Watchdog Uncovers New Evidence of Quid Pro Quo at Hillary State Dept.

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Judicial Watch released 448 pages of documents Friday showing further incidences that Huma Abedin, 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s former deputy chief of staff in the State Department, gave special treatment to Clinton Foundation donors while Clinton served as Secretary of State.
Clinton’s use of a private email server to conduct government business clouded her presidential campaign. The latest batch of documents released Friday arrived long after the conservative legal watchdog organization filed its lawsuit, in May 2015, requesting “all emails of official State Department business received or sent by former Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin from Jan. 1, 2009, through Feb. 1, 2013, using a non-‘state.gov’ email address.”
The pages Judicial Watch released included six email exchanges that Clinton had failed to turn over to the State Department; they brought to 439 the total number of known emails that Clinton didn't turn over. Although Clinton submitted roughly 55,000 pages of emails during the course of the probe into her private email server, these additional emails appear to contradict her statement that "as far as she knew" she had turned over all of her government email exchanges.

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Thinking from a realistic perspective.

Pay for play exists everywhere. If you pay $1000 or whatever you could go to a Ron Paul dinner and if you pay $2000 you can shake his hand and take a picture. (The aforementioned scenario is fictional for example purpose.) Why would anyone think that an avid supporter that attends countless fundraisers and actively supports a person wouldn't have their ear? If you have a person's ear and you have helped that person when they needed or wanted help, you would ask them to help you if you thought they could help you.

If you provide pizza and beer to someone that helps you move or fix your car you are pay for play.

Ethics? That line is crossed all the time. Crossing that line is determined by the perspective of the people examining the scenario.

I do not support Clinton and cannot stand her. I think she is a scumbag and a terrible person. I would never pay to meet her or contribute to any organization she is involved with.

Hypothetical situation: Ron Paul is in prominent position and a long time friend, donor, or whoever is grateful for Ron's help. The friend, donor says, "Ron let me make a contribution to your campaign for reelection." Ron replies, "Oh that might be considered unethical or illegal. If you want to donate money toward something I care about, give your money directly to Campaign for Liberty."

I am not stating that any of the above happened. All I am saying is that it is not unreasonable that a long time supporter send an email requesting help from someone that might be able to help them.

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Thinking from a realistic perspective.

Pay for play exists everywhere. If you pay $1000 or whatever you could go to a Ron Paul dinner and if you pay $2000 you can shake his hand and take a picture. (The aforementioned scenario is fictional for example purpose.) Why would anyone think that an avid supporter that attends countless fundraisers and actively supports a person wouldn't have their ear? If you have a person's ear and you have helped that person when they needed or wanted help, you would ask them to help you if you thought they could help you.

If you provide pizza and beer to someone that helps you move or fix your car you are pay for play.

Ethics? That line is crossed all the time. Crossing that line is determined by the perspective of the people examining the scenario.

I do not support Clinton and cannot stand her. I think she is a scumbag and a terrible person. I would never pay to meet her or contribute to any organization she is involved with.

Hypothetical situation: Ron Paul is in prominent position and a long time friend, donor, or whoever is grateful for Ron's help. The friend, donor says, "Ron let me make a contribution to your campaign for reelection." Ron replies, "Oh that might be considered unethical or illegal. If you want to donate money toward something I care about, give your money directly to Campaign for Liberty."

I am not stating that any of the above happened. All I am saying is that it is not unreasonable that a long time supporter send an email requesting help from someone that might be able to help them.

I agree in general, the important question is: was the "help" legal?

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I agree in general, the important question is: was the "help" legal?

The answer to that question brings us back to perspective.

There are issues that seem pretty cut and dry yet the supreme court can rule differently than what we think.

As Bill Clinton said, "It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is. ...

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Clinton Foundation Donors Got Weapons Deals From Hillary Clinton's State Department
Even by the standards of arms deals between the United States and Saudi Arabia, this one was enormous. A consortium of American defense contractors led by Boeing would deliver $29 billion worth of advanced fighter jets to the United States' oil-rich ally in the Middle East.
Israeli officials were agitated (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-01-09/gates-says-israel-gave-in-on-saudi-arms-after-f-35-pledge), reportedly complaining (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/10/in-gates-book-details-of-israel-s-hard-bargaining-over-saudi-arms.html) to the Obama administration that this substantial enhancement to Saudi air power risked disrupting the region's fragile balance of power. The deal appeared to collide with the State Department’s documented concerns (http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2010/nea/154472.htm) about the repressive policies of the Saudi royal family.
But now, in late 2011, Hillary Clinton’s State Department was formally clearing the sale, asserting that it was in the national interest. At press conferences in Washington to announce the department’s approval, an assistant secretary of state, Andrew Shapiro, declared (http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2011/12/179777.htm) that the deal had been (http://www.state.gov/t/pm/rls/rm/149749.htm) “a top priority” for Clinton personally. Shapiro, a longtime aide (http://m.state.gov/md125231.htm) to Clinton since her Senate days, added that the “U.S. Air Force and U.S. Army have excellent relationships in Saudi Arabia.”
These were not the only relationships bridging leaders of the two nations. In the years before Hillary Clinton became secretary of state, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia contributed at least $10 million to the Clinton Foundation, the philanthropic enterprise she has overseen with her husband, former president Bill Clinton. Just two months before the deal was finalized, Boeing -- the defense contractor that manufactures one of the fighter jets the Saudis were especially keen to acquire, the F-15 -- contributed (http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/for-hillary-clinton-and-boeing-a-beneficial-relationship/2014/04/13/21fe84ec-bc09-11e3-96ae-f2c36d2b1245_story.html) $900,000 to the Clinton Foundation, according to a company press release.
The Saudi deal was one of dozens of arms sales approved by Hillary Clinton’s State Department that placed weapons in the hands of governments that had also donated money to the Clinton family philanthropic empire, an International Business Times investigation has found.
Under Clinton's leadership, the State Department approved $165 billion worth of commercial arms sales to 20 nations whose governments have given money to the Clinton Foundation, according to an IBTimes analysis of State Department and foundation data. That figure -- derived from the three full fiscal years of Clinton’s term as Secretary of State (from October 2010 to September 2012) -- represented nearly double the value of American arms sales made to the those countries and approved by the State Department during the same period of President George W. Bush’s second term.
The Clinton-led State Department also authorized $151 billion of separate Pentagon-brokered deals for 16 of the countries that donated to the Clinton Foundation, resulting in a 143 percent increase in completed sales (http://www.dsca.mil/sites/default/files/historical_facts_book_-_30_september_2013.pdf) to those nations over the same time frame during the Bush administration. These extra sales were part of a broad increase in American military exports that accompanied Obama’s arrival in the White House. The 143 percent increase in U.S. arms sales to Clinton Foundation donors compares to an 80 percent increase in such sales to all countries over the same time period.
American defense contractors also donated to the Clinton Foundation while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state and in some cases made personal payments to Bill Clinton for speaking engagements. Such firms and their subsidiaries were listed as contractors in $163 billion worth of Pentagon-negotiated deals that were authorized by the Clinton State Department between 2009 and 2012.
The State Department formally approved these arms sales even as many of the deals enhanced the military power of countries ruled by authoritarian regimes whose human rights abuses had been criticized by the department. Algeria (http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/186630.pdf), Saudi Arabia (http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/186659.pdf), Kuwait (http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/186644.pdf), the United Arab Emirates (http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/186665.pdf), Oman (http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/186654.pdf) and Qatar (http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/204590.pdf) all donated to the Clinton Foundation and also gained State Department clearance to buy caches of American-made weapons even as the department singled them out for a range of alleged ills, from corruption to restrictions on civil liberties to violent crackdowns against political opponents.

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