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Hillary Clinton's State Department Approved $165 Billion In Arms Deals To Clinton Foundation Donors
Late last month we outlined an IBTimes report which showed that Goldman Sachs paid nearly a quarter of a million dollars to Bill Clinton for a speech before lobbying the State Department (then run by Hillary Clinton) on legislation tied to the Export-Import Bank which would eventually approved a loan to a Chinese company that subsequently placed a $75 million purchase order with a Goldman-owned aircraft manufacturer. The implication, of course, was that the speaking engagement fee ultimately influenced the State Department’s decision making, a suggestion Goldman called “preposterous.”
The Clintons have also come under scrutiny for possible conflicts of interest arising from contributions to Clinton Foundation charities while Hillary Clinton served as the nation’s top diplomat. More specifically, a Reuters investigation revealed that the Foundation failed to report “tens of millions” of donations from foreign governments on three years’ worth of 990s, prompting the organization’s acting CEO Maura Pally to pen a lengthy blog post explaining the “mistake.” Shortly thereafter, Reuters found inaccuracies in Pally’s explanation, noting that in fact, Clinton broke transparency promises made to the Obama administration.
Now, the IBTimes is out with a new investigative piece that looks at the relationship between foreign government and corporate donors to Clinton charities and weapons deals negotiated under Hillary Clinton’s State Department which, as it turns out, approved $165 billion in arms deals to nations who had previously given money to the Clinton Foundation.
Via IBTimes:
In the years before Hillary Clinton became secretary of state, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia contributed at least $10 million to the Clinton Foundation, the philanthropic enterprise she has overseen with her husband, former president Bill Clinton. Just two months before the deal was finalized, Boeing -- the defense contractor that manufactures one of the fighter jets the Saudis were especially keen to acquire, the F-15 -- contributed $900,000 to the Clinton Foundation, according to a company press release.
The Saudi deal was one of dozens of arms sales approved by Hillary Clinton’s State Department that placed weapons in the hands of governments that had also donated money to the Clinton family philanthropic empire, an International Business Times investigation has found.
Under Clinton's leadership, the State Department approved $165 billion worth of commercial arms sales to 20 nations whose governments have given money to the Clinton Foundation, according to an IBTimes analysis of State Department and foundation data. That figure -- derived from the three full fiscal years of Clinton’s term as Secretary of State (from October 2010 to September 2012) -- represented nearly double the value of American arms sales made to the those countries and approved by the State Department during the same period of President George W. Bush’s second term…
The Clinton-led State Department also authorized $151 billion of separate Pentagon-brokered deals for 16 of the countries that donated to the Clinton Foundation, resulting in a 143 percent increase in completed sales to those nations over the same time frame during the Bush administration. These extra sales were part of a broad increase in American military exports that accompanied Obama’s arrival in the White House.
These deals benefited the usual Middle East suspects with whom the Obama administration is now coordinating for the ouster of Assad...
The State Department formally approved these arms sales even as many of the deals enhanced the military power of countries ruled by authoritarian regimes whose human rights abuses had been criticized by the department. Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar all donated to the Clinton Foundation and also gained State Department clearance to buy caches of American-made weapons even as the department singled them out for a range of alleged ills, from corruption to restrictions on civil liberties to violent crackdowns against political opponents.
...and were consummated even as Clinton herself acknowledged an explicit link between some beneficiaries and funding for the very same terrorists who are now set to become a scapegoat for the very same Assad ouster…
As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton also accused some of these countries of failing to marshal a serious and sustained campaign to confront terrorism. In a December 2009 State Department cable published by Wikileaks, Clinton complained of “an ongoing challenge to persuade Saudi officials to treat terrorist financing emanating from Saudi Arabia as a strategic priority.” She declared that “Qatar's overall level of CT cooperation with the U.S. is considered the worst in the region.”
... and in case there was any doubt about Clinton's ability to influence weapons sales to foreign governments…
Questions about the nexus of arms sales and Clinton Foundation donors stem from the State Department’s role in reviewing the export of American-made weapons. The agency is charged with both licensing direct commercial sales by U.S. defense contractors to foreign governments and alsoapproving Pentagon-brokered sales to those governments. Those powers are enshrined in a federal law that specifically designates the secretary of state as “responsible for the continuous supervision and general direction of sales” of arms, military hardware and services to foreign countries. In that role, Hillary Clinton was empowered to approve or reject deals for a broad range of reasons, from national security considerations to human rights concerns.
The report doesn’t stop there. There are also links between the Clintons and the military-industrial complex with the likes of Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and United Technologies all donating money to the Foundation before being listed as contractors on more than 100 arms deals.
That group of arms manufacturers -- along with Clinton Foundation donors Boeing, Honeywell, Hawker Beechcraft and their affiliates -- were together listed as contractors in 114 such deals while Clinton was secretary of state...
Boeing was one of three companies that helped deliver money personally to Bill Clinton while benefiting from weapons authorizations issued by Hillary Clinton’s State Department. The others were Lockheed and the financial giant Goldman Sachs.
In the end, this serves as further evidence that the person who is viewed, at least for the time being, as the likely next US Commander in Chief, has in the past been susceptible to the influence of foreign governments whose cash contributions to Clinton charities may have served to shape US weapons deals with Washington's Middle Eastern allies. We'll close with the following from Harvard professor Stephen Walt:
American foreign policy is better served if people responsible for it are not even remotely suspected of having these conflicts of interest.
We wish you the best of luck with that Mr. Walt.
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Surprise, surprise, Goober.
Does the Bitch go to prison now?
"Hillary the Haggard". Is so slimy, so greasy, if ignited that thing would burn for 100 years... continuously...
Hillary Clinton:
"I will not run in 2016 due to a brain tumor found during my recent colonoscopy."
Arms are for hugging until you have to use them to stop tyrants.
$165 billion - that's all?
Bet they thought they bribed for more.
Scandalous....
1% Off the top. Hey it could happen. Just sayin.
vigorish
Not quite so hidden.
Chronic Cranius Rectumitis.
"Arms for the Poor"
"Cankles for the woodchipper"
Posted this earlier so its a repeat...
https://www.clintonfoundation.org/about/speeches
...the Clinton Crony Foundation has "found" upwards of 26 million unreported to the IRS doll...ahem, "donations"...some of the names:
Organization
Beijing Huaduo Enterprise Consulting Company Ltd.*
Business for Change Events*
Carlyle Investment Management, LLC+
China Real Estate Development Group, Ltd.*
Citibank, N.A.+
Colgate University+
Fundacion Telmex+(500k from Carlos Slim if you're keeping track at home.)
Goldman, Sachs and Co.+
Hamilton College+
JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A.+
Korea Economic Daily*
Ministry of Energy, Thailand*
Qatar First Investment Bank*
Tanmiah Commercial Group*
UB Foundation Activities, Inc.+
Unica*
University of California Los Angeles+
U.S. Islamic World Conference*
World Celebrity Golf Ltd.*
...clearly a Champion of the Average American! ;-)
Wow, so many great and powerful working so hard to cure something somewhere for some pitful somebodies, someday. :-)
No. She is too big to jail......
Jail? Ha! She is the next President. Yes, we are that fucking st00pyd
Who is this "we" of which you speak, Kimosabe?
A fantastic question. When someone points out that "we" allowed this, despite the warnings from the founding tyrants, they are speaking in collective terms. Since I do not, and will not vote, even if coerced, it is true that at least some of the "we" of ZH did not allow this, and never signed any Social Contract agreeing to it.
Back to my beer(s)
Jesus....I just imagine a smell not unlike burning hair and petrochemical waste added to month-old used pampers....
Prison? Not unless the Oval Office is a prison.
She's in cahoots with the M.I.C.? Shoe-in!
Round abouts 2008 the Bilderbergers already promised her the fucking job in 2016 for standing aside.
All completely legal. There are no laws for politicians in the U.S. Maybe civilized countries have laws against bribery, but Merica ain't one of em! "Exceptional my ass!" - Pat Healy
What's the big deal? She's no different than a waitress giving away free food to incease her tip!
Send her to jail...if the Israelis can do it, why can't we:
Former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert sentenced to 8 months in jail for illegally accepting moneyGood luck with that. Laws are for the little people in Merica.
"The law punishes equally the banker and the pauper for sleeping under the bridge". :-)
Oh boy...a whole 8 months. Exactly what kind of Jail?
Sights like that of Olmert going to prison are the reason why I await that happy day when Jews really do run the world.
If you can't see the difference, then you are the idiot! Go ahead and cast your lot with Cankles.
Sounds the the republicans finally found their candidate.
I am so in love with Mrs. Clintion in an "empty and meaningless" way.
Time for a trial for treason. Firing squad is fine.
A firing squad is too good for what they are doing.
Cement shoes and swimming with the fishes in the East River. Is cement more expensive than bullets? Who cares?
Skip the trial. They'd probably let her off.
Just fucking DO IT to her. Ream her good with a .308.
he only punishment that would come close to being appropriate would be burning at the stake. Tie her and Huma to a wooden pole, douse them with gasoline, light a match and invite patriotic Americans to bring their own beer and marshmallows.
I want to her those bitches scream for the mercy they never showed a living soul.
Here is the Thing. You really hit on something I was thinking about an hour ago.
- In the USA we really can't be sure of the Organization that we use for contributions for whatever kind of reason, political, medical Research, charity, Run for Cancer, Walk for the Cause...
- Integrity is gone in my honest opinion in the USA
- Can we ever conduct business as a consumer and we don't know what we get even with a big Federal Budget for FTC
- Pick a cause or pick a radio show, you don't always have the open honesty about what it is
- Pick an Advertisement, you don't know what it is even while making the Transaction
Hillary or Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama... we have no idea what they did, what decisions they agreed to behind our backs, who they listened to, how they made their decision, and often we don't know the Background of previous Legislation, Enforcement, Monitoring, Tracking of the Law
Corruption and mistrust prevents me from contributing money to anything in America.
How do ZH Posters feel? Do you give away money any more??
I heard there are 4 major websites that will provide info about Transparency for US Charities.
Hey they probably do this in Germany, Russia, China, Philippines, Albania, Greece, right??
BBB is one website, not sure of the others.
https://www.charitywatch.org/
www.charitynavigator.org
https://www.nrd.gov/ other_services_and_resources/ volunteer_organizations/ non-profit__and_charity_evaluators
www.cfnj.org/ news/ articles/ donors-beware-watchdog-reveals-the-top-50-worst-charities-in-america
charity.lovetoknow.com/Charity_Watchdog
But Damn we have to Search all Politicians (who will Lie) and all Foundations (who will be vague) and all PACS (who will be Vague)... Foundations (who will be Vague)
Fuck this United States.
There is no FTC, No SEC, No FDIC, No DOJ, No FBI, No OCC, No FINRA... oh how horrible to rely on the FINRA in the 2008 Financial Crisis... after the Credit Bubble was obvious in 2002 & Secondary Mortgage Market went Straight to the Moon Alice!!!
Straight to the Moon Alice!!!
Wish I could give you two upvotes for sharing that information. Thanks.
no big news. everyone knows that the clintons are for sale.
Everyone in government is for sale. Why else become a politician? It's the easiest way to get rich in America.
A woman who sells herself is a whore.
Though Hillary sold the people. She'd say she's a pimp. I'd say she's a traitor.
If she could get away with this much as Secretary of State, imagine the sewer of corruption that would accompany her in the White House.
Should be Wrapped up in the numbers below as multi year sales:
- Could be certain things need congressional & State department approval, but are not managed by International Assistance program, for instance satellite technology, communications technology, pharmaceuticals, port operations engineering, Security Systems & Training
Total-International Assistance Program Outlays 2014 = $49.37 Billion
Total-International Assistance Program Outlays 2013 = $48 Billion
Total-International Assistance Program Outlays 2000 = $25.7 Billion
Total-International Assistance Program Outlays 1998 = $26 Billion
For 2014 what I see is:
Total Foreign Military Sales Trust Fund Outlays = $26.5 Billion
If only she'd gotten the Top job it coulda been 5 times that figure. As much as i detest Barry it will kill all of us if this bitch replaces him.
Maybe i'm naive and it doesn't make any difference who gets the 'honorary title ' but Hildebeast is a nasty cunt of a Bilderbeast also.
One must admit that few people have ever been part of so many coincidences as the Clintons. But not a hint of corruption.
"Any crap message with a dead philosohers name after it sounds intelligent"
-Plato
"Certainly this is illegal, how can it not be?" -Sun Tzu
What the fuck
Plato quoting Socrates
Crony Charitable Capitalism strikes again... More at 11.
Don't forget that Bill Clinton is totally involved in this as well.
"Hillary Clinton's State Department Approved $165 Billion In Arms Deals To Clinton Foundation Donors"
Like pointing out the stink and peanuts in a pile of shit.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..
A real shame to build up treasure in DC, only to loose one's head in a guillotine later."
That is just what lying lowlife cunts and cocksuckers do!
The clintons are right at the top of the steaming pile! Their worshipers love them for this reason. Just ask george snuffalauagus, carvell...etc. Bill could cream in their face and Hill could shit on their plate and they would lap it right up.
A fucking sick crowd, that get away with muder.
The Wench of Stench. just keep on lettin' 'em get away with it folks.
If the GOP runs Rubio, Jeb, Ryan or some other ZeoCon, amnesty RINO, Soros-Adelson owned shitbag then Hillary has my vote.
Not like America has real elections or real laws that are enforced against the elites.
Where's my taste?
-Tony Soprano
I used to say fuck leaving the US, i'll stay here and fight. Now im starting to think, if people haven't figured it out by now, they're never going to. Seriously considering packing my bags and you all can just do whatever. And, yes, I do believe the elections are a sham but if enough people would get out the system still isn't so far gone that changes could be made. It just doesn't seem possible though. I don't trust our government at all. Not one bit. And being surrounded by millions of poor, blathering idiots with no motivation other than keeping the welfare coming in certainly isn't helping. I love it where I live but when I travel 60 miles to reach a big city and see what a fucking disaster it is I realize I am just way too close to the craziness. Problem is where to go? Any place that has anything is a target for the US to spread democracy lol.
Any place that has a zionist central bank is f'ed. Some just less than others.
If you're Jewish, Israel. Of course. Israel will be fine, come what might. Samson Option means nobody will be changing the regime of the Jewish state any time soon.
Otherwise, Russia is the only European nation whose best days are ahead of her, not behind her.
If that woman ever gets elected into a position of power we are doomed.
The rapist's spouse sure does know how to run a racket on a grand scale.
Make that serial rapist.
Impeached, perjured, and disbarred as well.
When can we expect an indictment for this blatant abuse of power using her position in public office to gain personally?
165 counts of Treason so must be on the short list for a nobel peace prize.
Fuck yeah!
/sarc
Nothing says "you are loved" like receiving a large arms shipment!
She makes the Khashoggi's look like pikers.............
There used to be a difference between a "global charity" and a "personal slush fund." I'm not seeing it anymore.
Anybody here old enough to remember when you could get into a heap of trouble just for accepting a Vicuna coat?
Actually, you have to hand it to the old broad. She is probably on her way to setting a new US record for the monetary value of political corruption.
The world's largest banana republic
What people are not making the connection to and why "Benghazi" is important is that was Clinton's "buy-in" for the future Presidency.
The Obama State Department under Hillary's direction and the funds at the Clinton Foundation were likely a primary conduit for arming ISIS/ISIL and creating the de-facto pivot of the entire Sunni-Shia conflict in MENA.
The vanguard for the anti-Syrian opposition came from the emptied prisons of Mubarak's Egypt around the time of the Arab Spring (late 2010). Those fighters were bused to the Libya border and spilled into that theater.
Less than a year later, Sept 2011, Qaddafi was dead and the region was boiling with free fighting factions ready to work for anyone with food, ammo and a mission.
A year of post-Qaddafi training, positioning and infighting left a handful of organized forces logistically able to work internationally - in Syria and Beyond.
September 2012, "Ambassador" Stevens was in-country to facilitate heavy weapons transfer to forces slated to move toward Syria - the proto-Islamic Front - the origins of ISIS.
Why the deal went down the way it did - who knows. Money. Talent. Infighting. The MTV-CIA.
The so-called "annex" was a weapons bunker containing arms financed by the Turks, Saudis, Qatar, etc - the same folks giving the Clinton Foundation money.
Are the Clintons writing checks for SA-7s? Nope. Are the "finances" of the Clinton Foundation kosher or even understandable? Never.
It's probably another BCCI. Foundations and NGO are the new mercenary headquarters. We are living a Non-Profit Bubble anyway.
Is the "media" going to ask any questions or connect the dots? Never.
So for everyone talking about how Clinton can't be president - forget it. She is the only one that worked with the international forces that prepared the battlefield to contain Persia and its Bomb.
That is the ONLY mission in all the killing and misery.
Another 18 months of Obama. Eight years of Hillary Clinton.
What will this country look like in another 10 years?
Anyone who thinks that the Pentagon and MIC were and are not 110% behind this corruption are delusional. You know support the troops and all that.
She is a Traitor to this country and a Traitor to the Constitution and that is all any voter should need to know. Good luck with all that....
She is simply the poster boy for what has become the most corrupt, evil nation in History. I will continue to try to help take my country back - but decades of destroying the traditional family, the religiosity of our people, and the homogeneity of the people through legal and illegal immigation from laregly third world nations, not to mention poisoning our water and food to dumb us down, as well as rampant, systematic fraud and looting of our wealth by criminal Wall Street which owns our corrupt politicians, endless unjust wars that kill and create refugees of tens of millions of innocents, -is making such a task nearly impossible. The elites who have destroyed this nation need to fry - they are traitors and psychopaths.
Free Texas!
McStain must be on a hefty %age of the Clinton Booty.
McStain and Hildebeast Ticket 2016. Now that's a sick scenario.
Delicious. :-)
Hillary did what?
No way.
I'm sure she was just trying to help the little people.
I am 63 and America used to be pretty nice. Same games as today, I just was not aware of them.
It is not likely that we find a leader from among the awakened who can inspire the citizens. Too bad that's what we need. Who would you choose to be true leader to the huddle masses?
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Influence Peddling.
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America has the best government money can buy, and the Hildebeast would sell Chelsea for the right amount of $$.
America also has the grossest national product. If only bribes counted toward GDP, then the BOWshit about "the recovery" might have some credibility.
i wish i could make a movie of that bitch screaming and throwing her hands going, what difference does it make, and then 200 little laser dots appear all over her and blam.
So they bribed the Clintons in order to be able to bribe the US by buying the US military junk? Did they also have to bribe the foundation's clerk to accept the bribe on behalf of the Clintons?
A retarded society deserves retarded leaders and law.
Hildabeast - America's new pin-up ho - expensive, butt-ugly prostitute
What else would one expect from Hillarhoid - that Gargoyle Of Grift, that Strumpet Of Sleaze - who cut her teeth - make that "fangs" - on donating Slick Willy's used underwear to charity for a tax-deduction???
Does anyone remember the suspicious news reports of China's nuclear tests during the the 1992 election campaign? The reports stated that the Chinese nuclear tests were a mirror image of U.S. thermonuclear tests. The allegation at the time was the Chinese had access to U.S. nuclear data. I have not seen any follow up to those reports.
Where is the foreign Corrupt Practices Act in all this ? If I pay a big stack of cash into the "family charity" of a shady foreign politician in a sunny climate in the expectation of favors and business, I go to jail. If a foreign or US company pays a big fat contribution into the family charity of a U.S. Politician.......