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
BY JOHN SOLOMON, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR
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.
Cher Wonders: Can America Survive Four More Years of ‘Putin’s Choice’ Trump
2:15
Far-left pop icon Cher wondered whether American could survive another four years of President Donald Trump, or “Putin’s choice for president” after “Moscow Mitch” McConnell blocked a Senate vote on an election security bill.
“WHATEVER MUST B DONE, “MUST B DONE.”FK PLAYING BY RULES.”MOSCOW MITCH” DIDNT LET SENATE VOTE ON BILL 2 SAVE ELECTION FROM RUSSIAN DOMINATION, BECAUSE HE WANTS”PUTIN’S CHOICE”4 PRESIDENT.” Cher said, blasting Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) for blocking of a vote on an election security bill this week.
WHATEVER MUST B DONE,
“MUST B DONE.”FK PLAYING
BY RULES.”MOSCOW MITCH” DIDNT LET SENATE VOTE ON BILL 2 SAVEELECTION FROM RUSSIAN DOMINATION,
BECAUSE HE WANTS”PUTIN’S CHOICE”4 PRESIDENT. GOP IS,ITS NOW DJT’S PARTY.
cansurvive 4 more yrs of@RealDonaldTrump
“
Despite Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) claim that the election security bill was “common sense,” the House version of the bill passed with only one Republican vote, making it overwhelmingly partisan.
McConnell contended that the Senate should instead take up bipartisan measures to secure America’s elections and that the Democrats who are pushing this bill continue to propagate the “conspiracy theory” of collusion between the 2016 Donald Trump campaign and the Russian government.
The Kentucky Republican also blocked a request to pass a second election security bill that would allow political candidates, their families, and campaign associates to the report to the Federal Bureau of Investigation when they receive offers of assistance from foreign governments.
The Senate majority leader claims that states, not the federal government, should handle elections. McConnell also said that Congress has already addressed concerns over election security that arose from Russia’s cyber attacks during the 2016 presidential election.
Sean Moran is a congressional reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter @SeanMoran3.
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.
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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
THE
MAN WHO WOULD BE DICTATOR
Barack
Obama’s Russia Connection
https://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2019/06/barack-obamas-russian-connection-who.html
If
Obama was a fully recruited agent of Moscow, tasked with giving Russia a
significant military advantage over the United States, and economically weakening
and socially dividing the nation, how would he have conducted his presidency
(or his post-presidency) any differently? TREVOR LOUDON
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We are all victims of the Obama cabal’s collusion with Russia –
President Trump’s voters and all Americans who believe in our free and fair
election process.
Democrats Allow Communists to Infiltrate Their
Party Across the Nation
“Obama’s new home in Washington has been described
as the “nerve center” of the anti-Trump opposition. Former attorney
general Eric Holder has said that Obama is “ready to roll” and has
aligned himself with the “resistance.” Former high-level Obama
campaign staffers now work with a variety of groups organizing direct
action against Trump’s initiatives. “Resistance School,” for
example, features lectures by former campaign executive
Sara El-Amine, author of the Obama Organizing.”
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“Professor Paul Kengor has extensively researched
the
Chicago communists whose progeny include
David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, and
Barack Hussein
Obama. Add the openly Marxist, pro-communist
Ayers, and
you have many of the key players who
put Obama into power.”
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We
are all victims of the Obama cabal’s collusion with Russia – President Trump’s
voters and all Americans who believe in our free and fair election process.
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