Not a surprise to anyone who remembers what the Clintons got up to back when they were in the White House. But it's blatantly obvious that Hillary Clinton took the Secretary of State gig not because she had developed an interest in foreign policy, but because it could be used to build up the network of backers and donors. And this was also the reason why the Clinton Foundation was created.
As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton just integrated her non-profit with the government and used the latter to pay off the former.
The e-mails released Tuesday by the conservative group Judicial Watch included a 2009 exchange in which Doug Band, a senior staff member at the Clinton Foundation, told a top Clinton aide at the State Department that it was “important to take care of” an individual, whose name was redacted.
Huma Abedin, the State Department aide, replied that “personnel has been sending him options.”
The evident effort at job placement may add to criticism that the State Department was too close to the foundation during Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state from 2009-2013, despite her pledge not to take actions benefiting her family’s charitable organization. The Republican Party has said that Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, sought to help contributors to the foundation in a “pay-for-play” scheme.
It's the definition of the word. The only difference is that instead of treating the Lincoln Bedroom like a motel, they were renting out Foggy Bottom. Not to mention chunks of our foreign policy.
In another 2009 exchange released Tuesday, Band asked Abedin and Cheryl Mills, Clinton’s chief of staff, to put Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire Gilbert Chagoury in touch with a State Department "substance person" on Lebanon. The Chagoury Group co-founder has given between $1 million and $5 million to the Clinton Foundation, according to a list of donors posted online.
And the Clinton Foundation, despite its press, is not a charity. It's about advancing the careers and agendas of the Clintons. It's like a series of Russian nesting dolls. Government is on the outside. A fake non-profit is in the middle. And the greedy Clinton crime clan is in the gooey center.