
It is exactly the same with dynastic politics here in India. Worse. Everything is corrupted here politically..
ends... 20:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njftLIlO7co
Politics is nothing BUT corruption.
In Bizarro World, opacity = transparency
hillary is a scary individual. she seems to have no compassion whatsoever, like a female sociopath. and that is something we, as a society, are mostly unfamiliar with.
i think most of us deal with female sociopaths on a daily basis. Many of us are married.
"So, you Married an Axe-Murderer?"
shades of William Faulkner
Well, has anyone lived up to the promises?
I am shocked, shocked I tell you, that people expect the truth from pathological liars.
Amkerika truly deserves its miserable fate if it continues to elect self-serving socialist paracites.
Amerika ELECTS nothing...it is provided
R u tryin' to cheer me up?
Actually the system is dead. It's broken. It has met it's maker. It has Kicked the bucket...
Thats what we get for allowing political dynasties like Bush and Clinton. This is the EXACT opposite that our founding fathers had in mind.
Most if not all of your founding fathers were double and triple agents of the crown, various masonic lodges in europe, various banking houses, self serving aggrandizers, slave-owning, self enriching autocrats....sure they wrote and spoke eloquently and beautifully, but that is what the quadrivium is for.
You are missing the point.
The Count : 3
I must be really missing the point
DELETED. DUPE POST.
DELETED. DUPE POST.
Who, from the framers point of view, are "The People"?
Excellent. And more importantly, "WE the People".
Plus, I hate getting framed. Everything in a frame is a mirage.
We've been framed. They make sure to tell us that all constitutions are framed.
Framed. Farmed.
Whoa!
Etymology!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTot6Wcz3-g
In the 20th century-the senior and junior Charles Lindberg's, and regardless of what on ethinks of them personally, the Kennedy's, provided "real American" leadership; their families are marked by unspeakable tragedies.
Reagan got the message within 90d of taking office
Does Ron Paul have one more run in him, this time as an independent. There would be a huge "Anyone But Bush / Clinton Vote" and it would be really, really interesting, assuming that he could make the most of the five minutes the MSM media would give him during the two hour debates.
Run against his own son? Seems a bit unlikely.
I assume Rand will not be last Republican standing. I'm talking about when it's confirmed Jeb v. Hillary, anyone who is paying attention cannot in good conscience vote for either of them.
His son supported the opposition when he ran. Romney...
Paul needs $100,000,000 at this point.
If obama goes down...hell take Hitlery with him.
All of it just makes her even more of a rock star with today's brain-dead electorate. She has a vagina (allegedly) and that's all that matters.
Similar to Jane Dillingers.
I still say the little African poster child on the Clinton Foundation website is the same actor I saw recently in a McDonalds commercial.
Anyone who bought into the transparency industry deserves every drop of "Uncle Obama's magical opacity elixir" they received in return for their investment. "Apply daily behind each ear and soon you, too, will be believing your own bullshit!"
If you are into drones check out this site : www.pickyourdrone.com
I'm voting with my vagina, so what difference does it make now? Besides, when you are part of the 60% that pays 2% of the taxes, all you care about is "free shit" anyway and Cankles will deliver on that.
www.traderzoo.mobi
Meh.... what difference does it make? A majority of Merikuns thinks she is honest and trustworthy. For 8 years we had to listen to that retard Bush try to string two sentences together, followed by going on 7 years of Obama's stupidity, Aand now we have 8 years of this shrill bitch to look forward to. God help us.
They rig everything remember.
The curtains have been drawn back, and all thats left is the brick wall.
Unbelievable that she stands a solid chance at being the next POTUS! I cannot believe that people are so stupid, greedy and lazy. If she wins, I swear I will leave this place with my money and never come back. Assuming there will be anyplace to which to return.
I don't know how the progressive, lliberals pulled it off but it appears they have.
If you burn a real witch at the stake what happens?
Lollipop Guild breaks into song & dance?
Thanks for the information. I'll include it with all of the other incriminating evidence in the file marked 'Things I know for a fact Eric Holder is checking into'.....
He's wearing a skirt now.
At the end of the day, their delusions of godhood notwithstanding, the Clintons are hillbillys.
You mean the Clintons and people associated with the Clintons lied? Wow, I'm stunned.
THe Clintons really are two of the most vile products of America's toxic political process. Utterly contemptible human trash they are.
A politician breaking a promise; imagine that. The basic reason the 99% has so much strife is a long chain of broken promises which steals their income to finance these sociopaths.
A vile and pernicious reptile.
Almost makes scum and villainy respectable. Almost.
I note at least one Vichy collaborator present. Note that word - collaborator. I suspect you'll be hearing/seeing it much more frequently in the good old US of A.
"Hope you guess my name..."
What we need is the Kingfish...
Huey P. Long.
Corruption that was loud and proud... And got the hospitals and roads built too.
Nowadays, we got much bigger corruption and get nothing back for our money except a library with the assholes name on it. Who cares about that?
Give us back our old-timey All American corruption like the good old days.
Great point. Capones chicago was not a bad place. If you were part of it in any capacity, there were relatively easy rules to follow and nobody gets hurt. If you were not a part of it, they generally left you alone.
The IRS sent him to prison. Not the marshals. not the FBI. not the chancery. Now the IRS is run by people like timmay geithener. The clintons become billionaires. Sell domestic urainium mines to the russians. And many many poor people are losing their 800 sq ft homes.
This administration is as transparent as a brick wall! So given that, she's inline.
Let's have a perp walk for both Bill and Hillary - orange jump suits & shackles! Put it on pay per view and I'll bet the United States can finally balance it's budget - legitimately.
You can call a bribe a speaking engagement, but it's still a bribe.
I think the Clinton's should retire to Hope, Arkansas. Here's a nice double wide. If they want some extra cash, they could do a white trash Hill-Billy reality show. It's even got a hog pen.
http://www.trulia.com/property/3201627277-209-Hempstead-228-Hope-AR-7180...
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why did the obama administration ask hillary to sign such a document...? isnt this weird? if she had never signed the doc then we wouldnt have this issue of 'nondislosure'. something just seems fishy like obama's people dont really care for the clintons or womething. it is like hitler asking mussilini to sign a doc he wont cheat on his taxes....
http://s233.photobucket.com/user/FrankPilla/media/holo/hollocar_zpsqdvjg...
Well the Clinton's are in the mould of Warren Harding with a real dose of Araturo Ui
WHERE IS SARAH IN ALL OF THESE?
StrongArm Flexxin'-get up out of that chair and do some flexxin for Hillary.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=strong+arm
ZH: Need to spell it out for the dumb and dumber Americans who are getting to be the dumbest of all.
The Clinton Foundation is a front for laundering of political bribe money, and probably other things as well. Just as a "legitimate" business launders drug money, the Clinton Foundation launders political bribe money.
The idea of a "Charitable Trust" is a false premise. It sounds like a very noble and worthy cause. It is a charitable trust after all... except that for all practical purposes the Clinton Charitable Trust is charitable to only one entity: The Clintons.
While we're at it, might as well throw in money paid for "speeches". This is bribe money disguised as payment for speaking engagements which for all we know Clinton recites nursery rhymes. These are flat out bribes.
The brazeness of the corruption just staggers the imagination.
There is a great video on youtube: The Clinton Murders
These people are dangerous. They both belong in jail.
Clinton Foundation’s Deep Financial Ties to Ukrainian Oligarch Revealed
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-03-21/clinton-foundation%E2%80%99s-de...
7 Highly Effective Habits of ORGANIZED CRIMINALS:
1. Start a CHARITABLE TRUST so everyone thinks you care
2. Make sure the owners/supporters of the Trust have HIGH LEVEL CONNECTIONS (esp. in Govt & Banks)
3. Take photos with the poorest of the poor (like in Haiti) for MAXIMIZED OPTICS to "prove" that the Trust cares
4. STRONG ARM donors (governments, businesses, individuals, etc) into "donating" in return for favors (unspoken, of course)
5. Make sure all written, typed and recorded correspondence confirming the quid pro quo is ELIMINATED (wiping a server is an excellent expression of this habit)
6. BLAME everyone else for "loss" of correspondence, unreported donors, shady deals, etc. while watching your personal wealth SKYROCKET
7. Once the sheeple refocus on more important issues (e.g. the GARGANTUAN size of Kardashian's ass) Go to Step 1 and REPEAT process
Not yer first rodeo, huh?
Too late. State Dept. already declared it won't even investigate.
If people understood the leveraging power of a charitable foundation, everyone would run out tomorrow and start one.