Hillary
Clinton's Russia collusion IOU: The answers she owes America
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/446736-hillary-clintons-russia-collusion-iou-the-answers-she-owes-america
During
the combined two decades she served as a U.S. senator and secretary of State, Hillary Clinton’s patrons
regularly donated to her family charity when they had official business pending
before America’s most powerful political woman.
The pattern of political IOUs
paid to the Clinton Foundation was so pernicious that the State Department even
tried to execute a special agreement with the charity to
avoid the overt appearance of “pay-to-play” policy.
Still, the money continued to
flow by the millions of dollars, from foreigners and Americans alike who were
perceived to be indebted to the Clinton machine or in need of its help.
It’s time for the American
public to call in their own IOU on political transparency.
The reason? Never before — until
2016 — had the apparatus of a U.S. presidential candidate managed to sic the
weight of the FBI and U.S. intelligence community on a rival nominee during an
election, and by using a foreign-fed, uncorroborated political opposition
research document.
But Clinton’s campaign, in
concert with the Democratic Party and through their shared law firm, funded
Christopher Steele’s unverified dossierwhich, it turns out, falsely
portrayed Republican Donald Trump as a
treasonous asset colluding with Russian President Vladimir Putin to hijack the
U.S. election.
Steele went to the FBI to get an
investigation started and then leaked the existence of the investigation, with
the hope of sinking Trump’s presidential aspirations.
On its face, it is arguably the
most devious political dirty trick in American history and one of the most
overt intrusions of a foreigner into a U.S. election.
It appears the Clinton machine
knew that what it was doing was controversial. That’s why it did backflips to
disguise the operation from Congress and the public, and in its Federal
Election Commission (FEC) spending reports.
Clinton and the Democratic
National Committee (DNC) used the law firm of Perkins Coie to hire
Glenn Simpson’s research firm, Fusion GPS, which then hired Steele — several
layers that obfuscated transparency, kept the operation off the campaign’s
public FEC reports and gave the Clintons plausible deniability.
But Steele’s first overture on
July 5, 2016, failed to capture the FBI’s imagination. So the Clinton machine
escalated. Steele, a British national, went to senior Department of Justice
official Bruce Ohr — whose wife, Nellie, also worked for Fusion — to push his
Trump dirt to the top of the FBI.
Nellie Ohr likewise sent some of
her own anti-Trump research augmenting Steele’s dossier to the FBI through her
husband. Perkins Coie lawyer Michael Sussmann used his connection to former FBI general
counsel James Baker to dump Trump dirt at the FBI, too.
Then Steele and, separately,
longtime Clinton protégé Cody Shearer went to the State Department to
get the story out, increasing pressure on the FBI.
In short, the Clinton machine
flooded the FBI with pressure — and bad intel — until an investigation of Trump
was started. The bureau and its hapless sheriff at the time, James Comey,
eventually acquiesced with the help of such Clinton fans as then-FBI employees
Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.
To finish the mission, Simpson
and Steele leaked the existence of the FBI investigation to the news media to
ensure it would hurt Trump politically. Simpson even called the leaks a “hail Mary” that
failed.
Trump won, however. And now,
thanks to special counsel Robert Mueller, we know the Russia-collusion
allegations relentlessly peddled by Team Clinton were bogus. But not before the
FBI used the Clinton-funded, foreign-created research to get a total of four
warrants to spy on the Trump campaign, transition and
presidency from October 2016 through the following autumn.
The Clinton team’s dirty trick
was as diabolical as it was brilliant. It literally used house money and a
large part of the U.S. intelligence apparatus to carry out its political hit
job on Trump.
After two years of American
discomfort, and tens of millions of taxpayer dollars spent, it’s time for the
house to call in its IOU.
Hillary Clinton owes us answers
— lots of them. So far, she has ducked them, even while doing many high-profile
media interviews.
I’m not the only one who thinks
this way. Longtime Clinton adviser Douglas Schoen said Friday night on Fox News
that it’s time for Clinton to answer what she knew and when she knew it.
Here are 10 essential questions:
1.
In January 2018, the Senate Judiciary Committee sent a formal
investigative request for documents and written answers from your campaign. Do
you plan to comply?
2.
Please identify each person in your campaign who was involved
with, or aware of, hiring Fusion GPS, Glenn Simpson and Christopher Steele.
3.
Please identify each person in your campaign, including Perkins
Coie lawyers, who were aware that Steele provided information to the FBI or
State Department, and when they learned it.
4.
Describe any information you and your campaign staff received,
or were briefed on, before Election Day that was derived from the work of
Simpson, Steele, Fusion GPS, Nellie Ohr or Perkins Coie and that tried to
connect Trump, his campaign or his business empire with Russia.
5.
Please describe all contacts your campaign had before Election
Day with or about the following individuals: Bruce Ohr, Nellie Ohr, Glenn
Simpson, Christopher Steele, former
Australian diplomat Alexander Downer, former
foreign policy scholar Stefan Halper and Maltese
academic Joseph Mifsud.
6.
Did you or any senior members of your campaign, including
lawyers such as Michael Sussmann, have any contact with the CIA, its former
Director John Brennan, current Director Gina Haspel, James Baker, Peter Strzok,
Lisa Page or former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe?
7.
Describe all contacts
your campaign had with Cody Shearer and Sidney Blumenthal
concerning Trump, Russia and Ukraine.
8.
Describe all contacts you and your campaign had with
DNC contractorAlexandra Chalupa, the Ukraine government, the Ukraine
Embassy in the United States or the U.S. Embassy in Kiev concerning Trump,
Russia or former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
9.
Why did your campaign and the Democratic Party make a concerted
effort to portray Trump as a Russian asset?
10.Given that investigations by a
House committee, a Senate committee and a special prosecutor all have concluded
there isn’t evidence of Trump-Russia collusion, do you regret the actions by
your campaign and by Steele, Simpson and Sussmann to inject these unfounded allegations
into the FBI, the U.S. intelligence community and the news media?
Hillary Clinton owes us answers
to each of these questions. She should skip the lawyer-speak and answer them
with the candor worthy of an elder American stateswoman.
John
Solomon is an award-winning investigative journalist whose work over the years
has exposed U.S. and FBI intelligence failures before the Sept. 11 attacks,
federal scientists’ misuse of foster children and veterans in drug experiments,
and numerous cases of political corruption. He serves as an investigative
columnist and executive vice president for video at The Hill. Follow him on
Twitter @jsolomonReports.
VIDEO:
THE
FRAUDULENT CLINTON FOUNDATION EXPOSED.
PAY-TO-PLAY
FROM THE FIRST DAY!
Is it a signal
that she's back in the game because she's selling her president-ability to the
world's global billionaire crowd and laying the groundwork for more
funds? There are all kinds of ways for foreign billionaires to get
money to the U.S. without consequences, after all. What's more, it's
pretty much the biggest base of support she has, which is at least one reason
why she lost the 2016 election.
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“The couple parlayed lives supposedly spent in “public
service”
into admission into the upper stratosphere of American wealth, with incomes in the top 0.1 percent bracket. The source of this vast wealth was a political
machine that might well be dubbed “Clinton, Inc.” This consists essentially of
a seedy money-laundering operation to ensure big business support for the
Clintons’ political ambitions as well as their personal fortunes.
into admission into the upper stratosphere of American wealth, with incomes in the top 0.1 percent bracket. The source of this vast wealth was a political
machine that might well be dubbed “Clinton, Inc.” This consists essentially of
a seedy money-laundering operation to ensure big business support for the
Clintons’ political ambitions as well as their personal fortunes.
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The basic components
of the operation are lavishly paid speeches to Wall Street and Fortune 500
audiences, corporate campaign contributions, and donations to the ostensibly
philanthropic Clinton Foundation.”
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"But what the
Clintons do is criminal because they do it wholly at the expense of the
American people. And they feel thoroughly entitled to do it: gain power, use it
to enrich themselves and their friends. They are amoral, immoral, and venal.
Hillary has no core beliefs beyond power and money. That should be clear to
every person on the planet by now." ---- Patricia McCarthy -
AMERICANTHINKER.com
THE OBAMA – CLINTON RUSSIA CONNECTION
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WITH THESE
TRAITORS, JUST FOLLOW THE MONEY!
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How President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton aided
Russia’s quest for global nuclear dominance.
THE SHADY POLITICS OF HILLARY CLINTON and her PAY-TO-PLAY MAFIA
THE SHADY POLITICS OF HILLARY CLINTON and her PAY-TO-PLAY MAFIA
The left cared nothing about that bit of
collusion.
Hillary and her campaign aides have long been involved
with Russia for reasons of personal gain. Clinton herself got $145 million in
donations to the Clinton Foundation for allowing Russia to take over twenty
percent of all uranium production in the U.S. Her campaign chairman, John Podesta, is reaping the
financial benefits of being on the board of a Russian company, Joule, which he did not disclose. PATRICIA McCARTHY
Had Hillary been elected, the Clinton
Foundation would be raking in even more millions than it did before. She
would be happily selling access, favors and our remaining freedoms out from
under us. PATRICIA McCARTHY
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