Posted on 04/11/2016 2:56:08 PM PDT by markomalley
When the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) concludes its investigation of the Hillary Clinton private email server, the worst damage is not likely to come from the former secretary of state having classified information stored on a private server.
Earlier this year the FBI probe expanded into possible violations of public corruption laws resulting from her role as secretary of state and her association with the Clinton Foundation.
"The agents are investigating the possible intersection of Clinton Foundation donations, the dispensation of State Department contracts, and whether regular processes were followed," an intelligence source told FOX News.
The concern is that Clinton, while secretary of state, gave favorable treatment to governments and businesses that had made large donations to the Clinton Foundation.
Hillary Clinton and her representatives have repeatedly denied any such thing took place. But we know the FBI is looking into the matter because it subpoenaed the Clinton Foundation last fall in a quest for documents relating to projects that may have required State Department approval during her tenure as secretary.
Should the FBI find a "smoking gun," it would deal the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign a severe blow.
Although federal law prohibits foreign governments (or any foreign national) from making political contributions in connection with any election, the Clinton Foundation is a 501(c)(3) public charity. As such, it can legally accept donations from just about anyone.
The problem is that the Clinton Foundation is no ordinary charity…
Because it is run by a former U.S. president, Bill Clinton, and a past secretary of state and current presidential candidate, it's not hard to see how many foreign donors would see the Clinton Foundation as a way to buy influence in the American political system.
"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," Meredith McGehee, policy director at the Campaign Legal Center, told the International Business Times last year. "This shows why having public officials, or even spouses of public officials, connected with these nonprofits is problematic."
Several members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that confirmed Clinton as secretary of state, including then Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), who was chairman at the time, expressed concern over her connection to the Clinton Foundation.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) even wrote Hillary Clinton a letter recommending that the Clinton Foundation refuse "all pledges and contributions from foreign sources" during her time as secretary of state.
But the Clinton Foundation relies on large foreign donations to do its work, which includes making AIDS treatments affordable, fighting climate change, and disaster relief. For the most part, the foreign donations continued.
What happened over the next several years is extremely troubling – and surely what has attracted the interest of FBI investigators…
I do agree that Huma is the pass-through for Clinton’s Islamic monarchy sponsors, though. That one seems pretty prima facie obvious.
But I retain a suspicion that Huma could have been operating, er, ah, independently. Hillary wouldn't necessarily have known it...or, if she did, she wouldn't necessarily have had an objection.
Isn’t the Clinton Foundation officially based in Canada?
The first is that she “obstructed justice and a federal investigation” by ordering evidence to be destroyed. There might be a paper or electronic trail on this that she thought she had destroyed or that an assistant can verify under an immunity deal.
The second fear should be lying to a federal investigator. This is the charge that has brought down so many people in the past. Hillary is smart and will lawyer up so she is likely to WANT to use her 4th Amendment Right and refuse to incriminate herself. However, she may get trapped into an obvious situation of you said this under oath and now you are implying something else under oath, which is it? At that point she has a real problem.
I think that the FBI has a smoking gun in the form of some resurrected email that had been deleted from the hard drive and potentially the computer guy who has been given immunity confirming that he was ordered to destroy evidence in an investigation by Hillary.
I also think that the Romanian Hacker probably has some juicy bit of information that he may have sold to a foreign power after taking from Hillary's hard drive.
If those things are right, she is toast. At that point the Big Zero is likely to give her a Presidential pardon. Then it will be a question of how corrupt a leader can the Democrats stomach.
In my opinion Democrats don't care if they elect criminals, as long as they are Democrats.
However, it will politically destroy her chances of becoming President as independents will not want a corrupt President and traditional Democratic base voters will not be all that motivated to vote for her.
But before that happens, I think that Hillary will have a stroke. They run in her family. He dad died of a stroke. She has likely had a number of them already. The pressure of the FBI questioning, it coming out into the open, he having to defend herself on TV interviews will all be more stress than she can handle.
In the mean time Democrats who supported Sanders are going to make the Tea Party rebellion in the Republican Party, like like a church social.
Please pass the popcorn for an interesting summer of reality political TV.
Huma was operating at least in part through Clinton’s private email server, so Clinton must have known about it.
Huma herself has no independent influence or prominence other than as Clinton’s assistant. (Marrying Weiner came much later and he’s a relative nobody.)
There really isn’t much if any evidence to support Huma being an independent actor. Her role, job description, and pretty much entire life is as Clinton’s personal assistant.
I just want to know how they got the data out of a JWICS closed system only connected via SATCOMM when the machines have no WiFi, bluetooth, comms ports of any type and no CD/DVD/Blu-ray drive accessible to the user.
Only fiercely dedicated, multiple action of KGB style ESPIONAGE can do that.
SIPRNET is also air-gapped to the outside world for secret and below.
Pure treason.
You got that right.
At first glance, the Clintons astounding honoraria and humongous Foundation donations seem to provide the bulk of the couples mega income.
Bills honoraria increased dramatically pocketing some $50 million during Hillarys four-year term as Secretary of State....including an Irish scholarship fund, a Korean conglomerate, and, a Nigerian newspaper company......each of whom paid Clinton more than half a million dollars for a single speech.
The Wash/Post reports Hillary earned $11.7 million for 51 speeches since Jan 2014.....she pocketed an astonishing $625,000 for two speeches in one day.
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I firmly believe the Clinton Foundations gigantic donor list, and their astonishing blizzard of speaking honoraria, are a smoke screen for their secret wealth....and the way they make billions sub rosa....intertwining their vaunted do-goodism and their multiple tax-paid public offices.
The calculated Clintons have sought to branch out into other business activities. All of that is kept under wraps. Very little is known about the exact nature and financial worth of Bill and Hillarys non-speech business interests.
Reports keep surfacing indicating the Clintons were party to multi/billion dollar Mideast arms deals....Kazakhstan uranium mines....and Haitian gold mines...Libyan oil deals....telecom businesses, deals w/ financial powerhouses like Teneo, Goldman Sachs.....etc etc etc.
THE CON ARTIST CLINTONS GRABBED EVERYTHNG THAT WASNT NAILED DOWN Lucrative business interests were cunningly intertwined w/ the Foundations transparent do-good activities....enabled by Hillarys catbird seat at the State Dept.
At last count, the Clintons apparently raised an astounding $2 billion from their foundation activities and their political campaigns.....
.....does not include monies flowing in from the various lucrative business ventures, interest accrued, safe deposit boxes, real estate assets, passive income on which they pay no taxes, income from Chelseas hubbys hedge fund, monies invested in Goldman Sachs, interest in financial powerhouse Teneo..... etc etc etc.......
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The Clintons are worth a bundle.....accumulated in record time. Their livelihood was collected as they marched through American politics.
They co-opted taxpayers by using OUR govt and information they were privy to by virtue of govt office in order to pocket big bucks.
THE MONEY QUOTE: Authorities need only show that the Clinton Foundation filed materially misleading financial information but kept on fundraising for a myriad of do-good projects.
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POSTER'S NOTE The legal culpability of a tax-free "charity" consists of:
<><> soliciting and taking money, and,
<><> showing how they spend it.
So if the Clinton Foundation raised money using the US mails and cited a specific "do-good cause" but used the donated money elsewhere, that is considered mail fraud.
REPORT MAIL FRAUD HERE: https://postalinspectors.uspis.gov/contactUs/filecomplaint.aspx
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Earlier, Ortel found irregularities of a sufficient magnitude that the Clinton Foundation should be shut down.
Ortel: if any of the 50 state attorneys general present the evidence to a federal district judge, an injunction would be ordered, shutting down the Clinton Foundation and placing the organization in receivership.
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