“Only the ‘little people’ follow ethics rules.”
Well, it appears as if the Clintoon Foundation – and its namesakes – are in the news again. And not in a good way, either.
When Clintoon became SECSTATE in 2009, she and her husband – the famous cigar lover – did not divest themselves of their interests in their Clintoon Foundation. However, Ms. Clintoon did enter into a written ethics agreement with the State Department regarding the financial operations of that foundation.
Specifically, she agreed that she would “notify the State Department’s ethics official if a new foreign government wished to donate or if a current foreign donor wished to ‘increase materially’ its contributions.”
In 2011, the government of Qatar gave a $1 million donation to the Clintoon foundation. Ostensibly, the purpose was to honor Cigarman’s 65th birthday.
I don’t know about you, but I’d consider a $1 million “donation” to be a “material increase” in anyone’s contributions. That’s especially true since the Clintoon Foundation itself says that they’ve received donations of “between $1 million and $5 million” from the Qatari government. That means that the $1 million in question is at least 20% of the Qatari total – and maybe most or all of it. That damn well seems significant to me.
But maybe that’s just me.
In any case: neither Ms. Clintoon nor the Clintoon Foundation ever notified the proper State Department ethics official of the donation. And the following April, Qatari government officials sought to meet with Mr. Clintoon personally.
Hmm. For some reason the term “pay for play” comes to mind. Yet again.
Fox today has a decent article on the matter; Reuters had a similar one a couple of days ago . IMO they’re both worthwhile reading.
Apparently Ms. Clintoon has decided to follow the lead of another “paragon of virtue”, Leona Helmsley. Ms. Helmsley famously once remarked that, “Only the little people pay taxes.” It certainly seems to me that Ms. Clintoon – and likely Mr. Clintoon as well – feels the same regarding following Federal laws and regulations.
Hopefully they’ll eventually get the same comeuppance as did Ms. Helmsley.
Category: "The Floggings Will Continue Until Morale Improves", Crime, Legal
It must be nice to never suffer consequences.
Cocksuckers.
Donkey Cocksuckers
Only because we keep putting up with it.
They aren’t through yet, I just read where Comey has dropped the second investigation against the bitch! Sounds like Lynch to me! I am telling you, you can’t deal with an octopus like we have in this country with nice respectable lawsuits and trials..they are bought off, the only solution is FIRING SQUADS AND CLEAN UP the country…then start all over!!
Stuck in a foreign hotel with one English language channel, and all CNN can run is “she is God and she has won”; with ” Comedy is back to being a saint”. Ended if he’ll find where is spine and balls went…
Imo, Comey’s always been a functionary in the criminal syndicate.
His previous turn around was because of internal pressure, not because of any personal integrity.
Something happened to remove or diminish that internal pressure.
Any word on what happened during the “all hands on deck” call out to all FBI agents in NY and DC recently?
A regular here posted a “I told you so” when Comey reopened the investigation that I interpreted as saying that Comey was a straight shooter. Looking forward to an update on that.
Was that ‘regular’ me?
I hope to hell not. I’ve not thought Comey was anything but a political appointee from day one, and an appointee who’s loyalty to the machine was guaranteed by means foul, or else he wouldn’t ever have gotten the job in the first place.
This regime doesn’t put people in places of power or influence unless they’re owned, heart, mind and soul.
So now I’m thinking…
How many trips has Comey taken on the Lolita Express?
And then there’s his brother who is the tax guy and bookkeeper for the Clinton Foundation crime org.
And the hits just keep on rollin’!
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/11/06/fbi-sends-letter-to-congress-saying-email-review-completed-decision-not-to-prosecute-clinton-stands.html
“FBI Director James Comey said Sunday that the agency has reviewed all of the Hillary Clinton emails recently discovered in an unrelated case and that his conclusion in July not to prosecute Clinton after the FBI’s original investigation into her use of private email server still stands.”
Dabble a little hope to the peons there will be justice and pull the football away like little Lucy.
I believe my AR-15 needs some routine maintenance and a function check.
If I had an AR-15, that is.
Comey is, obviously, lying through his teeth on this.
No way in hell they’ve gone through more than a small portion of the 650,000 additional emails in this short a time.
Nope. Comey is part of the syndicate.
A fair question would seem to be that if it took the FBI a month to announce what was on the laptop was worth starting up the email investigation again, why did it only take a week to decide “it had not changed our conclusions that we expressed in July,” according to the latest Comey letter to Congress.
A possible answer might be that there are currently multiple investigations going on including those involving the Clinton Foundation. The scope and focus of the email probe is about intent to mishandle classified material. It could also involve obstruction if it was found that somebody lied to the FBI while it was asking about classified email stuff.
None of which has anything to do with the other content of the Clinton-related email unless it tripped the binary of being classified or not. This, at least it seems to me, might be sort of like the cops using a warrant to search a drug dealer’s house, finding a room full of stolen televisions, but letting the dealer go because the warrant is specific about looking for dope or cash.
Except we already know from what’s already been made public that Clinton is guilty as hell of manifold felonies re the servers and classified info.
Occam’s Razor says cut the bullshit and the answer is there to see.
And with the bullshit cut away, Comey and Lynch are in on the fix and were from the start.
Kinda hard to buy that the email investigation was legit and that “nothing has happened to change July conclusions” when Clintoon’s maid – who was forwarded some of those emails, at least one of which was classified – has never been interviewed by the FBI nor her computer examined. See the article that will post in about 30 minutes.
That’s not what happens in a legitimate investigation. It’s what happens in either Keystone Cops incompetence or a whitewash.
“Hopefully they’ll eventually get the same comeuppance as did Ms. Helmsley.”
If that happens I will go to Fort Sam enlisted club and buy the bar a round of cheer.
OK the rumor was that the NYPD would scream bloody murder if the Feds balked. It’s put up or shit up time.
FBI to little people, the fix is in.
Why am I not surprised?
I’m so tired of this shit. I make no political comments on any site but this. It’s tough. The wife of my best friend (a ret O5 and now a GS15 and the wife is a GS nurse at Walter Reed) just posted shit about how the Email story is so trivial. I really want to point out to her that if either of them did a fraction of what Screecher did they’d be with Ms Manning at Leavenworth.
Instead I’ll just pour another scotch and hope this all ends Wednesday. His friendship is more important.
Oh, and another dear friend said that Iran doesn’t hate Jews, just Israel. I kinda think that Iran repeatedly says that they hate ALL Jews?
You need to get new friends. It sounds like you are hangin with clueless progtards.
In normal times this never comes up. I actually didn’t know what their politics are because we never discussed it. There’s more fun things like BBQ and travel.
A lot of lefties will say “I’m not anti-Semitic, I’m anti-Zionist” which is about as believable as “It’s not you, it’s me”.
Off topic but the WOT is dead. Stumbled across a program on PBS about Bastogne: “Searching for Augusta” Trailer:
Moving and uplifting story in these troubled times. Highly recommend.
Our ancestors would be shooting by now.
The Frank Luntz segment tonight on 60 Min is worth watching IMHO.
NSFW
William Elliott Whitmore – Mutiny
Ethics? Rules??
Yeah, those are what ideologues use as weapons against folks they wish to control. They, of course, have no requirement to comply with those same rules.
I am so sickened by this. The FBI has more than enough to put the matter to a grand jury. The problem with that, of course, is that a grand jury–no matter how hard a prosecutor works to bend and twist the facts in Clinton’s favor–might vote to indict her. And that’s an acceptable outcome. It would a risk too great, so, as I said the other day here, we are all to be placated by the announcement of a re-opening of the investigation. Despite my cynical nature, even I never thought that Comrade Comey would close out the new investigation this quickly, but I suppose the election date required it. So, that’s that. The Bitch of Benghazi’s crown is being polished at this moment.
It was then, and remains so, very odd to hear Comey itemize all the elements of multiple criminal acts then pull the intent rabbit out of his hat to justify not filing criminal charges. Intent clearly has nothing to do with anything here. Even if it did, it should not take any great effort to prove that as well.
‘And that’s an unacceptable outcome.’ The UN sucks but, in this instance, it was necessary.
OFF TOPIC–Sort Of: This is a hoot. A bunch of young white commies, poisoned by so-called progressivism, opine about racist voter ID laws. Some suggest that Blacks are too stupid to use the internet. These interviews are followed by interviews of Blacks regarding the same issue. The results are a scream.
Fell down laughing, startled the cats.
Thank you for posting that, Air Cav!
Still laughing.
Noticed a sign at NC DMV that said you must have a government issued ID to transact business. So you need one for a car but not to vote? Sure see a lot of minorities with cars so it must not be too hard.
Can’t cash welfare checks without ID either.
If they’re too poor to afford an ID card, then they’re on welfare and must have an ID card.