The Clintons' War on Women (41 page)

According to an article in the
Federalist
posted on March 2, 2015, by Sean Davis, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, and Algeria all funneled cash to the Clinton Foundation while each country had business pending before the U.S. government. The
Post
went on to report that “In one instance, Foundation officials acknowledged they should have sought approval in 2010 from the State Department ethics office, as required by the agreement for new government donors, before accepting a $500,000 donation from the Algerian government.” The money was given to assist with earthquake relief in Haiti, the foundation
said. At the time, Algeria, which has sought a closer relationship with Washington, was spending heavily to lobby the State Department on human-rights issues. Most of the contributions were possible because of exceptions written into the foundation’s 2008 agreement, which included limits on foreign-government donations.

As secretary of state, Hillary devoted much of her time in 2010 to the Haitian recovery and the Clinton Foundation led the fundraising efforts for relief in the third-world country. Millions upon millions of dollars were raised, yet only 900 homes were rebuilt. Protesters later gathered at the Clinton Foundation to complain of missing money from the Haiti recovery. Daniel Halper, author of
Clinton Inc.: The Audacious Rebuilding of a Political Machine,
wrote that the protesters were angry that the money “meant to help rebuild Haiti did little to help the country after the devastating earthquake. And that much of the money went to non-Haitian companies.”

If one looks closely at the Clintons’ work in Haiti, the promises they have made, the money that has been thrown around, who it benefits, and what makes Haiti so important, you’ll see that the small, destitute island country is a victim of the Clinton agenda. As
Politico
magazine’s Jonathan M. Katz has exhaustively documented, both Clintons have had their unsavory hands buried deep in Haiti’s politics.

“The island nation, in many ways, represents ground zero for the confusing and often conflict-ridden intersection of her State Department, the Clinton family’s foundation, and both of their foreign policies,” wrote Katz. “Five years after the hemisphere’s deadliest single natural disaster, when both Clintons assumed leading roles in the rebuilding efforts, little progress has been made on many core problems in Haiti, and the government that Hillary Clinton helped put in power during that January 2011 trip—and that both Clintons have backed strongly since—has proven itself unworthy of that trust. Economic growth is stalling, and the nation’s politics look headed for a showdown in the next year that could once again plunge the country into internal strife.”

The
Clintons were the crucial brokers of the response effort. They were involved in every phase of the relief attempt including a UN donors conference at which 150 nations and organizations pledged an astonishing $9 billion.
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The Clintons set themselves up to have control of this vast fortune and use it to benefit their foundation and their friends. By controlling the money flow, the Clintons controlled who received lucrative contracts on the small island. It was a cash grab.

As Fox News reported, “What quickly became apparent to many people was that if you … wanted to do business in Haiti, you had to have relationships with a Clinton.” One of the big investments was the new Caracol Industrial Park, a $300 million investment the Clinton State Department projected to create 65,000 jobs. To date the project has delivered fewer than ten thousand jobs. The Clintons also neglected to reveal that the anchor tenant of the park, a Korean manufacturer, is a Clinton supporter. The company VCS Mining received a gold permit to extract mineral wealth in Haiti. After the permit was issued, VCS put Hillary Clinton’s brother, Tony Rodham, on its board and in position to profit. It should be noted that Rodham did not have a background in mining or a history in Haiti. The global communications provider Digicel, run by Irish billionaire and Clinton confidant Denis O’Brien, made millions in revenue in Haiti. Not surprisingly, O’Brien subsequently plied the Clinton Foundation with money and facilitated profitable speeches for Bill.
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Hillary’s State Department and the Clinton Foundation worked together to enrich the few insiders with capital enough to curry favor with both agencies.

“You don’t have
to be a conspiracy theorist to know that foreign companies and countries expected something in return for donating to the Clinton foundation rather than the countless other charities not connected to the US presidency. You don’t have to be a lawyer to know the Clintons violated ethics rules. You don’t have to be a historian to know their ethical blind spot has decades-old roots. You don’t have to be a political scientist to know this behavior contributes to the public’s declining trust in its leaders,” wrote Ron Fournier.
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Governments and corporations involved in arms deals approved by Hillary Clinton’s State Department have given between $54 million and $141 million to the Clinton Foundation as well as hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments to the Clinton family. This is according to the
International Business Times
. These figures far surpass anything that involved the Bush administration.

Between 2009 and 2012, Hillary’s State Department approved of $165 billion worth of commercial arms sales to twenty nations whose governments have given money to the Clinton Foundation.
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In addition, the Clinton State Department also authorized $151 billion of separate Pentagon brokered deals for sixteen countries that donated to the Clinton Foundation.
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Many of these arms deals went to countries whose human rights abuses have been publicly criticized by the very same State Department. Countries like Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Qatar, all donated heavily to the Clinton Foundation and were given clearance to buy caches of American-made weapons.

Under federal law, foreign governments seeking to buy weapons from the United States are prohibited from making campaign contributions. The Clintons have been using the foundation as a conduit to accept these illegal payments under the guise of their charitable foundation.

In addition, the Clinton Foundation accepted donations from six companies benefiting from U.S. State Department arms export approvals. They are as follows:

Defense Contractor Donation Min. Boeing $5,000,000

General Electric $1,000,000

Goldman Sachs (Hawker Beechcraft) $500,000

Honeywell $50,000

Lockheed Martin $250,000

United
Technologies $50,000
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One arms contractor that got millions from Hillary was General Electric. General Electric owned 49 percent of NBC. NBC hired Chelsea Clinton for $600 thousand just prior to their enormous contract, approved by the State Department. Chelsea, who is a fully matured adult, has become a grifter like her mother. Those who are shocked by the likelihood that she is Webb Hubbell’s daughter must also realize that she is in on the scam. Loud and demanding, she has offended top staff at the Clinton Foundation, causing substantial turnover. She is opinionated and aggressive. Staffers call her “the Princess” behind her back.

The cooperation between the foundation and the State Department provided a financial windfall for the Clintons. In one particular case, this conflict of interest led to a dangerous agreement, where a Russian state-owned energy company acquired a major foothold in the nuclear energy market with the State Department-sanctioned sale of major U.S. uranium deposits. Because of this deal, over 20 percent of U.S. uranium is now owned by the Kremlin. Treason, anyone?

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This recent connection with Chinese donations brings to mind former President Bill Clinton’s many campaign finance scandals involving illegal Asian money. The Democratic National Committee was ultimately forced to return $2,825,600 after the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, led by then chairman Senator Fred Thompson, uncovered strong evidence of illegal or improper donations from the People’s Republic of China.

CHAPTER 24

URANIUM ONE

T
he name Frank Giustra has popped up before in dealings and donations with the Clinton Foundation. Giustra is a Canadian mining executive whose company UrAsia Energy sought mining concessions from Kazakhstan. According to the
New York Times
, former president Clinton, Frank Giustra, and Kazakhstan dictator Nursultan Nazarbeyev met in 2005 and concluded a deal for the transfer of uranium assets to UrAsia Energy.

In 2009, Mukhtar Dzhakishev, a Kazakh official intimately involved in the transfer, claimed that then Senator Hillary Clinton put the screws to the Kazakhs, threatening to cancel an important diplomatic meeting unless a deal was reached. Dzhakishev said that Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Massimov “was in America and needed to meet with Hillary Clinton but this meeting was cancelled. And they said that those investors connected with the Clintons who were
working in Kazakhstan have problems. Until Kazakhstan solved those problems, there would be no meeting, and all manner of measures would be taken.”
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Months after the deal, Giustra transferred $31.1 million to the Clinton Foundation and announced a multi-year commitment to donate $100 million to the foundation, as well as half of the future profits.

In addition to Giustra, the
New York Times
confirmed that a host of Clinton Foundation donors were connected to the uranium deal, including:

• Frank Holmes, a shareholder in the deal who donated between $250,000 and $500,000 (the Clinton Foundation doesn’t report exact amounts, only in ranges) and is a Clinton Foundation adviser

• Neil Woodyer, Frank Giustra’s colleague who founded Endeavor Financial and pledged $500,000 as well as promises of “ongoing financial support”

• Robert Disbrow, a Haywood Securities broker, the firm that provided “$58 million in capital to float shares of UrAsia’s private placement,” gave the Clintons’ family foundation between $1 and $5 million, according to
Clinton Cash

• Paul Reynolds, a Canaccord Capital, Inc., executive who donated between $1 million and $5 million. “The UrAsia deal was the largest in Canaccord’s history,” reports Schweizer

• GMP Securities Ltd., a UrAsia Energy shareholder that pledged to donate a portion of its profits to the Clinton Foundation

• Robert Cross, a major shareholder who serves as UrAsia energy director who pledged portions of his future income to the Clinton Foundation

• Egizio Blanchini, “the Capital Markets vice chair and Global co head of BMO’s Global Metals and Mining group, had also been an underwriter on the mining deals. BMO paid $600,000 for two tables at the CGS-GI’s March 2008 benefit”

• Sergei
Kurzin, the Russian rainmaker involved in the Kazakhstan uranium deal and a shareholder in UrAsia Energy, also pledged $1 million to the foundation

• Uranium One chairman Ian Telfer committed $2.35 million

Following the acquisition by Giustra, UrAsia Energy began to merge with the company Uranium One. In 2009, the Russian state-owned energy company, Rosatom, began purchasing large stakes in Uranium One. In 2010, Rosatom purchased 51 percent of Uranium One, a $610 million transaction that required approved by Hillary Clinton’s State Department.

In April of 2015, the
New York Times
ran an article titled “Cash flowed to Clinton Foundation amid Russian Uranium Deal.” The article recounted an earlier piece published in January 2013, on the Russian website
Pravda
, which detailed how Rosatom had taken over a Canadian company with uranium mining holdings stretching from Central Asia to the American West.
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The deal may sound innocuous, but the takeover gave the Russians control over 1/5 of the uranium mining in North America. That the Russians have control of any uranium mining in North America is unthinkable, when one considers uranium a primary material in the manufacture of nuclear weapons. Rosatom is now one of the world’s largest uranium producers and Russian President Vladimir Putin is much closer to having a monopoly on much of the world’s uranium.

“Experts consider highly enriched uranium the terrorists’ nuclear explosive of choice,” wrote Douglas Birch and R. Jeffrey Smith in the
Washington Post.
“A bomb’s worth could fit in a five-pound sack and emit so little radiation that it could be carried around in a backpack with little hazard to the wearer. Physicists say a sizable nuclear blast could be readily achieved by slamming two shaped chunks of it together at high speed.”
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Because uranium is considered a U.S. strategic asset with implications for national security, this deal had to be approved by a several U.S. government agencies, including the State Department.

It’s no surprise that Hillary Clinton also served on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), which evaluates investment transactions that might have a direct effect on U.S. national security. When the CFIUS approved of the deal in 2010 it was projected that half of the uranium output would be in the hands of the Russians by 2015.
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Senator Rand Paul, running on the 2016 GOP platform, has suggested that former secretary of state Clinton should be investigated for her role in what is a shady and dangerous deal. Paul is also pushing for a Congressional investigation as well.
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Why is Paul seeking an investigation of Clinton for a Russian-Canadian uranium purchase deal? Because as confirmed by the
New York Times
, at the same time the purchase deal went through, investors whom would profit from the deal “donated” an astounding $145 million to the Clinton Foundation!