Hillary Clinton's charity empire hid way more foreign donations than anyone realized

This won't mean jack running against an even
bigger crook like JEB! Wait 'till we lower the
boom on his pay to play schemes with common
core contractors, the Chinese and the Arabs.

(Yahoo Finance) - The Clinton Foundation's finance controversies deepened on Thursday, when The Boston Globe reported that a huge affiliate of the charity failed to report its foreign-government contributions to the State Department.

When Hillary Clinton, now the leading Democratic presidential candidate, became secretary of state in 2009, she agreed to have her family's foundation submit new donations from foreign countries for State Department review. This was designed to avoid potential conflicts of interest with her new government role.

But Clinton's foundation, now called the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, and its various initiatives repeatedly violated this agreement, reports over the past few months have shown. The Washington Post reported in February that the Clinton Foundation failed to disclose $500,000 from Algeria at the time the country was lobbying the State Department over human-rights issues. And Bloomberg reported this week that the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership, a Clinton Foundation affiliate, failed to disclose 1,100 foreign contributions. Read more.

Is Hillary Clinton a Real Populist? It Doesn't Matter

What'll the lib-labs do? Vote for JEB!?

(New Republic) - Progressive distrust of Hillary Clinton goes back a long way. Much of it stems from her husband’s centrist presidency, and still more of it from her own record as a senator, which included early and sustained support for President George W. Bush’s invasion and occupation of Iraq (she has since renounced that support). Some liberals fear that both Clintons lack deep ideological convictions, and thus can’t be depended upon to govern in liberal fashion.

Yet in the earliest days of her presidential campaign, Clinton has committed herself to several progressive positions. Even in absence of a committed primary challenger, Clinton is sawing off all the illiberal limbs that, to the dismay of committed liberals, she had climbed upon in the past.

In the past two weeks, Clinton has embraced a constitutional amendment to govern campaign finance, a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, and drivers’ licenses for unauthorized immigrants, neither of which she supported in 2008. If you’re a liberal Democrat with presidential ambitions, like former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, this seems all too convenient.

"I’m glad Secretary Clinton’s come around to the right positions on these issues," O’Malley told reporters. “I believe that we are best as a party when we lead with our principles and not according to the polls. And every election is about the future. And leadership is about making the right decision, and the best decision before sometimes it becomes entirely popular."

Fair enough. Clinton hasn’t exactly covered herself in glory by wading behind the tide of public opinion. But is she, to quote the headline of a recent piece by the Washington Post’s Greg Sargent, “a populist of convenience?”

The truth is it doesn’t matter—not in any meaningful, lasting way. Whatever heuristic you use to explain it—necessity, expediency, or conviction—Clinton's movement to the left is unalloyed good news for liberals. Because if she wins the presidency as a result, that would change American politics in perpetuity. 

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Firms Paid Bill Clinton Millions As They Lobbied Hillary Clinton

This pay to play BS won't mean anything if JEB! is my opponent

(International Business Times) - Former President Bill Clinton accepted more than $2.5 million in speaking fees from 13 major corporations and trade associations that lobbied the U.S. State Department while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, an International Business Times investigation has found. The fees were paid directly to the former president, and not directed to his philanthropic foundation.

Many of the companies that paid Bill Clinton for these speeches -- a roster of global giants that includes Microsoft, Oracle and Dell -- engaged him within the same three-month period in which they were also lobbying the State Department in pursuit of their policy aims, federal disclosure documents show. Several companies received millions of dollars in State Department contracts while Hillary Clinton led the institution.

The disclosure that President Clinton received personal payments for speeches from the same corporate interests that were actively seeking to secure favorable policies from a federal department overseen by his wife underscores the vexing issue now confronting her presidential aspirations: The Clinton family is at the center of public suspicions over the extent of insider dealing in Washington, emblematic of concerns that corporate interests are able to influence government action by creatively funneling money to people in power.

“The dynamic is insidious and endemic to this system,” said Meredith McGhee, policy director of the Campaign Legal Center, a campaign finance watchdog group in Washington. "The fact is that the wealthiest .01 percent on the outside of government believes -- fervently -- that by paying speaking fees, or making campaign contributions, that it can gain access and influence." Read more.

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS - 300 Hillary Clinton emails on Benghazi will go public. Read more.

MOTHER JONES - Republicans Painting Hillary Clinton As a Tool of the Superrich Forget One Little Thing. Read more.

FORBES - Hillary Clinton's Authenticity Campaign Takes Another Hit. Read more.

NATIONAL REVIEW - Are Democratic Insiders Starting to Panic About Hillary? Read more.

BREITBART NEWS: Hillary Clinton Cash: Hollywood donors poised to pour it on next week in L.A. fundraisers. Read more.

SALON: Progressives can't trust Hillary Clinton: What's behind her bizarre alliance with the Christian Right? Read more.

Hillary Clinton: People’s champion or greedy sellout?

That's the question Neocon Jen, the resident JEB! apologist at the Washington Post asks in her latest pro-Bush column.  Even if the answer is greedy sellout, how does that make a case for her man, who sold out long ago to America's greediest neocons, war profiteers, for-profit education hucksters, and financial plutocrats? Read more.

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Ok, Jebbie and Karl, if you doughboys take me out,
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