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State Department: Hillary’s ethics pledge did not apply to her top aides
Hot Air ^ | 8/11/16 | John Sexton

Posted on 08/11/2016 6:54:51 PM PDT by Nachum

A State Department spokesperson clarified Thursday that Hillary Clinton’s 2009 ethics pledge—to avoid conflicts of interest with the Clinton Foundation—did not extend to Clinton’s top aides at the Department. Spokesperson Elizabeth Trudeau was asked about recently revealed emails that showed top members of Hillary Clinton’s staff doing favors for Clinton Foundation associates. “I’m not going to speak to specific emails, but I think you guys know State Department officials are regularly in touch with a wide variety of outside individuals and organizations including businesses, nonprofits, NGOs, think tanks,” Trudeau replied. “You don’t feel like there was impropriety in the relationship

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KEYWORDS: bhostatedept; crookedhillary; cultureofcorruption; dept; ethics; pledge; soshillary; state
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To: Nachum

Yeah right, guess the Judge’s sectys and the Chief of Police people below him are exempt also...

You people must think the American people are as stupid as you are...NOT!!!


21 posted on 08/11/2016 7:29:44 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence 100%)
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To: Diogenesis

BINGO!!!


22 posted on 08/11/2016 7:29:48 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: plangent
plangent @6: "What kind of fools do you think we are?"

The fools that have continued to elect a RINOcrat-led Congress that does................................................................................. nothing.

23 posted on 08/11/2016 7:30:30 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: Nachum

She’s perfectly welcome to try this argument on a judge in court. Other gangsters have.


24 posted on 08/11/2016 7:33:40 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: ez
.we care if they broke the law.

It's called 18 US Code Sec 208 and reads, in part:

whoever, being an officer or employee of the executive branch of the United States Government, or of any independent agency of the United States, a Federal Reserve bank director, officer, or employee, or an officer or employee of the District of Columbia, including a special Government employee, participates personally and substantially as a Government officer or employee, through decision, approval, disapproval, recommendation, the rendering of advice, investigation, or otherwise, in a judicial or other proceeding, application, request for a ruling or other determination, contract, claim, controversy, charge, accusation, arrest, or other particular matter in which, to his knowledge, he, his spouse, minor child, general partner, organization in which he is serving as officer, director, trustee, general partner or employee, or any person or organization with whom he is negotiating or has any arrangement concerning prospective employment, has a financial interest— Shall be subject to the penalties set forth in section 216 of this title

25 posted on 08/11/2016 7:34:13 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: rod1

I have a friend who is a govt employee. He can’t even accept a meal from a vendor.


26 posted on 08/11/2016 7:34:29 PM PDT by cyclotic
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To: Nachum

Depends on what the meaning of is is


27 posted on 08/11/2016 8:22:08 PM PDT by Nifster (Ignore all polls. Get Out The Vote)
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To: Nachum

“A State Department spokesperson clarified Thursday that Hillary Clinton’s 2009 ethics pledge—to avoid
conflicts of interest with the Clinton Foundation—did not extend to Clinton’s top aides at the Department.”

Brilliant! It was just FINE for Hillary’s top State Dept. employees to act as go-between between Hillary and
the Clinton Crime Family Foundation, because, you know, it WAS OK for them to have conflicts of interests
between their employer, the U.S. State Department, and the Clinton Crime Family Foundation, so Hillary just
had to give THEM orders to “take care of business” so she could pretend like she was avoiding any of those
pesky “conflicts of interests”!


28 posted on 08/11/2016 9:40:57 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: catnipman

Many layers of criminals and traitors...many, many layers.


29 posted on 08/11/2016 10:19:11 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: Nachum

And pledges are only operable weekdays, 9-5. They don’t count after that or on weekends. Everybody knows this.


30 posted on 08/11/2016 10:21:40 PM PDT by Yaelle (Sorry, Mr. Franklin. We've been extremely careless with our Republic.)
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To: rod1

I worked in a Pentagon agency, and we had this one Marine IT guy. He had a fair amount of competency in training people....that was his one enormous skill which the Marines had taught him. He had eighteen years in, and suddenly found that several companies in the DC area were begging for five-star trainers. They approached him and wanted to hire him strictly for weekends...at a fairly decent amount of pay. For two weekends of work a month....he’d make about the same amount as his entire paycheck for a month as a Marine.

The thing is....you have to ask permission of the commander to get this accepted. There were tons of questions and firm rules put upon this guy. This took several weeks to get this ironed out....for him to work every-other weekend at this training center. They read the ethics code to him....ten times over.

With Hillary’s aides....I don’t see a single indication that anyone cared or was willing to enforce federal guidelines upon them. They were double-dipping without any oversight.


31 posted on 08/11/2016 10:43:30 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Nachum

What an obscenity, of course her “ethics pledge” must apply to her aides. She intentionally obliterated any lines between Clinton Foundation business and the public’s business by utilizing her aides to criss-cross back and forth between the State Dept. and the Clinton Foundation. There is much unethical, unprofessional behavior just in the few samples we have seen thus far. Probably much criminal behavior, too.


32 posted on 08/11/2016 10:55:38 PM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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To: Nachum; Liz
...did not extend to Clinton’s top aides at the Department.

So, who goes to prison?

33 posted on 08/12/2016 1:28:12 AM PDT by Libloather (Embrace the suck.)
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To: Carl Vehse

...RINOcrat...
*****************************
Great term that fits many in the House and Senate!


34 posted on 08/12/2016 4:53:46 AM PDT by octex
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To: Nachum

he problem is that the State Dept is speaking with a forked Hillaryspeak tongue. They might as well say, “Cheryl Mills did not have sexual relations with that foundation, the Clinton Foundation.”

The new line out of Hillaryland is that Mills efforts on behalf on donors to the Clinton Foundation were done on her own time as a form of volunteer work as a charitable contribution.

Actually, I sorta admire their ability and chutzpah to dream up and spin this garbage. Nobody but the Clinton machine could—or would—do it. And they are so practiced at it that they can do it well with a straight face.


35 posted on 08/12/2016 8:14:04 AM PDT by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a slasher, and find one.... what's your plan?)
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