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jimbo2012
11-05-2016, 11:53 AM
The Clinton Foundation has confirmed it accepted a $1 million gift from Qatar while Hillary Clinton was US secretary of state without informing the State Department, even though she had promised to let the agency review new or significantly increased support from foreign governments.

Qatari officials pledged the money in 2011 to mark the 65th birthday of Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton’s husband, and sought to meet the former US president in person the following year to present him the check, according to an email from a foundation official to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign chairman, John Podesta. The email, among thousands hacked from Podesta’s account, was published last month by WikiLeaks.

Clinton signed an ethics agreement governing her family’s globe-straddling foundation in order to become secretary of state in 2009. The agreement was designed to increase transparency to avoid appearances that US foreign policy could be swayed by wealthy donors.

If a new foreign government wished to donate or if an existing foreign-government donor, such as Qatar, wanted to “increase materially” its support of ongoing programs, Clinton promised that the State Department’s ethics official would be notified and given a chance to raise any concerns.

Clinton Foundation officials last month declined to confirm the Qatar donation. In response to additional questions, a foundation spokesperson, Brian Cookstra, this week said that it accepted the $1 million gift from Qatar, but this did not amount to a “material increase” in the Gulf country’s support for the charity. Cookstra declined to say whether Qatari officials received their requested meeting with Bill Clinton.

Officials at Qatar’s embassy in Washington and in its council of ministers in the capital, Doha, declined to discuss the donation.

The State Department has said it has no record of the foundation submitting the Qatar gift for review, and that it was incumbent on the foundation to notify the department about donations that needed attention. A department spokesperson did not respond to additional questions about the donation.

According to the foundation’s website, which lists donors in broad categories by cumulative amounts donated, Qatar’s government has directly given a total of between $1 million and $5 million over the years.

Rockyrd
11-05-2016, 12:05 PM
The Clinton Foundation has confirmed it accepted a $1 million gift from Qatar while Hillary Clinton was US secretary of state without informing the State Department, even though she had promised to let the agency review new or significantly increased support from foreign governments.

Qatari officials pledged the money in 2011 to mark the 65th birthday of Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton’s husband, and sought to meet the former US president in person the following year to present him the check, according to an email from a foundation official to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign chairman, John Podesta. The email, among thousands hacked from Podesta’s account, was published last month by WikiLeaks.

Clinton signed an ethics agreement governing her family’s globe-straddling foundation in order to become secretary of state in 2009. The agreement was designed to increase transparency to avoid appearances that US foreign policy could be swayed by wealthy donors.

If a new foreign government wished to donate or if an existing foreign-government donor, such as Qatar, wanted to “increase materially” its support of ongoing programs, Clinton promised that the State Department’s ethics official would be notified and given a chance to raise any concerns.

Clinton Foundation officials last month declined to confirm the Qatar donation. In response to additional questions, a foundation spokesperson, Brian Cookstra, this week said that it accepted the $1 million gift from Qatar, but this did not amount to a “material increase” in the Gulf country’s support for the charity. Cookstra declined to say whether Qatari officials received their requested meeting with Bill Clinton.

Officials at Qatar’s embassy in Washington and in its council of ministers in the capital, Doha, declined to discuss the donation.

The State Department has said it has no record of the foundation submitting the Qatar gift for review, and that it was incumbent on the foundation to notify the department about donations that needed attention. A department spokesperson did not respond to additional questions about the donation.

According to the foundation’s website, which lists donors in broad categories by cumulative amounts donated, Qatar’s government has directly given a total of between $1 million and $5 million over the years.

And how do you interpret this ? Have you ever compared this Foundation to the Trump Foundation which is truely a scam and never does any good works.

jimbo2012
11-05-2016, 12:07 PM
Rocky you really need to learn how to pivot better. :1rotfl:

Running scared he's winning maybe?

Rockyrd
11-05-2016, 12:07 PM
"It’s time to revive the debate over whether we have to take the National Enquirer seriously because one time they were right about John Edwards’ affair. The Wall Street Journal reports that the tabloid paid a former Playboy model $150,000 for the rights to the story of her affair with Donald Trump a decade ago, when he was married to Melania. Why are we only learning of this alleged affair on a Friday night, three days before the election? Because unbeknownst to the model, the pro-Trump National Enquirer wasn’t paying to run the story, they were paying to kill it."

again.....

"McDougal thought the story would be published, but the tabloid was actually paying to make sure the story wouldn’t get out. Per the Jou"

National Enquirer Paid to Kill Trump Affair Story: Report (http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/11/national-enquirer-paid-to-kill-trump-affair-story-report.html)

Class act this guy Trump.

jimbo2012
11-05-2016, 12:22 PM
How's the guy doing you voted for?

Oh right you didn't really vote

graciegirl
11-05-2016, 01:34 PM
"It’s time to revive the debate over whether we have to take the National Enquirer seriously because one time they were right about John Edwards’ affair. The Wall Street Journal reports that the tabloid paid a former Playboy model $150,000 for the rights to the story of her affair with Donald Trump a decade ago, when he was married to Melania. Why are we only learning of this alleged affair on a Friday night, three days before the election? Because unbeknownst to the model, the pro-Trump National Enquirer wasn’t paying to run the story, they were paying to kill it."

again.....

"McDougal thought the story would be published, but the tabloid was actually paying to make sure the story wouldn’t get out. Per the Jou"

National Enquirer Paid to Kill Trump Affair Story: Report (http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/11/national-enquirer-paid-to-kill-trump-affair-story-report.html)

Class act this guy Trump.

Clinton's charity confirms Qatar's $1 million gift while she was at State Dept (http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/clintons-charity-confirms-qatars-dollar1-million-gift-while-she-was-at-state-dept/ar-AAjUIia?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp)
NOPE. THIS IS Reuters. I nearly swallowed my teeth.

jimbo2012
11-06-2016, 04:37 PM
Clinton admits gift not claimed

MDLNB
11-06-2016, 09:10 PM
Put her in jail and throw away the key. She is a felon.