Quantum of Clinton: U.S. Foreign Policy for Sale?

They have always said that with the Clintons, America gets two for the price of one. Now that President-elect Obama is seriously considering nominating HRC for Secretary of State, we must seriously consider the possibility that one of the undisclosed foreign donors to the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation might obtain superior access to the new Secretary of State as a special bonus for their generosity.

It’s looking more and more like President-elect Obama will nominate Senator Clinton for Secretary of State. Is she qualified? Yes, she is. Is she intelligent? Yes, she is. Do we trust her? Well, that depends . . . I hate to state the obvious, but Senator Clinton is married to President Clinton. President Clinton is the most sought-after speaker-for-hire on the planet. He runs the most lucrative not-for-profit foundation on the planet. As a result, he trots the globe in carbon-spouting jets and has built a fancy presidential library in Arkansas. Presdient Clinton rakes in vast sums from undisclosed overseas donors. President Clinton and the Foundation have jealously guarded their donor list, despite pressure to disclose. The little that is known about the identities of the donors to the Clinton library was reported by the New York Sun in 2004, after a reporter discovered the names on a touch-screen computer on the third floor of the library after its opening. Members of the Saudi royal family, Arab businessmen, the governments of Dubai, Kuwait, Qatar, Brunei and Taiwan, and Hollywood celebrities, were among the 57 individuals or foundations who gave $1 million or more to the library, according to the Sun. (see NY Sun Article on donors) Further, President Clinton has been linked through his foundation to Alibaba, a giant Chinese internet search engine corporation. (see LA Times on Clinton) This is just the tip of the iceberg. These are just the things that a country lawyer can find on the World Wide Web. Seeing the tip of this iceberg, candidate Barack H. Obama pressed Senator Clinton on the issue of Clinton Foundation and Clinton Library. Candidate Obama thought it important enough to raise the issue in a presidential debate. Why did Candidate Obama think the issue important? Was it the conflict of interest? Was it the potential for outright corruption of the nation’s foreign policy by big money donors from abroad? Candidate Obama is no more. Now there is only President Obama, whose party controls the House and Senate by overwhelming margins. President Obama clearly does not have the same concerns about the vast potential for conflicts of interest between the Clinton Foundation and the United States of America. The Foundation must release its donor list in its entirety. Whether it does or not, there had better well be a Republican in the Senate with the intestinal fortitude to raise the issue when it comes time for confirmation hearings.

Here’s the betting line for Barry’s SoS.

9-4 Richard Holbrooke - Clinton, Ambassador to the United Nations, Hillary Clinton’s top foreign policy adviser, National Security Affairs for the Carter presidential campaign, 2001 - Counselor at the Council on Foreign Relations; chairman of its Terrorism Task Force.
7-2 Anthony Lake - OWG, Clinton, National Security Advisor, 1996, nomination withdrawn for Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Director of Policy Planning under Jimmy Carter (1977-1981), task force director, CFR, 2005 report on U.S.-African policy: More than Humanitarianism, Trilateral Commission, Bilderberg
7-2 Richard Lugar - Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, CFR, Bilderberg
8-1 Bill Richardson - Governor, CFR, Bilderberg, Bohemian Grove
12-1 Chuck Hagel - Select Committee on Intelligence, Committe on Foreign Relations, Council on Foreign Relations, Eisenhower World Affairs Institute,
12-1 John Kerry - former Dem. presidential nominee, CFR, Bilderberg, Skull & Bones, et al.
18-1 Daniel Shapiro - Clinton, National Security Council under Sandy Berger, 2004 - Council on Foreign Relations
20-1 Daniel Kurtzer - U.S. ambassador to Israel, Bush 2001-2005, Ambassador to Egypt, Clinton. According to the Wall Street Journal, Kurtzer along with James Steinberg and Dennis Ross are among the principal authors of Barack Obama’s address on the Middle East to AIPAC in June 2008

20-1 George Mitchell - CFR, U.S. Senator and in the U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps, Chairman Emeritus. International Crisis Group
Member, Task Force on the United Nations
25-1 Eric Lynn - CFR, Middle East policy advisor
25-1 Dennis Ross - OWG, Clinton National Security Council, Bilderberg According to the Wall Street Journal, Ross along with Kurtzner and Steinberg are among the principal authors of Barack Obama’s address on the Middle East to AIPAC in June 2008
25-1 Susan Rice - OWG, former assistant secretary of state, CFR, Brookings Institution, Rhodes Scholar, Aspen Strategy Group
28-1 James Steinberg - OWG, Clinton Deputy National Security Advisor, Bilderberg, CFR, Rand, Trilateral, Brookings, has a preventative war strategy that promises to supercede that of the Bush Admin. According to the Wall Street Journal, Steinberg along with Kurtzner and Ross are among the principal authors of Barack Obama’s address on the Middle East to AIPAC in June 2008
33-1 Mara Rudman - deputy national security advisor to President Clinton and National Security Council Chief of Staff, chief counsel to the House Foreign Affairs Committee under Chairman Lee Hamilton, Aspen Institute Crown Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
33-1 Bill Clinton - Former President, CFR, Bilderberg
50-1 Colin Powell - Bush Secretary of State, Bush 41, CFR
66-1 Hillary Clinton - 2008 Democratic runner-up, CFR, Bilderberg

Any way they go, CFR wins.

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