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How Clinton Foundation Donations Led To Billions In Weapons Sales To Autocratic Regimes
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
Another day, another Clinton Foundation related scandal. In the latest expose by International Business Times’ David Sirota, we learn about the explosion in weapons sales to certain nations during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State. Billions of dollars in sales went to autocratic regimes notorious for human rights abuses who donated generously to the Clinton Foundation. Should we be surprised? No. Should we be outraged and disgusted? Absolutely. Of all the Clinton scandals, the following is the most dangerous to peace on earth.
Here are some excerpts from the IBT article detailing how taxpayer money is being used to arm the world into oblivion:
Even by the standards of arms deals between the United States and Saudi Arabia, this one was enormous. A consortium of American defense contractors led by Boeing would deliver $29 billion worth of advanced fighter jets to the United States’ oil-rich ally in the Middle East.
Israeli officials were agitated, reportedly complaining to the Obama administration that this substantial enhancement to Saudi air power risked disrupting the region’s fragile balance of power. The deal appeared to collide with the State Department’s documented concerns about the repressive policies of the Saudi royal family.
In the event you want a highlight reel of heinous Saudi behavior, click here.
These were not the only relationships bridging leaders of the two nations. 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.
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.
American defense contractors also donated to the Clinton Foundation while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state and in some cases made personal payments to Bill Clinton for speaking engagements. Such firms and their subsidiaries were listed as contractors in $163 billion worth of Pentagon-negotiated deals that were authorized by the Clinton State Department between 2009 and 2012.
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.
This is how America spreads democracy around the world.
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.” She said the Kuwaiti government was “less inclined to take action against Kuwait-based financiers and facilitators plotting attacks.” She noted that “UAE-based donors have provided financial support to a variety of terrorist groups.” All of these countries donated to the Clinton Foundation and received increased weapons export authorizations from the Clinton-run State Department.
Money talks and human rights walk.
In all, governments and corporations involved in the arms deals approved by Clinton’s State Department have delivered between $54 million and $141 million to the Clinton Foundation as well as hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments to the Clinton family, according to foundation and State Department records. The Clinton Foundation publishes only a rough range of individual contributors’ donations, making a more precise accounting impossible.
Just before Hillary Clinton became Secretary of State, the Clinton Foundation signed an agreement generally obligating it to disclose to the State Department increases in contributions from its existing foreign government donors and any new foreign government donors. Those increases were to be reviewed by an official at the State Department and “as appropriate” the White House counsel’s office. According to available disclosures, officials at the State Department and White House raised no issues about potential conflicts related to arms sales.
“The word was out to these groups that one of the best ways to gain access and influence with the Clintons was to give to this foundation,” said Meredith McGehee, policy director at the Campaign Legal Center, an advocacy group that seeks to tighten campaign finance disclosure rules. “This shows why having public officials, or even spouses of public officials, connected with these nonprofits is problematic.”
IBTimes’ review of the Clintons’ annual financial disclosures also revealed that 13 companies lobbying the State Department paid Bill Clinton $2.5 million in speaking fees while Hillary Clinton headed the agency.
Just in case you were wondering how much influence the Secretary of State has with regard to arm sales to foreign nations…
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 also approving 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 State Department does not disclose which individual companies are involved in direct commercial sales, but its disclosure documents reveal that countries that donated to the Clinton Foundation saw a combined $75 billion increase in authorized commercial military sales under the three full fiscal years Clinton served, as compared to the first three full fiscal years of Bush’s second term.
Under a presidential policy directive signed by President Bill Clinton in 1995, the State Department is supposed to specifically take human rights records into account when deciding whether to approve licenses enabling foreign governments to purchase military equipment and services from American companies. Despite this, Hillary Clinton’s State Department increased approvals of such sales to nations that her agency sharply criticized for systematic human rights abuses.
In its 2010 Human Rights Report, Clinton’s State Department inveighed against Algeria’s government for imposing “restrictions on freedom of assembly and association” tolerating “arbitrary killing,” “widespread corruption,” and a “lack of judicial independence.” The report said the Algerian government “used security grounds to constrain freedom of expression and movement.”
That year, the Algerian government donated $500,000 to the Clinton Foundation and its lobbyists met with the State Department officials who oversee enforcement of human rights policies. Clinton’s State Department the next year approved a one-year 70 percent increase in military export authorizations to the country. The increase included authorizations of almost 50,000 items classified as “toxicological agents, including chemical agents, biological agents and associated equipment” after the State Department did not authorize the export of any of such items to Algeria in the prior year.
During Clinton’s tenure, the State Department authorized at least $2.4 billion of direct military hardware and services sales to Algeria — nearly triple such authorizations over the last full fiscal years during the Bush administration. The Clinton Foundation did not disclose Algeria’s donation until this year — a violation of the ethics agreement it entered into with the Obama administration.
The monarchy in Qatar had similarly been chastised by the State Department for a raft of human rights abuses. But that country donated to the Clinton Foundation while Hillary Clinton was running the State Department. During the three full budgetary years of her tenure, Qatar saw a 14-fold increase in State Department authorizations for direct commercial sales of military equipment and services, as compared to the same time period in Bush’s second term. The department also approved the Pentagon’s separate $750 million sale of multi-mission helicopters to Qatar. That deal would additionally employ as contractors three companies that have all supported the Clinton Foundation over the years: United Technologies, Lockheed Martin and General Electric.
In 2011, for example, the former president was paid $175,000 by the Kuwait America Foundation to be the guest of honor and keynote speaker at its annual awards gala, which was held at the home of the Kuwaiti ambassador. Ben Affleck spoke at the event, which featured a musical performance by Grammy-award winner Michael Bolton. The gala was emceed by Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, hosts of MSNBC’s Morning Joe show. Boeing was listed as a sponsor of the event, as were the embassies of the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar — the latter two of which had donated to the Clinton Foundation while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state.
It’s almost shocking that the entire gala didn’t implode upon itself from all the vapid, phony narcissists in attendance.
The speaking fee from the Kuwait America Foundation to Bill Clinton was paid in the same time frame as a series of deals Hillary Clinton’s State Department was approving between the Kuwaiti government and Boeing. Months before the gala, the Department of Defense announced that Boeing would be the prime contractor on a $693 million deal, cleared by Hillary Clinton’s State Department, to provide the Kuwaiti government with military transport aircraft. A year later, a group sponsored in part by Boeing would pay Bill Clinton another $250,000 speaking fee.
Federal records show that ethics staffers at the State Department approved the payments to Bill Clinton from Goldman Sachs, and the Lockheed- and Boeing-sponsored groups without objection, even though the firms had major stakes in the agency’s weapons export decisions.
Stephen Walt, a Harvard University professor of international affairs, told IBTimes that the intertwining financial relationships between the Clintons, defense contractors and foreign governments seeking weapons approvals is “a vivid example of a very big problem — the degree to which conflicts of interest have become endemic.”
More from the Clinton highlight reel:
How UCLA Tried to Negotiate a Lower Speaking Fee, but Hillary Clinton Refused and Demanded $300,000
Senior Fellow at Sunlight Foundation Calls the Clinton Foundation “A Slush Fund”
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"Hillary"
A pleasant word you shout out after passing gas in the elevator.
>>>> Hitlery prison-bound
>>>> WhiteHouse-bound
Treason... Self Serving.....should be skinned alive....
Fuck her...
RIPS
snowden 2016, hes really the only one we can trust.
There is every chance we the people will vote for her. "We" admire sociopathic narcissists who shamelessly flaunt norms and rules to win. A minority of voters still hew to the values that made America great, but Democracy is on its timeworn rampage now. Gird your loins.
There is a Federal RICO type law called Foreign Corrupt Practices Act FCPA. our Feds used it on FIFA exectuives.
seriously doubt it will be used on the Fully Corrupt Former President.
Selling the Lincoln Bedroom to agents of the chinese army and selling pardons wasn't adequate to ban these narcissists from public life. This is America now. Prosecutions are opportunistic and elective.
That's right - they did sell er rent the Lincoln bedroom -
....by the hour.
The law does not apply to these people.
Kreiger's multiple comparisons to Shrub's 2nd term are juvenile. Otherwise, it's a fun-filled article.
They are useful for annoying liberals.
I thought it important to establishing context that would demonstrate the numbers were far beyond recent precedent . . . even under the previous War Criminal POTUS.
It did get monotonous, agreed. But legitimately made the point, I thought.
The only people that care about that are at ZH, so who cares
Damn, who let the Hillary?
Silent but deadl?. Nothig silent about this cackling Medusa
She truly is "The Mother of All Evil"
'It's My Turn!' - H Clinton 'in '16! Woohoo!
This is all just a coincidence. I see no impropriety at all.
pods
That's what the head of the Ethics Committee said too.
I'm glad everyone is on the same page, Hillary has never been the same after being humiliated by Billy in that Monica fiasco. :)
She will never forgive us for it, and this is the person we are giving the nuclear football to.
after partnering with the cia in mena arkansas nothing surprises me about the depths of clinton evil.
The wrongs the Clintons engage in are just Everyday, banal evil. That's where where we are now.
Of all the people trying to occupy the White House come January 2017, only two are worthy: Bernie Sanders and Martin O'Malley.
The others, including Hillary, can all go take a long walk on a short plank.
Fuck your benevolent dictators!
There should be no throne to ascend. Never. EVAR!
DR BEN CARSON
Fuck him too. Anyone who believes they have the right to be my master is a subhuman.
Am I the only one who wants to live in a peaceful society?
Why yes, there are still a lot of people who think the Constitution is the best prescription for peace and liberty anyone has come up with. You know, with the three opposing branches of government limited to circumscribed roles, and an office of "President"
O'Malley may be a nice guy to hang out with, but he has shit for brains.
His understanding of government comes from Mao or Lenin.
Fair enough. But I hope O'Malley's candidacy is for real.
Sanders entire role is to provide the illusion of a primary process, "choice" and "competition" instead of Empress Inevitable. He will preen for the camera. Get off a couple mild shots until Cankles gets annoyed and waves her magic scepter.
Bernie the Militant Zionist will bow out and invite his supporters to support Her Majesty
You are insane. O'Malley is less qualified to be president than the dump I took this morning.
Gives "Ready for Hillary" a few more connotations.
That should be a sign on a guillotine for her.
Where on the Mall is the Clinton memorial going ?
She should be hung,drawn and quartered there, on the spot Vivce Foster died ,
but this country is now farcical.
A fish rots from the head,which explain her looks as well.
I'm getting that Nobel feeling for Hill!
Where is the John Nash taxi when you need it.
Beautiful Cankles.
I do not think she will campaign in the accepted sense. Scripted appearances, videotaped stuff, etc. etc.
I suspect she will simply await her Coronation.
There will be no "Hillary Campaign" in the usual sense.
She is clearly indictable of many many federal chargers. She cannot face the press or even the voters.
She will mostly campaign from her living room. All we will see is a heavily scripted, completely remote candidate.
She is gonna have to win the presidency so she can pardon herself... and maybe Bill.
I'm thinkin' that Jeb would oblige.
reading this article, i have just 2 take-aways:
1. i have used and seen the phrase "eyeball popping out of one's head." reviewing the #'s regarding the arms sales, i felt the back of my eyeballs losing control of keeping them securely in the sockets.
2. when (if) hillary decides to finally start taking questions on this topic, her saying "there was no conflict of interest with our overseas allies & my time i spent at the state department" will give me a flashback of when meadow soprano asked her father: "are you in the mafia?" to which tony soprano answered: "there is no mafia!"
She isn't going to do press conferences. The rumor is she won't even attend Democratic debates.
1. Twitter releases
2. Infomercials
3. Scripted public events with paid actors
4. No town halls. Just $1 million dollar dinners with donors
Empress Inevitable
Cankles, how will your media Q&A unfold in Columbia SC?
We Have to go to SC?
Huma, check and see if there are any dyke bars.
Yes, Mistress.
Hill the Thrill in '16!
Pant Suit Skid Mark!
Bleach the Bitch 2016!
http://www.wcnc.com/story/news/local/2015/05/26/s-iredell-high-school-ev...
Funneling guns to dictators - OK
Pulling a prank - felony charges and looking at gulag time for an alarm clock.
"'The word was out to these groups that one of the best ways to gain access and influence with the Clintons was to give to this foundation,' said Meredith McGehee, policy director at the Campaign Legal Center, an advocacy group that seeks to tighten campaign finance disclosure rules. 'This shows why having public officials, or even spouses of public officials, connected with these nonprofits is problematic.'"
This is outrageous! OUTRAGEOUS. I know everyone just smiles and nods at this kind of corruption, but it is wrong, it is corrosive, and if it isn't wildly illegal it damn well should be.
Behavior like this makes a mockery of everything we're supposed to stand for. In the aftermath of Memorial Day, it's especially obnoxious. Is this what our soldiers fought, bled and died for?
None of this is new.Corruption is a feature of all government.
Only the sunlight shining on it is new..
Do you know the old joke about having candidates wearing patches on their suits, the way race car drivers wear their sponsor's logos on their racing outfits? Well, guess what; with technology nowadays, anyone with decent video editing and effects skills could easily superimpose the company logos of the biggest donors onto every candidate, for every speech and debate. Wouldn't that be interesting to see, how people react to it, and in how the candidates react to it.
I think the corruption is beyond 'feature', it is a perk.
Yeah.
Pretty much.
Kinda gives you a warm patriotic glow, don't it?
Well according to the following asshole,
1. “Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy.” ~ Henry Kissinger
Obama's TOTUS is up for a hourly rental fee. Hillary can candidly read from a screen.
i doubt it made any difference. d.c. is a cesspool, nothing will change that.
I beg to differ. If folks would never vote for an incumbent, every primary, we would soon see the sociopaths as a small minority, not the majority. Just vote for the least-financed candidates, then repeat.
Be afraid everyone. Be afraid. If Hillary wins then the world I fear will pay a heavy price. I just keep getting images in my mind of a woman whose mouth and hands are covered in blood. I avoid looking closer in case I see fangs.
Agree. She has no talent except for selling out her country to high bidders.
None. She has never accomplished anything in her entire life!
They wrote a book about the Clintons in 2001 called "Sellout", but no one cared.
See "Why Evil Succeeds" at http://GreatRedDragon.com. (No ads, no hidden links)
Boko Harum Sent 11 goats and 23 chickens for some half sized M4s.
9 year olds have trouble with carrying full size AK's.
Hillary for president, let it crush
I know Loretta Lynch has been busy with FIFA, but I wonder if she has some free time to pursue some of these revelations about The Clinton Foundation...
Did they really think that this was just going to lie dormant, like an inactive volcano after she announced her run for Presidentress?
Simply letting hit the press now, so next year it'll be Old News, That was Settled, the MSM will not follow up on it.
Leaving the Bath House aside, it is too horrible to contemplate this...psycho killer as president...
She sold her own kid out to a Chosenite!
Evil!
Like pointing out the stink and corn in a pile of shit.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..
Now what about that stink and peanuts Corzine?
yawn, nothing surprises me anymore
BOO.
This eff'in bitch is a demon!
So is Barry, so was W. We opened the door for these things and said, "Come on in!".
What a WAR whore. Yea, everyone vote for this piece of shit.
We came, we saw, he died. hahahahah
--the essential Hillary: Sociopath.
Wow, she is also an Arms Dealer! Is there anything this woman cannot do??
"The cash has arrived in the Foundatin account, Madam."
"Excellent. Stamp the Export papers."
"Huma, a feel like some Action."
"Yes, Misstress."
Aren't these the same governments whose intelligence agencies allegedly created ISIS? Perhaps, our Ambassador to Libya who was murdered might have tied Ms. Clinton to arming ISIS as well. Hmmm. Remove the security detail, announce the ambassador's visit to Benghazi and order response teams in the military and CIA to stand down. Convenient, coincident, maybe. If so, may the souls of the innocents who have died for these sociopaths' rapacious thirst for power and money haunt them into eternity.
Some folks might not understand the word "sociopath."
From the book "Snakes In Suits", sociopaths are, "intraspecies predators who use charm, manipulation, intimidation, and violence to control others and to satisfy their own selfish needs. Lacking in conscience and in feelings for others, they cold-bloodedly take what they want and do as they please, violating social norms and expectations without the slightest sense of guilt or regret."
We're not name-calling. It's a correct name for these type of people, just as "rattlesnake" names a certain type of snake. Beware of both. Have nothing to do with either. Let them survive on their own.
The Cankles administration and her army of dykes should just about polish off what was once a great country. America is in its death throes.
Hillary assuming the throne will do us in for sure, but her election tells me more about the staggering stupidity of the American electorate than it does about the obvious corruption of the Clinton crime family.
I do not think the typical educated voter would vote for the Killer of Benghazi.
But, Bath House has done such a great job destroying the country with Cloward-Piven, everyone is just trying to survive- no time for studying candidates...
Theodore Hertzl = Adolf Hitler (Havaara) = Golda Meier = Immanuel Goldstein = Bibi Nutteryahoo. Let the goyim eliminate themselves. i.e. see Sabbatai Tsevi / Jakob Frank - settle Israhell - populate the Unholy Land ! Promote anti-Semitism.
frank rule
This photo got a lot of exposure on Memorial Day.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uA7EdHzhshM/TkO1nc_yxjI/AAAAAAAAAqI/kMvct6VrIF...
Ha. Monica. A little trollop who sought to destroy the greatest president ever!
S/off
Monica Lewinsky: The patron saint of fat chicks everywhere.
Hillary's theme song? "Stand By Your Man" by Tammy Wynette
How many brown skinned people have to die for this woman to purchase the Presidency?
Those motherfocking mouse over ads that start up sound are pissing me off on this site.
Download Ghostery...
So when do we get the 60 Minutess expose on how Amb. Stevens died?
Raped to death because Sec. of War Cankles Clinton pulled his security detail. He most certainly DID NOT died of smoke inhalation.
We came. We saw. He died.
Khadaffy, Stevens, "what difference does it make?"
Coincidences are eerie:
Slick Willy had the Hebrew Humidor
Cankles Medusa has Huma's Hummus
Heh. If you've ever seen a Saudi try to drive a car, selling them jet fighters is just plain cruel...
Gives the term highway of death a whole new meaning, or is that Asian drivers?
Send this Skank Of Sleaze to the slammer!!!
With all that prison tail she can eat...you'd be doing her a favor. lets just hang the bitch..
http://m.washingtonexaminer.com/clinton-foundation-hit-with-racketeering-lawsuit/article/2565069
Nothing says "I love you" like a shipment of small arms firepower.
I just wish the wife knew that!
hahahaha
WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE!!