Posted on 10/20/2016 9:03:28 AM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sought to arrange Pentagon and State Department consulting contracts for her daughter’s friend, prompting concerns of federal ethics rules violations.
Clinton in 2009 arranged meetings between Jacqueline Newmyer Deal, a friend of Chelsea Clinton and head of the defense consulting group Long Term Strategy Group, with Pentagon officials that involved contracting discussions, according to emails from Clinton’s private server made public recently by the State Department. Clinton also tried to help Deal win a contract for consulting work with the State Department’s director of policy planning, according to the emails.
Deal is a close friend of Chelsea Clinton, who is vice chair of the Clinton Foundation. Emails between the two were included among the thousands recovered from a private email server used by the secretary of state between 2009 and 2013. Chelsea Clinton has described Deal as her best friend. Both Clintons attended Deal’s 2011 wedding.
Government cronyism, or the use of senior positions to help family friends, is not illegal. However, the practice appears to violate federal ethics rules that prohibit partiality, or creating the appearance of conflicts of interest.
Specifically, the Code of Federal Ethics states that government employees “shall act impartially and not give preferential treatment to any private organization or individual.” Pentagon ethics guidelines also call for avoiding actions that would create even the appearance of improper behavior or conflicts of interest.
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Our Governments biggest issues stem from the very nature of the business practices themselves. Like ALL BIG companies they want to promote from within and the "within" that exists in Washington D.C. is within the "Political Families".
These "Ploitical Families" these "Family Dynasties" are creating "Empires" of a continually Self-Reproducing Nature "On Purpose" because there's Noting One Wouldn't Do For Ones Family!
The "Collusion" that takes place can be justified by anyone making the arrgument for the employment of a famiy member. From here the problem mushrooms itself into "Generational Politicians".
UnProfessional, Over Educated and Spoiled beyond caring about their constituents, they skate through life, Never Understanding the Consequences of Their Bad Judgement because they have always had the money and means to survive unlike the "Everyday Working Class American".
Presently, we have 3 Generations of Bush, 4 Generations of Gore, 3 Generations of Pelosi and we have the King and Queen respectively, Bill and Hillary with their shared 40 years in some form of Service to the Washington Establishment.
Case In Point: Hillary has said, "I take full responsibility for my actions". Really? ANYONE would find it EASY To "Take Full Responsibility for their Actions" When They GO IN KNOWING there are NO CONSEQUENCES for those Actions.
Disgusting. Fascism mixed with cronyism. Drain the swamp
so the quid pro quo for the “4 minute” TOP SECRET
BROADCAST was to help the Clintons.
whose side is the Pentagon on?
Yes....DRAIN THE SWAMP!!!!
Not sure what good it would do...
But I guess a list of transgressions should be started for Chelsea. You KNOW she’s already dirty. After all, her mentor is one of the greatest criminals in history.
Would be sweet if Trump gets in and immediately nails her butt...complete with some jail time.
Nip it in the bud, so to speak.
“Everything I did as secretary of state was in furtherance of our country’s interests and our values”
- PIAPS, 10-19-16
such as garnering my commission as that measly salary I was making was just not enough to get by on as you know we were broke when we left the white house.
How can that be??? chelsea, the spawn of the devil, has no friends.
I agree, Chelsea is 100% complicit.
CROOKED is an inherited trait in the family genes.
Webb? or Bill? What difference does it make!
I think, in this case, that ‘friends’ means someone who can do something for Chelsea, or some other Clinton. Isn’t that nepotism and/or cronyism?
Sounds like the Clinton version of "What's good for General Motors is good for America".
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