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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>T</strong></span><strong><span style="font-size: large;">rump's promise to you the American People!</span></strong><br />
<strong>FIRST</strong>, propose a Constitutional Amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress;<br />
<li><strong>SECOND</strong>, a hiring freeze on all federal employees to reduce federal workforce through attrition (exempting military, public safety, and public health);</li>
<li><strong>THIRD,</strong> a requirement that for every new federal regulation, two existing regulations must be eliminated;</li>
<li><strong>FOURTH</strong>, a 5 year-ban on White House and Congressional officials becoming lobbyists after they leave government service;</li>
<li><strong>FIFTH</strong>, a lifetime ban on White House officials lobbying on behalf of a foreign government;</li>
<li><strong>SIXTH,</strong> a complete ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections.</li>
On the same day, I will begin taking the following seven actions to protect American workers:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">.</span> FIRST, </strong>I will announce my intention to renegotiate NAFTA or withdraw from the deal under Article 2205 <strong></strong><br />
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<li><strong>SECOND, </strong>I will announce our withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership<strong></strong></li>
<li><strong>THIRD, </strong>I will direct my Secretary of the Treasury to label China a currency manipulator<strong></strong></li>
<li><strong>FOURTH, </strong>I will direct the Secretary of Commerce and U.S. Trade Representative to identify all foreign trading abuses that unfairly impact American workers and direct them to use every tool under American and international law to end those abuses immediately<strong></strong></li>
<li><strong>FIFTH, </strong>I will lift the restrictions on the production of $50 trillion dollars’ worth of job-producing American energy reserves, including shale, oil, natural gas and clean coal.<strong></strong></li>
<li><strong>SIXTH, </strong>lift the Obama-Clinton roadblocks and allow vital energy infrastructure projects, like the Keystone Pipeline, to move forward<strong></strong></li>
<li><strong>SEVENTH, </strong>cancel billions in payments to U.N. climate change programs and use the money to fix America’s water and environmental infrastructure <strong></strong></li>
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Additionally, on the first day, I will take the following five actions to restore security and the constitutional rule of law:<br />
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<li><strong>FIRST,</strong> cancel every unconstitutional executive action, memorandum and order issued by President Obama</li>
<li><strong>SECOND, </strong>begin the process of selecting a replacement for Justice Scalia from one of the 20 judges on my list, who will uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States<strong></strong></li>
<li><strong>THIRD, </strong>cancel all federal funding to Sanctuary Cities<strong></strong></li>
<li><strong>FOURTH, </strong>begin removing the more than 2 million criminal illegal immigrants from the country and cancel visas to foreign countries that won’t take them back<strong></strong></li>
<li><strong>FIFTH, </strong>suspend immigration from terror-prone regions where vetting cannot safely occur. All vetting of people coming into our country will be considered extreme vetting.<strong></strong></li>
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Next, I will work with Congress to introduce the following broader legislative measures and fight for their passage within the first 100 days of my Administration:<br />
1. <strong><u>Middle Class Tax Relief And Simplification Act</u></strong>. An economic plan designed to grow the economy 4% per year and create at least 25 million new jobs through massive tax reduction and simplification, in combination with trade reform, regulatory relief, and lifting the restrictions on American energy. The largest tax reductions are for the middle class. A middle-class family with 2 children will get a 35% tax cut. The current number of brackets will be reduced from 7 to 3, and tax forms will likewise be greatly simplified. The business rate will be lowered from 35 to 15 percent, and the trillions of dollars of American corporate money overseas can now be brought back at a 10 percent rate.<br />
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2. <strong><u>End The Offshoring Act</u></strong> Establishes tariffs to discourage companies from laying off their workers in order to relocate in other countries and ship their products back to the U.S. tax-free.<br />
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3. <strong><u>American Energy & Infrastructure Act.</u> </strong>Leverages public-private partnerships, and private investments through tax incentives, to spur $1 trillion in infrastructure investment over 10 years. It is revenue neutral.<br />
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4. <strong><u>School Choice And Education Opportunity Act.</u></strong> Redirects education dollars to gives parents the right to send their kid to the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school of their choice. Ends common core, brings education supervision to local communities. It expands vocational and technical education, and make 2 and 4-year college more affordable.<br />
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5. <strong><u>Repeal and Replace Obamacare Act</u></strong>. Fully repeals Obamacare and replaces it with Health Savings Accounts, the ability to purchase health insurance across state lines, and lets states manage Medicaid funds. Reforms will also include cutting the red tape at the FDA: there are over 4,000 drugs awaiting approval, and we especially want to speed the approval of life-saving medications.<br />
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6. <strong><u>Affordable Childcare and Eldercare Act</u></strong>. Allows Americans to deduct childcare and elder care from their taxes, incentivizes employers to provide on-site childcare services, and creates tax-free Dependent Care Savings Accounts for both young and elderly dependents, with matching contributions for low-income families.<br />
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7. <strong><u>End Illegal Immigration Act </u></strong> Fully-funds the construction of a wall on our southern border with the full understanding that the country Mexico will be reimbursing the United States for the full cost of such wall; establishes a 2-year mandatory minimum federal prison sentence for illegally re-entering the U.S. after a previous deportation, and a 5-year mandatory minimum for illegally re-entering for those with felony convictions, multiple misdemeanor convictions or two or more prior deportations; also reforms visa rules to enhance penalties for overstaying and to ensure open jobs are offered to American workers first.<br />
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8. <strong><u>Restoring Community Safety Act</u></strong>. Reduces surging crime, drugs and violence by creating a Task Force On Violent Crime and increasing funding for programs that train and assist local police; increases resources for federal law enforcement agencies and federal prosecutors to dismantle criminal gangs and put violent offenders behind bars.<br />
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9. <strong><u>Restoring National Security Act</u></strong>. Rebuilds our military by eliminating the defense sequester and expanding military investment; provides Veterans with the ability to receive public VA treatment or attend the private doctor of their choice; protects our vital infrastructure from cyber-attack; establishes new screening procedures for immigration to ensure those who are admitted to our country support our people and our values<br />
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10. <strong><u>Clean up Corruption in Washington Act</u></strong>. Enacts new ethics reforms to Drain the Swamp and reduce the corrupting influence of special interests on our politics.<br />
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On November 8<sup>th</sup>, Americans will be voting for this 100-day plan to restore prosperity to our economy, security to our communities, and honesty to our government.<br />
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This is my pledge to you.<br />
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And if we follow these steps, we will once more have a government of, by and for the people.”<br />
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New 'Clinton Cash' film reveals how the couple exploited Colombian rainforests to generate millions for Clinton foundation</h1>
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(NaturalNews) An explosive new film detailing how Bill and Hillary Clinton used their positions of power and influence to raise millions for themselves and billions for their "charitable" foundation details, among other things, a deal that helped to enrich a friend and donor at the expense of invaluable, irreplaceable rainforest.<br />
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The film, "Clinton Cash," which you can view online in its entirety <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LYRUOd_QoM" target="_blank">here</a>, thoroughly explains the nexus between Hillary Clinton's State Department, her ex-president husband, the Clinton Foundation, and foreign governments and business interests all conspiring to raise money at the expense of ordinary people and the environment.<br />
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Here is one of the most egregious examples.<br />
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In June 2010, Bill Clinton, along with friend and mining billionaire Frank Guistra, a Canadian, flew into Bogota, Colombia, where, coincidentally, they arrive at about the same time as Secretary Clinton, who flew in on a government plane. In her memoirs, which she wrote after leaving the State Department, she claimed that the meeting between her, her husband and Guistra was just happenstance – as if the two of them had no idea they would both be in Bogota, Colombia <i>at the same time</i>.<br />
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<b>Follow the money</b><br />
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But of course, the meeting wasn't just happenstance.<br />
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The following morning, after the Clintons dined together at a restaurant in the capital city, Bill Clinton has an early morning meeting with outgoing President Alvaro Uribe; Secretary Clinton had a noon lunch meeting with Uribe as well. During the meeting with Mrs. Clinton, the U.S. government grants <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/Colombia.html">Colombia</a> a number of technical agreements the Uribe administration had been seeking.<br />
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In the days that followed, three companies belonging to Guistra received <i>major concessions</i> from the Colombian government. One of the companies, Prima Colombia Hardwood Inc., received permission to cut timber from a rainforest along the Pacific coast.<br />
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One more thing: The rainforest timber was not bound for the United States or even Canada; it was exported to <i>China</i>.<br />
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Environmentalists, as well as many of the Colombian people, figured out what was going on eventually and were outraged. Eventually, the permit to cut timber was pulled by a new Colombian government, but not before Giustra's company was able to massively profit from cutting down acres upon acres of irreplaceable rainforest.<br />
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For their part, the Clintons have come out in public in support of "sustainable forests" and other environmental causes, but after receiving millions in donations to their foundation – and after Bill Clinton raked in nearly $2 million in speaking fees – their environmentalism took a back seat to their desire for payola.<br />
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<b>So much for principles</b><br />
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It wasn't just the Colombian timber deal where the Clintons' ostensible environmental principles were ignored. There was Clinton chicanery when it came to the Keystone XL pipeline as well, one of the touchstones of the so-called "climate change" debate. (See more on that <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/054823_climate_change_reefer_madness_propaganda_films.html" target="_blank">here</a>) The pipeline is designed to carry oil from tar sands fields in Canada to refineries in Texas and Louisiana.<br />
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When Hillary Clinton was named as President-Elect Obama's secretary of state in late 2008, there was an issue related to the pipeline waiting for her on her desk. She was to decide whether or not to approve an environmental and economic impact statement and decide whether the pipeline project should be approved; it was a State Department decision (among others) because the pipeline was multinational in scope.<br />
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At that exact time, Bill Clinton received an offer of nearly $2 million to give 10 speeches in Canada – from entities that had never before hired him to speak. The company that offered the deal, TD Bank Investment Group, it turns out, is a major shareholder in the Keystone XL project.<br />
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Clinton gave the last speech in May 2011; three months later, Secretary Clinton's State Dept. released an environmental impact letter widely seen as favoring the construction of the pipeline. She had in her hands the power to kill the deal but she, mysteriously, signed it – even though she and her boss, Obama, seemed to be opposed to the pipeline as an environmental issue.<br />
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Watch the entire Clinton Cash documentary <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LYRUOd_QoM" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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After the election results were announced in early December, Micky’s devoted supporters rioted for three straight days. Hillary Clinton, in turn, told President Preval that if he didn’t force Celestin to drop out, Congress would <a href="http://www.npr.org/2010/12/15/132051764/haiti-on-edge-amid-disputed-election-results" target="_blank">cut off aid</a> to Haiti. Martelly soon became the second candidate in the runoff.<br />
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In March 2011, Sweet Micky parlayed his support from the Duvalier-aligned Haitian right and the U.S. into a comfortable victory. On the night he won the runoff, Hillary’s State Department team celebrated, with her chief of staff Cheryl Mills <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/15/us/politics/hillary-clinton-haiti.html?_r=0" target="_blank">assuring them</a> that “You do great elections.”</div>
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By the end of 2015, according to a congressional report, “much of the Haitian public” believed that international disaster relief money had been mismanaged, fueling calls for Martelly’s ouster (<a href="https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R42559.pdf" target="_blank">PDF</a>). Under Martelly, the Haitian gourde also depreciated by 30 percent, compounding the nation’s rapidly growing food crisis.<br />
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Instead of the grandmotherly figure of Dr. Mirlande, in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake Haiti was ruled by a risqué, misogynist musician. Yet despite his volatile character, once in office Micky remained a consistent ally of the Clintons.<br />
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One year into Martelly’s term, U.S. Ambassador Pam White informed Mills (<a href="https://foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOCUMENTS/HRCEmail_OctWeb/241/DOC_0C05791864/C05791864.pdf" target="_blank">PDF</a>) that Haiti insiders viewed Martelly “not dumb as many may think, [but] he is wild.” Martelly soon appointed close Clinton ally Laurent Lamothe as prime minister, but Lamothe was forced to step down two years later.<br />
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When Caracol Industrial Park, a signature project of the Clinton Foundation, opened in northern Haiti in October 2012, Sweet Micky joined Bill and Hillary at the ceremony. There Haiti’s president and the U.S. Secretary of State heaped high praise on one another.</div>
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Martelly, Clinton declared, was the impoverished nation’s “chief dreamer and believer.” Sweet Micky, in turn, <a href="http://world.time.com/2012/10/25/the-clintons-in-haiti-can-an-industrial-park-save-the-country/" target="_blank">said</a> the Caracol project showed that Haiti “is open for business, and that’s not just a slogan.”<br />
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The high-profile launch of the industrial park, <i>Time </i>reported, was also designed to rebut criticisms within Haiti regarding exactly where the many billions in post-earthquake aid money had ended up.</div>
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At the time, Martelly proclaimed that the Caracol project would deliver more than 100,000 jobs, while the Clinton Foundation vowed that it would bring 60,000 in five years. As of mid-2015, the <a href="http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/05/clinton-foundation-haiti-117368_Page4.html#.Vw0bniMrLJw" target="_blank">actual number</a> was closer to 5,000.<br />
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Throughout his five-year term, Martelly gave free rein to NGOs and foreign business interests. Amidst Haiti’s ongoing turmoil, a simple question thus arises: Why, exactly, did Hillary Clinton’s State Department support Sweet Micky instead of Dr. Mirlande Manigat?<br />
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<i>Theodore Hamm is chair of Journalism and New Media Studies at St. Joseph’s College in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.</i></div>
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Posted on August 26, 2016 by <a class="url fn n" href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/author/paul" title="">Paul Mirengoff</a> in <a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/category/clinton-cash">Clinton Cash</a>, <a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/category/hillary-clinton">Hillary Clinton</a>, <a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/category/national-security">National Security</a>, <a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/category/russia">Russia</a> <!-- .entry-meta --> <br />
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Memo sheds new light on Clinton-Russia uranium scandal</h1>
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Of all the Clinton Foundation/Clinton cash scandals, the one I’ve always considered most disturbing involves the Russians gaining control over a large share of America’s uranium. Relying on a New York Times report, I wrote about this scandal <a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/04/report-clintons-enabled-russians-to-gain-large-share-of-americas-uranium.php"> here</a>.<br />
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Newly uncovered State Department documents shed additional light on this scandal. But before getting to the new material, I’ll summarize what the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-foundation-as-russians-pressed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0"> New York Times</a> reported.<br />
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In 2005, Bill Clinton and Frank Giustra visited Kazakhstan. Giustra is a massive donor to the Clinton Foundation.<br />
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Giustra’s goal was to buy uranium mines in Kazakhstan. To this end, he and Bill Clinton met with leaders of the Kazakhstan government. <br />
As a result of the visit, Giustra got major mining concessions, which were approved by the Kazakhstan government. Kazakhstan got Bill Clinton publicly to praise its alleged progress in democracy and human rights. The Clintons received a $31 million donation to their Foundation from Giustra, along with a pledge to donate $100 million more.<br />
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The deal with Kazakhstan made Giustra’s company, Uranium One, a major player. It proceeded to buy large amounts of holdings in the United States, and became an attractive target for Russia. A Russian company made a hugely attractive offer to purchase the company. Uranium One agreed to the purchase.<br />
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The deal required approval by the U.S. government, including by the Secretary of State — Hillary Clinton. During the period when the deal with Russia was under consideration, the Clinton Foundation reportedly $2.6 million from Uranium One. Its contributions were not disclosed by the Clintons, despite an agreement Hillary had reached with the Obama White House to publicly identify all donors.<br />
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During this period, Bill Clinton also received $500,000 for a Moscow speech from a Russian investment bank that was promoting Uranium One stock. This was more than his usual speaking fee.<br />
Hillary Clinton duly approved the deal. It made the Russian company Rosatom one of the world’s largest uranium producers and brought Vladimir Putin closer to his goal of controlling much of the global uranium supply chain.<br />
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The deal left huge amounts of U.S. uranium under the control of Russia. The New York Times estimates this share at 20 percent. But Peter Schweizer, the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Clinton-Cash-Foreign-Governments-Businesses/dp/0062369288"> Clinton Cash</a>, say that it amounts to up to 50 percent of projected U.S. uranium output.<br />
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What we have recently learned When Hillary Clinton was questioned about the deal, she said she had no reason to intervene in the decision. But <a href="http://circa.com/politics/election-2016/clinton-warned-in-2009-memo-that-russian-uranium-moves-were-bad-for-us-europe#circa-atom-3"> Raphael Williams of Circa</a> reports that memos contained on WikiLeaks show Clinton was warned about Russian attempts to flex its muscle in uranium markets. And members of Congress also sounded the alarm.<br />
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The State Department had obtained a “strategy paper” from Rosatom, the Russian company seeking to purchase Uranium One. The strategy paper alarmed U.S. diplomats because it confirmed fears that Russia was moving to control the long-term supply of nuclear fuel, shut Westinghouse out of the market, and extend Moscow’s influence over Europe.<br />
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The resulting diplomatic cable lays out what Williams calls “a clear warning from career U.S. officials about why expanding Russia’s control of uranium markets was bad for the United States and for its allies in Europe.” <br />
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In addition, members of Congress pointed to the dangers of the Rosatom deal. Sen. John Barasso said it “would give the Russian government control over a sizable portion of America’s uranium production capacity.” Rep. Peter King said it “would pose great potential harm to the national security of the United States.” <br />
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Clinton, then, had ample reason to intervene in the decision. But doing so would have been inconsistent with the interests of those who were donating so generously to her Foundation. <br />
Despite the warnings from her own diplomats and from Congress, Clinton let the deal go through. <br />
Who were the winners in the transactions that began with Bill Clinton’s visit to Kazakhstan and ended when the U.S. approved the Uranium One-Rosatom deal? The Russians, obviously, but not just them.<br />
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Frank Giustra won big. So did the Clintons who raised tens of millions, if not more, in this saga. Even Kazakhstan came away with something, though whether it contemplated Russia controlling its uranium is another matter.<br />
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Only America is the loser. <br />
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Clinton Corruption: The Teneo Memo<br />
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Tax on Stock Trading --<br />
Clinton has proposed a new tax on stock trading. Costs associated with this new tax will be borne by millions of American families that hold 401(k)s, IRAs and other savings accounts. The tax increase would only further burden markets by discouraging trading and investment. Again, no dollar figure for this tax hike has been released by the Clinton campaign.<br />
“Exit Tax” – Rather than reduce the extremely high, uncompetitive corporate tax rate, Clinton has proposed a series of measures aimed at inversions including an “exit tax” <br />
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on income earned overseas. The term “exit tax” is used by the campaign itself. Her campaign document describing this proposal says it will raise $80 billion in tax revenue, but claims some of the $80 billion will be plowed into tax relief. How much? The campaign doesn't say.<br />
This proposal completely fails to address the underlying causes behind inversions: The U.S. 39% corporate tax rate (35% federal rate plus an average state rate of 4%) and our "worldwide" system of taxation, which imposes tax on all American earnings worldwide. The average corporate rate in the developed world is 25%. Thirty-one of thirty-four developed countries have cut their corporate tax rate since 2000. The U.S. has not.<br />
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From:LaszczychJ@state.gov To: <a href="mailto:mbarretta@clintonfoundation.org">mbarretta@clintonfoundation.org</a>, <a href="mailto:ssyed@americanprogress.org">ssyed@americanprogress.org</a>, <a href="mailto:john.podesta@gmail.com">john.podesta@gmail.com</a>, <a href="mailto:blindsey@clintonfoundation.org">blindsey@clintonfoundation.org</a> Date: 2012-01-19 16:52 Subject: RE: Call with Laura and Cheryl. <br />
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Was info on <a href="mailto:SSHRC@state.gov">SSHRC@state.gov</a> checked replaced by<br />
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On Cheryl's calendar Joanne -----Original Message-----<br />
From: Michelle Barretta [mailto:mbarretta@clintonfoundation.org] <br />
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 1:51 PM <br />
To: <a href="mailto:ssyed@americanprogress.org">ssyed@americanprogress.org</a>; <a href="mailto:john.podesta@gmail.com">john.podesta@gmail.com</a>; Bruce Lindsey Cc: Ana Maria Coronel; Laura Graham; Laszczych, Joanne Subject: Re: Call with Laura and Cheryl. <br />
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All This call will be Monday at 2pm ET. Please dial in 866-652-0222. Pass code 395-955-2195. <br />
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Thanks. ----- Original Message ----- <br />
From: Seher Syed <<a href="mailto:ssyed@americanprogress.org">ssyed@americanprogress.org</a>><br />
To: Michelle Barretta; <a href="mailto:john.podesta@gmail.com">john.podesta@gmail.com</a> <<a href="mailto:john.podesta@gmail.com">john.podesta@gmail.com</a>>; Bruce Lindsey Cc: Ana Maria Coronel; Laura Graham; <a href="mailto:LaszczychJ@state.gov">LaszczychJ@state.gov</a> <<a href="mailto:LaszczychJ@state.gov">LaszczychJ@state.gov</a>> <br />
Sent: Thu Jan 19 12:33:19 2012 <br />
Subject: RE: Call with Laura and Cheryl. 2 pm ET works for John. <br />
Thanks, Seher Seher Syed Center for American Progress 1333 H Street N.W.,10th Floor Washington, D.C. 20005 Tel: 202-682-1611 <a href="mailto:ssyed@americanprogress.org">ssyed@americanprogress.org</a><br />
-----Original Message----- From: Michelle Barretta [mailto:mbarretta@clintonfoundation.org] Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 12:32 PM To: <a href="mailto:john.podesta@gmail.com">john.podesta@gmail.com</a>; Bruce Lindsey; Seher Syed Cc: Ana Maria Coronel; Laura Graham; <a href="mailto:LaszczychJ@state.gov">LaszczychJ@state.gov</a> Subject: Re: Call with Laura and Cheryl. Apologies, adding John's assistant. <br />
----- Original Message ----- <br />
From: Michelle Barretta To: <a href="mailto:john.podesta@gmail.com">john.podesta@gmail.com</a> <<a href="mailto:john.podesta@gmail.com">john.podesta@gmail.com</a>>; Bruce Lindsey Cc: Ana Maria Coronel; Laura Graham; <a href="mailto:LaszczychJ@state.gov">LaszczychJ@state.gov</a> <<a href="mailto:LaszczychJ@state.gov">LaszczychJ@state.gov</a>> <br />
Sent: Thu Jan 19 12:22:01 2012 Subject: Call with Laura and Cheryl. Hi Trying to set this call up for Monday. So far the best times are at 2 or 230pm ET. Will either of these times work for you? <br />
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Q Okay. Are you familiar with FOIA? 11:35:23<br />
3 A Yes. 11:35:25<br />
4 Q Okay. And during your tenure at the State 11:35:25<br />
5 Department, were you aware that federal records 11:35:29<br />
6 belonged to the agency? 11:35:32<br />
11 A Yes. 11:35:43<br />
12 Q Okay. And during your tenure at the State 11:35:43<br />
13 Department, were you aware of your obligation not to 11:35:50<br />
14 delete federal records or destroy federal records?<br />
A The e-mails on my State Department system 11:37:03<br />
19 existed on my computer, and I -- I didn't have a 11:37:07<br />
20 practice of managing my mailbox other than leaving 11:37:11<br />
21 what was in there sitting in there. 11:37:15<br />
22 So for my BlackBerry, if I exceeded the --<br />
the limit, I think it -- it auto deleted. But, no, 11:37:21<br />
2 I didn't -- it wasn't my -- I didn't -- I didn't 11:37:25<br />
3 have a -- I didn't go into my e-mails and -- and 11:37:28<br />
4 delete State.gov e-mails. They just lived on my 11:37:35<br />
5 computer. 11:37:38<br />
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6 Q Okay. The question is not just limited to 11:37:38<br />
7 State.gov e-mails; it's in connection to all of your 11:37:42<br />
8 e-mails for State Department business. 11:37:46<br />
9 A That was my practice for all my e-mail 11:37:50<br />
10 accounts. I -- I -- I didn't -- I didn't have a 11:37:52<br />
11 particular form of organizing them. I had a few 11:37:57<br />
12 folders, but they were not deleted. They all stayed 11:38:00<br />
13 in whatever device I was using at the time or 11:38:03<br />
14 whatever desktop I was on at the time. 11:38:06<br />
15 Q Okay. When -- to clarify for the record, 11:38:08<br />
16 when you say you had a few folders set up -- 11:38:11<br />
17 A Yeah. 11:38:14<br />
18 Q -- is that on your e-mail account, or are 11:38:14<br />
19 these physical folders that you had set up? 11:38:16<br />
A It would have been folders on my Outlook 11:38:23<br />
2 account on the -- on the -- my State Department 11:38:26<br />
3 computer. 11:38:28<br />
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4 Q Okay. Could you access your 11:38:28<br />
5 Clintonemail.com e-mail on your desktop at the State 11:38:31<br />
6 Department? 11:38:34<br />
7 A Yes. 11:38:34<br />
8 Q And did you access your Clinton e-mail -- 11:38:34<br />
9 A Yes. 11:38:37<br />
10 Q -- dot com? 11:38:37<br />
11 A Yes, I did. 11:38:40<br />
12 Q Did you do that for State Department 11:38:40<br />
13 business? 11:38:45<br />
14 MR. BRILLE: Objection to form. 11:38:46<br />
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15 A I did that when I was working or 11:38:47<br />
16 responding to e-mails that came in. I couldn't 11:38:52<br />
17 check my Clinton BlackBerry, so it was the only -- I 11:38:54<br />
18 didn't have access to my Clinton e-mail BlackBerry 11:38:56<br />
19 when I was in the office, so it was the only way I 11:38:58<br />
20 could check my Clinton e-mails. 11:39:01<br />
21 Q How did you access your Clintonemail.com 11:39:03<br />
22 account off your desktop? 11:39<br />
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A It was just a -- it was a fairly simple 11:39:13<br />
2 login system. It was through a web browser. 11:39:16<br />
3 Q Okay. Was it connected to your Outlook? 11:39:19<br />
4 A No. No. 11:39:22<br />
5 Q Okay. 11:39:23<br />
6 A It was just Safari or ... 11:39:23<br />
7 Q Okay. During your tenure at the State 11:39:26<br />
8 Department, were you aware of your obligations to 11:39:34<br />
9 search your e-mails for State-related business under 11:39:37<br />
10 FOIA? 11:39:45<br />
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11 MS. WOLVERTON: Objection. Calls for a 11:39:46<br />
12 legal conclusion, lack of foundation. 11:39:47<br />
13 MR. BRILLE: Objection. Lack of 11:39:49<br />
14 foundation. 11:39:50<br />
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15 A It -- it was never any -- it was never a 11:39:52<br />
16 matter that was raised with me. I was never asked 11:39:55<br />
17 to search my e-mails for anything related to FOIA 11:39:57<br />
18 when I was at State, that I ... 11:39:59<br />
19 Q Okay. I guess that's my question. Did 11:40:02<br />
20 you ever search your State.gov account for any 11:40:10<br />
21 e-mails in response to a FOIA request or litigation? 11:40:13<br />
22 A No, I did not. 11:40<br />
Did you ever search your Clintonemail.com 11:40:39<br />
13 account for -- in response to a FOIA request or FOIA 11:40:43<br />
14 litigation during your tenure at the State 11:40:48<br />
15 Department? 11:40:52<br />
16 A No, I did not. 11:40:52<br />
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17 Q Okay. Were you ever asked to search your 11:40:53<br />
18 Clintonemail.com account during your tenure at the 11:40:56<br />
19 State Department in response to a FOIA request or 11:41:02<br />
20 FOIA litigation? 11:41:05<br />
21 A No, I was not. 11:41:06<br />
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22 Q Okay. Do you know if anybody else<br />
searched your account for you -- this is your 11:41:13<br />
2 State.gov account -- in response to a FOIA request 11:41:17<br />
3 or FOIA litigation during your tenure there? 11:41:20<br />
4 A Not that I'm aware of. 11:41:23<br />
5 Q Okay. Are you aware if anybody else 11:41:23<br />
6 searched your Clintonemail.com account during your 11:41:29<br />
7 tenure at the State Department in response to a FOIA 11:41:32<br />
8 request or FOIA litigation? 11:41:34<br />
9 A Not that I'm aware of. 11:41:36<br />
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10 Q Are you aware of any FOIA requests that 11:41:37<br />
11 were sent or received to the Secretary's office 11:42:04<br />
12 during your tenure at the State Department? 11:42:07<br />
13 MS. WOLVERTON: Objection. The question 11:42:09<br />
14 extends beyond the scope of the authorized 11:42:10<br />
15 discovery. 11:42:12<br />
16 MR. BRILLE: Same objection. 11:42:15<br />
17 A I don't remember any such instances. 11:42:19<br />
18 Q Do you know how FOIA requests were 11:42:20<br />
19 processed in the Secretary's office during your 11:42:29<br />
20 time -- tenure at the Department of State? 11:42:33<br />
21 A No, I am not aware. 11:42:34<br />
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22 Q Did you ever discuss any FOIA requests 11:42:35<br />
with anybody in the Secretary's office during your 11:42:42<br />
2 tenure there? 11:42:45<br />
3 A I don't have any memory of -- of doing so. 11:42:46<br />
4 Q Okay. How about FOIA in general; do you 11:42:49<br />
5 recall any discussions that you may have had either 11:42:53<br />
6 with Cheryl Mills, Secretary Clinton, or anybody 11:42:54<br />
7 else in the Secretary's office, about FOIA? 11:42:57<br />
8 A It wasn't anything that I remember having 11:43:02<br />
9 discussions about. 11:43:04<br />
10 Q And you knew Clarence Finney during -- 11:43:06<br />
11 during your tenure at the State Department. Right? 11:43:15<br />
12 A Yes, I did. 11:43:15<br />
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13 Q Okay. And did you ever discuss FOIA with 11:43:16<br />
14 Mr. Finney during your tenure at the State 11:43:18<br />
15 Department? 11:43:20<br />
16 A I don't -- I don't remember any specific 11:43:24<br />
17 conversations with Clarence. I -- I remember 11:43:26<br />
18 briefing with Clarence when he first arrived about 11:43:28<br />
19 the documents that we were able to bring in with us. 11:43:30<br />
20 But I don't remember having a conversation like that 11:43:32<br />
21 with Clarence. 11:43:36<br />
1 Department, did you know that your e-mails relating 11:43:42<br />
2 to State Department business were subject to FOIA? 11:43:48<br />
3 MS. WOLVERTON: Objection. Assumes facts 11:43:52<br />
4 not in evidence, calls for legal conclusion. 11:43:55<br />
5 MR. BRILLE: I'll just say an objection, 11:43:59<br />
6 foundation. 11:44:00<br />
7 You can answer. 11:44:00<br />
8 A Yes. 11:44:01<br />
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9 Q Okay. And when you were at the State 11:44:01<br />
10 Department, did you know that your e-mails relating 11:44:09<br />
11 to State Department business on your 11:44:12<br />
12 Clintonemail.com account were also subject to FOIA? 11:44:15<br />
13 MS. WOLVERTON: Objection. Calls for a 11:44:20<br />
14 legal conclusion. 11:44:22<br />
15 MR. BRILLE: Same objection. 11:44:23<br />
16 A I -- yes. 11:44:24<br />
17 Q All right. Did Secretary Clinton know, as 11:44:26<br />
18 far as you're aware, that her e-mails relating to 11:44:32<br />
19 State Department business on her Clintonemail.com 11:44:37<br />
20 account were subject to FOIA? 11:44:41<br />
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<strong><span style="color: red;">She Printed Emails out at her house</span>..........</strong><br />
A I used -- I was using my State.gov e-mail 11:45:58<br />
2 for the majority of my State Department business. 11:46:02<br />
3 <strong>In many instances it was forwarding a document to be</strong> 11:46:05<br />
4 <strong>printed, a press clipping, a -- a schedule</strong>. So 11:46:08<br />
5 those were all e-mails that were captured in the 11:46:14<br />
6 system. And it was sent to Clinton e-mail. I had 11:46:16<br />
7 forwarded it to Clinton e-mail to print. 11:46:19<br />
8 So I -- my -- my understanding, my 11:46:23<br />
9 practice, from what I -- how I was functioning, I -- 11:46:29<br />
10 I wasn't perfect, but I did the best I could, was 11:46:32<br />
11 putting everything on State.gov. There were 11:46:35<br />
12 documents that were forwarded from State.gov to 11:46:38<br />
13 Clinton e-mail. Those were captured in the system. 11:46:41<br />
14 And so that's -- that is how I operated. And I 11:46:44<br />
15 understood that everything that was on the State.gov 11:46:46<br />
16 system was kept in the system and retained in the 11:46:49<br />
17 system. 11:46:52<br />
18 Q Was the issue about how Secretary 11:46:55<br />
19 Clinton's e-mails could be accessed to respond to 11:46:56<br />
20 FOIA ever discussed by anybody within the 11:47:00<br />
21 Secretary's office? 11:47:04<br />
Q Do you know if Secretary Clinton or anyone 11:47:20<br />
9 on her behalf informed Mr. Finney about -- that she 11:47:30<br />
10 had State Department work-related e-mails on her 11:47:40<br />
11 Clintonemail.com account? 11:47:46<br />
12 MS. WOLVERTON: Objection. Asked and 11:47:48<br />
13 answered. 11:47:49<br />
14 MR. BRILLE: Same objection. 11:47:49<br />
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15 A Not that -- not that I'm aware of. 11:47:51<br />
16 Q When you used your Clintonemail.com 11:47:53<br />
17 account for State Department-related business, did 11:48:12<br />
18 you ever print and file the e-mails? 11:48:18<br />
19 A No. I don't believe I did. 11:48:22<br />
20 Q Okay. Did you ever save the e-mails 11:48:24<br />
21 either as a PST or a PDF file? 11:48:28<br />
22 A No, I did not. 11:48:32<br />
A Honestly, I wish I thought about it at the 11:48:43<br />
3 time. As I said, I wasn't perfect. I tried to do 11:48:45<br />
4 all of my work on State.gov. And I do believe I did 11:48:48<br />
5 the majority of my work on State.gov. 11:48:52<br />
6 And many of the instances where I was on 11:48:56<br />
7 Clinton e-mail, it was because I had forwarded 11:48:59<br />
8 something from a State.gov account into Clinton 11:49:02<br />
9 e-mail, and in other instances from my Clinton 11:49:07<br />
10 e-mail I was communicating with somebody who was on 11:49:09<br />
11 a State.gov account, and it was captured through 11:49:11<br />
12 there. 11:49:14<br />
13 I -- I did the best I could to do 11:49:16<br />
14 everything right. I -- it did not occur to me to 11:49:19<br />
15 print and file. 11:49:21<br />
16 Q All right. But it is your testimony that 11:49:22<br />
17 there were times that you communicated with 11:49:30<br />
18 Secretary Clinton where both of you used only the 11:49:31<br />
19 Clintonemail.com accounts for State Department 11:49:34<br />
20 business. Right? 11:49:37<br />
21 MR. BRILLE: Objection. Form. 11:49:38<br />
22 A Yes. There -- 11:49:40<br />
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1 MR. BRILLE: Lack of foundation. 11:49:41<br />
2 A Yes. There were instances where that 11:49:43<br />
3 occurred. 11:49:44<br />
4 Q Okay. With respect to those State 11:49:44<br />
5 Department work-related e-mails on the 11:49:48<br />
6 Clintonemail.com accounts, what did you do, if 11:49:49<br />
7 anything, to preserve those e-mails? 11:49:55<br />
8 A I did -- those -- I did not do anything to 11:50:01<br />
9 preserve those e-mails. 11:50:04<br />
10 But again, many of those e-mails were sent 11:50:05<br />
11 from State.gov. The instances where it was 11:50:07<br />
12 Clintonemail to Clintonemail, there were instances 11:50:10<br />
13 where the content of those e-mails had personal 11:50:14<br />
14 matters in there, and there may have also been State 11:50:18<br />
15 Department matters in there, too. It was a -- a 11:50:21<br />
16 combination. 11:50:24<br />
17 But I did not -- I did not preserve those 11:50:25<br />
18 e-mails. 11:50:28<br />
19 Q As far as you know, if you know, what did 11:50:28<br />
20 Secretary Clinton do to ensure that her work-related 11:50:38<br />
21 e-mails were preserved? 11:50:43<br />
22 A She generally e-mailed people on their 11:50:47<br />
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1 State.gov e-mail accounts, and -- and through that 11:50:49<br />
2 manner, those -- those e-mails were captured in the 11:50:55<br />
3 system. 11:50:58<br />
4 Q Okay. Do you know if any of the 11:50:58<br />
5 Secretary's e-mails relating to State Department 11:51:04<br />
6 business were printed and filed on the Secretary's 11:51:06<br />
7 behalf during your tenure at the State Department? 11:51:12<br />
8 A Not that -- 11:51:16<br />
9 MS. WOLVERTON: Objection. Foundation. 11:51:17<br />
10 MR. BRILLE: Go ahead. You can answer. 11:51:19<br />
11 A Not that I'm aware of. 11:51:20<br />
12 Q Do you know how the Secretary managed her 11:51:22<br />
13 Inbox on her Clintonemail.com account during her 11:51:27<br />
14 tenure at the State Department? 11:51:30<br />
15 A No. 11:51:31<br />
16 Q Do you know if Secretary Clinton deleted 11:51:31<br />
17 any of her work-related e-mails -- 11:51:37<br />
18 MS. WOLVERTON: I'm going to -- 11:51:41<br />
19 Q -- during her tenure at the State 11:51:42<br />
20 Department? 11:51:44<br />
21 MS. WOLVERTON: I'm going to object. 11:51:44<br />
22 MS. COTCA: I would just like to finish 11:51:46<br />
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1 asking the question. Thank you. 11:51:47<br />
2 Q Do you know whether Secretary Clinton ever 11:51:50<br />
3 deleted any of her work-related e-mails on her 11:51:55<br />
4 Clintonemail.com account during her tenure at the 11:51:57<br />
5 State Department? 11:52:01<br />
6 MS. WOLVERTON: I'm going to object to 11:52:01<br />
7 this line of questioning as extending beyond the 11:52:02<br />
8 scope of the authorized discovery. 11:52:04<br />
9 MS. COTCA: It goes to the operation of 11:52:11<br />
10 the Clintonemail.com system. 11:52:12<br />
11 MS. WOLVERTON: It goes to records 11:52:13<br />
12 preservation, which is beyond the scope. 11:52:15<br />
13 MS. COTCA: And operation of the 11:52:17<br />
14 Clintonemail.com system. 11:52:18<br />
15 MS. WOLVERTON: I would disagree. 11:52:19<br />
16 MS. COTCA: Your objection is stated on 11:52:21<br />
17 the record. 11:52:22<br />
18 MR. BRILLE: I'll -- I'll -- same 11:52:24<br />
19 objection. 11:52:27<br />
20 You can answer. 11:52:27<br />
21 A Not that -- not that I'm aware of. 11:52:29<br />
22 Q Are you familiar with tasking forms or 11:52:31<br />
search slips in connection with FOIA requests at the 11:52:55<br />
2 State Department? 11:52:59<br />
3 A I'm not familiar with those terms. 11:53:01<br />
4 Q Okay. How about Form DS 1748; have you 11:53:03<br />
5 ever seen a form like that? 11:53:09<br />
6 A I don't know what that is. 11:53:10<br />
7 Q All right. Did you ever have any 11:53:11<br />
8 knowledge or any involvement in the processing of 11:53:15<br />
9 any FOIA request that came to the State Department 11:53:21<br />
10 during your tenure at the State Department? 11:53:25<br />
11 MR. BRILLE: Objection. Asked and 11:53:27<br />
12 answered. 11:53:28<br />
13 MS. WOLVERTON: Same objection. Also 11:53:29<br />
14 extends beyond the scope of authorized discovery. 11:53:30<br />
15 A I don't remember any such instance. 11:53:35<br />
Q Okay. Do you have knowledge about a FOIA 11:55:08<br />
22 request that was submitted by CREW in December 2012 11:55:25<br />
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1 to the State Department for records relating to 11:55:30<br />
2 Secretary Clinton's e-mails? 11:55:35<br />
3 A Can you -- did you -- did you say CREW? 11:55:36<br />
4 Q Yes. 11:55:38<br />
5 A I -- no, I'm not. I don't know what that 11:55:41<br />
6 is, and I'm not -- I'm not aware. 11:55:43<br />
7 Q It's an organization, a nonprofit 11:55:46<br />
8 organization, that submitted a FOIA request in 11:55:51<br />
9 December 2012 to the State Department for records 11:55:55<br />
10 relating to Secretary Clinton's e-mail accounts and 11:55:58<br />
11 use of those accounts for State Department business. 11:56:02<br />
12 A Yes. 11:56:04<br />
13 Q Do you have any knowledge about that 11:56:04<br />
14 request? 11:56:06<br />
15 A I -- I know about it through media reports 11:56:09<br />
16 in the last year, yes. 11:56:12<br />
17 Q Okay. Do you -- so you -- did you not 11:56:14<br />
18 have any knowledge about it during your tenure at 11:56:17<br />
19 the State Department? 11:56:19<br />
20 A No. 11:56:20<br />
21 Q Okay. And since leaving the State 11:56:20<br />
22 Department, what did you learn about that request? 11:56:23<br />
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1 A Just, as I mentioned, media reports 11:56:28<br />
2 mentioning that there had been a FOIA request sent 11:56:31<br />
3 while -- while she was at State that wasn't received 11:56:36<br />
4 until after she left. I mean, that's the extent of 11:56:40<br />
5 my memory from what I read in the -- in the -- in 11:56:43<br />
6 the news stories. 11:56:45<br />
7 Q All right. Did you -- are you aware of 11:56:46<br />
8 the State Department's OIG report that was issued in 11:56:50<br />
9 January 2016 discussing processing of FOIA during 11:56:54<br />
10 Secretary Clinton's tenure? 11:56:58<br />
11 A I'm -- I'm aware there was a report, yes. 11:57:00<br />
12 Q Okay. Did you review that report at any 11:57:01<br />
13 point? 11:57:05<br />
14 A I have not reviewed that report. 11:57:05<br />
15 Q Okay. Did you discuss it with anybody 11:57:07<br />
16 other than your attorneys? 11:57:09<br />
17 A No. 11:57:10<br />
18 Q So it's fair then that you do not know 11:57:10<br />
19 Cheryl Mills' involvement, State Spokesperson Brock 11:57:20<br />
20 Johnson, Heather Samuelson's involvement with that 11:57:28<br />
21 FOIA request? 11:57:31<br />
Q Okay. Since leaving the State Department, 11:57:56<br />
12 did you learn anything with respect to Cheryl Mills' 11:57:59<br />
13 involvement with processing of the FOIA requests 11:58:02<br />
14 submitted by CREW in December 2012? 11:58:05<br />
15 A No. 11:58:07<br />
16 Q All right. Since leaving the State 11:58:08<br />
17 Department, did you learn anything with respect to 11:58:10<br />
18 Heather Samuelson's involvement in processing that 11:58:12<br />
19 same request? 11:58:15<br />
20 A No. 11:58:16<br />
21 Q All right. Same question with respect to 11:58:17<br />
22 State Spokesman Brock Johnson's involvement with 11:58:21<br />
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1 respect to processing that FOIA request. 11:58:27<br />
2 A No. 11:58:27<br />
3 Q Okay. And the same question with respect 11:58:28<br />
4 to State Department Attorney Josh Dawson and his 11:58:29<br />
5 involvement in processing that FOIA request? 11:58:34<br />
6 MS. WOLVERTON: Objection. Calls for 11:58:36<br />
7 attorney-client, attorney work product information. 11:58:39<br />
8 MS. COTCA: I don't see that at all. But 11:58:44<br />
9 unless you're -- 11:58:47<br />
10 MR. BRILLE: Just -- just in answering the 11:58:47<br />
11 question, to the extent you have knowledge of 11:58:48<br />
12 discussions with lawyers, just don't reveal the 11:58:50<br />
13 discussions. 11:58:52<br />
14 You can answer the question, I think, as 11:58:52<br />
15 she has phrased it. 11:58:54<br />
16 THE WITNESS: Okay. 11:58:56<br />
17 A No. 11:58:56<br />
18 Q Did you ever discuss this FOIA request -- 11:58:57<br />
19 and by this FOIA request: I mean the CREW FOIA 11:59:10<br />
20 request -- with Cheryl Mills? 11:59:13<br />
21 A No. 11:59:15<br />
22 Q How about with Secretary Clinton? 11:59:15<br />
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1 A No. 11:59:17<br />
2 Q Were you contacted -- 11:59:17<br />
3 MS. COTCA: I'm sorry. 11:59:22<br />
4 MR. BRILLE: I was just going to ask when 11:59:23<br />
5 you were getting to a breaking point for lunch. I 11:59:25<br />
6 was just going to inquire. 11:59:27<br />
7 MS. COTCA: Sure. I think we can come to 11:59:28<br />
8 a good breaking point in just a couple of minutes. 11:59:30<br />
9 MR. BRILLE: Okay. 11:59:32<br />
10 MS. COTCA: Thank you. 11:59:33<br />
11 BY MS. COTCA: 11:59:33<br />
12 Q Were you contacted by the State 11:59:34<br />
13 Department's OIG office with respect to their 11:59:36<br />
14 investigation for their January 2016 report? 11:59:40<br />
15 MR. BRILLE: Objection. Scope. Is 11:59:44<br />
16 there -- do you want to tell me what the scope is? 11:59:48<br />
17 MS. COTCA: Sure. The investigation deals 11:59:50<br />
18 with FOIA processing during State Department -- 11:59:52<br />
19 during Secretary Clinton's tenure at the State 11:59:54<br />
20 Department and is a completed investigation. So I 11:59:58<br />
21 think it falls entirely within the scope. 12:00:00<br />
22 MR. BRILLE: I'm going to object and 12:00:02<br />
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1 instruct the witness not to answer. 12:00:03<br />
2 I don't think it's in scope. 12:00:05<br />
3 Q Were you contacted by the State 12:00:09<br />
4 Department's OIG office to discuss FOIA processing 12:00:12<br />
5 at the State Department during Secretary Clinton's 12:00:19<br />
6 tenure? 12:00:22<br />
7 MS. WOLVERTON: I'm going to object also 12:00:25<br />
8 as beyond the scope. 12:00:27<br />
9 MR. BRILLE: Same. 12:00:27<br />
10 MS. WOLVERTON: Beyond the scope. 12:00:29<br />
11 MR. BRILLE: Same objection. 12:00:30<br />
12 I'm going to instruct the witness not to 12:00:31<br />
13 answer. 12:00:32<br />
14 Q Okay. In the past -- well, since 12:00:34<br />
15 January -- strike that. 12:00:49<br />
16 Since September of 2015, were you 12:00:54<br />
17 contacted by anybody within the State Department's 12:00:58<br />
18 OIG office to discuss issues relating to FOIA 12:01:01<br />
19 processing in Secretary Clinton's office during her 12:01:07<br />
20 tenure at the State Department? 12:01:10<br />
21 MS. WOLVERTON: Objection. 12:01:12<br />
22 MR. BRILLE: Same objection. 12:01:13<br />
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1 MS. WOLVERTON: Beyond the scope, vague. 12:01:14<br />
2 MS. COTCA: Are you instructing her not to 12:01:17<br />
3 answer? 12:01:18<br />
4 MR. BRILLE: Yes. 12:01:18<br />
5 MS. COTCA: Okay. 12:01:19<br />
6 Q And are you following the advice of your 12:01:20<br />
7 counsel by not answering the question? 12:01:23<br />
8 A Yes. Uh-huh. 12:01:24<br />
18 MS. COTCA: And then we'll come back after 12:01:58<br />
19 lunch. 12:02:00<br />
20 MR. BRILLE: Okay. 12:02:00<br />
21 VIDEO SPECIALIST: We are off the record 12:02:01<br />
22 at 12:02. 12:02:02<br />
VIDEO SPECIALIST: Here begins Tape 3. We 12:58:45<br />
3 are back on the record at 12:58. 12:58:50<br />
4 BY MS. COTCA: 12:58:52<br />
5 Q Welcome back, Ms. Abedin. 12:58:53<br />
6 Your attorney I believe had something to 12:58:57<br />
7 say I believe with respect to a previous 12:58:58<br />
8 instruction. 12:59:00<br />
9 MR. BRILLE: Yes. Thank you. Ms. Cotca, 12:59:00<br />
10 we have -- at the break we've reflected on our prior 12:59:03<br />
11 instruction with respect to the question regarding 12:59:05<br />
12 the OIG report. 12:59:08<br />
13 We're going to maintain the scope 12:59:08<br />
14 objection, but we're going to withdraw the 12:59:10<br />
15 instruction on the question. So to the extent you 12:59:13<br />
16 have questions in that regard, we're going to allow 12:59:15<br />
17 Ms. Abedin to answer. 12:59:17<br />
18 MS. COTCA: Thank you very much. 12:59:18<br />
19 BY MS. COTCA: 12:59:18<br />
20 Q Ms. Abedin, then let's just go back to the 12:59:19<br />
21 questioning about the State Department's OIG's 12:59:22<br />
22 report issued in January of 2016, in connection with 12:59:25<br />
A The Secretary's office was also packed up 13:08:59<br />
22 and the materials that were put in boxes, this was 13:09:03<br />
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1 everything from the books that she had on her 13:09:06<br />
2 bookshelf, to decorations or gifts that she may have 13:09:11<br />
3 received, and paper. All of those items were packed 13:09:15<br />
4 by staff, and those boxes were also not sealed until 13:09:20<br />
5 the protocol office had signed off on the items that 13:09:24<br />
6 were taken. And the same thing with the -- the 13:09:27<br />
7 papers. 13:09:30<br />
8 She may have been in her office when that 13:09:31<br />
9 happened. I have no memory of her -- of her being 13:09:36<br />
10 there herself when we were packing. 13:09:39<br />
11 Q Did the Secretary provide any instructions 13:09:41<br />
12 with respect to what to do with her work -- State 13:09:44<br />
13 Department-related e-mails on her Clintonemail.com 13:09:49<br />
14 prior to leaving the State Department? 13:09:52<br />
15 A Not that I'm aware of. 13:09:54<br />
16 Q Did you ask her for any instructions with 13:09:55<br />
17 respect to what to do with her State-related 13:10:02<br />
18 e-mails? 13:10:06<br />
19 A I don't remember. 13:10:07<br />
20 Q Do you know if anybody did? 13:10:08<br />
21 A I don't. 13:10:11<br />
22 Q Did you at any point during the meeting or 13:10:12<br />
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1 after the meeting inform Mr. Finney about the 13:10:20<br />
2 State-related e-mails on your Clintonemail.com prior 13:10:28<br />
3 to leaving to the State Department? 13:10:32<br />
4 MS. WOLVERTON: Objection. Asked and 13:10:35<br />
5 answered. 13:10:36<br />
6 MR. BRILLE: Yeah. Same objection. 13:10:36<br />
7 A I don't remember talking to Clarence. 13:10:38<br />
8 Q Okay. Do you know if anybody informed 13:10:39<br />
9 Mr. Finney with respect to your State-related 13:10:41<br />
10 e-mails on your Clintonemail.com system in this 13:10:45<br />
11 transition period prior to leaving the State 13:10:49<br />
12 Department? 13:10:54<br />
13 MS. WOLVERTON: Same objection. 13:10:54<br />
14 A I -- I'm not aware. 13:10:56<br />
15 Q Do you know if anybody instructed -- or 13:10:58<br />
16 informed Mr. Finney with respect to State-related 13:11:03<br />
17 e-mails on Secretary Clinton's e-mail account during 13:11:06<br />
18 this transition period prior to leaving the State 13:11:13<br />
19 Department? 13:11:16<br />
20 MS. WOLVERTON: Objection. Asked and 13:11:16<br />
21 answered. 13:11:17<br />
22 A I'm -- I'm not aware. 13:11:21<br />
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1 Q Do you know why nobody informed Mr. Finney 13:11:28<br />
2 about the State-related e-mails on Secretary 13:11:32<br />
3 Clinton's Clintonemail.com account? 13:11:38<br />
4 MS. WOLVERTON: Objection. Assumes facts 13:11:43<br />
5 not in evidence, lack of foundation. 13:11:44<br />
6 MR. BRILLE: Objection. Lacks foundation. 13:11:45<br />
7 A I -- as I think I've mentioned earlier, it 13:11:48<br />
8 is not anything that occurred to us. We all wish we 13:11:52<br />
9 could go back and that not be the case. It did not 13:11:57<br />
10 occur to those of us who were involved. 13:12:00<br />
11 Q And is that the same answer? I'm 13:12:05<br />
12 specifically asking for the time period during the 13:12:07<br />
13 transition process prior to leaving the State 13:12:10<br />
14 Department. 13:12:12<br />
15 A Yes, ma'am. I understand. It did not -- 13:12:13<br />
16 it did not occur to us. 13:12:15<br />
17 Q Was anybody else other than Mr. Finney who 13:12:16<br />
18 participated in the meeting from the Office of the 13:12:29<br />
19 Correspondence and Records? 13:12:32<br />
20 A I remember Clarence. I don't remember -- 13:12:36<br />
21 I don't remember anybody else from his office being 13:12:38<br />
22 there. 13:12:39<br />
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1 Q Do you remember anybody else from any 13:12:40<br />
2 other office being in the meeting? 13:12:44<br />
3 A No, I don't. 13:12:45<br />
4 <span style="color: red;"><strong>Q Ms. Abedin, are you familiar with the 13:12:46</strong></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><strong>5 SMART system that was introduced at the State 13:13:04</strong></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><strong>6 Department in 2009? And SMART system stands for 13:13:06</strong></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><strong>7 State messaging and archiving retrieval toolset. 13:13:10</strong></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><strong></strong></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><strong>She had no knowlege of this archieve system.................</strong></span><br />
8 A I -- I don't know what that is. 13:13:15<br />
9 Q Okay. Do you recall any discussions in 13:13:16<br />
10 the State Department about electing to use that 13:13:25<br />
11 system to preserve records in the Secretary's office 13:13:28<br />
12 at all during your tenure at the State Department?<br />
MS. WOLVERTON: Objection. Exceeds the 13:13:35<br />
14 scope of discovery. 13:13:37<br />
15 A I don't. I don't know what that is. 13:13:38<br />
16 Q And you don't recall any discussions 13:13:39<br />
17 about -- about it? 13:13:44<br />
18 MS. WOLVERTON: Same objection. 13:13:45<br />
19 A I -- I don't know. I don't recall any 13:13:46<br />
20 discussions, no. 13:13:47<br />
The 13:40:52<br />
15 Secretary was also taking a short -- a brief 13:40:54<br />
16 vacation with her family at a rental house. 13:40:58<br />
17 And there -- and she was having 13:41:02<br />
18 communications issues, and the department was made 13:41:08<br />
19 aware of it. Cheryl and Steve. 13:41:12<br />
20 Q Okay. When you say "Cheryl," is that 13:41:15<br />
21 Cheryl Mills? 13:41:18<br />
22 A Cheryl Mills and Steve Mull. 13:41:19<br />
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We did take testimony last week from another top aide familiar with Secretary Clinton’s email and BlackBerry: Ambassador Stephen D. Mull, executive secretary of the State Department from June 2010 to October 2012. It was Mull who suggested that Clinton be issued a State Department BlackBerry, which would protect her identity while still being subject to FOIA requests. <br />
In his testimony, Mull said that he doesn’t remember how or when he first learned about the former secretary of state’s use of the BlackBerry. The Daily Caller reported on the deposition under this headline: “State Dept. Official Who Discussed Hillary’s Private Server Now Says He Can’t Remember Anything About It.”<br />
“Do you know how you learned [about Clinton’s server]?” Judicial Watch attorney Michael Bekesha asked Mull.<br />
“I can’t recall, no,” Mulls responded.<br />
“Do you recall when you learned that?” came the follow-up question.<br />
“No. I can’t recall,” said Mull.<br />
That line of questioning about a series of August 30, 2011, emails also caught the attention of U.S. District Court Judge Emmett Sullivan. Judge Sullivan cited the emails in his Memorandum and Order granting Judicial Watch discovery into the Clinton email matter: <br />
"In August 2011 communication difficulties experienced by Secretary Clinton prompted discussion among State Department staff about whether issuing a State Department blackberry might solve the problem . . . Stephen Mull, Executive Secretary of the State Department at the time, noted that if Secretary Clinton used a State issued BlackBerry, her identity 'would be secret' but that the state.gov email account 'would be subject to FOIA requests.' Ms. Abedin responded 'let's discuss the state BlackBerry, doesn't make a whole lot of sense.'"<br />
You may not be shocked to learn that Amb. Mull said he did not recall the circumstances behind the August 2011 email exchange. <br />
Amb. Mull now serves as the State Department’s lead coordinator for Iran nuclear implementation.<br />
We had yet another deposition this past Wednesday. Our attorneys deposed Karin Lang, director of executive secretariat staff and designated representative for the State Department. Lang was designated by the State Department as its 30(b)(6) witness. <br />
A 30(b)(6) witness is assigned to provide the agency’s testimony on the Clinton email issue.<br />
Lang testified that key State Department federal recordkeeping officials did not know that Clinton and her top aide Huma Abedin were using non-state.gov email to conduct government business. <br />
She also testified that the State Department could not say whether Clinton or Abedin has turned over all emails in their possession that may be potentially responsive to Judicial Watch’s Freedom of the Information Act (FOIA) request. <br />
Lang also said that it would not be reasonable to search all 70,000 State Department email accounts in order to retrieve Clinton’s emails. (Clinton has suggested that the State Department would have many of her emails because she sent most of them to State Department employees on their government accounts.)<br />
Lang also testified that a picture of Mrs. Clinton using a Blackberry spurred a State official to ask again if she was using non-state.gov account. Again, he was told “no.” Lang signed, under the penalty of perjury, State Department answers to Judicial Watch’s written interrogatories about the Clinton email system and FOIA. <br />
The State Department acknowledged in its answers that it “has no method of identifying which State Department officials and employees had and/or used an account on clintonemail.com to conduct official government business.”<br />
Amb. Mull and Ms. Lang are among seven depositions of former Clinton top aides and State Department officials that Judicial Watch has scheduled over the next three weeks.<br />
Huma Abedin is scheduled to testify on June 28, and top State Department official Patrick Kennedy on June 29. <br />
And we hope the Court will allow us to bring Mr. Pagliano, the Clinton supposed go-to IT expert on her email system, soon (see story above).<br />
Breaking News at Newsmax.com <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/TomFitton/deposition-email-testimony/2016/06/14/id/733717/#ixzz4OahHybFB">http://www.newsmax.com/TomFitton/deposition-email-testimony/2016/06/14/id/733717/#ixzz4OahHybFB</a> <br />
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Hillary can not help herself.<br />
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Hillary Lies<br />
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Hillary Lies<br />
Kenneth R. Timmerman - Dark Forces - The Truth about what Happened at the Attack on US Consulate in Benghazi and in US Headquarters and why our people died when aid was just a DECISION away.<br />
Do not trust Hillary... Vote Republican -- Vote Trump.<br />
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“<u></u>Illinois<u></u>‘ insurance regulator said ObamaCare premiums in the state will jump as high as 55%. The Obama administration’s response to this and other news of massive rate hikes....”<br />
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For Jobs Vote Trump.<br />
Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you.<br />
Today, I’m going to outline a plan for American economic revival – it is a bold, ambitious, forward-looking plan to massively increase jobs, wages, incomes and opportunities for the people of our country. <br />
My plan will embrace the truth that people flourish under a minimum government burden, and it will tap into the incredible unrealized potential of our workers and their dreams.<br />
Right now, 92 million Americans are on the sidelines, outside the workforce, and not part of our economy. It’s a silent nation of jobless Americans. <br />
Look no further than the city of Flint, where I just visited. The jobs have stripped from this community, and its infrastructure has collapsed. In 1970, there were more than 80,000 people in Flint working for GM – today it is less than 8,000. Now Ford has announced it is moving all small car production to Mexico.<br />
It used to be cars were made in Flint and you couldn’t drink the water in Mexico. Now, the cars are made in Mexico and you can’t drink the water in Flint.<br />
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We are going to turn this around.<br />
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My economic plan rejects the cynicism that says our labor force will keep declining, that our jobs will keep leaving, and that our economy can never grow as it did once before. <br />
We reject the pessimism that says our standard of living can no longer rise, and that all that’s left to do is divide up and redistribute our shrinking resources.<br />
Everything that is broken today can be fixed, and every failure can be turned into a great success.<br />
Jobs can stop leaving our country, and start pouring in. Failing schools can become flourishing schools. Crumbling roads and bridges can become gleaming new infrastructure. Inner cities can experience a flood of new jobs and investment. And rising crime can give way to safe and prosperous communities.<br />
All of these things, and so much more, are possible. But to accomplish them, we must replace the present policy of globalism – which has moved so many jobs and so much wealth out of our country – and replace it with a new policy of Americanism. <br />
Under this American System, every policy decision we make must pass a simple test: does it create more jobs and better wages for Americans?<br />
If we lower our taxes, remove destructive regulations, unleash the vast treasure of American energy, and negotiate trade deals that put America First, then there is no limit to the number of jobs we can create and the amount of prosperity we can unleash.<br />
America will truly be the greatest place in the world to invest, hire, grow and to create new jobs, new technologies, and entire new industries. <br />
Instead of driving jobs and wealth away, America will become the world’s great magnet for innovation and job creation.<br />
My opponent’s plan rejects this optimism. She offers only more taxing, regulating, more spending and more wealth redistribution – a future of slow growth, declining incomes, and dwindling prosperity.<br />
The only people who get rich under Hillary Clinton’s scheme are the donors and the special interests.<br />
In Hillary Clinton’s America, we have surrendered our status as the world’s great economy, and we have surrendered our middle class to the whims of foreign countries.<br />
Not one single idea she has will create one net American job, or create one new dollar of American wealth for our workers. The only thing she can ever offer is a welfare check. Our plan will produce paychecks, and they’re going to be great paychecks for millions of people now unemployed.<br />
In the course of this campaign, I have travelled all across this country and I’ve met the most amazing people. Every day, I’ve seen the goodness and character of our country, and brave citizens proudly fighting through hard times and difficult circumstances.<br />
In many parts of our country, the hard times never seem to end. I’ve visited cities and towns in upstate New York where half the jobs have left and moved to other countries.<br />
Politicians have abandoned these places all over our country and the people who live there.<br />
Worse still, politicians have heaped scorn and disdain on these wonderful Americans. My opponent described tens of millions of American citizens as deplorable and irredeemable – how can Hillary Clinton seek to lead this country when she considers its citizens beyond redemption?<br />
The hardworking people she calls deplorable are the most admirable people I know: they are cops and soldiers, teachers and firefighters, young and old, moms and dads, blacks, whites and Latinos – but above everything else, they are all American. They love their families, they love their country, and they want a better future.<br />
These are the forgotten men and women of America. People who work hard but don’t have a voice.<br />
I am running to be their voice, and to fight to bring prosperity to every part of this country.<br />
Too many of our leaders have forgotten that it’s their duty to protect the jobs, wages and well-being of American workers before any other consideration. <br />
I’m not running to be President of the world. I’m running to be President of the United States – and as your President, I will fight for every last American job.<br />
We are the nation that tamed the West, dug out the Panama Canal, won two World Wars, and put a man on the moon.<br />
It’s time to start thinking big once again.<br />
That’s why I believe it is time to establish a national goal of reaching 4% economic growth.<br />
In working with my economic team, we’ve put together a plan that puts us on track to achieve that goal. Over the next ten years, our economic team estimates that under our plan the economy will average 3.5% growth and create a total of 25 million new jobs. You can visit our website to see the math.<br />
This growth means that our jobs plan, including our childcare reforms, will be completely paid-for in combination with proposed budget savings. <br />
It will be deficit neutral. If we reach 4% growth, it will reduce the deficit.<br />
It will be accomplished through a complete overhaul of our tax, regulatory, energy and trade policies.<br />
Right now, under Obama-Clinton policies, the economy grew only 1.1 percent last quarter – that translates to millions of lost jobs.<br />
This is the weakest so-called recovery since the Great Depression.<br />
Over the last 7 years, the economy grew only 2.1 percent, the slowest period in seventy years. Had the economy grown under Obama at the same rate as Reagan, it would have meant 10 million more jobs.<br />
Perhaps most shockingly, 1 in 6 men aged 18-34 are either in jail or out of work.<br />
Meanwhile, another 2 million Hispanic-Americans have been added to the ranks of those in poverty.<br />
On top of it all, the Obama-Clinton policies have doubled the national debt. It took more than 230 years for the United States to accumulate it’s first $10 trillion dollars in debt – it took President Obama only eight years to add another $10 trillion.<br />
Now, it would be one thing if that money had been used to completely rebuild our nation, our military, and our infrastructure.<br />
Instead, the opposite happened. We doubled our debt and, in return, we have dilapidated infrastructure, failing schools, a badly depleted military, and another 14 million people who have left the workforce. <br />
Never has so much money been spent so poorly.<br />
But we’re going to turn that all around. Here’s how.<br />
It begins with bold new tax reform.<br />
As outlined in Detroit, our tax plan will greatly simplify the code and reduce the number of brackets from 7 to 3. The 3 new brackets will be 12, 25 and 33, but low-income Americans will pay no income tax at all – in fact, our plan will remove millions and millions of workers from the income tax rolls entirely.<br />
By lowering rates, streamlining deductions, and simplifying the process, we will add millions of new jobs.<br />
In addition, because we have strongly capped deductions for the wealthy and closed special interest loopholes, the tax relief will be concentrated on the working and middle class taxpayer. They will receive the biggest benefit – it won’t even be close.<br />
This is a working and middle class tax relief proposal.<br />
The tax relief for these workers will be expanded by my childcare proposals that I have worked on with my daughter, Ivanka. <br />
These proposals are a central element of our comprehensive tax reform and economic growth plan.<br />
Families will be able to fully deduct the average cost of childcare from their taxes, including stay-at-home parents. Because this deduction is capped, it will disproportionately benefit working and middle class families. The less you make, the larger a share of your income you can exclude from taxation.<br />
Parents will also be able to enroll in tax-free dependent care savings accounts for their children or elderly relatives. Low-income households will benefit from both an Expanded Earned Income Tax Credit – in the form a Childcare rebate – and a matching $500 contribution for their savings accounts. <br />
A married couple earning $50,000 per year with two children and $8,000 in child care expenses will save 35% from their current tax bill. <br />
A married couple earning $75,000 per year with two children and $10,000 in child care expenses will receive a 30% reduction in their tax bill.<br />
One of our greatest job creation measures is going to be our 15% business tax rate – down from the current 35% rate, a reduction of more than 40 percent. An explosion of new business and new jobs will be created. It will be amazing to watch.<br />
We will also allow U.S.-based manufacturers to fully expense the cost of new plants and equipment. <br />
On top of that, we will bring back trillions in business wealth parked overseas and tax it at a 10% rate. Some people say there are $2 trillion dollars overseas, I think it’s $5 trillion. By taxing it at 10% instead of 35%, all of this money will come back into our country.<br />
We will turn America into a magnet for new jobs – and that means jobs in our poorest communities. <br />
Next, comes regulations.<br />
One of the keys to unlocking growth is scaling-back years of disastrous regulations unilaterally imposed by our out-of-control bureaucracy. <br />
Regulations have grown into a massive, job-killing industry – and the regulation industry is one business I will put an end to.<br />
In 2015 alone, federal agencies issued over 3,300 final rules and regulations, up from 2,400 the prior year. Every year, overregulation costs our economy $2 trillion dollars a year and reduces household wealth by almost $15,000 dollars.<br />
I’ve proposed a moratorium on new federal regulations that are not compelled by Congress or public safety, and I will eliminate all needless and job-killing regulations now on the books.<br />
This includes eliminating some of our most intrusive regulations, like the Waters of The U.S. Rule. It also means scrapping the EPA’s so-called Clean Power Plan which the government itself estimates will cost $7.2 billion a year. This Obama-Clinton directive will shut down most, if not all, coal-powered electricity plans in America. Remember what Hillary Clinton said? She wants to shut down the miners, just like she wants to shut down the steel mills.<br />
We’re going to put our great miners and steel workers back to work.<br />
Energy reform is central to our plan as well<br />
According to the Heritage Foundation, by 2030, President Obama’s energy restrictions will eliminate another half a million manufacturing jobs, reduce economic output by $2.5 trillion dollars, and reduce incomes by $7,000 dollars per person. <br />
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Hillary Clinton wants to go even further, and her plan could cost the economy $5 trillion dollars.<br />
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A Trump Administration will lift restrictions on all sources of American energy production. According to the Institute for American Energy Resources this will:<br />
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increase GDP by more than $100 billion annually<br />
add over 500,000 new jobs annually<br />
increase annual wages by more than $30 billion over the next 7 years<br />
increase federal, state, and local tax revenues by almost $6 trillion over 4 decades<br />
increase total economic activity by more than $20 trillion over the next 40 years.<br />
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In addition, we will streamline the permitting process for all energy infrastructure projects, including the billions of dollars in projects held up by President Obama – creating countless more jobs in the process.<br />
Finally, comes trade – the foundation for everything<br />
America’s annual trade deficit with the world is now nearly $800 a billion a year – an enormous drag on growth.<br />
Between World War II and the year 2000, the United States averaged a 3.5% growth rate. But, after China joined the World Trade Organization, our average growth rate has been reduced to only 2 percent.<br />
Predatory trade practices, product dumping, currency manipulation and intellectual property theft have taken millions of jobs and trillions in wealth from our country.<br />
It is no great secret that many of the special interests funding my opponent’s campaign are the same people profiting from these terrible trade deals. The same so-called experts advising Hillary Clinton are the same people who gave us NAFTA, China’s entry into the World Trade Organization, the job-killing trade deal with South Korea, and now the Trans-Pacific Partnership.<br />
The verdict is in. All of the special interests that the media race to for comment have been proven wrong about every single deal they’ve promoted – every lie and every prediction has crashed upon the rocks of reality.<br />
Our manufacturing base has crumbled, communities have been hollowed out, wages have declined, and households are making less today than they were in the year 2000.<br />
I have proposed a detailed plan to reform our trade policies and bring vast new jobs and wealth to America. This includes the following steps:<br />
I'm going to direct the Secretary of Commerce to identify every violation of trade agreements a foreign country is currently using to harm our workers. I will use every tool under American and international law to end these abuses, and I will use our greatest business leaders and finest negotiators – and I know who you are, many of you are in the room.<br />
We are going to start with NAFTA, which is causing so much damage to our country. We will entirely renegotiate NAFTA into a deal that will either be good for us or will be terminated until a brand new and productive deal can be signed.<br />
We are also going to keep America out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.<br />
Next, I am going to instruct my Treasury Secretary to label China a currency manipulator, and to apply tariffs to any country that devalues its currency to gain an unfair advantage over the United States.<br />
I am going to instruct the U.S. Trade Representative to bring trade cases against China. China's unfair subsidy behavior is prohibited by the terms of its entrance to the WTO, and I intend to enforce those rules. <br />
If China does not stop its illegal activities, including its theft of American trade secrets and intellectual property, I will apply countervailing duties until China ceases and desists. <br />
Just the single action of enforcing intellectual property rules alone would add millions of new American jobs. According to the U.S. International Trade Commission, improved protection of America’s intellectual property in China would add 2 million jobs a year to the United States every single year. <br />
We are going to stop the outflow of jobs from our country, and open a new highway of jobs back into our country.<br />
Here is how the plan adds up<br />
We are proposing a $4.4 trillion tax cut that will score as $2.6 trillion under a dynamic growth model, which is how taxes should be scored. This includes the childcare plan.<br />
Our economic team has further modeled that the growth-induced savings from trade, energy and regulation reform will shave at least another $1.8 trillion off of the remaining cost. <br />
That leaves around $800 billion dollars. This money can all be saved through simple, common sense reforms. If we save just one penny of each federal dollar spent on non-defense, and non-entitlement programs, we can save almost $1 trillion over the next decade – again this is spending that does not touch defense, and that does not touch entitlements.<br />
If our plan exceeds the 3.5% ten-year growth average, then our jobs proposal will actually reduce the deficit. Savings will be compounded by the fact that people who are currently receiving unemployment or welfare will finally be able to find jobs.<br />
This is the most pro-growth, pro-jobs, pro-family plan put forth perhaps in the history of our country.<br />
This is what our new future will look like<br />
I am going to lower you taxes; I am going to get rid of massive amounts of unnecessary regulations, on business and in your life; I’m going to unleash American energy; I’m going to repeal and replace Obamacare; I’m going to appoint Justices to the Supreme Court who will follow the Constitution; I’m going rebuild our depleted military and take care of our vets; I’m going to save your 2nd amendment; I’m going to stop illegal immigration and drugs coming into our country, and yes, we will build the wall [Mexico will pay]; and I’m going to renegotiate our disastrous trade deals, especially NAFTA – and we will only make great trade deals that put the American worker first.<br />
And we are going to put our miners and our steelworkers back to work.<br />
We will rebuild our roads, bridges, tunnels, highways, airports, schools and hospitals.<br />
American cars will travel the roads, American planes will soar in the skies, and American ships will patrol the seas.<br />
American steel will send new skyscrapers into the clouds.<br />
American hands will rebuild this nation – and American energy, harvested from American sources, will power this nation. American workers will be hired to do the job.<br />
We will put new American metal into the spine of this country.<br />
Jobs will return, incomes will rise, and new factories will come rushing back to our shores.<br />
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We Will Make America Wealthy Again.<br />
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We Will Make America Strong Again.<br />
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And Will Make America Great Again.<br />
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Thank you, and God Bless!<br />
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This fall Illinois Obamacare premiums will increase by an average of 48% – the Bronze by 44%, the Silver by 45% and the Gold by 55%.</div>
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What ever happened to that $2500 savings we were promised? Well, some will save – in fact, make out like bandits. Those being subsidized will see their subsidies increase, allowing plans to be offered for less than $100 per month – for every increase in our premium means an increase in the subsidy.</div>
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And if you think <u></u>Illinois<u></u> is an outlier, think again. As one state’s losses pile up, other states will follow. Nationwide, insurers and exchanges are recording massive losses, which means the rest of us will be stuck holding the bag with 40-50 percent increases every year to pay for those losses and the subsidized.</div>
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Well, what about seniors? They are the ones in need of medical care most and more often. Surely they will taken care of. No – no they won’t. “The latest Medicare Trustees report, warns that by 2040 half of all hospitals, 70% of all skilled nursing homes and 90% of home health care services will not be able to survive under Medicare’s increasingly skimpy fees.”</div>
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Translation: Because facilities can’t remain in business merely accepting payment from Medicare, seniors will either have to make up the difference, which many cannot afford, or be refused service and care.</div>
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But fear not for all is not lost. Obama has been hard at work in the waning months of his reign as the first American Monarch. Thankfully for us he and his healthcare brain-trust have kept their noses to the grind-stone developing a <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/how-hillary-plans-to-triple-down-on-obamacares-failures/&source=gmail&ust=1472607661542000&usg=AFQjCNHXLswlstsxjldNqFDirjg6_uUryg" href="http://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/how-hillary-plans-to-triple-down-on-obamacares-failures/" target="_blank">“new” plan</a>. He is calling “for a ‘public option’ – that is, an insurance plan wholly run by the government – after he leaves office. ‘Congress should revisit a public plan to compete alongside private insurers in areas of the country where competition is limited,’ he wrote in the Journal of the American Medical Association.”</div>
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What a great “new” idea – only it’s not. If you have been following this, you’ll recognize that this has been the devious scheme all along and things are progressing by the book, possibly even ahead of schedule. The progressives could not have planned it better, which is exactly what they did – planned it. Obama originally said it may 10 or 15 years to get a single-payer system.</div>
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Recall, all the way back in 2003, Obama, speaking to a group of Illinois AFL-CIO thugs said: “I happen to be a proponent of a single payer universal health care program.” (applause) “I see no reason why the <u></u>United States of America<u></u>, the wealthiest country in the history of the world, spending 14 percent of its Gross National Product on health care cannot provide basic health insurance to everybody. And that’s what Jim is talking about when he says everybody in, nobody out. A single payer health care plan, a universal health care plan. And that’s what I’d like to see.”</div>
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His vision has never changed. In 2008 he reiterated his collectivist dream by saying: “If I were designing a system from scratch, I would probably go ahead with a single-payer system.”</div>
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This is what we conservative “chicken littles” have been warning of all this time. This was the plan all along. Obama, like Hillary (remember Hillarycare of the early `90s), designed the current system to fail, so eventually things would get so bad that people would beg the government to step in and “fix it.” <u></u></div>
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Of course, the only way to do so would not be to re-privatize healthcare, but for the government to take it over – lock, stock and barrel. And here we are already.</div>
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As a United States Marine, I have served this nation for over 22 years. Now is the time for us to come together as one nation; Democrat or Republican, and vote for a direction of change. Should we stay on the present path or go in a new direction. <br />
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As a nation we must be ready to defend peace and liberty. I believe in Mr. Trump and that he will make our country prosperous, strong and will drain the swamp of 'good ole boys,' in Washington, D.C., who care only about being reelected and not about you and me.<br />
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"My fellow citizens: let no one doubt that this is a difficult and dangerous effort on which we have set out. No one can foresee precisely what course it will take or what costs or casualties will be incurred. Many months in which both our patience and our will will be tested -- months in which many threats and denunciations will keep us aware of our dangers. But the greatest danger of all would be to do nothing Our goal is not the victory of might, but the vindication of right -- not peace at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom, here in this hemisphere, and we hope, around the world. God willing, that goal will be achieved." <br />
John F. Kennedy's Speech on Radio and Television<br />
October 22, 1962 <br />
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Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death <br />
Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775. <br />
No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House. But different men often see the same subject in different lights; and, therefore, I hope it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen if, entertaining as I do opinions of a character very opposite to theirs, I shall speak forth my sentiments freely and without reserve. This is no time for ceremony. The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery; and in proportion to the magnitude of the subject ought to be the freedom of the debate. It is only in this way that we can hope to arrive at truth, and fulfill the great responsibility which we hold to God and our country.<br />
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Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings. <br />
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Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it. <br />
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I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the House. Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received? Trust it not, sir; it will prove a snare to your feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation; the last arguments to which kings resort. <br />
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I ask gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies? No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us: they can be meant for no other. <br />
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They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging. And what have we to oppose to them? Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years. Have we anything new to offer upon the subject? Nothing. We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain. Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication? What terms shall we find which have not been already exhausted? Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves. Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament. <br />
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Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrance's have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne! In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free-- if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending--if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained--we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us! <br />
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They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?<br />
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Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable--and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come. <br />
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It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace-- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! <br />
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that <br />
ye were our countrymen.<br />
Samuel Adams<br />
Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776. <br />
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A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.<br />
Barry Goldwater <br />
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“Each and every life under this flag should be family, and treated accordingly … The only way we survive this is together, not apart… “I was allowed to walk with giants… and now we’re looking for another generation of giants. Who among you will love something more than you love yourself? Who among you is going to stand up, and take the fight to the enemy, because it’s here….”<br />
Marcus Luttrell<br />
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<a href="https://youtu.be/N0dCTvX0wzs">https://youtu.be/N0dCTvX0wzs</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8202192063193145623.post-24485070469571176932016-09-19T19:03:00.000-07:002016-09-19T19:03:05.948-07:00Uranium One and the Panama Papers<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Uranium One</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Uranium One and the Panama Papers reveal how the Clinton machine is loyal to the dollar and to the dollar alone.</span></span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Purchase of US Uranium Assets in Return for $145mm in Contributions to the Clinton Foundation</span></strong><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.53em;"> - Bill and Hillary Clinton assisted a Canadian financier, Frank Giustra, and his company, Uranium One, in the acquisition of uranium mining concessions in Kazakhstan and the United States. Subsequently, the Russian government sought to purchase Uranium One but required approval from the Obama administration given the strategic importance of the uranium assets. <strong>In the run-up to the approval of the deal by the State Department, nine shareholders of Uranium One just happened to make $145mm in donations to the Clinton Foundation. Moreover, the <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/five-questions-about-the-clintons-and-a-uranium-company">New Yorker</a> confirmed that Bill Clinton received $500,000 in speaking fees from a Russian investment bank, with ties to the Kremlin, around the same time. </strong> Needless to say, the State Department approved the deal giving Russia ownership of 20% of U.S. uranium assets </span><br />
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<li><strong style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.53em;">Lucrative Haiti Gold Mining Permit Awarded to Hillary's Brother</strong><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.53em;"> - The <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/role-of-hillary-clintons-brother-in-haiti-gold-mine-raises-eyebrows/2015/03/20/c8b6e3bc-cc05-11e4-a2a7-9517a3a70506_story.html">Washington Post</a> confirmed claims that <strong>Hillary's brother, Tony Rodham, sat on the board of a mining company that just happened to score a lucrative gold mining permit in Haiti, one of only two permits to be awarded in 50 years,</strong> while then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton funneled billions of taxpayer dollars to the island in the wake of the devastating earthquake of 2010</span></li>
<li><strong style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.53em;">Keystone Pipeline</strong><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.53em;"><strong> Support in Return for $2mm in Speaking Fees </strong>- After not being engaged to speak by TD Bank during his first 8 years out of the White House, <strong>Bill Clinton began a string of speeches for the bank starting just 4 days after Hillary was nominated as secretary of state resulting in over $2mm in speaking fees.</strong> As it turns out, TD Bank happened to be the single largest shareholder in the Keystone XL pipeline which needed State Department approval. Wouldn't you know it, Hillary Clinton decided to support the pipeline — a heresy to environmentalists — and delayed the Obama administration’s rejection of it</span></li>
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While these accusations, many of which have been substantiated by multiple sources, would be devastating to mere mortal presidential candidates, we're certain these are just a few more negative data points that will not stick to the teflon-coated Clinton couple.<br />
<a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-25/clinton-cash-debut-just-time-fan-flames-tension-dnc">http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-25/clinton-cash-debut-just-time-fan-flames-tension-dnc</a><br />
<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Panama Papers: 53% Of Clinton Foundation Donors Would Be Barred Under Proposed Rule</span></strong><br />
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On Thursday evening, alongside Trump's unexpected statement of "regret<a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-18/trump-stuns-skeptics-regret-causing-personal-pain-clinton-foundation-may-stop-taking">", Bill Clinton made another just as important announcement </a> <span class="print-footnote">[4]</span>when he said that should Hillary become president, the $2 billion Clinton Family foundation<strong> will no longer accept money from any corporate and foreign donors </strong>and will bring an end to its annual Clinton Global Initiative meeting regardless of the outcome of the November election. To this we responded that this was to be expected: after all "once Hillary is president, she will no longer need a backdoor way of legally receiving Saudi and other foreign money: at that moment, billions in Saudi dollars will be deemed perfectly acceptable for passage through the front door, mostly in exchange for weapons and ammo."<br />
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Other had similar reactions, with the announcement drawing skepticism on Friday mostly from the right left as critics wondered why the Clintons have never before <strong>cut off corporate and overseas money to their charity, </strong>and more importantly why they would wait until after the election to do so. <br />
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Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus tweeted Friday that the Clintons’ continued acceptance of those dollars during the presidential campaign is a “massive, ongoing conflict of interest." <br />
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The left also spoke up, when Nina Turner, a former Ohio state senator who was a leading surrogate for Clinton’s rival in the Democratic primary race, Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.), said the restrictions were a good step but should be imposed immediately. “In my opinion, and in the opinion of lots of Americans, this should have been done long ago,” she said.<br />
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As it turns out, the self-imposed restrictions would be more stringent than those put in place while Clinton was secretary of state - ironically when the temptation to bribe the top US diplomat was far higher - when the foundation was merely required to seek State Department approval to accept new donations from foreign governments, permitting the charity to accept millions of dollars from governments and wealthy interests all over the world. <br />
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They would also be stricter than the policy adopted when Clinton launched her campaign that placed some limits on foreign government funding but allowed corporate and individual donations, for the simple reason that Hillary was willing the accept cash for any and all future favors. <br />
<a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-20/">http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-20/</a><br />
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Clinton Foundation Donors Got Weapons Deals From Hillary Clinton's State Department<br />
By <a class="author-name" href="http://www.ibtimes.com/reporters/david-sirota" itemprop="url" rel="author">David Sirota</a> -- IBTimes<br />
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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.</div>
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Israeli officials were <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-01-09/gates-says-israel-gave-in-on-saudi-arms-after-f-35-pledge" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">agitated</a>, reportedly <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/10/in-gates-book-details-of-israel-s-hard-bargaining-over-saudi-arms.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">complaining</a> 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 <a href="http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2010/nea/154472.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">documented concerns</a> about the repressive policies of the Saudi royal family.<br />
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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, <a href="http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2011/12/179777.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">declared</a> that the deal <a href="http://www.state.gov/t/pm/rls/rm/149749.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">had been</a> “a top priority” for Clinton personally. Shapiro, a <a href="http://m.state.gov/md125231.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">longtime aide</a> to Clinton since her Senate days, added that the “U.S. Air Force and U.S. Army have excellent relationships in Saudi Arabia.”</div>
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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 -- <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/for-hillary-clinton-and-boeing-a-beneficial-relationship/2014/04/13/21fe84ec-bc09-11e3-96ae-f2c36d2b1245_story.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">contributed</a> $900,000 to the Clinton Foundation, according to a company press release.<br />
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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. <br />
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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.<br />
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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 <a href="http://www.dsca.mil/sites/default/files/historical_facts_book_-_30_september_2013.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">completed sales</a> 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.<br />
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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.<br />
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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. <a href="http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/186630.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Algeria</a>, <a href="http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/186659.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Saudi Arabia</a>, <a href="http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/186644.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kuwait</a>, the <a href="http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/186665.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">United Arab Emirates</a>, <a href="http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/186654.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Oman</a> and <a href="http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/204590.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Qatar</a> 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. <br />
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By <a class="author-name" href="http://www.ibtimes.com/reporters/matthew-cunningham-cook" rel="author"><strong>Matthew Cunningham-Cook</strong></a> and <a class="author-name" href="http://www.ibtimes.com/reporters/david-sirota" rel="author"><strong>David Sirota</strong></a> on 06/15/15 AT 6:52 PM</div>
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A firm with ties to Obama would get billions from a Pentagon plan to cut future veterans’ guaranteed pension benefits.</div>
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By <a class="author-name" href="http://www.ibtimes.com/reporters/david-sirota" rel="author"><strong>David Sirota</strong></a>, <a class="author-name" href="http://www.ibtimes.com/reporters/andrew-perez" rel="author"><strong>Andrew Perez</strong></a>, and <a class="author-name" href="http://www.ibtimes.com/reporters/matthew-cunningham-cook" rel="author"><strong>Matthew Cunningham-Cook</strong></a> on 06/03/15 AT 6:02 AM</div>
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During the Arab Spring, Hillary Clinton's State Department boosted arms sales of chemical and biological agents to Mideast regimes that donated to the Clinton Foundation.</div>
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Under Hillary Clinton, the State Department approved $165 billion worth of commercial arms sales to 20 nations whose governments had given millions to the Clinton Foundation.</div>
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Some of the business entities that were paying Bill Clinton personal money and lobbying Hillary Clinton’s State Department received lucrative contracts from the department.</div>
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As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton also accused some of these countries of failing to marshal a serious and sustained campaign to confront terrorism. <br />
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In a December 2009 <a href="https://cablegatesearch.wikileaks.org/cable.php?id=09STATE131801&q=clinton" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">State Department cable</a> published by Wikileaks, Clinton complained of “an ongoing challenge to persuade Saudi officials to treat terrorist financing emanating from Saudi Arabia as a strategic priority.” She declared that “Qatar's overall level of CT cooperation with the U.S. is considered the worst in the region.” She said the Kuwaiti government was “less inclined to take action against Kuwait-based financiers and facilitators plotting attacks.” She noted that “UAE-based donors have provided financial support to a variety of terrorist groups.” All of these countries donated to the Clinton Foundation and received increased weapons export authorizations from the Clinton-run State Department.<br />
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Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and the Clinton Foundation did not respond to questions from the IBTimes. <br />
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In all, governments and corporations involved in the arms deals approved by Clinton’s State Department have delivered between $54 million and $141 million to the Clinton Foundation as well as hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments to the Clinton family, according to foundation and State Department records. The Clinton Foundation publishes only a rough range of individual contributors’ donations, making a more precise accounting impossible.</div>
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Under federal law, foreign governments seeking State Department clearance to buy American-made arms are barred from making campaign contributions -- a prohibition aimed at preventing foreign interests from using cash to influence national security policy. But nothing prevents them from contributing to a philanthropic foundation controlled by policymakers. <br />
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Just before Hillary Clinton became Secretary of State, the Clinton Foundation signed an <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/memorandum_of_understanding_clinton.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">agreement</a> generally obligating it to disclose to the State Department increases in contributions from its existing foreign government donors and any new foreign government donors. Those increases were to be reviewed by an official at the State Department and “as appropriate” the White House counsel’s office. According to available disclosures, officials at the State Department and White House raised no issues about potential conflicts related to arms sales.<br />
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During Hillary Clinton’s 2009 Senate confirmation hearings, Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., <a href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-111shrg54615/pdf/CHRG-111shrg54615.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">urged</a> the Clinton Foundation to “forswear” accepting contributions from governments abroad. “Foreign governments and entities may perceive the Clinton Foundation as a means to gain favor with the secretary of state,” he said. The Clintons did not take Lugar’s advice. In light of the weapons deals flowing to Clinton Foundation donors, advocates for limits on the influence of money on government action now argue that Lugar was prescient in his concerns.<br />
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“The word was out to these groups that one of the best ways to gain access and influence with the Clintons was to give to this foundation,” said Meredith McGehee, policy director at the Campaign Legal Center, an advocacy group that seeks to tighten campaign finance disclosure rules. “This shows why having public officials, or even spouses of public officials, connected with these nonprofits is problematic.” <br />
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Hillary Clinton’s willingness to allow those with business before the State Department to finance her foundation heightens concerns about how she would manage such relationships as president, said Lawrence Lessig, the director of Harvard University’s Safra Center for Ethics.<br />
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“These continuing revelations raise a fundamental question of judgment,” Lessig told IBTimes. “Can it really be that the Clintons didn't recognize the questions these transactions would raise? And if they did, what does that say about their sense of the appropriate relationship between private gain and public good?”<br />
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National security experts assert that the overlap between the list of Clinton Foundation donors and those with business before the the State Department presents a troubling conflict of interest.</div>
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While governments and defense contractors may not have made donations to the Clinton Foundation exclusively to influence arms deals, they were clearly “looking to build up deposits in the 'favor bank' and to be well thought of,” said Gregory Suchan, a 34-year State Department veteran who helped lead the agency’s oversight of arms transfers under the Bush administration.<br />
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As Hillary Clinton presses a campaign for the presidency, she has confronted sustained scrutiny into her family’s personal and philanthropic dealings, along with questions about whether their private business interests have colored her exercise of public authority. As IBTimes previously <a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/colombian-oil-money-flowed-clintons-state-department-took-no-action-prevent-labor-1874464">reported</a>, Clinton switched from opposing an American free trade agreement with Colombia to supporting it after a Canadian energy and mining magnate with interests in that South American country contributed to the Clinton Foundation. IBTimes’ review of the Clintons’ annual financial disclosures also <a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/firms-paid-bill-clinton-millions-they-lobbied-hillary-clinton-1899107">revealed</a> that 13 companies lobbying the State Department paid Bill Clinton $2.5 million in speaking fees while Hillary Clinton headed the agency.<br />
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Questions about the nexus of arms sales and Clinton Foundation donors stem from the State Department’s role in reviewing the export of American-made weapons. The agency is charged with both licensing direct commercial sales by U.S. defense contractors to foreign governments and also <a href="http://www.state.gov/t/pm/rsat/c14021.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">approving</a> Pentagon-brokered sales to those governments. Those powers are enshrined in a <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/22/2752" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">federal law</a> that specifically designates the secretary of state as “responsible for the continuous supervision and general direction of sales” of arms, military hardware and services to foreign countries. In that role, Hillary Clinton was <a href="http://fas.org/irp/offdocs/pdd34.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">empowered</a> to approve or reject deals for a broad range of reasons, from national security considerations to human rights concerns.<br />
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The State Department does not disclose which individual companies are involved in direct commercial sales, but its disclosure documents reveal that countries that donated to the Clinton Foundation saw a combined $75 billion increase in authorized commercial military sales under the three full fiscal years Clinton served, as compared to the first three full fiscal years of Bush’s second term.<br />
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The Clinton Foundation has not released an exact timetable of its donations, making it impossible to know whether money from foreign governments and defense contractors came into the organization before or after Hillary Clinton approved weapons deals that involved their interests. But <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/foreign-governments-gave-millions-to-foundation-while-clinton-was-at-state-dept/2015/02/25/31937c1e-bc3f-11e4-8668-4e7ba8439ca6_story.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">news reports</a> document that at least seven foreign governments that received State Department clearance for American arms did donate to the Clinton Foundation while Hillary Clinton was serving as secretary: Algeria, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Thailand, Norway and Australia.</div>
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<strong>Sales Flowed Despite Human Rights Concerns</strong><br />
Under a presidential policy directive <a href="http://fas.org/irp/offdocs/pdd34.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">signed</a> by President Bill Clinton in 1995, the State Department is supposed to specifically take human rights records into account when deciding whether to approve licenses enabling foreign governments to purchase military equipment and services from American companies. Despite this, Hillary Clinton’s State Department increased approvals of such sales to nations that her agency sharply criticized for systematic human rights abuses.<br />
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In its <a href="http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2010/nea/154458.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">2010 Human Rights Report</a>, Clinton’s State Department inveighed against Algeria’s government for imposing “restrictions on freedom of assembly and association” tolerating “arbitrary killing,” “widespread corruption,” and a “lack of judicial independence.” The report said the Algerian government “used security grounds to constrain freedom of expression and movement.”</div>
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That year, the Algerian government <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/26/politics/clinton-foundation-donation-algeria-haiti/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">donated</a> $500,000 to the Clinton Foundation and its lobbyists <a href="http://www.fara.gov/docs/4776-Supplemental-Statement-20101101-11.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">met</a> with the State Department officials who oversee enforcement of human rights policies. Clinton’s State Department the next year approved a one-year 70 percent increase in military export authorizations to the country. The increase included authorizations of almost 50,000 items classified as “toxicological agents, including chemical agents, biological agents and associated equipment” after the State Department did not authorize the export of any of such items to Algeria in the prior year.<br />
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During Clinton’s tenure, the State Department authorized at least $2.4 billion of direct military hardware and services sales to Algeria -- nearly triple such authorizations over the last full fiscal years during the Bush administration. The Clinton Foundation did not <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/foreign-governments-gave-millions-to-foundation-while-clinton-was-at-state-dept/2015/02/25/31937c1e-bc3f-11e4-8668-4e7ba8439ca6_story.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">disclose</a> Algeria’s donation until this year -- a violation of the ethics agreement it entered into with the Obama administration.</div>
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The monarchy in Qatar had similarly been <a href="http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2010/nea/154471.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">chastised</a> by the State Department for a raft of human rights abuses. But that country donated to the Clinton Foundation while Hillary Clinton was running the State Department. During the three full budgetary years of her tenure, Qatar saw a 14-fold increase in State Department authorizations for direct commercial sales of military equipment and services, as compared to the same time period in Bush’s second term. The department also <a href="http://www.dsca.mil/major-arms-sales/qatar-mh-60r-seahawk-multi-mission-helicopters" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">approved</a> the Pentagon’s separate $750 million sale of multi-mission helicopters to Qatar. That deal would additionally employ as contractors three companies that have all supported the Clinton Foundation over the years: United Technologies, Lockheed Martin and General Electric.<br />
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Clinton foundation donor countries that the State Department criticized for human rights violations and that received weapons export authorizations did not respond to IBTimes’ questions. <br />
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That group of arms manufacturers -- along with Clinton Foundation donors Boeing, Honeywell, Hawker Beechcraft and their affiliates -- were together listed as contractors in 114 such deals while Clinton was secretary of state. NBC put Chelsea Clinton <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/chelsea-clinton-nbc-600-k-salary-107827.html?hp=l2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">on its payroll</a> as a network correspondent in November 2011, when it was <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/12/us-ge-nbc-idUSBRE91B1IM20130212" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">still</a> 49 percent owned by General Electric. A spokesperson for General Electric did not respond to questions from IBTimes.</div>
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During her Senate confirmation proceedings in 2009, Hillary Clinton <a href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-111shrg54615/pdf/CHRG-111shrg54615.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">declared</a> that she and her husband were “committed to ensuring that his work does not present a conflict of interest with the duties of Secretary of State.” She pledged “to protect against even the appearance of a conflict of interest between his work and the duties of the Secretary of State” and said that “in many, if not most cases, it is likely that the Foundation or President Clinton will not pursue an opportunity that presents a conflict.”<br />
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Even so, Bill Clinton took in speaking fees reaching $625,000 at events sponsored by entities that were dealing with Hillary Clinton’s State Department on weapons issues.<br />
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In 2011, for example, the former president was paid $175,000 by the Kuwait America Foundation to be the guest of honor and keynote speaker at its annual awards gala, which was held at the home of the Kuwaiti ambassador. Ben Affleck spoke at the event, which featured a musical performance by Grammy-award winner Michael Bolton. The gala was emceed by Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, hosts of MSNBC’s Morning Joe show. Boeing was <a href="http://www.kuwaitamerica.org/programs-initiatives/gala-dinners/enduring-support/enduring-support-program.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">listed</a> as a sponsor of the event, as were the embassies of the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar -- the latter two of which had <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/foreign-governments-gave-millions-to-foundation-while-clinton-was-at-state-dept/2015/02/25/31937c1e-bc3f-11e4-8668-4e7ba8439ca6_story.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">donated</a> to the Clinton Foundation while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state.</div>
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The speaking fee from the Kuwait America Foundation to Bill Clinton was paid <a href="http://www.dsca.mil/major-arms-sales/kuwait-c-17-globemaster-iii-aircraft-and-related-support" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">in the same time frame as </a><a href="http://www.dsca.mil/major-arms-sales/kuwait-technicallogistics-support-fa-18-aircraft" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">a</a> series of deals Hillary Clinton’s State Department was approving between the Kuwaiti government and Boeing. Months before the gala, the Department of Defense announced that Boeing would be the prime contractor on a $693 million deal, cleared by Hillary Clinton’s State Department, to provide the Kuwaiti government with military transport aircraft. A year later, a group sponsored in part by Boeing would <a href="http://pfds.opensecrets.org/N00000019_2012_term.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">pay</a> Bill Clinton another $250,000 speaking fee.<br />
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“Boeing has sponsored this major travel event, the Global Business Travel Association, for several years, regardless of its invited speakers,” Gordon Johndroe, a Boeing spokesperson, told IBTimes. Johndroe said Boeing’s support for the Clinton Foundation was “a transparent act of compassion and an investment aimed at aiding the long-term interests and hopes of the Haitian people” following a devastating earthquake.<br />
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Boeing was one of three companies that helped deliver money personally to Bill Clinton while benefiting from weapons authorizations issued by Hillary Clinton’s State Department. The others were Lockheed and the financial giant Goldman Sachs.<br />
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Lockheed is a <a href="http://www.amcham.org.eg/member_center/membersdatabase/View_Member_Details.asp?MI=1230" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">member</a> of the American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt, which paid Bill Clinton $250,000 to speak at an event in 2010. Three days before the speech, Hillary Clinton’s State Department <a href="http://www.dsca.mil/major-arms-sales/finland-m270-multiple-launch-rocket-system-upgrade" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">approved</a> <a href="http://www.dsca.mil/major-arms-sales/thailand-f-16-mid-life-upgrade" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">two</a> weapons export deals in which Lockheed was listed as the prime contractor. Over the course of 2010, Lockheed was a contractor on 17 Pentagon-brokered deals that won approval from the State Department. Lockheed told IBTimes that its support for the Clinton Foundation started in 2010, while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state.<br />
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“Lockheed Martin has periodically supported one individual membership in the Clinton Global Initiative since 2010,” said company spokesperson Katherine Trinidad. “Membership benefits included attendance at CGI annual meetings, where we participated in working groups focused on STEM, workforce development and advanced manufacturing.”<br />
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In April 2011, Goldman Sachs paid Bill Clinton $200,000 to speak to “approximately 250 high level clients and investors” in New York, according to State Department <a href="https://www.scribd.com/doc/263198938/Goldman-Approval-041111" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">records</a> obtained by Judicial Watch. Two months later, the State Department <a href="http://www.dsca.mil/major-arms-sales/iraq-follow-support-and-maintenance-multiple-aircraft-systems" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">approved</a> a $675 million foreign military sale involving Hawker Beechcraft -- a company that was then part-owned by Goldman Sachs. As part of the deal, Hawker Beechcraft would provide support to the government of Iraq to maintain a fleet of aircraft used for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions. Goldman Sachs has also contributed at least $250,000 to the Clinton Foundation, according to donation records.</div>
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“There is absolutely no connection among all the points that you have raised regarding our firm,” said Andrew Williams, a spokesperson for Goldman Sachs.<br />
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Federal records show that ethics staffers at the State Department approved the payments to Bill Clinton from Goldman Sachs, and the Lockheed- and Boeing-sponsored groups without objection, even though the firms had major stakes in the agency’s weapons export decisions.</div>
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Stephen Walt, a Harvard University professor of international affairs, told IBTimes that the intertwining financial relationships between the Clintons, defense contractors and foreign governments seeking weapons approvals is “a vivid example of a very big problem -- the degree to which conflicts of interest have become endemic.”<br />
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“It has troubled me all along that the Clinton Foundation was not being more scrupulous about who it would take money from and who it wouldn’t,” he said. “American foreign policy is better served if people responsible for it are not even remotely suspected of having these conflicts of interest. When George Marshall was secretary of state, nobody was worried about whether or not he would be distracted by donations to a foundation or to himself. This wasn’t an issue. And that was probably better.”</div>
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UPDATE (7:38pm, 5/26/15): In an emailed statement, a spokeswoman for the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office told IBTimes: "Taiwan’s 2003 donation was for the fund to build the Clinton Presidential Library. This was way before Mrs. Clinton was made the U.S. Secretary of State. We have neither knowledge nor comments concerning other issues."</div>
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“You just can’t fake this kind of authenticity, folks. There are many differences between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, but the manner in which the Republican has consistently shown his respect and support for local heroes is one of the most obvious.<br />
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"Before boarding his airplane to leave Michigan, Donald Trump took the time to shake the hand of every police officer lined up on the tarmac to ensure his safety.<br />
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"Democrats used to be able to count on union support across the board, but that has all changed now.<br />
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"After living under seven plus years of Barack Obama’s failed policies, bad trade deals, and disrespect for law enforcement officers, union members and their leaders have had enough.<br />
This kind of support is going to help him beat Hillary once for all!” <br />
"Angry Patriot Movement"<br />
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The largest police union in the United States, the Fraternal Order of Police, just endorsed Donald J. Trump for president.<br />
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FORTY-FOUR NEW FLAG OFFICERS ENDORSE DONALD J. TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT<br />
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<strong><em>Momentum Continues To Grow For Donald J. Trump Among Military Leaders, Bringing The Total Number Of Flag Officer Endorsements To 164</em></strong></div>
NEW YORK, NY – Today Donald J. Trump for President announced the endorsement of forty-four additional military flag officers, bringing his total number of flag officer endorsements to 164.<br />
<br />“I am grateful for the growing support of highly respected retired generals and admirals who have been so successful in defending our country. Working with our armed forces is the most important responsibility of the presidency. I thank each of these strong leaders for their dedicated service to our country and their confidence in me to serve as commander-in-chief. Our foreign policy must be guided by the principle of peace through strength, and to do this we must commit to strengthening our military so that it remains the finest fighting force on the planet.”<strong>– Donald J. Trump</strong><br />
<strong><br />View the full list of Flag Officers here</strong>: <a href="https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/flag-officers-endorse-donald-j.-trump-for-president">https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/flag-officers-endorse-donald-j.-trump-for-president</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8202192063193145623.post-84962464390819259492016-09-12T01:12:00.001-07:002016-09-13T00:25:56.324-07:00First Hillary's State Department - Then the Clinton Foundation - Then the deal is made<a href="http://truthontarget.blogspot.com/2014/04/duke-energy-and-enn-are-already-thru.html">Duke Energy and ENN are already thru EcoPartnership conducting field trials of voltaic solar panels in North Carolina </a> <br />
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Duke Energy helped form a public private<br />
EcoPartnership between Duke Energy, ENN Group and the cities of Charlotte and Langfang. <br />
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2011 at the U.S. State Department.<br />
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Economic Dialogue convened in Washington and Beijing every year.<br />
The program’s goal is to facilitate the exchange of information and best practices between the two countries to stimulate innovation and develop solutions to a variety of pressing energy and environmental challenges. As one of only a dozen such partnerships, Duke Energy’s EcoPartnership<br />
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<a href="http://truthontarget.blogspot.com/2014/04/china-based-enn-group-to-build-solar.html">China-Based ENN Group to Build Solar Power Projects in U.S.-MOU signed Sept. 23, 2009 at the Clinton Global Initiative’s annual meeting</a></div>
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U.S.-CHINA ECONOMIC AND SECURITY REVIEW COMMISSION ONE HUNDRED THIRTEENTH CONGRESS NOVEMBER 2014
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<strong>US Workers taking it on the chin for Hillary and her fellow Democrats</strong>
U.S. employment in some sectors, particularly the manufacturing sector, has dropped substantially as trade with China has increased. Since China joined the World Trade Organization (WTO), the United States has lost 29 percent of its manufacturing jobs, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, and economists have begun to establish clear correlations between this job loss and the bilateral trading relationship. Even as U.S. manufacturing has slumped, U.S. corporations have relocated manufacturing operations to China and imports of Chinese manufactured goods have grown exponentially. As a result, the benefits of the U.S.-China trade relationship have
accrued disproportionately to U.S. corporations, while most of the drawbacks have been borne by U.S. workers.<br />
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Report uncovers step by step how our families have been placed in danger.......<br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Go a head read the facts</span></strong>. <br />
Then decide how you want to vote.<br />
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(This is a declassified, redacted version of the Final Cox Report.)
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<strong>ENN Group’s Wang Yusuo at Clinton</strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">At the Clinton Global Initiative, Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK) and ENN Group announced a partnership to </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">collaborate on clean energy development. At this point, the deal appears to be an agreement to share </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">information and a statement of intent to partner in various areas.</span><br />
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<strong>Duke Energy and China-Based ENN Group to Build Solar Power </strong><strong>Projects in U.S.</strong>
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<br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">LANGFANG, CHINA --China-based ENN Group and <span style="color: red;">Duke Energy will jointly develop commercial solar power projects in the U.S. </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;">Under an agreement signed today</span>, ENN and Duke Energy will concentrate on two types of solar photovoltaic designs: large “utility-scale” solar farms and commercial distributed generation solar projects. Distributed generation systems produce electricity close to where the energy is used, rather than at large, central power plants.</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">This joint development agreement builds upon a memorandum of understanding announced Sept. 23 at the<span style="color: red;"><strong> Clinton Global Initiative’s annual meeting</strong></span> at which time the companies</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">pledged to work together to accelerate the development of low-carbon and clean energy technologies.</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">“China is investing heavily in clean energy and we can make greater progress in the U.S. by joining forces and working together,” said Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers. “Duke </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Energy and ENN seek to not only accelerate the development of solar power in the U.S., but help achieve economies of scale and drive down the cost of renewable energy.”</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">“ENN and Duke Energy have very complementary strengths,” said ENN Chairman Wang Yusuo. “We are both dedicated to the development and use of low-carbon, clean energy</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">sources to combat the climate change crisis facing all humanity.”</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Duke Energy Generation Services (DEGS), a commercial business unit of Duke Energy, will team with ENN to develop, own and operate the solar projects.</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">The joint development agreement will expand DEGS’ existing investments in renewable energy – including wind and biopower – and commercial transmission. DEGS owns and</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">operates more than 630 megawatts (MW) of wind power projects in the U.S. and plans to add another 350 MW by the end of 2010. In the biopower market, DEGS is developing</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">wood-waste-to-electricity power plants in the U.S through ADAGE, the company it formed in 2008 with French-based AREVA.</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Keith Trent, president and group executive of Duke Energy’s Commercial Businesses, and Wouter van Kempen, president of DEGS, joined ENN Chairman Wang Yusuo and Vice</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Chairman and Chief Scientist Gan Zhongxue in Langfang for the signing of the agreement.</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">About ENN:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">ENN is committed to clean energy for China and the world. Since its founding 20 years ago, ENN has grown into an integrated group of companies that delivers clean energy to</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"> t</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">ens of millions of customers and provides overall clean energy solutions to city governments and heavy industry. ENN has more than 100 subsidiaries in over 80 cities across </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">China and around the world, and employs more than 24,000 people.</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">ENN Solar Energy is an international company that produces world-leading silicon thin film solar modules. It has also created an innovative system of integrated solar power </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">stations.</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Additional information about ENN is available on the Internet at: </span><a href="http://www.enn.cn/en/index/index.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #d52a33;">http://www.enn.cn/en/index/index.html</span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> (</span><a href="http://www.enn.cn/en/index/index.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #d52a33;">http://www.enn.cn/en/index/index.html</span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">) .</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">About Duke Energy Generation Services:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Duke Energy Generation Services (DEGS), part of Duke Energy’s Commercial Businesses, is a leader in developing innovative renewable energy solutions, including wind, solar</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">and biopower projects. DEGS builds, owns and operates electric generation for large energy consumers, municipalities, utilities and industrial facilities. DEGS is also working to</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">build commercial transmission capacity to help the U.S. meet its energy needs of the future.</span><br /><br /> Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Duke Energy is a Fortune 500 company traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol DUK. More information about the company<br /><br /> is available on the Internet at: <a href="http://www.duke-energy.com/"><span style="color: #d52a33;">www.duke-energy.com</span></a> (<a href="http://www.duke-energy.com/"><span style="color: #d52a33;">http://www.duke-energy.com</span></a>) .</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;">LANGFANG, CHINA -- American energy provider Duke Energy and China’s largest clean energy<br />developer ENN are teaming up to build large-scale solar power plants in the United States.<br />Under an agreement signed here today, ENN and Duke Energy are beginning a partnership that could see the construction of vast solar farms and locally distributed generation solar projects, which produce electricity near where the energy is used.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">“ENN and Duke Energy have very complementary strengths,” said Wang Yusuo, chairman of ENN. “We are both dedicated to the development and use of low-carbon, clean energy sources to combat the climate crisis facing all humanity.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /><span style="color: black;">“This agreement shows China is on the front lines of the clean energy, conservation and emission reduction business. China has a long-history of importing technologies but we are reversing that trend,” said Mr. Wang. Today’s signing flows from an agreement announced on Sept. 23 at the <span style="color: red;"><strong>Clinton Global Initiative’s</strong></span> annual meeting where the companies pledged to work together to push the development of low-carbon and clean energy technologies.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The Democratic National Committee has no plans to repay Duke Energy for an unprecedented $10 million line of credit it guaranteed to help the Democratic convention's local host committee put on President Obama’s three-day nominating convention in Charlotte, N.C., last September.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">A Duke company official said the company was claiming the money as a business expense for tax purposes, meaning shareholders will foot $6 million of the cost, according to a report in the Charlotte Observer.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">The large loan and the secrecy surrounding it have government watchdog groups deeply concerned. They say the arrangement raises serious conflict-of-interest issues for Mr. Obama and challenges his claim to be committed to disclosure and transparency. </span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8202192063193145623.post-58201070094816496922016-09-12T00:13:00.001-07:002016-09-12T00:13:31.780-07:00China taking over US future. Chinese energy giant ENN Group, Senate Majority Leader Reid tip of the iceberg. American Oil and Land Sold to China. Wake up. Our county is being sold out right under our feet. <br />
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<strong>China grabs oil interests in USA</strong><br /> The first major intrusion of China in the U.S. oil and natural gas market can be traced to the Obama administration decision in October 2009 to allow state-owned Chinese energy giant China Offshore Oil Corporation, or CNOOC, to purchase a multi-million dollar stake in 600,000 acres of South Texas oil and gas fields.<br /> By allowing China to have equity interests in U.S. oil and natural gas production, the Obama administration reversed a policy of the Bush administration that in 2005 blocked China on grounds of national security concerns from a $18.4-billion dollar deal in which China planned to purchase California-based Unocal Corp.<br /> China’s two, giant, state-owned oil companies acquiring oil and natural gas interests in the USA are CNOOC, 100-percent owned by the government of the People’s Republic of China, and Sinopec Group, the largest shareholder of Sinopac Corporation, an investment company owned by the government of the People’s Republic of China, incorporated in China in 1998, largely to acquire and operate oil and natural gas interests worldwide.<br /> On March 6, 2012, <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2012/03/06/chinas-footprint-in-us-oil-a-state-by-state-list/"><span style="color: #d52a33;">the Wall Street Journal compiled</span></a> a state-by-state list of the $17 billion in oil and natural gas equity interests CNOOC and Sinopec have acquired in the United States since 2010.<br /><ul>
<li><strong>Colorado:</strong> CNOOC gained a one-third stake in 800,000 acres in northeast Colorado and southwest Wyoming in a $1.27-billion pact with Chesapeake Energy Corporation.</li>
<li><strong>Louisiana:</strong> Sinopec has a one-third interest in 265,000 acres in the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale after a broader $2.5-billion deal with Devon Energy.</li>
<li><strong>Michigan:</strong> Sinopec gained a one-third interest in 350,000 acres in a larger $2.5-billion deal with Devon Energy.</li>
<li><strong>Ohio:</strong> Sinopec acquired a one-third interest in Devon Energy’s 235,000 Utica Shale acres in a larger $2.5-billion deal.</li>
<li><strong>Oklahoma:</strong> Sinopec has a one-third interest in 215,000 acres in a broader $2.5-billion deal with Devon Energy.</li>
<li><strong>Texas:</strong> CNOOC acquired a one-third interest in Chesapeake Energy’s 600,000 acres in the Eagle Ford Shale in a $2.16-billion deal.</li>
<li><strong>Wyoming:</strong> CNOOC has a one-third stake in northeast Colorado and southeast Wyoming after a $1.27-billion pact with Chesapeake Energy. Sinopec gained a one-third interest in Devon Energy’s 320,000 acres as part of a larger $2.5-billion deal.</li>
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On March 6, 2012, in a separate story, <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204883304577223083067806776.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories"><span style="color: #d52a33;">the Wall Street Journal described</span></a> that China’s strategy implemented since 2010 by Fu Chengyu, who has served as chairman of both CNOOC and Sinopec, involved the following components: “Seek minority states, play a passive role, and, in a nod to U.S. regulators, keep Chinese personnel at arm’s length from advanced U.S. technology.”<br /><strong>Harry Reid and Chinese solar investments in Nevada</strong><br /> On April 3, 3012, <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-03/solar-jobs-join-harry-reid-to-chinese-billionaire-in-price-drop.html"><span style="color: #d52a33;">Bloomberg reported</span></a> Chinese billionaire Wang Yusuo, one of China’s richest citizens and the founder of Chinese energy giant ENN Group, had teamed up with Senate Majority Leader Reid to win incentives including land 113 miles southeast of Las Vegas that ENN sought to buy for $4.5 million, less than one-eighth of the land’s $38.6 million assessed value.<br /> Bloomberg reported ENN intended to create solar energy farms on the Nevada land, despite the nearly 50 percent plunge in solar panel prices globally in the previous 15 months that led to the bankruptcy of solar equipment maker Solyndra LLC, which had received approximately $535 million in U.S. government loan guarantees.<br /> Bloomberg further documented ENN had contributed $40,650 individually and through its political action committee to Sen. Reid over the previous three election cycles.<br /> Subsequently, on Sept. 4, 2012, <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/09/04/Harry-Reid-s-Son-Representing-Chinese-Solar-Panel-Plant-In-5-Billion-Nevada-Deal"><span style="color: #d52a33;">Breitbart.com reported</span></a> lawyer Rory Reid, the son of Sen. Reid, had been appointed the primary representative for ENN Energy Group, fronting the bid by the Chinese company to build a $5-billion solar panel plant on a 9,000-acre Clark County desert plot in Laughton, Nevada.<br /><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/31/us-usa-china-reid-solar-idUSBRE87U06D20120831"><span style="color: #d52a33;">A Reuters report</span></a> published on Aug. 31, 2012, documented that Reid was recruited by ENN during a 2011 trip he took to China with nine other U.S. senators, supposedly to invite Chinese investment in the United States.<br /> The Senate group accompanying Reid on his 2011 trip to China included six other Democrats and three Republicans: Richard Shelby, R-Ala.; Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.; Dick Durbin, D-Ill.; Mike Enzi, R-Wyo.; Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.; Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J.; Johnny Isakson, R-Ga.; Jeff Merkley, D-Ore.; and Michael Bennet, D-Colo.<br /><br /><span>Read more at <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2014/04/reid-smelling-anything-but-rosy-in-ranch-fight/#PE5U6dehAjROe8K2.99" style="color: #003399;">http://www.wnd.com/2014/04/reid-smelling-anything-but-rosy-in-ranch-fight/#PE5U6dehAjROe8K2.99</a></span></div>
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<strong>China grabs oil interests in USA</strong><br /> The first major intrusion of China in the U.S. oil and natural gas market can be traced to the Obama administration decision in October 2009 to allow state-owned Chinese energy giant China Offshore Oil Corporation, or CNOOC, to purchase a multi-million dollar stake in 600,000 acres of South Texas oil and gas fields.<br /> By allowing China to have equity interests in U.S. oil and natural gas production, the Obama administration reversed a policy of the Bush administration that in 2005 blocked China on grounds of national security concerns from a $18.4-billion dollar deal in which China planned to purchase California-based Unocal Corp.<br /> China’s two, giant, state-owned oil companies acquiring oil and natural gas interests in the USA are CNOOC, 100-percent owned by the government of the People’s Republic of China, and Sinopec Group, the largest shareholder of Sinopac Corporation, an investment company owned by the government of the People’s Republic of China, incorporated in China in 1998, largely to acquire and operate oil and natural gas interests worldwide.<br /> On March 6, 2012, <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2012/03/06/chinas-footprint-in-us-oil-a-state-by-state-list/"><span style="color: #d52a33;">the Wall Street Journal compiled</span></a> a state-by-state list of the $17 billion in oil and natural gas equity interests CNOOC and Sinopec have acquired in the United States since 2010.<br /><ul>
<li><strong>Colorado:</strong> CNOOC gained a one-third stake in 800,000 acres in northeast Colorado and southwest Wyoming in a $1.27-billion pact with Chesapeake Energy Corporation.</li>
<li><strong>Louisiana:</strong> Sinopec has a one-third interest in 265,000 acres in the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale after a broader $2.5-billion deal with Devon Energy.</li>
<li><strong>Michigan:</strong> Sinopec gained a one-third interest in 350,000 acres in a larger $2.5-billion deal with Devon Energy.</li>
<li><strong>Ohio:</strong> Sinopec acquired a one-third interest in Devon Energy’s 235,000 Utica Shale acres in a larger $2.5-billion deal.</li>
<li><strong>Oklahoma:</strong> Sinopec has a one-third interest in 215,000 acres in a broader $2.5-billion deal with Devon Energy.</li>
<li><strong>Texas:</strong> CNOOC acquired a one-third interest in Chesapeake Energy’s 600,000 acres in the Eagle Ford Shale in a $2.16-billion deal.</li>
<li><strong>Wyoming:</strong> CNOOC has a one-third stake in northeast Colorado and southeast Wyoming after a $1.27-billion pact with Chesapeake Energy. Sinopec gained a one-third interest in Devon Energy’s 320,000 acres as part of a larger $2.5-billion deal.</li>
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On March 6, 2012, in a separate story, <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204883304577223083067806776.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories"><span style="color: #d52a33;">the Wall Street Journal described</span></a> that China’s strategy implemented since 2010 by Fu Chengyu, who has served as chairman of both CNOOC and Sinopec, involved the following components: “Seek minority states, play a passive role, and, in a nod to U.S. regulators, keep Chinese personnel at arm’s length from advanced U.S. technology.”<br /><strong>Harry Reid and Chinese solar investments in Nevada</strong><br /> On April 3, 3012, <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-03/solar-jobs-join-harry-reid-to-chinese-billionaire-in-price-drop.html"><span style="color: #d52a33;">Bloomberg reported</span></a> Chinese billionaire Wang Yusuo, one of China’s richest citizens and the founder of Chinese energy giant ENN Group, had teamed up with Senate Majority Leader Reid to win incentives including land 113 miles southeast of Las Vegas that ENN sought to buy for $4.5 million, less than one-eighth of the land’s $38.6 million assessed value.<br /> Bloomberg reported ENN intended to create solar energy farms on the Nevada land, despite the nearly 50 percent plunge in solar panel prices globally in the previous 15 months that led to the bankruptcy of solar equipment maker Solyndra LLC, which had received approximately $535 million in U.S. government loan guarantees.<br /> Bloomberg further documented ENN had contributed $40,650 individually and through its political action committee to Sen. Reid over the previous three election cycles.<br /> Subsequently, on Sept. 4, 2012, <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/09/04/Harry-Reid-s-Son-Representing-Chinese-Solar-Panel-Plant-In-5-Billion-Nevada-Deal"><span style="color: #d52a33;">Breitbart.com reported</span></a> lawyer Rory Reid, the son of Sen. Reid, had been appointed the primary representative for ENN Energy Group, fronting the bid by the Chinese company to build a $5-billion solar panel plant on a 9,000-acre Clark County desert plot in Laughton, Nevada.<br /><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/31/us-usa-china-reid-solar-idUSBRE87U06D20120831"><span style="color: #d52a33;">A Reuters report</span></a> published on Aug. 31, 2012, documented that Reid was recruited by ENN during a 2011 trip he took to China with nine other U.S. senators, supposedly to invite Chinese investment in the United States.<br /> The Senate group accompanying Reid on his 2011 trip to China included six other Democrats and three Republicans: Richard Shelby, R-Ala.; Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.; Dick Durbin, D-Ill.; Mike Enzi, R-Wyo.; Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.; Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J.; Johnny Isakson, R-Ga.; Jeff Merkley, D-Ore.; and Michael Bennet, D-Colo.<br /><br /><span>Read more at <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2014/04/reid-smelling-anything-but-rosy-in-ranch-fight/#PE5U6dehAjROe8K2.99" style="color: #003399;">http://www.wnd.com/2014/04/reid-smelling-anything-but-rosy-in-ranch-fight/#PE5U6dehAjROe8K2.99</a></span></div>
<strong><span style="font-size: medium;">China grabs oil interests in USA</span></strong><br /> Jerome R. Corsi - WND<br /><br /> The first major intrusion of China in the U.S. oil and natural gas market can be traced to the Obama administration decision in October 2009 to allow state-owned Chinese energy giant China Offshore Oil Corporation, or CNOOC, to purchase a multi-million dollar stake in 600,000 acres of South Texas oil and gas fields.<br /><br /> By allowing China to have equity interests in U.S. oil and natural gas production, the Obama administration reversed a policy of the Bush administration that in 2005 blocked China on grounds of national security concerns from a $18.4-billion dollar deal in which China planned to purchase California-based Unocal Corp.<br /><br /> China’s two, giant, state-owned oil companies acquiring oil and natural gas interests in the USA are <span style="color: red;">CNOOC, 100-percent owned by the government of the <strong><span style="color: blue;">People’s Republic of China</span></strong>, and Sinopec Group, the largest shareholder of Sinopac Corporation, an investment company owned by the government of the </span><span style="color: blue;"><strong>People’s Republic of China</strong></span>, incorporated in China in 1998, largely to acquire and operate oil and natural gas interests worldwide.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br /> On March 6, 2012, the Wall Street Journal compiled a state-by-state list of the $17 billion in oil and natural gas equity interests CNOOC and Sinopec have acquired in the United States since 2010.<br /><div style="font-size: 15px;">
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"Cnooc and Nexen said in separate statements late Monday that they had completed the $15.1 billion acquisition after approvals from Canadian, U.K. and U.S. regulators, giving the third-largest Chinese oil and natural-gas company by output control over significant oilsand and shale-gas operations in Canada and crude-oil deposits beneath the North Sea and Gulf of Mexico. Hours before that, state-owned oil giant China Petrochemical Corp., or Sinopec Group, agreed to buy a 50% stake in <!-- module article chiclet --> <a class="t-company" data-ls-seen="1" href="http://quotes.wsj.com/CHK"><span style="color: #d52a33;">Chesapeake Energy</span></a> Corp.'s <span class="article-chiclet down" data-channel-currency="$" data-channel-last-price="26.45" data-channel-path="/quotes/nls/chk" data-country-code="US" data-ticker-code="CHK" data-utc-offset-hours="-4"><!-- up, down, neutral --> <span class="ticker"><a data-ls-seen="1" href="http://quotes.wsj.com/CHK"><span style="color: #d52a33;">CHK <span>-1.10%</span></span></a> </span> <!--ticker content box--> <span class="t-content"><span class="t-name"><a data-ls-seen="1" href="http://quotes.wsj.com/CHK"><span style="color: #d52a33;">Chesapeake Energy Corp.</span></a></span> <span class="t-sec-6" style="display: none;"><span class="t-name"> <span class="myPort"><a href="https://portfolio.wsj.com/portfolio?mod=WSJ_port_quotechicklet" target="_blank"><img src="data:image/png;base64,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" /><span style="color: #d52a33;"> </span></a> </span> </span> <span class="numbers"><span class="sec-title"><span class="y-value">Your Value</span> <span class="y-change">Your Change</span> </span> <span class="n-values"><span></span> <span></span> <!-- up, down, neutral --> </span> <span class="n-values"><span></span> <span></span> <!-- up, down, neutral --> </span> <span class="shot-p">Short position</span> </span> </span> <!-- end of data tooltip contents --> </span> </span> Mississippi Lime venture for $1.02 billion. In 2010 and 2011, Cnooc bought into Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy's oil-rich shale fields in south Texas, as well as fields in Colorado and Wyoming. WSJ Feb. 26, 2013."</div>
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<br /><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">"Sinopec buys shale interest from Devon for US$2.2b</span> </span></b>Sinopec Group, China's largest oil refiner, announced Tuesday one of its subsidiary has agreed to buy from Oklahoma-headquartered Devon Energy Corporation one-third of its interest in five new venture plays in the United States with a consideration of 2.2 billion U.S. dollars.<br /> The Sinopec International Petroleum Exploration & Production Corporation (SIPC), one of the Chinese refiner giant's subsidiary, will acquire one-third of Devon's interest in Niobrara, Mississippian, Utica Ohio, Utica Michigan and Tuscaloosa, according to an agreement between the two companies.<br /><br /> Prior to this transaction, Devon had assembled 1.2 million net acres in the company's previously announced positions in the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale, Niobrara, Mississippian, Ohio Utica Shale and the Michigan Basin.<br /><br /> The SIPC and Devon have recently added acreage in the Ohio Utica Shale, increasing their joint position in the play to 235,000 net acres. SIPC will reimburse Devon for drilling costs incurred prior to closing and acreage acquisition costs incurred subsequent to the effective date of the agreement.<br /><br /> SIPC will make a 900 million-U.S.-dollar cash payment upon closing and 1.6 billion U,S. dollars paid in the form of a drilling carry. The drilling carry will fund 70 percent of Devon's capital requirements, which results in SIPC paying 80 percent of the overall development costs during the carry period. Based on the current work plan, Devon expects the entire 1.6 billion-U.S.-dollar carry to be realized by the end of 2014. Through 2012, SIPC and Devon expect to drill about 125 gross wells in the five plays, according to the agreement. china.org.cn<span style="color: black;"> </span><span class="st"><span class="f"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="color: black;">Jan 4, 2012."</span> </span></span></span> <br /><br />•Louisiana: Sinopec has a one-third interest in 265,000 acres in the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale after a broader $2.5-billion deal with Devon Energy.<br /><br />•Michigan: Sinopec gained a one-third interest in 350,000 acres in a larger $2.5-billion deal with Devon Energy.<br /><br />•Ohio: Sinopec acquired a one-third interest in Devon Energy’s 235,000 Utica Shale acres in a larger $2.5-billion deal.<br /><br />•Oklahoma: Sinopec has a one-third interest in 215,000 acres in a broader $2.5-billion deal with Devon Energy.<br /><br />•Texas: CNOOC acquired a one-third interest in Chesapeake Energy’s 600,000 acres in the Eagle Ford Shale in a $2.16-billion deal.<br /><br />•Wyoming: CNOOC has a one-third stake in northeast Colorado and southeast Wyoming after a $1.27-billion pact with Chesapeake Energy. Sinopec gained a one-third interest in Devon Energy’s 320,000 acres as part of a larger $2.5-billion deal.<br /><br /> On March 6, 2012, in a separate story, the Wall Street Journal described that China’s strategy implemented since 2010 by Fu Chengyu, who has served as chairman of both CNOOC and Sinopec, involved the following components: “Seek minority states, play a passive role, and, in a nod to U.S. regulators, keep Chinese personnel at arm’s length from advanced U.S. technology.”</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8202192063193145623.post-35474056872945416942016-09-11T09:56:00.004-07:002016-09-11T10:11:39.847-07:00Hillary Clinton “medical episode” that required her to leave 9/11 commemoration ceremonyHillary Clinton had a “medical episode” that required her to leave a 9/11 commemoration ceremony early on Sunday, a law enforcement source who witnessed the event told Fox News. <br />
Sept. 11, 2016<br />
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HILLARY CLINTON'S HORROR SHOW: Revealed by Wikileaks<br />
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Hillary Clinton's health is abysmal. Her Clinton Foundation is under attack as an obscene pay-to-play scheme for elites and billionaires to gain undue backdoor access to US policy. Her relationships with top media organizations go against basic tenets of journalism, transparency, and leadership.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8202192063193145623.post-62762141309332194002016-09-10T09:07:00.009-07:002016-09-11T20:31:58.263-07:00First Pay for Play uncovered by Andrew Higgins of the Washington Post Foreign Service - 2010, Clinton and the Riady Family. Moctar's son James Riady was the president of the bank [Worthen]. Cinton and Riady families are closely linked <div id="byline">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><strong>How the disgraced James Riady, barred from travel to the U.S., made it back</strong></span></div>
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Riady, 52, declined to be interviewed but, in an e-mailed response to written questions, he said the teachings of Christ "inform all that I do." He said he hadn't seen the Clintons during his 2009 trips to America but did pay $20,000 to become a member of the Clinton Global Initiative, an <a href="http://www.clintonglobalinitiative.org/" target="">annual gathering</a> of prominent figures in politics, business and philanthropy sponsored by Bill Clinton. <br />
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The ethnic Chinese magnate's ties to the Clintons have been a source of heated controversy since the late 1990s, when Riady became embroiled in one of the murkiest episodes of the Clinton presidency -- a campaign fundraising scandal that caused a big political ruckus in Washington amid Republican Party allegations, never proved, of meddling by China's intelligence services in American politics. <br />
The saga brought Riady and his family-run conglomerate, Lippo Group, an $<span style="color: red;">8.6 million fine, the biggest penalty in the history of <u>U.S. campaign finance violations</u></span>. <br />
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FAMILY BUSINESS: Mochtar Riady, right, founder of the Lippo Group conglomerate, with his son James, in a 1994 photo.<br />
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JAKARTA, INDONESIA -- In March 2004, James Riady, an Indonesian tycoon and devout Christian, received an honorary doctorate from Ouachita Baptist University in Arkansas. The university -- which has a scholarship program funded by the Indonesian -- didn't announce the honor. Nor did Riady pick up the diploma in person: He'd been barred from America after pleading guilty in 2001 to a "conspiracy to defraud the United States" through illegal contributions to the campaigns of Bill Clinton and other Democrats. <br />
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Last year, however, the Indonesian mogul finally made it to Arkansas. He traveled there during the first of two previously unreported trips he made in 2009 to the United States. He was allowed in only after receiving a waiver from a rule that forbids entry to foreigners guilty of "a crime involving moral turpitude," a term that government lawyers generally interpret to include fraud. <br />
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Riady's return to the United States poses a prickly question for Hillary Clinton's State Department: How and why did a foreign billionaire stained by Clinton-era scandals get a U.S. visa after being kept out for so long under the Bush administration? <br />
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The ethnic Chinese magnate's ties to the Clintons have been a source of heated controversy since the late 1990s, when Riady became embroiled in one of the murkiest episodes of the Clinton presidency -- a campaign fundraising scandal that caused a big political ruckus in Washington amid Republican Party allegations, never proved, of meddling by China's intelligence services in American politics. <br />
The saga brought Riady and his family-run conglomerate, Lippo Group, an $8.6 million fine, the biggest penalty in the history of U.S. campaign finance violations. <br />
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A close look at Riady's quiet American comeback, along with dramas back home in Indonesia that preceded it, reveals how one of Asia's best-known and most complicated businessmen has deployed a potent mix of faith, chutzpah and charity in a long quest for rehabilitation. It also reveals a man beset by contradictions -- a dedicated student of the Bible who has a reputation in Indonesia for showing scant forgiveness to those who cross him; a generous philanthropist whose Lippo Group is notorious in Jakarta business circles for its raw pursuit of profit; a proud man who was humiliated by his entanglement with the Clintons but who has now sought to reenter their world. <br />
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Riady, 52, declined to be interviewed but, in an e-mailed response to written questions, he said the teachings of Christ "inform all that I do." He said he hadn't seen the Clintons during his 2009 trips to America<strong><span style="color: red;"><u> but did pay $20,000 to become a member of the Clinton Global Initiative</u></span></strong>, an annual gathering of prominent figures in politics, business and philanthropy sponsored by Bill Clinton. <br />
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A senior<strong> State Department official</strong> said <u>Hillary Clinton had no knowledge of the decision to let Riady enter the United States.</u> The tycoon's visa, he said, was issued by the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta after the Indonesian asked to travel to America so that he could attend family graduation ceremonies. Riady, added the official, was granted entry for a "very narrow purpose." <br />
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On his first visit in May, Riady watched his son, John, graduate from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and his daughter, Stephanie, graduate from Wheaton College, a Christian school in Illinois. He also traveled to Arkansas to see Ouachita Baptist University's president, Rex Horne, the former pastor of the Clintons' Little Rock church. Riady, who has an educational foundation in Indonesia, said he visited about 15 American universities and schools and said he had made clear in his application to enter the United States that this was the main purpose of his travels.<br />
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"I have a well documented passion for education," Riady said in his e-mail. <br />
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On his second visit, however, he reached out beyond American campuses. In September he went to a business forum in Boston of Indonesian and American executives. <span style="color: red;">He also registered for a meeting in New York of the <u>Clinton Global Initiative</u>, along with a galaxy of big-name guests such as President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton</span>. Riady, in his e-mail, said he wanted to attend because "educational issues were on the agenda" but, in the end, didn't "because I was unable to fit it into my schedule." <br />
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Riady's wide range of activities in America didn't violate the terms of his visa, American officials <br />
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say, but they nonetheless caused consternation in the upper reaches of the State Department. The tycoon, one State Department official said, is free to apply to visit again but "the reality of his past remains a significant obstacle for future travel to the United States." <br />
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The Clinton connection: <br />
Riady, who trained as an investment banker in New York, met Bill Clinton in 1978 when the Indonesian spent four months in Little Rock, where Lippo bought a local bank, according to court documents. Returning to the United States in 1984, Riady stayed in Arkansas for two years before moving to California, and had frequent contacts with then-governor Clinton. <br />
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Riady, who obtained a green card that he later gave up, told prosecutors that he didn't make political contributions during his early years in Arkansas but that he did later get involved in Democratic fundraising. After a 1992 limousine ride with Clinton, he pledged to help raise $1 million for the governor's presidential campaign and visited the White House repeatedly during the Clinton presidency, according to court <br />
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The relationship ended in disaster for Riady, who, before a Los Angeles court in 2001, pleaded guilty to a felony charge arising from his use of "dishonest and deceitful means" to funnel funds from Lippo companies overseas into the campaign coffers of Clinton and others. The money was not given directly by Riady or Lippo, but was used instead to reimburse other donors. <br />
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After the 2001 court appearance, Riady returned to Jakarta to run Lippo Group, a sprawling corporate empire founded by his father, Mochtar, with interests ranging from property and health care to finance and media. He since has mostly avoided talking about the scandal, but, in an interview posted in October on the Wharton School's Web site, he discussed it briefly, saying he has tried "to be wiser and remind myself that money and power are both a blessing and a curse." He said he "had to face the reality that business and politics do not mix." <br />
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But Riady still clearly relishes mixing with the rich and politically powerful. He has become a regular at events organized by the World Economic Forum, a Swiss-based club of global power brokers to which Lippo pays more than $40,000 per year in corporate membership fees. <br />
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The question of whether Riady would be able to return to the United States was first raised in 2000 during plea bargain negotiations. As part of the plea agreement, Riady agreed not to seek entry for two years. Riady, in his e-mail, said the lead prosecutor in the case, Daniel O'Brien, wrote a letter that "specifically stated that my crime was NOT moral turpitude." A copy of the letter on file with the Los Angeles court, however, includes no such statement by O'Brien. It notes only that the businessman might need a waiver if "the appropriate authorities determine that Riady has committed a crime of moral turpitude." The letter records that Riady had informed the U.S. government that he might seek to visit America in the future "for business or personal reasons" and says the businessman could use the letter to support an application for a waiver if he complies with the terms of the plea agreement. <br />
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The 2001 plea agreement, which Riady signed on Jan. 10, 2001 -- 10 days before George W. Bush became president -- infuriated many Republicans, who complained that the deal prevented a full accounting of Riady's fundraising activities for Clinton and other Democrats. The tycoon's already dim prospects of getting back into the United States under a Republican administration darkened further with the Sept. 11 attacks, which led to a general tightening of visa procedures. <br />
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Riady, in his e-mail, said the 2009 trips -- made on a six-month, multiple-entry visitor's visa issued in May -- were his first to this country since his 2001 guilty plea. He said the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta "recommended" that he be given a waiver from the Department of Homeland Security, which signs off on such matters. Riady said the department "concurred" at the end of October 2008. The department declined to comment. <br />
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A free spender:<br />
Riady has worked hard -- and spent lavishly -- to put the Clinton-era scandals behind him. He has donated large sums to charity, nurtured close ties with U.S. Christian groups and befriended U.S. diplomats and business people in Indonesia. <br />
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....Riady's companies have a long record of disputes with business rivals and also partners, most recently with a Malaysian billionaire and the French hypermarket operator Carrefour. In February a Jakarta court jailed a close associate of Riady, Billy Sindoro, also a Christian, for trying to bribe a government antitrust regulator whose agency had issued a ruling that helped Lippo in a row with its estranged Malaysian partner. <br />
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Lippo's general counsel, responding to written questions, said Sindoro, the former director of a Lippo company called First Media, was no longer a Lippo executive when he handed a bag full of cash to the antitrust official. Lippo, said the lawyer, had no prior knowledge of Sindoro's "lone personal acts." <br />
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Background Info:<br />
C. JOSEPH GIROIR, Jr.<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"></span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><b> "…</b>His name is on the inscription under the bust of Bill Clinton in the National Portrait Gallery: ''Gift of Mr. and Mrs. C. Joseph Giroir Jr., in honor of Dr. and Mrs. Mochtar Riady'' (1)</span><br />
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"Had a hand in Chinagate, the fund- raising scandal now being probed by the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee….. Giroir's name popped up again yesterday in Senate testimony about the president's legal defense fund and Yah Lin ''Charlie'' Trie's fishy donations to it…. " (1)</span><br />
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"He was once the managing partner at the Rose Law Firm. That's how he came to hire Hillary Clinton there in 1977…" (1)</span><br />
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"He tried to get a $2 million loan from failing First South Savings & Loan, in which he had a small stake. When the feds took over First South, they refused to honor the loan request. Giroir sued the government and was countersued for malpractice. As evidence, the government produced an opinion by <span style="color: red;"><u>Giroir on Rose letterhead contending the loan was legal</u></span>. Rose gave Giroir the boot (replacing him with Webster Hubbell)…" (1)</span><br />
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He was being pushed out of a job " as director of the<span style="color: red;"><strong> Riady-controlled Worthen Bank in Little Rock</strong></span>. Worthen's board sued him for shady-looking stock deals. (Giroir got his spot at Worthen after he sold the bank his 91% stake in a Fayetteville, Ark., bank for $18.5 million in Worthen stock.) The Worthen board also eased James Riady out as president. Bank examiners cited the bank for excessive insider lending - the Riadys had built a money pipeline back to Indonesia and China (1)</span><br />
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"When Clinton took office in '93, the Riadys hired Giroir to broker deals in China for U.S. firms and the Lippo Group" (1)</span><br />
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"Kenneth Starr, the special prosecutor investigating Whitewater, has subpoened all records from the White House with Giroir's name on them. Starr's team wants to know more about Giroir's role in the lucrative ''consulting'' work that Clinton pal Hubbell got after being convicted of billing fraud from his days at Rose…." (1)<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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10/21/96 "The Import-Export Bank has issued letters of credit for $900,000 to James Riady's Lippo Bank. The president of the taxpayer-financed Ex-Im bank is a Clinton appointee, Maria Luisa Haley. James Riady has also pushed Ex-Im Bank for U.S. government financing of a $1 billion project by Lippo to build a power plant in northern China. The plant constructor is a Little Rock unit of Entergy Corp. Maria Luisa Haley is the ex… of John <span style="color: red;">Haley who is a co-defendant of former Arkansas governor Jim Guy Tucker in a case that involves a cable television franchise in Jarkarta set up by Rose Law Firm lawyer Joe Giroir and Lippo Group</span>." (2)</span><br />
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During the period of 1994 through 1996, <u><strong>Warren Christopher, secretary of state</strong></u>, had a vested interest in seeing the Paiton [Indonesian power] project to completion. The connection between Paiton and Moctar Riady, a major figure in the DNC campaign finance scandals, are clearly documented through PT bank Lippo. PT Lippo is a partner of First Union Bank, a major investor in the Paiton project. The leader of the U.S. project in the Paiton power plant, Mission Energy, is also a partner of Indonesia's Lippo Group. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">The Lippo Group is a consortium, part-owned by billionaire Moctar Riady. PT Lippo also provides financing to "brother-in-law" Hashim for his coal mining company that supplies Paiton. Hashim is himself a key figure. While serving as the minister for mines under Suharto, (Clinton Pay for Play) <u><strong><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: blue;">Hashim also managed to purchase the world's only "low sulfur" coal mine.</span> His financial backers include Moctar Riady's PT Lippo and, his sister-in-law, Prawabo. Hashim and Moctar Riady both found themselves with a global monopoly thanks to<span style="color: blue;"> Bill Clinton's executive order</span> for the 1.7 million-acre Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah, over the only other known "low sulfur" deposit.</span></strong></u> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"> The connections between Riady and Clinton have a much more sinister theme than coal monopolies and taxpayer backed power plants in the middle of Asia. Testimony before Senator Thompson's committee in 1998 revealed Moctar Riady's involvement in Chinese espionage. Testimony revealed the Lippo Group is in fact a joint venture of China Resources, a trading and holding company "wholly owned" by the Chinese communist government and used as a front for Chinese espionage operations. Thus, behind all the front companies, the communist leaders in Beijing have triumphed again....(41)</span><br />
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10/21/96 "Joe Giroir still represents Lippo and has brokered ventures between Lippo and Tyson Foods to improve sales of Tyson chicken in the Far East. <span style="color: blue;">(Another Pay for Play)</span><strong> <span style="color: red;">The Clinton administration has provided $21 million in funding for a new, giant airport in a remote</span></strong>, unpopulated area in Northern Arkansas to be used to ship the <strong><span style="color: red;">Tyson-Lippo chicken</span></strong>."(2)</span><br />
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2/16/97 Another recent China deal is a $1-billion venture involving Lippo and Entergy Corp. -- the company that succeeded the largest utility in Arkansas -- <span style="color: red;">(<strong>Clinton helps China's PLA Strategic Missile Force</strong>) to build a nuclear plant for China.</span> The deal was negotiated in part by China's Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, which also heads the <span style="color: red;">PLA's strategic missile force</span>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Helping in the power plant deal was Arkansas lawyer Joseph Giroir, former managing partner of the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, where he once hired Hillary Rodham Clinton. Since 1993, Giroir has donated close to $200,000 to the Democrats. He now is the Riady family's top U.S. lawyer</strong> (44)</span><br />
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House of Representatives 4/15/97 Rep Cunningham "...President Clinton attended a September 13, 1995, White House meeting with John Huang, James Riady of Lippo Bank, Bruce Lindsey, and C. Joseph Giroir, the lawyer who hired then-Governor Clinton's wife, Hillary Clinton, to the Rose Law Firm and who is now doing Riady business in China. [TIME: 2300] It was at that meeting that the transfer of Huang from the Department of Commerce to the DNC was arranged. </span><br />
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Mochtar Riday later formed the $6 billion Lippo Group, headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia.(2)</span><br />
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John Huang, a top employee of Lippo Group was named assistant secretary of Commerce for international economic policy by Bill Clinton. John Huang last year left the White House to become vice chairman of the Democratic Finance Committee (2)</span><br />
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10/21/96 "The Clinton administration has just approved the sale of F-16 fighter jets to the Indonesian government" (2) </span><br />
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Between the time that Webster Hubbell resigned as Deputy Attorney General and the time he was sent to jail, he was paid $250,000 by the Lippo Group(2)</span><br />
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10/10/96 "…the Riady family has stirred up consternation among the minority shareholders in the Lippo Group by a planned restructuring that would enable the family to extract cash to invest elsewhere. The new primary ownership vehicle is intended to be a "financial supermarket" named Lippo Securities. Under the plan, the Riady family would increase their ownership of Lippo Securities from 19 percent to 50 percent. Lippo Securities would in turn be the major owner of the insurance company Lippo Life, increasing its ownership share from 4.9 percent to 32 percent. Lippo Life would then buy a 40 percent stake in Lippo Bank. The Riady family would sell their interest in the latter institution. The deputy chairman of Lippo Group is James Riady, a former director of Worthen Bank…" (4)
STEPHENS Inc., WORTHEN, BCCI and other banking</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">Stephens told an interviewer... He'd seen nothing wrong with selling BCCI an American bank-they even named it First American-but he and Riady soon began planning an entirely new kind of Arkansas bank holding company, for which they required the services of Giroir and expertise in securities law. In his years as Rose's chief Giroir conspicuously chaired a group drawn from the state's so-called Good Suit Club. The club successfully lobbied the legislature to change the state usury law, which made owning an Arkansas commercial bank a much more attractive proposition. It also was active in convincing the state's lawmakers to revise the law restricting the formation of bank holding companies, which enabled Giroir, Riady and Stephens to make a substantial and potentially lucrative investment…. " (3)</span><br />
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"On his own, Giroir had purchased control of four Arkansas banks. He sold all four--including the second largest bank in the city of Pine Bluff--to Worthen Banking Corporation, the new holding company Riady and Stephens had been able to set up after state law, with Giroir's help, had been made more congenial to such things. For his part in the deal, Giroir was compensated with $53,760,294 in cash, stock and assumed debt. He also became a major stockholder of Worthen (named after the venerable and very large Little Rock bank that was the pride of the Stephens commercial banking empire) and a powerful member of its board. He received further income by renting property to the company, and he pocketed an additional $2.1 million when he sold part of his stockholdings to a company affiliated with Riady's son James (who was also Worthen's co-president). More important, he managed to create a whole new client for his firm; Rose became Worthen's principal outside counsel" (3)</span><br />
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"These things are complicated, dull and dry, which is an excellent form of concealment but consider the sequence of events. With the stroke of a pen and without a visible second thought, then-governor Bill Clinton, following his traumatic period as a voter- rejected civilian between 1980 and 1982, gave life to two pieces of legislation inspired by his wife's boss-- revising the usury laws and permitting formation of new banking holding companies. …Last and not incidentally, the governor, by permitting the creation of the Worthen Bank Corporation, had arranged a new payday for the Clinton family through the windfall in legal fees provided to the Rose firm (Hillary Rodham Clinton, partner). When the compensation of the firm's partners was computed, Rodham Clinton has insisted, she specifically exempted herself from receiving a share of Rose's business with the state. But although Worthen could not have been brought to life without the help of her husband's government, it was not a government agency. Rodham Clinton was therefore not excluded from a partner's share of its fees…." (3)<br />
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"Mochtar Riady created Lippo Finance & Investment Inc., an SBA-backed lending company in Little Rock with Vernon Weaver as chairman. Weaver is now Clinton's U.S. representative to the European Union"(2)<br />
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"The Riadys owned First National Bank in Mena, a bank that was used by drug smugglers to launder money." (2)<br />
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"The Los Angeles-based Lippo Bank has twice received cease- and-desist orders from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. for violations of money-laundering statutes" (2)<br />
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"Moctar's son James Riady was the president of the bank [Worthen]. The bank financed Bill Clintons election campaigns, and bailed out the 1992 Presidential campaign of Bill Clinton with a three million dollar loan at a crucial juncture."(2) <br />
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(Pay for Play) "<u><strong>Worthen Bank invested in the Little Rock-based World Wide Travel that handled Clinton campaign travel, and was selected to take over all White House travel, a scheme that resulted in Travelgate</strong></u>." (2)<br />
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10/21/96 "Mack McLarty once worked at Worthen Bank, later worked for Entergy Corp., and now works in the White House, where he has been chief of staff. (2)<br />
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Joe Giroir, Hillary Clinton, and Vince Foster defended Stephens Inc. in a case that stemmed from a failed takeover effort involving the BCCI. (2)
The Arkansas bankers talked of exporting rice to Asia and predicted that their two-billion-dollar bank would quickly grow to ten billion. Then another disaster struck. As regulators caught on to the sophisticated fraud, they discovered that -- lo and behold -- the same thing was happening at Jack Stephens's Worthen Bank and Trust. A government-securities trading company from Livingston, New Jersey, called Bevill, Bresler & Schulman went bankrupt on Easter Sunday, a month after the ESM collapse and the Home State crisis, leaving Worthen with $52 million in uncollectible loans. (Remarkably, at one point Bevill, Bresler and ESM had overlapping personnel.) Once again, however, Jack Stephens persuaded the government that he was an innocent party. <br />
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<u>Worthen collected $20 million in insurance on the loss</u>, barely averting insolvency. But the federal regulators went through its books with heightened diligence. By the end of the summer, the comptroller of the currency had cited Worthen Banking Corp. for making "<u>excessive loans at preferential terms" to companies controlled by the Stephens brothers and Mochtar Riady</u>. This practice, charged the comptroller, amounted to a violation of federal law. DSL:BCCI.
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A Financial General lawsuit "Bert Lance, Bank of Credit &; Commerce International, Agha Hasan Abedi, Eugene J. Metzger, Jackson Stephens, Stephens Inc., Systematics Inc. and John Does numbers 1 through 25. "Systematics was represented by C.J. Giroir, Webster Hubbell, and Hillary Rodham Clinton of the Rose Law Firm of Little Rock …" DSL:BCCI.<br />
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"Worthen Banking Corp. was sold to Boatmen's Bancshares Inc. of St. Louis in 1995 for $535 million. Members of the Stephens family owned 22 percent of Worthen at the time of the sale, and acquired shares in Boatmen's. In addition, the investment bank Stephens Inc. retained the right to handle the trades (and to collect commissions) for Worthen Investments, which was folded into Boatman's Investment Services, Boatman's securities subsidiary. (All other securities trades at Boatman's Investment Services are handled by Pershing Inc. of New Jersey.) (4)<br />
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10/10/96 "Currently, Boatman's Bancshares Inc. is being acquired for around $9 billion by NationsBank Corp. of Charlotte, N.C. This merger will make NationsBank the fourth largest U.S. banking franchise. The investment bank Stephens Inc. was brought in to give a "fairness opinion" on behalf of NationsBank Corp. shareholders, even though the Stephens family, through their Boatmen's stock holdings, stand to make more than $200 million on the acquisition. Also standing to gain on stock holdings is Curt Bradbury, the chief operating officer at Stephens Inc., and also the former chief executive of Worthen Bank. Stephens Inc. represented NationsBank in the merger negotiations, while Goldman Sachs represented Boatmen's. NationsBank has its own discount brokerage service, NationsBank Discount Brokerage Inc., which clears its trades through Stephens Inc. Stephens Inc. is trying to acquire all of NationsBank's brokerage business after the merger of Boatmen's and NationsBank is complete. If so, that would make Stephens Inc. the largest clearing firm for banks in the U.S. (4)<br />
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Subsequently, NationsBank was acquired by BankAmerica [Alamo-Girl]<br />
"It turns out that he [John Huang] maintained an office across the street from his Commerce Department office. He used that office to send and receive packages and faxes without the knowledge of his Commerce employers…. That office was maintained by none other than the Arkansas-based Stephens Inc., a partner of Lippo in the Arkansas WorthenBank, where John Huang had once served as a vice president. The secretary testifying about John Huang's clandestine visits to the office was one Paula Green, a former aide to Rep. Beryl Anthony, the brother-in-law of the late Vince Foster. Beryl Anthony, as a member of the Washington law office of Winston Strawn, represented Stephens' software company Systematics, which was also represented by Vince Foster, Hillary Clinton and Joe Giroirin litigation with First American Bank in Washington over an attempted takeover by BCCI. It was revealed last week that none other than John Huang traveled to China to negotiate on behalf of Lippo with the Chinese government over debts owed to Chinese depositors by the failed BCCI…." (5)<br />
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One appointment in particular that should be setting off alarm bells right now is that of White House aide Vanessa Weaver, nominated by the White House for the five-member board of the Export-Import Bank. Ms. Weaver's rushed confirmation hearing takes place this afternoon before Senator Phil Gramm's Banking Committee. <br />
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An article in yesterday's<strong><u> Investor's Business Daily</u></strong> noted that before Ms. Weaver replaced fellow Arkansan Patsy Thomasson as deputy personnel director at the White House in 1997, she was a senior adviser on personnel. <br />
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The Thompson hearings on the 1996 campaign scandals established that in 1994 and 1995 she made at least 23 White House calls to John Huang while he worked at a sensitive Commerce Department job for 16 months. Incidentally, John Huang, long of the Lippo Group, qualifies as another typically weird appointment..... Mr. Huang has said he and Ms. Weaver are "good friends." That may stem in part from his friendship with her father Vernon, who for 15 years was head of the Washington office of the Arkansas-based Stephens Inc. financial empire. The two men were sufficiently close that <strong>Mr. Huang used a Stephens suite at the Willard Hotel as a "satellite office</strong>," even though it was only 150 yards from the Commerce Department. <strong>Mr. Huang would use the office to pick up overnight packages, make phone calls and fax materials, often shortly after receiving classified briefings</strong>.<br />
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Mr. Weaver's secretary has testified before the Senate that her boss gave her orders to conceal the arrangement with Mr. Huang. Mr. Weaver made at least 27 calls to Mr. Huang during his stint at Commerce. An Arkansas native, <strong>Mr. Weaver was later appointed by President Clinton as ambassador to the European Union in Brussels</strong>. A congressman well versed in the details of the Huang case told us the timing and pace of the Weaver family's contacts with him were "highly suspicious" and may have involved campaign fundraising.. . (39)<br />
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American Spectator 2/96 James Ring Adams R Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. "…..The story starts not with the McDougals' Madison Guaranty, but with a small-town bank in Stephens, Arkansas, in the southern tier of the state. On April 3, 1985, the Stephens Security Bank lent $135,000 to James and Susan McDougal for their Flowerwood Farms real estate development in western PuIaski County, some too miles north. It's not clear why this small bank made such a large commitment outside its immediate lending area, but Stephens Security did have connections with the Little Rock elite. Until 1984 more than 90 percent of its stock was owned by First Arkansas Bankstock Corp., the predecessor to the Worthen Banking Corporation. Some corporate matters for Stephens Security were handled by <u><span style="color: red;">C. Joseph Giroir, Jr, who as chairmam an of the Rose Law Firm hired Hillary Clinton in 1978</span></u>. Stephens Security Bank president Richard T. Smith, a former loan officer at Worthen, had his own history of questionable political lending. In 1484 he approved $150,000 in loans to the last minute congressional campaign of Little Rock Sheriff Tommy Robinson, even though Robinson never filled out a loan application. The Federal Election Commission investigated the loans but deadlocked on whether to take action about them. <br />
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American Spectator 2/96 James Ring Adams R Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. "…..The Wall Street Journal reported in August 1994 that Denton was telling the staff of the independent counsel that in 1986 he had seen her name, signed "Hillary Rodham," on a loan of between $100,000 and $300,000, but that the usual form for a guarantee was missing. At the time of the WSJ article, Clinton lawyer David Kendall issued the memorable but partial denial, "Any allegation that Mrs. Clinton guaranteed a loan in 1986 with the signature 'Hillary Rodham has the unmistakable and clanging ring of falsity." (The loan would have been signed in 1985, not 1986.) More recently, however, Denton's memory has freshened, and he has reportedly given an affidavit to Independent Counsel Kenneth Stan stating that he was in the room when Hillary signed the loan. Curiously, nothing resembling this note turned up in the thousands of documents produced for the House Banking Committee, partly because Stephens Security fell out of the purview of the investigations of Madison. But there is another possible reason that this note has not surfaced. It would be one of the most damaging bits of evidence yet to emerge against the first family…… This whole sequence of loans, from Stephens Security to Flowerwood Farms and the repayment from David Hale, caught the eye of investigators as soon as the Madison Guaranty case was reopened in 1992.<br />
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It figured prominently in the first criminal referral from jean Lewis, the RTC criminal investigator from Kansas City who bore the brunt of keeping the Madison case alive. (This referral, number C0004 went to the FBI and U.S. attorney in Little Rock on September 2, 1992, and promptly disappeared into the Washington bureaucracy. ) Then-U.S. Attorney Charles Banks recently told the Senate Whitewater Committee that he rushed the referral out of his office without even reading its 300 attached exhibits. He admitted that he shied away from the politically charged case because, among other things, he was a candidate for a federal judgeship….." <br />
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When Senator Fred Thompson revealed the outlines of what the U.S. intelligence community knew of the "China Plan," he traced the beginning of the Chinese effort to buy political influence in the United States to 1995. But some of the entities listed in Weldon's "China Connection" chart have been financially involved with Bill Clinton since 1984-1985. That was when the Riady family first invested in the Worthen Bank in Little Rock and bailed out an Arkansas state government investment firm whose collapse was hanging like a political millstone around then-Governor Clinton's neck, jeopardizing his re-election. <br />
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The Riadys became major donors to the first Clinton-Gore campaign, contributing $786,000 to Democratic causes in the closing months of the campaign. The Riadys consolidated their ties to Chinese military intelligence on November 7, 1992, just two days after Clinton's election to the White House, by entering into a partnership with China Resources (Holding) Ltd. to jointly own and control the Hong Kong Chinese Bank. China Resources has long been identified by U.S. intelligence as a vehicle for Chinese military intelligence. U.S. government investigators say the bank was later used to funnel Er Bu money to intermediaries in the U.S. for campaign donations. TAS has learned of a separate joint venture between the Riadys and China Aerospace International (CASIL), known as the Shanghai Commercial Investment Fund. (42)<br />
Until now, U.S. government investigators were not able to tie the Riadys to CASIL [China Aerospace International known as the Shanghai Commercial Investment Fund], a key player in several satellite ventures involving U.S. companies. A CASIL vice president, Liu Chaoying, set up a joint venture with Johnny Chung in California known as Marswell Investment that was financed through a $300,000 wire transfer (some of which Chung donated to the DNC) from the head of Chinese military intelligence. TAS first revealed the Chung- Liu connection two years ago ("While America Sleeps," June 1997). Liu's Hong Kong company, Marswell Investment Ltd., was created in 1995 using subscriber shares from two PLA front companies, Chearfit and Timeway Ltd., which operate out of the same office as a third front company, Silver Faith Holdings, which U.S. government investigators have tied back to the Chinese Triads. Liu Chaoying controls numerous other Hong Kong front companies as well, including Cheung Tai Hong Holdings Ltd., Giant Enterprises, and CASIL Import & Export Company Ltd... . (42)<br />
The Lippo-CASIL connection provides new insight into what the Chinese were hoping to get from the Clinton-Gore White House: waivers of U.S. sanctions to give them access to U.S. missile and satellite technology. In April 1993 Clinton waived the Tiananmen sanctions to allow Motorola to launch up to 12 satellites in China for its Iridium global wireless communications network. As part of that deal, the Chinese got help from U.S. companies in designing a "smart dispenser" that enabled them for the first time to launch multiple satellites from a single rocket. According to a December 1996 report from the Air Force National Air Intelligence Center, first revealed by Washington Times reporter Bill Gertz, the Iridium smart dispenser "could be developed into a credible PBV (post-boost vehicle) with a few relatively minor changes." Post-boost vehicles are used to deliver multiple nuclear warheads to separate orbits, so they can strike different targets independently. Multiple warhead technology was a key priority for the Commission of Science Technology and Industry for National Defense (COSTIND) collectors, and was a capability the Chinese had previously lacked.... . (42)<br />
In October 1997, CASIL acquired a 14.71-percent interest in Asia Pacific Telecommunications Satellite Holdings Ltd., a listed company in Hong Kong and New York. APT was founded in 1992, with investors from Hong Kong and Thailand, to own and operate a network of telecommunications satellites. The company now operates two Hughes HS 376 satellites (Apstar-1 and Apstar-1A), and one Space Systems Loral FS-1300 satellite (Apstar IIR), launched between 1994 and October 1997. "The powerful APT...has the largest synchronous satellite transponder capacity available in the Asia-Pacific region," according to a U. S. government cable from Hong Kong obtained by TAS.... They had no choice but to resort to the use of previously purchased U.S. satellites for their encrypted communications," the report states. Those satellites were owned and operated by APT. "This decision was just a step in the continuing process to integrate Hughes equipment for its military--a decision which goes back to at least 1992. Various munitions license applications during 1995 and 1996 reveal an export pattern of Hughes satellite-related equipment through PLA front companies. They include SCL, CESEC (China Electronic Systems Engineering Company), and Huaying," the DOD memo states. "Ironically, many of these exports did not identify these front companies as being associated with the PLA.<br />
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<span style="color: #4c0c00;">The Clinton National Security Scandal and Coverup</span></center>
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<span style="color: #4c0c00;"> Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), Senate, June 23, 1999</span></center>
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<dt>"I fully realize that the majority of Americans will not believe me. They have continued to believe our President even after he has demonstrated over and over that he has no regard for the truth."
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<dt>"The Cox Report has shed light on the fact that the Clinton administration has actually helped China in its technology acquisition efforts or made it easier for them to commit thefts and espionage."
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<dt>Mr. President, I ask that you listen again. I am going to pick up on the incredible but true story of the Clinton administration's betrayal of national security and the scandalous coverup that continues as we speak. In doing so, I fully realize that the majority of Americans will not believe me. They have continued to believe our President even after he has demonstrated over and over that he has no regard for the truth.
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<dt>Though you would never realize it by listening to the national media or the Clinton spin doctors, the recently released Cox Report has revealed a wealth of information on how the Clinton administration has undermined national security to simultaneously pursue its misguided foreign policies and self-serving domestic political agendas.
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<dt>On the one hand, there is the mind-boggling story of how the Clinton administration deliberately changed almost 50 years of bipartisan security policies--relaxing export restrictions, signing waivers to allow technology transfers, ignoring China's violation of arms control agreements, and its theft of our nuclear secrets, opening up even more nuclear and high technology floodgates to China and others--thus harming U.S. national security.
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<dt>On the other hand, there is the continuing coverup--the effort to hide from Congress and the American people the true damage that has been done to national security and the Clinton administration's central role in allowing so much of it to happen on their watch.
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<dt>Over three months ago--on March 15--I spoke on this floor about China's theft of the W-88 nuclear warhead. To remind you, this is the crown jewel of our nuclear arsenal. It is the warhead that has 10 times the explosive power of the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima and yet just a fraction its size. I spoke about how serious this was to our national security--how it was a story with life and death implications for millions of Americans.
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<dt>I told how President Clinton was directly responsible for downplaying the significance of and covering up this story. While the information on the W-88 design--the crown jewel of our nuclear arsenal--was stolen in the late 1980's, the theft was first discovered in 1995 by this administration. So people remember, it was the Chinese walk-in informant to the CIA that gave us all this information. I told how it was this administration and this President who deliberately covered up this vital information from Congress and the American people and, at the same time, lulled our people into a false sense of security by repeating the lie that there were no nuclear missiles targeted at America's children.
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<dt>At that time, I spoke of six proven incontrovertible facts, and let me repeat them now:
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<dt>1. President Clinton hosted over 100 campaign fundraisers in the White House, many with Chinese connections.
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<dt>2. President Clinton used John Huang, Charlie Trie, Johnny Chung, James Riady, and others with strong Chinese ties to raise campaign money.
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<dt>3. President Clinton signed waivers to allow his top campaign fundraiser's aerospace company to transfer U.S. missile guidance technology to China.
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<dt>4. President Clinton covered up the theft of our most valuable nuclear weapons technology.
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<dt>5. President Clinton lied to the American people over 130 times about our nation's security while he knew Chinese missiles were aimed at American children.
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<dt>6. President Clinton single-handedly stopped the deployment of a national missile defense system, exposing every American life to a missile attack, leaving America with no defense whatsoever against an intercontinental ballistic missile.
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<dt>On March 15, I began my speech by asking the American people to listen as I told them 'a story of espionage, conspiracy, deception, and cover-up--a story with life and death implications for millions of Americans--a story about national security and a President and an administration that deliberately chose to put national security at risk, while telling the people everything was fine.'
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<dt>In the three months since I made these statements, none has been refuted.
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<dt>Now, I come before you to tell some of the rest of the story that we have learned since March 15. And it is a truly astounding story. We thought the W-88 story was bad--and it is. But with the release of the Cox Report last month, the American people have been presented with documented evidence that the harm President Clinton has done to U.S. national security is enormously worse than we thought.
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<dt>On March 15, I said that, as damaging as the W-88 breach was, I believed we had not yet scratched the surface of the national security scandal exposed by this one revelation. I must say that I was right--even beyond my own worst fears.
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<dt>Let's not be distracted by the self-serving Clinton spin: that everybody does it; that it all happened during previous administrations; that this is only about security at the nuclear weapons lab; that there is equal blame to go around on all sides; that President Clinton acted quickly and properly when he found out; and that the only problem is now being fixed.
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<dt>I am here today to tell you that all of this is wrong. The Clinton spin is nothing more than a dishonest smokescreen designed to divert attention from the real issues. It is also, I believe, an attempt to dissuade people from actually reading the Cox Report and discovering for themselves that the Clinton spin is a snare, a delusion, and a lie.
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<dt>This is why I want to take some time to walk through some of the more important revelations in the Cox Report and to remind my colleagues that we have an obligation to tell the American people the truth--the truth that the media is inexplicably ignoring and that the President seems to hope the people will never find out on their own.
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<dt>First, let us begin with a simple fact: Sixteen of the 17 most significant major technology breaches revealed in the Cox Report were first discovered after 1994. With the lone exception of the W-70 technology that was discovered back in the 1970's during the [Carter] administration, all the rest of them were discovered since 1994. Again, that is when they had the individual who came into the CIA and exposed all of those.
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<dt>Let me repeat--sixteen of the 17 most significant major technology breaches revealed in the Cox Report were first discovered during the Clinton administration. Those who tell you otherwise are willfully lying to you.
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<dt>Second, of the remaining 16 technology breaches, one definitely occurred during the Reagan administration--the W-88 Trident D-5. Seven occurred sometime before 1995, though it is unclear exactly when. And eight occurred--without question--during the Clinton administration.
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<dt>Let's take a closer look at these. The seven that occurred before 1995 included breaches of information on all of the currently deployed nuclear warheads in the U.S. intercontinental ballistic missile arsenal: the W-56 Minuteman II; the W-62 Minuteman III; the W-76 Trident C-4; the W-78 Minuteman Mark 12A; and the W-87 Peacekeeper. In addition, there was the breach of classified information on reentry vehicles, the heat shield that protects warheads as they reenter the Earth's atmosphere when delivered by long-range ballistic missiles.
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<dt>Let me repeat that all of these technology breaches were first discovered in 1995. They were discovered when a Chinese 'walk-in' agent actually approached the CIA at a location outside of China and handed them a secret Chinese government document containing state-of-the-art classified information about the W-88 and the other U.S. nuclear warheads. We still don't know why he did this, but he did.
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<dt>The Cox Report also tells us that the Energy Department and FBI investigations of this matter have focused exclusively on the loss of the W-88, which we know happened around 1988. There have been no investigations undertaken about the loss of the other warheads, the timing of whose loss cannot be as clearly pinned down.
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<dt>Next, we move to the other eight major technology breaches revealed in the Cox Report. All of these were not only first discovered during the Clinton administration, they also happened during the Clinton administration:
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<dt>No. 1, the transfer of the so-called Legacy Codes containing data on 50 years of U.S. nuclear weapons development including over 1,000 nuclear tests;
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<dt>No. 2, the sale and diversion to military purposes of hundreds of high performance computers enabling China to enhance its development of nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, and advanced military aviation equipment;
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<dt>No. 3, the theft of nuclear warhead simulation technology enhancing China's ability to perfect miniature nuclear warheads without actual testing;
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<dt>No. 4, the theft of advanced electromagnetic weapons technology useful in the development of anti-satellite and anti-missile systems;
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<dt>No. 5, the transfer of missile nose cone technology enabling China to substantially improve the reliability of its intercontinental ballistic missiles;
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<dt>No. 6, the transfer of missile guidance technology (by President Clinton to China) enabling China to substantially improve the accuracy of its ballistic missiles--these same missiles that are targeting U.S. cities;
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<dt>No. 7, the theft of space-based radar technology giving China the ability to detect our previously undetectable submerged submarines; and
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<dt>No. 8, the theft of some other 'classified thermonuclear weapons information' which 'the Clinton administration' (not the Cox committee) 'has determined . . . cannot be made public.'
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<dt>We used to think China was decades behind us in terms of building a modern advanced nuclear arsenal. Now we learn that, later this year, China is planning to test its new JL-2 long range ICBM, a submarine launched ballistic missile with MIRV capability--meaning multiple independently targeted warheads on each missile--almost a replica of our Trident ICBM. This missile will have a range of over 13,000 kilometers and could reach anywhere in the United States from protected Chinese waters.
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<dt>In addition, we know that China has been helping North Korea, among others, with weapons and technology. North Korea is also expected to test its long range Taepo Dong II missile later this year.
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<dt>I am reminded of something that happened last August when I made a request to sort of see where we were and where North Korea was in terms of a threat to the United States.
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<dt>In a letter that I received from General Shelton, who was depending on our intelligence system for his response, he said it would be at least three years before the North Koreans would have a multiple-stage rocket. That was August 24. Seven days later, on August 31, they fired a multiple-stage rocket.
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<dt>I remind my colleagues we have no defense against either of these potential threats, because of the policy decisions of the Clinton administration. Someone very smart back in 1983 determined that we would need a national missile defense system in place by Fiscal Year 98. We were on track to meet the deadline until 1993 when President Clinton, through his veto power, stopped this missile defense system.
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<dt>But as the Cox Report points out, nuclear espionage by China is only one part of the problem. China's efforts to acquire U.S. military related technology is pervasive. Operating through a maze of government and quasi-government entities and front companies, China has established a technology gathering network of immense proportions.
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<dt>The Congressman from Pennsylvania, Congressman Curt Weldon, has done extensive research in putting this together, and other charts to show exactly what capacity China has to collect our nuclear secrets.
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<dt>When there is time to look at it, it shows you operational entities of the Chinese military in red, the Chinese military entities and those in contact involving financial entities in green, and you have the Chinese military front companies in blue.
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<dt>You can see that this is well thought out. It took many years to put it together to make it effective.
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<dt>They are willing and able to trade, bribe, buy, or steal to get U.S. advanced technology--all for the purpose of enhancing their long-term military potential. Their success is often determined largely by our willingness to make it easier for them to get what they want.
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<dt>The Cox Report has shed light on the fact that the Clinton administration has actually helped China in its technology acquisition efforts or made it easier for them to commit thefts and espionage. You know the truth is always difficult and controversy is difficult. It is easier to take polls and tell people what they want to hear. But I have to make a decision--who do I love more--this President or America.
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<dt>I find that to be very easy in this case.
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<dt>The following are just some of the things that the Clinton administration has done. And I want to applaud Congressman Weldon for helping to bring many of these things to light.
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<dt>No. 1, in 1993, the Clinton administration removed the color-coded security badges that had been used for years at Energy weapons labs claiming they were 'discriminatory'--as if that makes any sense whatsoever. Now just a few weeks ago, in the wake of all these revelations, the Energy Department has reinstated the color-coded badges.
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<dt>But during the time that these thefts took place, they were not able to wear these badges.
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<dt>No. 2, in 1993, the Clinton administration put a hold on doing FBI background checks for lab workers and visitors, an action which helped to dramatically increase the number of people going to the labs who would previously have not been allowed to have access.
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<dt>No. 3, in 1995, the Clinton administration took the extraordinary action of overturning its own agency's decision to revoke the security clearance of an employee found guilty of breaching classified information. When this happened, it sent a message to employees throughout the Department, that this administration was not serious about countering breaches of classified information.
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<dt>No. 4, the Clinton administration deliberately, and many would say recklessly, declassified massive amounts of nuclear-related information in what the Clinton administration touted as a new spirit of openness.
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<dt>No. 5., in the W-88 investigation, the Clinton administration turned down four requests for wiretaps on a suspect who was identified in 1996 and allowed to stay in his sensitive job until news reports surfaced in 1999.
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<dt>No. 6, in 1995, someone at the Department of Energy gave a classified design diagram of the W-87 nuclear warhead to U.S. News & World Report magazine which printed it in its July 31 issue that year. Representative Curt Weldon is still trying to get answers about how this leak was investigated and what was determined. He has good reason to believe the investigation was quashed because it was going to lead straight to President Clinton's Energy Secretary.
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<dt>No. 7, career whistle-blowers at the Department of Energy who tried to warn of serious security breaches--including Notra Trulock, the former Director of Intelligence for the Energy Department, and Ed McCallum, the former Security and Safeguards Chief--were thwarted for years by Clinton political appointees who refused to let them brief Congress and others about what they knew. Trulock was demoted but will now get to keep his job. McCallum appears to be on his way to being scapegoated and perhaps fired for trying to tell the truth. Members will remember we had extensive hearings. Notra Trulock testified under oath that he thought that the theft of the W-88 was so significant, he wanted to give it to Congress. He was refused being allowed to do that by the then-Acting Secretary of the Energy Department.
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<dt>No. 8, rejecting advice from his Secretaries of State and Defense, President Clinton approved switching the licensing authority for satellites and other technology from the State Department to the Commerce Department, making it easier for China to acquire U.S. missile technology.
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<dt>No. 9, President Clinton granted waivers making it easier for U.S. companies to transfer missile and satellite technology to China during the launching of U.S. satellites on China's rockets.
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<dt>No. 10, in 1994, President Clinton ended COCOM, the Coordinating Committee on Multinational Export Control, the multinational agreement among U.S. friends and allies that they would not sell certain high-technology items to countries like China. When this happened, it opened the commercial floodgates. Ever since, there has been a wild scramble for competition to sell more and more advanced technology to China. As a result, the proliferation has never been worse than it has been in the last 6 years.
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<dt>No. 11, in a series of decisions throughout his Presidency--and many surrounding the 1996 election--Clinton has consistently relaxed export and trade restrictions on various forms of high technology of interest to China.
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<dt>Again, I applaud Congressman Weldon who put this chart together. This timeline was not put together because President Clinton took office in 1993, but that is when all the compromises took place. This timeline shows categories including machine tools, telecommunications, propulsion. All were compromised, or as we normally say stolen.
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<dt>No. 12, President Clinton has ignored or downplayed numerous Chinese arms control violations by not imposing sanctions required by law. While we are selling more and more high tech to China, China is sending prohibited military technology to countries such as Pakistan, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Libya and Egypt.
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<dt>What does the Clinton administration do? They do nothing. What are the motives for all this? Why did the Clinton administration act the way it did, with almost total disregard for any traditional concern for U.S. national security?
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<dt>The Cox Report did not answer these questions because it was only concerned with the facts of the security breaches themselves, not what was behind it.
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<dt>But FBI Director Louis Freeh did assign one man to look into this. His name was Charles LaBella, who became head of the Justice Department's China Task Force. He and his investigators spent months looking into the connections, trying to connect the dots with campaign contributions, foreign influences and administration actions. What he found is laid out in a 100-page memo he prepared for Janet Reno. We know this memo argues in favor of the appointment of an independent counsel to carry on the investigation.
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<dt>But the memo itself has remained secret, even through it has been subpoenaed by Congress. Janet Reno, who rejected its recommendation for an independent counsel, has refused to release the memo to the Congress or to the public. It is time for that memo to be released.
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<dt>FBI Director Freeh has testified that the public knows only about one percent of what the FBI knows about the Chinagate scandal. It is time for the truth to come out. It is time for the public to get some sense of the other 99 percent which is contained in the LaBella memo.
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<dt>Mr. President, over the last six years, President Clinton and his administration have shown a pervasive disregard for national security. In both actions and inactions, this President has broken ranks with the bipartisan consensus about national security that helped us win the cold war.
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<dt>His policies and attitudes--towards export controls, nuclear weapons, militarily important high technology, and dealing with our adversaries in the world--have been strikingly different from those of all of his predecessors in the modern era.
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<dt>His administration has acted as if the end of the cold war gave them carte blanche license to open the commercial and technology floodgates to countries like china simply because it was good for business, or good for getting campaign contributions, or good for other domestic political reasons.
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<dt>The traditional concern about national security--about protecting our nuclear secrets, about maintaining our military and technological superiority, about sanctioning those in the world who engaged in flagrant and hostile espionage and proliferation--all that went out the window, replaced by other priorities this President somehow thought were more important.
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<dt>President Clinton claims he has 'redefined' national security. In fact--as the Cox Report conclusively documents--he has 'harmed' national security. This is the message that every American must understand.
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<dt>My hope is that we never again have a President who is so disrespectful of, and inattentive to, traditional national security concerns.
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<dt>Yesterday at the joint hearing of the Armed Services, Energy and Intelligence Committees, I asked whether or not it would be possible to put in place some safeguards so that no future President could ever again so successfully undo the country's national security defenses as this President has. We are working on an answer.
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<dt>Some of us will continue to speak, out--seeing it as our highest duty of public service. As I said on March 15--and repeat again here today--I only hope America is listening. We have a nation to save.
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<dt>The truth will get out. Winston Churchill said:
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<dt>"Truth is incontrovertible: Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may destroy it, but there it is."
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<dt>I yield back the remainder of my time.
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<dt>Published in the Jun. 28, 1999 issue of The Washington Weekly. Copyright © 1999 The Washington Weekly (<http: font="" intact.="" message="" permitted="" reposting="" this="" with="" www.federal.com=""> </http:></dt>
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<a href="http://www.house.gov/curtweldon/coxreport.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">http://www.house.gov/<wbr></wbr>curtweldon/coxreport.htm</span></a>Weldon Details Connections Between the Clinton-Gore Administration's<br />
Removal of Export Controls on Sensitive Technologies, PLA Front<br />
Companies, Campaign Contributions, and Influence PeddlingThe Cox Report: Technology Transfer to PRC<br />
The official, unclassified version of the Cox Report can be viewed at<br />
<a href="http://www.house.gov/coxreport" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">http://www.house.gov/coxreport</span></a> or <a href="http://hillsource.house.gov/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">http://hillsource.house.gov</span></a><br />
Congressman Curt Weldon (Penn. 7th)FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br />
May 27, 1999<br />
CONTACT: (202) 225-2011<br />
Pete Peterson/Michael BarberaWELDON RELEASES NEW CHINA INFORMATION<br />
Washington, DC, May 27, 1999 -- Congressman Curt Weldon (R-PA)<br />
today detailed an extensive network of Chinese front groups and<br />
influence-peddling in order to gain access to America's most sensitive<br />
technology. In addition, he laid out a series of Clinton-Gore<br />
Administration decisions that made it easier for China to acquire<br />
critical technology. "Contrary to the Clinton-Gore spin, the China espionage scandal<br />
is not just about the nuclear labs. That is what the Administration<br />
wants people to think, because the issue of the labs has the most direct<br />
connection to previous Administrations. The broader (and more damaging) issue is the wholesale<br />
auctioning of sensitive American technology to the highest bidder. The<br />
facts show conclusively that this damage occurred under the Clinton-Gore<br />
Administration, and was a direct result of specific Clinton-Gore<br />
policies. It was the Clinton-Gore Administration that ended the<br />
Department of Energy internal controls that governed who had access to<br />
certain facilities. It was the Clinton-Gore Administration that disbanded COCOM<br />
(Coordinating Committee on Multinational Export Control). It was the Clinton-Gore Administration, specifically the<br />
President himself, that sent a letter to the CEO of Silicon Graphics in<br />
1993 outlining how the Administration planned to relax controls over our<br />
most sensitive technologies. It was the Clinton-Gore Administration that decimated DTSA<br />
(the Defense Technology Security Agency), the one group that was<br />
responsible for DOD's input into technology export policy and<br />
licensing. This agency has been downgraded and minimized. It was the Clinton-Gore Administration that transferred final<br />
approval for all sensitive technology transfers from State and Defense<br />
to Commerce. Now we know the truth. The Chinese now have access to our<br />
most sensitive technology. They were able to advance their own<br />
technology by decades at our expense. It would have been bad enough if<br />
the Clinton-Gore Administration had been merely asleep at the switch --<br />
but its far worse than that. By relaxing controls and export policies,<br />
the Clinton-Gore Administration actually assisted China in its efforts.<br />
This is a blunder of monumental proportions, and the blame can be laid<br />
clearly at the feet of this Administration."<br />
What the Charts ShowThe two charts together reveal, among other things:柊 systematic, well planned effort by the Chinese military at the<br />
highest levels to target and acquire technology for military<br />
modernization.謬hat the targeting effort and financing to acquire the technology and<br />
buy influence at the highest levels of US Government were planned and<br />
implemented by Chinese military Intelligence through the second<br />
department under the General Staff Department (GSD).謬hat the Chinese military acquired many of the technologies over the<br />
past seven years, although many of them had been targeted for<br />
acquisition for more than a quarter century.謬hat the Chinese military set up a series of front companies and<br />
cut-outs to mask its technology targeting efforts and to launder money<br />
to hide its origin. Chinese military intelligence even resorted to the<br />
use of companies and bank accounts of the infamous Macau and Hong Kong<br />
Chinese Triad for this purpose.謬hat even after the US Government learned of the diversion of the W-88<br />
nuclear warhead design in late 1995 into 1996, the Clinton<br />
Administration continued to liberalize export controls on such sensitive<br />
technologies as computers, encryption, machine tools,<br />
telecommunications, stealth technologies, space launch technologies,<br />
satellites, the array of hot section technologies to improve the<br />
performance and life of Jet engines, and high temperature furnaces<br />
essential for the production of components for missiles and nuclear<br />
weapons.疋espite knowledge of the U.S. designs for nuclear warheads, for<br />
example, the Clinton Administration still undertook a serious effort<br />
to redefine supercomputers to allow for increased exports of high<br />
performance computers to China. Rationale was not based on strategic<br />
criteria. Instead, it was governed by economic considerations of a few<br />
companies whose executives had supported President Clinton in 1992 and<br />
again in 1996.柊 September 1993 letter from President Clinton to Silicon Graphics CEO<br />
Edward McCracken, for example, promised to liberalize export controls of<br />
computers, machine tools, and telecommunications technologies<br />
(attached).肘n another instance, one National Security Council official in March<br />
1998 -- some two years after knowledge of the W-88 and other U.S.<br />
nuclear warhead design diversions -- had proposed blanket waivers for<br />
satellite sales to China in exchange for China joining the Missile<br />
Technology Regime.謬hat the Clinton-Gore Administration certified China in January 1998 to<br />
receive nuclear technology for being in compliance with<br />
non-proliferation regimes, even though there was strong evidence that<br />
the Chinese government was continuing its proliferation activities with<br />
Iran, North Korea, Syria, Pakistan, and Libya. Such proliferation<br />
activities, which were contrary to U.S.-Chinese understandings, continue<br />
unabated to this day.謬hat the cumulative impact of these targeted technologies now permit<br />
China to:疋evelop reliable Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles with insights into<br />
MIRVing that ICBM force.筆iniaturize nuclear warheads.肘mplement a command and control structure for its growing ICBM force.疋evelop an integrated command, control, communications, computer and<br />
intelligence encrypted network to enable better military command and<br />
control over vast areas, even beyond China itself.肘mprove power projection for its surface fleets, submarines, and<br />
long-range cruise missiles capable of hitting not only Taiwan, but also<br />
Japan from mainland China.姫roduce more proficient fighter and bomber aircraft capable of greater<br />
distances and speeds.謬hat the administration as early as 1994 systematically dismantled its<br />
system of monitoring the influx of Chinese and other foreign nationals<br />
visiting U.S. high technology companies, including our nuclear weapons<br />
labs. As a result, there are many tens of thousands of Chinese in the<br />
United States and we don't know where they are or what they are doing.肘n fact, it wasn't until this year just prior to public revelations of<br />
alleged Chinese espionage in our nation's nuclear weapons labs that the<br />
Energy Department decided to seek export licenses from the Commerce<br />
Department for foreign national visits. Yet, the requirement had always<br />
been law. And where was the Commerce Department in not forcing the<br />
issue with the Energy Department?謬he notion that Chinese and other foreign nationals would be allowed<br />
access to information or to the facilities where U.S. nuclear weapons<br />
were developed is unconscionable. It is seriously doubtful that the<br />
Chinese labs would allow U.S. scientists into their nuclear weapons<br />
labs.<br />
Chart 1: The China Connection (pdf)Sources and References For Chart 11a) Chan, Christine. "More J&A Securities Staff Quizzed." Hong Kong<br />
South China Morning Post. July 16, 1998: p A1. Article in Hong Kong<br />
South China Morning Post which cites corporation chairman Zhang Guoqing<br />
and corporation president Yang Jun as under investigation in connection<br />
with their activities at the People's Liberation Army-backed J&A<br />
Securities.1b) J&A Securities (Hong Kong) Limited. Company Ordinance Increasing<br />
Share Capital and Creating Additional Shares. Company Reference No.<br />
433562. June 8, 1995.<br />
Various company ordinances increasing capital, creating shares, and<br />
providing board information for the J&A corporation signed by Zhang<br />
Guoqing on behalf of the corporation.1c) J&A Securities (Hong Kong) Limited. 1997 Brief: Introduction to<br />
J&A Securities Limited. 1997. J&A Securities Limited company brochure<br />
for 1997 which lists corporation officer and board members.1d) J&A Securities (Hong Kong) Limited. Company Ordinances Appoint<br />
Directors and Officers and for Other Purposes. Company Reference No.<br />
433562. December 21, 1993 through August 18, 1994. Various company<br />
ordinances changing the name, appointing directors and officers, and<br />
and providing board information for the J&A corporation.1e) J&A Securities (Hong Kong) Limited. Company Ordinances Appoint<br />
Directors and Officers and for Other Purposes. Company Reference No.<br />
433562. February 14, 1996 through July 18, 1997. Various company<br />
ordinances appointing directors and providing board information.1f) J&A Securities (Hong Kong) Limited. Mortgage and Charge Details.<br />
Company Reference No. 433562. April 1, 1998. Documents that detail<br />
loans and other incomes from The China State Bank, The Standard<br />
Chartered Bank. Documents also certify relationships with additional<br />
companies.2) Laris, Michael. "Chinese Executive Defend Loral's Role; Undue<br />
Missile Aid by U.S. Firm Denied." The Washington Post. June 22, 1998:<br />
p A17. Article in The Washington Post that identifies a Hong Kong<br />
businessman 岨hang' (Zhang Quoqing) as the source of $300,000 given to<br />
Johnny Chung.3) Rempel, William C.; et. al. "Testimony Links Top China Official,<br />
Funds For Clinton." The Los Angeles Times. April 4, 1999: p A1.<br />
Article in the Los Angeles Times that details the link between a Chinese<br />
intelligence official, Johnny Chung, $300,000 intended for the Clinton<br />
campaign.4) "General's Daughter In Probe." Agence France-Presse Wire. Clips<br />
from a French Newswire with citations from the South China Morning Post<br />
which cites the link between Liu Chao Ying (Daughter of China's Top<br />
General and Aerospace Official), Johnny Chung, and executives from Hong<br />
Kong and Chinese companies.5) Chin, Michelle. "Lippo Fund to Focus on Chain Stores." South China<br />
Morning Post. July 13, 1995: p 3. Article that cites the directors of<br />
the Lippo Fund and lists the China Aerospace International Holdings corp<br />
as partner in the fund.6) Pusat Data Business Indonesia. Conglomeration Indonesia, 2nd<br />
edition. Jakarta, Indonesia. Pusat Data Business Indonesia. 1995.<br />
Company and shareholder information from a standard business reference<br />
work on nice conglomerates run by individuals with links to the Chinese<br />
government.7) Kelly, Michael. "TRB: CITIC-VIP." The New Republic. January 6,<br />
1999.<br />
Article which links numerous high-profile Chinese government operatives<br />
who met with Clinton through Johnny Chung.8) Liu, Melinda. "The Portrait of a Hustler." Newsweek. March 31,<br />
1997: p 36<br />
Article in Newsweek that cites Johnny Chung's connection to the White<br />
House and the First Family.9) Partial citation and timeline of activity at Marswell Investments<br />
Limited.<br />
Document which describes the directors and officers at various Hong Kong<br />
詮ront' companies.10) Translation Section of the U.S. Consulate General in Hong Kong.<br />
"善rinceling' Influence Within PLA Said Growing." Hong Kong Guo Jih<br />
Pao. December 9, 1996. Serial: HK3012054596. Article translated from<br />
Hong Kong newspaper by FBIS which details the link between the PLA and<br />
CITIC.11) The Washington Post Company. "Campaign Finance Key Player: Wang<br />
Jun." <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">www.washingtonpost.com</span></a>. January 6, 1999. Washington Post<br />
website profile on Wang Jun, chairman of an arms trading company and<br />
White House coffee attendee.12) The Washington Post Company. "Campaign Finance Key Player: Ng Lap<br />
Seng." <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">www.washingtonpost.com</span></a>. January 6, 1999. Washington Post<br />
website profile on Ng Lap Seng, chairman of a Chinese financial<br />
conglomerate and DNC doner.13) Summary of documentation on China Aerospace International Holdings<br />
Limited (CASIL).<br />
An analysis of CASIL background and its involvement with the satellite<br />
business and a citing of key figures.14) Dun & Bradstreet. "Ever-Victory System Engrg." Worldbase. April<br />
25, 1997: p. 48.<br />
Business citation that establishes the link between Asia-Pacific<br />
Satellite and China Aerospace International Holdings, Ltd.15) The United States Department of State. "Sasser Writes Home About<br />
the Chinese Army." United States Department of State. October 1,<br />
1998. A report from the U.S. Ambassador to China on the PLA and their<br />
plans to develop communications networks with private companies.16) Lim, Wah Dr., et. al.. "Independent Review Committee Report on the<br />
LM-3B Launch Failure." Palo Alto, California. Space Systems/Loral.<br />
May 10, 1996.<br />
A report initiated by the Loral Company to evaluate the cause of failure<br />
for a Chinese Space Launch Vehicle.17) Diamond, John. "U.S. Probes Hughes, Chinese General's Son, in<br />
Satellite Export Deal." The Associated Press. July 3, 1998. AP wire<br />
article.18) The Washington Post Company. "Campaign Finance Key Player: Maria<br />
Hsia." <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">www.washingtonpost.com</span></a>. January 6, 1999. Washington Post<br />
website profile on Maria Hsia, Veteran Democrat fund-raiser indicted on<br />
money laundering charges in connection with an event attended by Vice<br />
President Gore.19) Suro, Robert. "Gore's Ties to Hsia Cast Shadow on 2000 Race." The<br />
Washington Post. February 23, 1998: p a1. A Washington Post article<br />
that details the link between Maria Hsia and Vice President Gore.20) Reed Business Information Limited. "The Bank of East Asia<br />
Limited." The Bankers Almanac. Reed Business Information Limited.<br />
1998. Standard business reference material on the Bank of East Asia<br />
including profile and personnel information.21) Sun, Lena H.; Pomfret, John. "The Curious Cast of Asian Donors."<br />
The Washington Post. January 27, 1997: p A1. A Washington Post article<br />
on the Clinton connection to Asian Donors.22) China Charity Federation. "Founders of China Charity Federation and<br />
Permanent Members to the Executive Council."<br />
<<a href="http://www.philiphayden.org/ccf/aboutus/permanent_members.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">http://www.philiphayden.org/<wbr></wbr>ccf/aboutus/permanent_members.<wbr></wbr>html</span></a>><br />
January 6, 1999. Promotional Materials that link the Hong Kong and<br />
Shanghai Banking Corporation to Silver Faith Holding.23) Liang, Hsiao-chi and Ma, Chien-hsing. "In a Major Reversal of<br />
Fortune in Struggle for Supremacy, Marketplace Wai Lands Himself in a<br />
Predicament." Hong Kong Yi Chou Kan.<br />
February 20, 1998: pp 38-42. Article in Hong Kong newspaper on CPC<br />
Officials and Triad links.24) Op. Cit. Liu, Melinda.25) The Hughes Corporation. "China Programs Starting from 1/1/96."<br />
Hughes Network Systems. Internal company document specifying programs<br />
in China.26) Gerth, Jeff and Golden, Tim. "China Set Cash to U.S. Bank, With<br />
Suspicions Slow to Rise." The New York Times. May 12, 1999: p a1. New<br />
York Times article on money sent to the United States from Chinese<br />
banks.<br />
Chart 2: Timeline of Liberalized/Decontrolled Technologies to People's<br />
Republic of China (pdf)Text of a September 1993 letter from President Clinton to Silicon<br />
Graphics CEO Edward McCracken promising to liberalize export controls of<br />
computers, machine tools, and telecommunications technologies (pdf)Weldon to Present New Details on China Tech Transfers<br />
Will Unveil Links Between PLA Front Companies, Campaign<br />
Contributions and Relaxed Export Controls on Sensitive Technologies<br />
WASHINGTON, DC -- Congressman Curt Weldon (R-PA), a member of<br />
the Select Committee investigating technology transfers to China, will<br />
hold a press conference tomorrow to detail the scheme concocted by China<br />
to obtain sensitive U.S. technologies through influence peddling,<br />
campaign contributions, and the establishment of PLA front companies.<br />
The press conference will take place on Thursday, May 27th, at 1:00 pm<br />
in the House Radio-TV Gallery (H-321, The Capitol). Using detailed charts, Congressman Weldon will show the<br />
intricate Chinese web of influence in the U.S., as well as factual<br />
evidence of years of Clinton-Gore Administration decisions that relaxed<br />
export controls on even our most sensitive technologies -- making it<br />
easier for China to achieve its goals. "For years, China has had a comprehensive, government-wide plan<br />
to gain access to sophisticated U.S. technologies," stated Weldon, who<br />
also serves as Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee's Research<br />
and Development Subcommittee. "At the same time, the Clinton-Gore<br />
Administration systematically dismantled nearly all of our export<br />
controls over these same technologies." "We now know the result of these concurrent efforts," said<br />
Weldon. "While the Clinton Administration was putting out the welcome<br />
mat for Chinese spies, China was able to steal sensitive nuclear and<br />
other military technologies that it took the United States more than 40<br />
years to develop."<br />
What: Press conference to provide new details on the links between the<br />
Clinton Administration's relaxation of export controls on sensitive<br />
U.S. technologies, PLA front companies, influence peddling, and<br />
campaign contributions.When: Thursday, May 27, 1:00 pmWhere: House Radio-TV GalleryWeldon Statement on Release of the Cox Report WASHINGTON, DC -- Congressman Curt Weldon (R-PA), a member of<br />
the Select Committee investigating technology transfer to China, issued<br />
the following statement in response to today's release of the Cox<br />
Report. "The Clinton-Gore Administration's response to this serious,<br />
bipartisan effort has been to repeatedly attempt to spin this report to<br />
avoid any suggestion that it was in any way responsible for this severe<br />
damage to our national security," stated Congressman Weldon, who also<br />
serves as Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee's Research and<br />
Development Subcommittee. "Amazingly, when Sandy Berger issued the Administration<br />
response to our unanimous recommendations, the Director of Central<br />
Intelligence George Tenet had not even completed the report. In other<br />
words, rather than consult with the intelligence community on the<br />
ramifications of this detailed and frightening report, the<br />
Administration immediately launched into spin control mode." "The Administration then contacted the American business<br />
community, in an attempt to undermine our efforts, and told them that<br />
our report would seriously restrict their ability to do business<br />
overseas," stated Weldon. "The Administration is now pointing the<br />
finger at China, saying this is the result of a massive espionage effort<br />
on their part. But the real responsibility falls at the feet of the<br />
Clinton Administration." "In my opinion, the bulk of the harm to our national security<br />
occurred because the Clinton Administration decontrolled export<br />
restrictions on extremely sensitive technologies, technologies that were<br />
then unknowingly sold by American companies to front companies for the<br />
Chinese People's Liberation Army."</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">From what we now know, Hughes employees in China were knowledgeable that they were PLA-associated entities." None of the licenses were vetted for the PLA association, the memo went on, since a military end-user would have been grounds for denying exports. Hughes's failure to disclose the PLA involvement in APT, and in a related cell-phone venture known as APMT, may have violated U.S. export control laws. "In seeking approval of APMT," the Pentagon report states, "Hughes provided only the Singapore address of the APMT joint venture between China and Singapore.. . (42)</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">The Indo-money affair is cut from the same cloth as the scandal of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, which earlier this decade led to the bank fraud indictment of former Defense Secretary and presidential adviser Clark Clifford. (The federal and New York State case against Clifford was later dropped because of his advanced age and the acquittal of his associate Robert Altman on similar charges.) The BCCI was trying to buy hidden control of American banks to build its global empire and also to wield influence for its Arab patrons. The Riadys and their allies had in addition the motive of sheer survival. They have been investing in Bill Clinton for twelve years, and one can understand why they would disregard American campaign law in the effort to preserve their stake. Where things get shocking was in the arrogant response of the White House and the Democratic National Committee when the scandal erupted. In quantity and quality the Indo-money case dwarfs any influence-peddling scandal in memory, even for those who recall the worst of the Nixon years. When the slumbering press awoke to the story (about a year after TAS put it on our cover), it discovered that the Riadys had managed to place a former senior employee of their Lippo Group inside the Clinton administration, with extraordinary access both to the Oval Office and to Asian contributors. But John Huang, with his $4 million in DNC fund-raising and fifty visits to the White House, was a relatively small player in a network that included the richest men of South Asia. Even the Riadys were only one of several conduits in a political penetration that may have shaped human rights and trade policy and even diplomatic relations with a number of countries along the Pacific Rim, including the most sensitive one of all, the People's Republic of China...(43)</span><br />
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The first thing to understand about the Indonesian billionaire Mochtar Riady and his three sons James, Andrew, and Stephen is that they belong to the elite but vulnerable Chinese minority. Mochtar's family name was Li or Lie; although he was born in Indonesia in 1929, his ancestral home is in Fujian, China, the southern coastal province where many of the richest overseas Chinese businessmen originated. Mochtar started his career in the 1940's in a Jakarta bicycle shop. His fortunes improved drastically when he went to work in the Bank Central Asia for the godfather of the Indonesian Chinese businessmen, Liem Sioe Liong. In the '60s, with Liem's help, Riady founded his own Lippo family of financial companies, now holding $12 billion in assets. Although Riady barely turned billionaire last year, Liem, 80, has long been one of the richest men in Asia. The background of the publicity-shy Liem remains shrouded. It wasn't known for a long time whether he was born in Java or Fujian, China. (The preferred version now is Java.) His dominant role in the Chinese business clique, however, is undisputed. Known locally as the Chairman, he was a business partner and mentor of five Indonesian families (including the Riadys) who became billionaires in 1995....(43) </span><br />
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The Liem and Riady connections extend well beyond Jakarta. The 55 million overseas Chinese, widely considered the world's hardest working entrepreneurs, are the engine of the "Tiger Economies" of South Asia, transforming Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and even Thailand and Malaysia. In the bustle of international business deals, says one local financial writer, every key player knows all the others. Lippo is a rising power in Hong Kong, for instance, where it recently sold half of its Hong Kong Chinese Bank to a corporation controlled by the People's Republic of China. (In the mid-80's, Riady owned the bank jointly with Little Rock's Jackson Stephens.) Liem has a partnership in Hong Kong with the Malaysian-Chinese developer Robert Kuok, who was named by Peking to the local committee overseeing the transition of the territory to Chinese control. The business and family connections of the "Bamboo Network" extend from Taiwan to Thailand...But it's not simply ethnic ties and hard work that make figures like Liem so successful. The Chinese word for the secret is guanxi, influence with government officials. Liem's ties with the Indonesian generals began when he smuggled food, medicine, and possibly arms to their troops in the late 1940's war for independence. In the '60's he was quartermaster for a commander in central Java named Suharto, who was temporarily suspended because higher-ups questioned his extensive business dealings. As Suharto's business manager then and now, Liem is careful to make a place in his deals for the general's relatives...(43)<br />
Huang, 51, is a native of Taiwan who came to the United States in 1969 as a graduate student in business administration at the University of Connecticut. Naturalized in 1976, he worked for several American banks before joining the Lippo Group in 1985.... He worked for Lippo in Hong Kong in 1985 as head of its World Banking Unit, a job which included acting as Far Eastern representative for Little Rock's Worthen Bank and director of international banking for the Hong Kong Chinese Bank Ltd., jointly owned by the Riadys and Jackson Stephens. After the collapse of the Riadys' Little Rock venture, Huang returned to the U.S. to manage their California acquisition, The Bank of Trade (later renamed Lippo Bank California). Huang's subsequent career raises the question for whom he really worked. In 1989 he left Los Angeles for New York to become general manager of the Bank Central Asia. Although Mochtar Riady made his name at BCA and still served on its board, it is owned by Liem Sioe Liong's Salim Group. In the same year, Huang switched back to Lippo Bank California, where he stayed until taking a posting to the Commerce Department in 1994. The confusion about Huang's employment shows up in his extensive list of personal political contributions from 1989 on. Through 1989, Huang identified himself as an employee of Bank Central Asia in his heavy schedule of campaign giving. .... From 1990 on, Huang mainly called himself an executive of Lippobank or Bank of Trade. Yet as late as 1993 he appears as an agent for Bank Central Asia. Was Huang still working for both Riady and Liem, or were the empires of the two tycoons as separate as they were telling American bank regulators? ....(43)<br />
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If Huang served two masters before joining the government, at Commerce he may have served three or more. He was already a prodigious fundraiser while at Lippo, receiving a seat on the Democratic National Committee even though, as he told reporters, he was registered as an independent. To what extent did he mingle political fundraising with his official duties at Commerce? Was he involved in policy decisions that affected his former employers? These are questions that might also have been asked of the late Ron Brown, who may also have blurred the boundaries in his transition from Democratic National Committee chairman to Commerce Secretary. The Huang trail may lead investigators to the cache of files removed from the Commerce Department after Secretary Brown's death and stored in a safe at the Small Business Administration. Clinton administration spokesmen have been at pains to minimize Huang's duties at Commerce. In spite of his title as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Economic Policy, they say his job was strictly routine. "His principal duties were administrative, managerial, handling budget, personnel and routine briefing materials," Anne Luzzato of Commerce told the Washington Post. Huang has said that he recused himself from Indonesian issues. Yet during his year and a half at Commerce, from July 1994 to December 1995, he had the clearance to make or monitor policy on a range of issues intensely interesting to Lippo and other potential donors. (43)</span><br />
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But the biggest issues for the Riadys didn't concern Indonesia. Mochtar Riady has personally taken the lead in opening trade with Vietnam. In September 1993, as chairman of the Asian Bankers Association he led a delegation to Vietnam co-hosted by the Vietnam State Bank. Lippo also opened a fashionable business center in Saigon, now called Ho Chi Minh City. In addition to the political sensitivity for Clinton, Commerce Secretary Brown had weathered charges in 1993 that the Vietnam government had paid him $700,000 to help lift the U.S. trade embargo. Nevertheless, the U. S. moved apace in 1995 to exchange ambassadors and end the embargo. ...(43)</span><br />
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The White House blinked at a crackdown on veterans of the Tiananmen Square protests, and more dangerously, it turned a blind eye to Chinese help for Pakistan's attempt to build nuclear bombs and ballistic missiles. If these were major issues for the U.S., they meant billions in business for the Bamboo Network, and even the future of their way of life. Huang had the security clearance to be a strategic listening post well worth millions in campaign contributions. Even the circumstances of his leaving Commerce underscore his importance. ....Whatever Huang may have done for the Bamboo Network, he continued to have support from American politicians. If the overseas Chinese billionaires wanted to buy influence in the U.S., plenty of people around Bill Clinton were more than willing to sell it. Huang went from Commerce to the Democratic National Committee as vice chairman for fundraising. The Lippo scandal broke in October largely as a result of his exploits in raising $4 million. Only later, and as slowly as the White House could manage, did it emerge how closely he worked with Clinton's people. Secret Service logs, leaked by someone hostile to Clinton, showed that Huang visited the Executive Mansion fifty or so times during the first nine months of 1996, sometimes staying for two or three hours. The White House has refused to divulge who had authorized his visits. This level of access by any fundraiser may violate federal election law, but in the case of Huang it suggests that White House aides were his willing abettors. As the scandal broke, the extent of this complicity showed starkly in the attempts to shield Huang from the press....(43)<br />
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>BEI ELECTRONICS</span><br />
Mr. Giroir began serving as a Director in June 1997 prior to the Distribution and spin-off of the Company from Electronics in September 1997. He was a director of Electronics from 1978 until his resignation as a result of the Distribution. He served as the Secretary of Electronics from 1974 to early 1995. He is currently a member of the law firm of Giroir, Gregory, Holmes & Hoover, plc. From 1965 to 1988, <u><span style="color: red;">Mr. Giroir was a member of Rose Law Firm, a Professional Association</span></u>. Mr. Giroir holds a B.A. and an L.L.B. from the University of Arkansas and an L.L.M. from Georgetown University. <br />
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"The company and its technologies fall under government regulation and export restrictions. Net sales from continuing operations to customers in foreign countries amounted to $17,392,000, $11,998,000 and $10,938,000 in fiscal years 1998, 1997 and 1996, respectively. In fiscal years 1998, 1997 and 1996, foreign sales did not exceed 10% of consolidated net sales in any individual geographic area. ." [Jim Robinson]<br />
"Net sales to the U.S. Government for the Sensors and Systems segments products amounted to $21,046,000, $22,479,000 and $25,986,000 in fiscal years 1998, 1997 and 1996, respectively. Net sales to the U.S. Government for the <b><u>discontinued Defense Systems segment</u></b> were $3,153,000, $8,323,000 and $41,219,000 for fiscal years 1998, 1997 and 1996, respectively. ." [Jim Robinson]</span><br />
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DIGITAL MICROWAVE CORP<b>...</b> ANNUAL REPORT… FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED MARCH 31, 1996 …Mr. John O'Neil joined the Company as Vice President, Personnel in May 1993. <b><u>Mr. O'Neil was Vice President of Personnel and Administration of BEI Electronics, Inc.</u></b>, a defense electronics firm, from January 1989 to April 1993….The Company also has sales and/or service centers in the United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, Mexico, Colombia, <b>China</b>, Singapore, and the Philippines. In addition, the Company uses <b>independent agents, distributors and international resellers worldwide</b> in concert with its direct sales operation....The Company has also had significant sales in China, Malaysia, India, and the Philippines providing solutions to mobile communications network operators....We also expanded our facility in Manila, and established a Beijing sales office, as well as a <b><u>joint service and support facility with the Beijing Telecommunication Equipment Factory</u></b>…." (7)</span><br />
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>BEI TECHNOLOGIES<>
BEI Technologies, Inc. was created on September 27, 1997 through a spin-off from BEI Electronics, Inc. The principal continuing business within BEI Technologies is that of BEI Sensors & Systems Company, Inc., an established manufacturer (for 20+ years) of sensors, motors and related products for automation. Revenues exceed $100 million; cash flow is positive; the Company addresses very large markets and growth prospects are strong. The Company's core products are highly engineered components and subsystems used by more than 6,000 customers in factory and office automation machinery, medical devices, <b><u>military and aerospace systems</u></b>, and automotive and transportation equipment. Commercial sales have grown at a 12% compounded rate since 1992. The Company's brand names are well recognized in their respective markets, and the Company possesses a portfolio of significant technological capabilities that are being renewed and expanded through ongoing research and development….." (6)<br />
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3/19/99 PR Newswire "…held its Annual Meeting of Stockholders at its Duncan Electronics Division in Tustin, Calif. ….. BEI Technologies, Inc., through its principal subsidiary BEI Sensors & Systems Company, is an established manufacturer of electronic sensors and motion control products used for factory and office automation, medical and scientific equipment, military, aviation and space systems, and transportation equipment including automobiles, trucks and off-road equipment. BEI has recently expanded its production of micromachined quartz yaw rate sensors used in advanced vehicle stability control systems. BEI also manufactures electronic steering wheel position sensors, seat-memory modules, throttle position and pressure sensors and other devices used in automotive systems. <u>GyroChip(R</u>) is a registered trademark of BEI Sensors & Systems Company…." </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
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CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 10-K<br />
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 4<br />
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 19970927<br />
<b>Directors: <br />
</b>Mr. Crocker began serving as a Director in June 1997 prior to the Distribution and resulting spin-off of the Company from Electronics in September 1997. He was a founder of Electronics and has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Electronics since October 1974 and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Technologies since October 1997. Mr. Crocker assumed the positions of President and Chief Executive Officer of Technologies, effective October 1, 1997, after resigning as President and CEO of Electronics as a result of the Distribution. Mr. Crocker served as President of Crocker Capital Corporation, a Small Business Investment Company, from 1970 to 1985, and as General Partner of Crocker Associates, a venture capital investment partnership, from 1970 to 1990. He currently serves as a director of Fiduciary Trust Company International, Pope & Talbot, Inc. and KeraVision. Mr. Crocker holds a B.S. from Stanford University and a M.B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.</span><br />
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Mr. Wrench began serving as a Director in June 1997 prior to the Distribution and resulting spin-off of the Company from Electronics in September 1997. He was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Electronics from July 1993 until his resignation as a result of the Distribution. He currently holds these same positions with Technologies. He served as a Director of Electronics since February 1986, and continues to serve as a director of both Electronics (now named BEI Medical Systems Company, Inc.) and Technologies. From April 1985 to July 1993, he served as Vice President of Electronics and President and Chief Executive Officer of BEI Motion Systems Company, Inc., then a wholly owned subsidiary of Electronics that is now a part of Sensors & Systems. Other experience includes twenty years with Hughes Aircraft Company. Mr. Wrench holds a B.A. from Pomona College and a M.B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles.<br />
Dr. Madni began serving as a Director and as a Vice President of the Company in June 1997 prior to the Distribution and resulting spin-off of the Company from Electronics in September 1997. Dr. Madni was appointed President of Sensors & Systems in October 1993, which was formed by the consolidation of BEI Motion Systems Company and the BEI Sensors and Controls Group, of which Dr. Madni had been President since October 1992. Prior to joining BEI in 1992, he served for 17 years in various executive and technical management positions with Systron Donner Corporation, a manufacturer of avionics and aerospace sensors and subsystems. He was most recently Chairman, President and CEO of Systron Donner Corporation, a subsidiary of Thorn/EMI. Dr. Madni's degrees include a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles and a Ph.D. in Engineering from California Coast University. He is also a graduate of the Program for Senior Executives from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management. He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.</span><br />
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Mr. Brooks is currently an independent financial consultant. He began serving as a Director in June 1997 prior to the Distribution and resulting spin-off of the Company from Electronics in September 1997. From 1987 until his resignation as a result of the Distribution, he served as a director of Electronics. From 1987 to 1990 he served as President of SFA Management Corporation, the managing general partner of St. Francis Associates, an investment partnership. He currently serves as a director of Longs Drug Store Corporation, Granite Construction, Incorporated and the Western Farm Credit Bank, a private company. Mr. Brooks holds a B.S. from Yale University and a M.B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.Mr. Brown began serving as a Director in June 1997 prior to the Distribution and resulting spin-off of the Company from Electronics in September 1997. He served as a director of Electronics from October 1974 until his resignation as a result of the Distribution. Mr. Brown served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Electronics from October 1974 until July 1990. Mr. Brown served from 1971 until 1974 as Executive Vice President and General Manager of Baldwin Electronics, Inc., a subsidiary of D.H. Baldwin Company and the predecessor of Electronics. Mr. Brown holds a B.S.E.E. from the University of Oklahoma.</span><br />
;">Mr. Giroir began serving as a Director in June 1997 prior to the Distribution and resulting spin-off of the Company from Electronics in September 1997. He was a director of Electronics from 1978 until his resignation as a result of the Distribution. He served as Secretary of Electronics from 1974 to early 1995. He is currently of counsel of the law firm of Giroir, Gregory, Holmes & Hoover, PLC. Mr. Giroir is also President of Arkansas International Development Corporation II, LLC. Mr. Giroir holds a B.A. and an L.L.B. from the University of Arkansas and an L.L.M. from Georgetown University. <br />
Dr. Howard began serving as a Director in June 1997 prior to the Distribution and resulting spin-off of the Company from Electronics in September 1997. He was a director of Electronics from December 1992 until his resignation as a result of the Distribution. He is currently an independent consulting engineer in microelectronics and technology-based business planning. From 1987 to 1990, Dr. Howard served as Senior Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering and, prior to that time, held various technical and management positions with Motorola, Inc., most recently as Senior Vice President and Director of Research and Development. He currently serves as Chairman of RAMTRON International Corp. and as a director of Credence Systems, Inc., VLSI Technologies, Inc., and Xilinx, Inc. Dr. Howard holds a B.E.E. and a M.S. from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer sciences from the University of California, Berkeley.<br />
Dr. Mehrabian began serving as a Director in June 1997 prior to the Distribution and resulting spin-off of the Company from Electronics in September 1997. He was a director of Electronics from June 1997 until his resignation as a result of the Distribution. He is Executive Vice President and Executive in charge of the Aeronautics, Electronic and Industrial segments of Allegheny Teledyne, Inc. From 1990 through June 1997, he was president of Carnegie Mellon University. He is an internationally recognized materials scientist, with numerous awards including membership in the National Academy of Engineering. He serves on the boards of directors of Allegheny Teledyne, Inc., Mellon Bank Corporation, Mellon Bank, N.A., and PPG Industries. Dr. Mehrabian holds B.S. and Sc.D. degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Staggered Board of Directors. The Company has a staggered Board of Directors, which may have the effect of deterring hostile takeovers or delaying changes in control of management of the Company. <br />
For purposes of determining their term of office, directors are divided into three classes, with the term of office of <u>the Class II directors to expire at the 1999 annual meeting of stockholders</u>, and the term of office of the Class III directors to expire at the 2000 annual meeting of stockholders and the term of office of the Class I directors to expire at the 2001 annual meeting of stockholders. <u>Class II consists of Mr. Giroir, Dr. Madni and Mr. Wrench</u>; Class III consists of Mr. Brooks, Dr. Howard and Dr. Mehrabian and Class I consists of Mr. Brown and Mr. Crocker. Directors elected to succeed those directors whose terms expire will be elected to a three year term of office. <span style="font-family: "arial";"></span><br />
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;">In addition to Messrs. Crocker and Wrench and Dr. Madni, whose positions with Technologies, experience and educational background are described under Directors above, the following persons are also Executive Officers of Technologies<br />
Dr. Wan is Vice President of Engineering for Sensors & Systems and is President of Sensors & Systems subsidiary, SiTek Inc. Dr. Wan served as Vice President, Corporate Technology for Electronics from April 1991 until the Distribution in September 1997. Dr. Wan resigned from his current position with Electronics immediately prior to the Distribution and is now Vice President, and Chief Technical Officer for Technologies and a director of Electronics (now named BEI Medical Systems Company, Inc.). From 1984 until 1990, Dr. Wan served as Vice President, Engineering for Systron Donner Corporation. Between 1979 and 1984, he held various technical and general management positions with Systron Donner Corporation. From 1968 to 1979, he served as Chief Executive Officer for Sycom, Inc. a commercial electronics company which he founded. From 1964 to 1968, he worked for Hughes Aircraft Company, where he headed the Radar Systems Section of the Hughes Ground Systems Group. In 1962, Dr. Wan and two other professors established an Engineering School at University of California, Santa Barbara, where he also taught Engineering. Dr. Wan holds B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering and Applied Sciences from Yale University.<br />
Mr. Corr became Secretary, Treasurer and Controller of Technologies in September 1997 and held these same positions with Electronics prior to the Distribution in September 1997. Mr. Corr resigned from his positions with Electronics immediately prior to the Distribution. Mr. Corr was named Secretary of Electronics in February 1995 and served as Controller from November 1989 and as Treasurer from November 1987 until the Distribution. From 1978 to 1987, he was employed by AMPEX Corporation, an electronics and magnetic media company, in various financial positions. From 1975 to 1978, he was an auditor with Arthur Andersen LLP. Mr. Corr received a B.B.A. from Loyola University and is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of California. <br />
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BEI TECHNOLOGIES INC (BEIQ) Quarterly Report (SEC form 10-Q) 5/12/99</span></h3>
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">…Net sales for the second quarter of fiscal 1999, ended April 3, 1999, increased $8.2 million to $39.0 million or 26.6% from $30.8 million during the same period in fiscal 1998. Sales volume increased primarily in commercial products to domestic and foreign automotive customers. In addition, sales volume benefited from increased international sales of traditional motion control sensors produced by a French company acquired by the Company during the fourth quarter of fiscal 1998. Sales related to government contracts recovered from a lower level in the same period of the prior fiscal year. This sales increase was offset, in part, by declines in domestic commercial sales of traditional motion control products, some of which had achieved historically high levels of sales in the second quarter of fiscal 1998…." <br />
Item 4. Submission of Matters to Vote of Security Holders <br />
(a) The Annual Meeting of Stockholders of the Company (the "Meeting") was held on March 6, 1998. At the Meeting, C. Joseph Giroir, Asad Madni and Gary D. Wrench were re-elected to the Company's Board of Directors for a three- year term expiring at the Company's 2002 Annual Meeting. <br />
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(b) In addition, the following directors continued in office as directors of the Company following the Meeting: Richard M. Brooks, William G. Howard, Jr. and Robert Mehrabian (until the Company's 2000 Annual Meeting); Charles Crocker and George S. Brown (until the Company's 2001 Annual Meeting). <br />
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"…C Joseph Giroir Jr 4/30/99 Exercised Option 10,735 shares of common stock at 4.08…"
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<pre><span style="font-family: "arial";">Mr. Charles Crocker(3)............................. 1,557,904 22.2%</span></pre>
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Brinson Partners, Inc.(4).......................... 614,600 8.8% <br />
Chicago, IL<br />
The UBS Brinson Division is responsible for the institutional asset management businesses of UBS AG and includes two operating business areas - UBS Brinson and Phillips & Drew. UBS Brinson operates as one integrated investment management organization. UBS Brinson is the name used outside North America while Brinson Partners continues as the primary name within North America. Phillips & Drew, the other business area within the Division, remains an independent asset management firm located in London. The UBS Brinson Division manages over USD 390 billion of institutional assets, including over USD 265 billion of discretionary institutional assets on an active basis and mutual fund assets for UBS Private Banking which total over USD 125 billion. In addition, UBS Brinson acts as the investment advisor to UBS Private Banking. UBS Brinson manages investment portfolios for corporations, public funds, endowments, foundations, central banks and other investors located throughout the world. The Division employs over 1500 people in offices worldwide.<br />
Dimensional Fund Advisors, Inc.(5)................. 431,000 6.1% <br />
Santa Monica, CA 90402-1005<br />
Dimensional strives to bring academic research to the world of investing. The firm maintains close ties with leading academics, many of whom design Dimensional's products. The academics often share in the revenue from products, which gives them incentive to create better products and continually update their research. Clients are involved in this process. The firm acts as an intermediary between the academics and the clients, working to research solutions to client investment needs. This creates a "feedback loop" where everyone benefits: The clients have constant access to the latest investment research and the academics focus their research on the relevant concerns of the practicing investor.<br />
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So Gen International Fund, Inc.(6)................. 427,000 6.1% <br />
New York, NY 10020<br />
August 13, 1998 -- Liberty Financial is gobbling up asset managers, while Societe Generale has decided it doesn't want to be in the retail asset management business anymore. Liberty agreed today to acquire Societe Generale Asset Management Corp. from the French bank for $216 million. SGAM is led by Jean-Marie Eveillard, a long-time member of the elite in the asset management business. Eveillard has overseen the U.S. fund business for SoGen since 1978. The firm now operates four funds, the Overseas Fund, Gold Fund, SoGen Money Fund, and the flagship International Fund. The International fund, which contains both foreign and domestic assets, has struggled somewhat in recent years with low returns and customer losses.<br />
Kennedy Capital Management, Inc.................... 424,100 6.1% <br />
St. Louis, MO<br />
The US equity market is extremely efficient because there are so many smart, motivated investment professionals, all with almost equal access to excellent information. However, many small companies do not understand how investment professionals make their decisions. Often information on these firms is missing or inaccurate. Often they lack coverage by analysts. Furthermore, most institutional small-cap investors screen for investment candidates using the standard databases. If information is wrong or inaccurate good stocks will be overlooked. KCM screens for fast growing investment candidates that lack institutional sponsorship and analyst coverage. In addition, KCM's process is often proactive. After making the investments for our clients, we will work with these firms, when appropriate, to get accurate information into the institutional databases and/or to assist the firms in achieving analyst coverage. <br />
Mr. Richard M. Brooks(7)........................... 10,000 *<br />
Mr. George S. Brown(7)(8).......................... 96,752 1.4%<br />
Mr. Robert R. Corr(7).............................. 28,700 *<br />
Mr. C. Joseph Giroir, Jr.(7)....................... 10,000 *<br />
Dr. William G. Howard, Jr.(7)...................... *<br />
Dr. Asad M. Madni (7).............................. 60,267 *<br />
Dr. Robert Mehrabian( )............................ *<br />
Dr. Lawrence A. Wan(7)............................. 39,250 *<br />
Mr. Gary D. Wrench(7)(9)........................... 120,419 1.7%<br />
All executive officers and directors<br />
as a group (10 persons)(10)....................... 1,923,292 27.5%<br />
*Less than one percent. <br />
( 1) This table is based upon information supplied by officers, directors and principal stockholders of the Company and upon any Schedules 13D or 13G filed with the SEC. Unless otherwise indicated in the footnotes to this table and subject to community property laws where applicable, the Company believes that each of the stockholders named in this table has sole voting and investment power with respect to the shares indicated as beneficially owned. <br />
(2) Applicable percentages are based on 7,002,543 shares outstanding on June 1, 1997, adjusted as required by rules promulgated by the SEC. Outstanding shares do not include 934,424 shares held as Treasury Stock as of June 1, 1997.<br />
(3) Includes 400,000 shares held by Charles Crocker as trustee for his adult children, as to which Mr. Crocker disclaims beneficial ownership. Also includes 54,936 shares held in a trust of which Mr. Crocker is beneficiary and sole trustee. Mr. Crocker, has the power to vote and dispose of the shares in each of these trusts.<br />
(4) Represents shares held by Brinson Partners, Inc. ("Partners") which has the sole power to vote and dispose of the shares held by it and shares held by Brinson Trust Company ("Trust") which has the sole power to vote and dispose of the shares held by it. Trust is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Partners which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Brinson Holdings, Inc. ("Holdings"). Holdings may be deemed to share the power to vote and dispose of all shares held by Partners and Trust, and Partners may be deemed to share the power to vote and dispose of all shares held by itself or Trust. Therefore, both Holdings and Partners each may be deemed a beneficial owner of all the shares held by Partners and Trust.<br />
(5) Represents shares held by Dimensional Fund Advisors, Inc., DFA Investment Dimensions Group Inc. and The DFA Investment Trust Company. Officers of Dimensional Fund Advisors, Inc. have sole power to vote and dispose of shares beneficially owned by it, including shares held by DFA Investment Dimensions Group Inc. and The DFA Investment Trust Company. <br />
(6) Represents shares held by So Gen International Fund, Inc., Socgen International SICAV and Ohio National Fund, Global Contrarian, each of which shares the power to vote and dispose of such shares with Societe Generale Asset Management Corp. <br />
(7) Includes shares which certain officers and directors have the right to acquire within 60 days after the date of this table pursuant to outstanding options as follows: Mr. Brooks, 10,000 shares; Mr. Brown, 39,624 shares; Mr. Corr, 16,000 shares; Mr. Giroir, 10,000 shares; Dr. Madni, 20,000 shares; Dr. Wan, 20,000 shares; Mr. Wrench, 78,400 shares; and all executive officers and directors as a group, 249,258 shares. See "The Distribution--Other Consequences of the Distribution--Stock Options" for information regarding the conversion of outstanding options to purchase Electronics Common Stock into options to purchase Technologies Common Stock. Also includes shares that certain officers and directors have the right to vote pursuant to unvested portions of restricted stock awards as follows: Mr. Corr, 9,488 shares; Dr. Madni, 28,887 shares; Dr. Wan, 13,902 shares; Mr. Wrench, 16,743 shares; and all executive officers and directors as a group, 85,789 shares.<br />
(8) Includes 57,128 shares held in a revocable trust of which Mr. Brown and his wife, Mildred S. Brown, are beneficiaries and sole trustees. Mr. and Mrs. Brown, acting alone, each has the power to vote and dispose of such shares.<br />
(9) Includes 25,276 shares held in a revocable trust of which Mr. Wrench and his wife, Jacqueline Wrench, are beneficiaries and sole trustees. Mr. and Mrs. Wrench, acting alone, each has the power to vote and dispose of such shares. Also includes 16,743 shares which Mr. Wrench, acting alone, has power to vote and dispose of<br />
(10) Includes the shares described in the Notes above.</span><br />
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Company, Inc. <br />
BEI International, Inc. Delaware need info<br />
BEI Export Sales Company, Inc. U.S. Virgin Islands need info<br />
BEI Properties, Inc. Arkansas need info<br />
SiTek, Inc., a BEI Company Delaware <br />
Defense Systems Company, Inc. Delaware <br />
BEI Sensors, S.A.S. France need info<br />
BEI Tactical Defense Systems, Inc. Delaware need info<br />
Micro Polymer Systems, Inc. Delaware need info<br />
BEI Ideacod, S.A.S. France need info</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">"…Extremely advanced tracking, pointing and reporting systems, <b><u><span style="color: red;">developed under military aegis</span></u></b>, led to ultraprecise rotary position reporting code disks. BEI code disks are still used to calibrate the National standards." (10)</span><br />
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"…<b><u>Recent technological advances include ASIC chips combining sensors with signal processing and intelligence</u></b>. These "smart" sensors are one-tenth the size of those available just a few years ago, and some versions house complete microprocessors. BEI has made a substantial investment in developing unique inertial rate sensors utilizing solid state quartz. This new proprietary technology is an example of BEI's leading-edge capabilities." (10)<br />
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CIV WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1995 (202) 616-2765<br /> TDD (202) 514-1888 CALIFORNIA FIRM PAYS U.S. $1 MILLION TO SETTLE CLAIMS WASHINGTON, D.C. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">BEI Sensors and Systems Inc. has paid the United States $1 million to resolve claims it failed to properly test devices used to measure the gravitational pull on Air Force planes and pilots, the Department of Justice announced today. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">Assistant Attorney General Frank Hunger of the Civil Division said the <b><u>agreement resolved part of a suit originally filed May 12, 1993</u></b>, against the San Francisco, California, company by Chandabot Kim, a former employee, under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act in U.S. District Court in San Francisco<b><u>. The United States intervened in part in the suit in August 1995. The settlement pertains to that portion of the case in which the United States intervened</u></b> and settles specific claims that were first raised by the United States when it intervened and not raised in the original suit. The Department said BEI failed to conduct proper temperature tests on one model of the devices, called accelerometers, from 1989 through 1992 and also failed to perform a random 10 percent test of another model it manufactured and refurbished from 1987 through 1994. The accelerometers measured the pressure exerted on the body and or equipment when the planes accelerated, banked or made high-speed turns.<span style="color: red;"><strong> Among the aircraft that used the devices was the F-15 fighter.</strong></span> Under the qui tam provisions, a private party can file a suit on behalf of the United States and recover a portion of any recovery<br />
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THE SEVEN DIVISIONS OF BEI Sensors & Systems Company</span><a href="http://www.beisensors.com/about/seven/encode/encode.htm"><span style="color: purple; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">Encoder Systems Division </span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><a href="http://www.beisensors.com/about/seven/duncan/duncan.htm"><span style="color: purple; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">Duncan Electronics</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><a href="http://www.beisensors.com/about/seven/systron/systron.htm"><span style="color: purple; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">Systron Donner Inertial Division</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><a href="http://www.beisensors.com/about/seven/indust/indust.htm"><span style="color: purple; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">Industrial Encoder Division</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><a href="http://www.beisensors.com/about/seven/kimco/kimco.htm"><span style="color: purple; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">Kimco Magnetics</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><a href="http://www.beisensors.com/about/seven/edcliff/edcliff.htm"><span style="color: purple; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">Edcliff Instruments</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><a href="http://www.beisensors.com/about/seven/precis/precis.htm"><span style="color: purple; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">Precision Systems and Space</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"> </span></h3>
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Space<b>: </b>Payload Pointing, Payload Instrumentation, Solar Array Pointing, Antenna Pointing, Dual Spin<br /> Attitude Control, Scan Mechanisms <br />
Tactical Military<b>; </b>Sighting Systems, Laser Designators, Battlefield Radar, Satellite Communications, Turret/Gun Position, Shipboard Radar, Airborne Radar, Missile Launchers <br />
Pointing and Tracking<b>: </b>Radar,Optical Tracking, Astronomical Telescope, Lab Instruments <br />
The High Technology Division in optical shaft encoders. Specialties include low power, light-weight, high-reliability encoders, encoded motors and systems for spacecraft; "ultra" high accuracy encoders and servo systems for tracking radar, optical tracking systems and astronomical telescopes; small-size and pancake encoder models for stringent military environments.<br />
The Precision Systems and Space Division provides complete Control Systems, Gimbal Systems and Automated Test Systems where high accuracy or space environments are a requirement.<br />
The Division is in compliance with MIL-I-45208, MIL-Q-9858 and NASA NHB 5300.4(1C) for quality assurance, NASA NHB 5300.4(F) for reliability and MIL-STD-454, MIL-STD-2000 and NASA 5300.4(3A-1) for workmanship.<br />
PRECISION SYSTEMS AND SPACE DIVISION<br /> P.O. Box 3838<br /> Little Rock, AR 72203<br /> Tel: (501) 851-4000<br /> Fax: (501) 851-5476</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
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"…NASA Administrator Dan Goldin examines an optical encoder during a February 19, 1998, visit to BEI Precision Systems and Space Division in Maumelle as (from left) BEI division Vice President Ron Roberts, Rep. Snyder, Astronaut Dr. Steven Hawley and BEI CEO Dr. Asad Madni look on. Optical encoders made by BEI are used in a variety of NASA projects. Snyder invited the NASA representatives to central Arkansas to visit schools and high-tech businesses …" (11)<br />
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Field Robotics Center, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University David Wettergreen <br />
<b></b><b>"…</b>Deepak Bapna, who was a doctoral candidate at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) during the trek, led the communications system design team. Today, he is a division scientist at BEI-Precision Systems and Space Division in Maumelle, Arkansas. Mark Maimone was the postdoctoral robotics researcher who led the trek's software and navigation teams. He is now a machine vision researcher at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. A doctoral candidate for robotics at CMU during the project John Murphy led the panospheric system and science center operations. Nomad project manager Eric Rollins led the robot's mechanical design team. He is now heading the configuration and design efforts for CMU's Antarctic meteorite robot. The director of the Field Robotics Center at CMU, William Whittaker was the Nomad project's principle investigator…." (12)</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
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"…its principal subsidiary, BEI Sensors & Systems Company, Inc., has purchased Ideacod, S.A., a Strasbourg, France manufacturer of electronic sensors for factory automation. Terms of the all-cash purchase, which was made from a group of private investors, were not disclosed…. Madni stated, ``This <b><u>acquisition provides BEI with a new gateway into Europe</u></b>. Ideacod's products are well suited to the European market and are well regarded by industrial machine builders and automation systems customers in Western Europe." (6)<br />
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BEI Technologies, Inc. (ticker: BEIQ, exchange: Nasdaq) News Release - Monday, November 10, 1997 <br />
"…announced a marketing and technology cooperation agreement between its principal subsidiary, BEI Sensors & Systems Company, and the Carl Zeiss Group, a German optics company. The agreement <b><u>grants BEI Sensors & Systems Company exclusive rights to market the Zeiss line of linear optical encoders and optical components in North America</u></b>, according to Charles Crocker, president and chief executive officer of BEI Technologies. Crocker stated, "We have been looking for a strong linear product line to complement out rotary encoders and are excited about this alliance with Carl Zeiss. Based on out product strength and combined brand recognition, we are enthusiastic about our ability to establish a prominent position in the marketplace with out offering of linear encoders from BEI, with optics by Carl Zeiss." …" (6)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
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Carl Zeiss Perwakilan Indonesia<br /> (Indonesia Representativ Office)<br /> Wisma Dharmala Sakti, Annexe Floor 7<br /> Jl. Jenderal Sudirman 32<br /> Jakarta 10220 (13)<br /> Other locations: Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand, South Korea [Alamo-Girl<br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">"BEI Precision Systems and Space Division designs and manufactures both militarized space versions of optical encoder, scanner and trackball components and subsystems for use in armoured vehicles, spacecraft, tracking radar and avionics. Combining high-tech ingenuity with 50 years of practical engineering experience, BEI Precision Systems and Space Division is an intelligent defense partner. Precision and reliability are fundamental components of every motion sensing and motion control product we build. Our shaft angle encoders, rotary or oscillating scanners and ruggedized trackballs ensure exacting performance of advanced military equipment serving armed forces the world over. Read on for a list of the U.S. military and foreign programs that incorporate BEI’s intelligent product solutions." (18) <br />
ABSOLUTE ENCODER APPLICATIONS BEI’s product range of absolute encoder applications include: Turret, Trunnion and Sight Position in Tanks and Armored Personnel Carriers - Radar Antennae Position - Missile Seeker Head - Ammunition Loading Systems <br />
MAJOR PROGRAM EXPERIENCE FOR ABSOLUTE ENCODERS Absolute Encoders have been used on projects including Bradley, Avenger, Linebacker, M1A2, Korean K1, Canadian Reece, Swedish CV-90, Challenger, Breacher, GKN Warrior, AARM Missile and LAVIII.<br />
INCREMENTAL ENCODER APPLICATIONS BEI’s Incremental Encoder applications include: Radar Antennae Position - Missile Seeker Head - Laser Range Finder for Army Personnel <br />
MAJOR PROGRAM EXPERIENCE FOR INCREMENTAL ENCODERS Incremental Encoders have been used on the Phalanx, Peace Shield, Lantirn, Standard Missile and Stinger Missile.<br />
SCANNER APPLICATIONS BEI’s Scanner applications include: IR Imaging Systems in Tanks and Armored Vehicles -Night Vision Equipment in Airplanes and Helicopters - Light Weight Launchers - Robotics in Hazardous Environments<br />
MAJOR PROGRAM EXPERIENCE FOR SCANNERS BEI Scanners have been used on the F/A 18, M142 Bradley, LAV 105, UAV Flirs and various helicopters.<br />
TRACKBALL APPLICATIONS BEI’s Trackball applications include: Cursor Position in Missile Targeting -Cursor Position in Communications Systems -Cursor Position in Air Reconnaissance<br />
MAJOR PROGRAM EXPERIENCE FOR TRACKBALLS BEI’s Trackballs have been used on the AWACS (U.S., Euro, Indonesia), REACT and various shipboard stations. <br />
BEI Precision Systems and Space Division,<br /> BEI Sensors & Systems Company<br /> 1100 Murphy Drive<br /> Maumelle<br /> Arkansas 72113</span><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;">DUNCAN ELECTRONICS<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">Duncan Electronics is a division of </span><a href="http://www.beisensors.com/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">BEI Sensors & Systems Company,</span></a><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"> </span></u><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">a diversified operating unit of BEI Technologies, Inc. Duncan began more than 30 years ago by designing and manufacturing precision potentiometers to stringent military and commercial requirements and continues now to serve as a major contributor to the capabilities, technologies and marketing strengths of BEI in new emerging markets. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">Today, the company develops cost-effective and reliable "contact" and "non-contacting" sensors (position, indicating, resistive or voltage reading devices, including encoders) for a broad range of applications which includes automotive and heavy equipment, marine, industrial machine tool controls, robotics, instrumentation, avionics and consumer products. Duncan's products fill an important niche wherever there is a need for low-cost, accurate position measurements in an unusual or space-conscious location. (19)<br />
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For over 40 years Systron Donner Inertial Division (SDID) has been a leader in providing motion sensing devices and applications engineering expertise to Commercial and Military markets. SDID takes pride in its innovative designs of Linear Accelerometers and Angular Rotation Sensors which provide guidance and control capability for everything from missiles to commercial light and heavy aircraft. The development of a unique solid state quartz technology for inertial sensors gives SDID a competitive edge.<br />
Recently, SDID has introduced a growing family of proprietary solid state rotation sensors and accelerometers that utilize quartz as the active sensing element. Combined into multi-axis packaged assemblies and as stand-alone components, this new sensor technology is employed in such diverse applications as helping to navigate autonomous industrial robots through automated warehouses, stabilizing communications antennae on ships and for diagnosis and treatment of mobility disorders such as Parkinson's disease. Micromachining techniques have made these inertial sensing products smaller, lighter and more accessible to commercial markets. (20)<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"> "…SiTek, Inc. a subsidiary of BEI Technologies, Inc., was formed in September 1997. SiTek specializes in silicon micromachined MEMS devices for automotive, industrial, <b><u>aerospace</u></b> and biomedical applications. SiTek was formerly known as the Microengineering Technology Center of BEI and was founded in 1992. SiTek's mission is two fold: 1.To explore new and emerging markets with MEMS technology 2.To advance the technical capabilities of BEI and <b><u>leverage BEI's market position</u></b>. SiTek Inc., is a subsidiary of </span><a href="http://www.bei-tech.com/"><span style="color: purple; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">BEI Technologies, Inc.</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"> Our sister company </span><a href="http://www.beisensors.com/"><span style="color: purple; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">BEI Sensors and Systems, Inc.</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"> is comprised of 7 divisions with various areas of expertise. All divisions are available for collaboration and cooperation with SiTek Inc., bringing a great synergy to the BEI Technologies entity…." (9)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">SiTek Laboratories AB was founded in 1976, at the Institute of Solid State Electronics at Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg, Sweden, for commercial production of PSDs.[Position sensing detectors] During the first years the production was carried out by the founders working part time at the University. …. The beginning of the nineties brought a stabilisation of activities. This stabilisation, together with the fact that the market began to discover the product, forms the basis for the expansion of the company, 30 % increase in 1995 and 1996, and also of the new profile, the most obvious being the change of the name to SiTek Electro Optics AB in 1993, but more important was the continuing introduction of new and improved PSDs. (See below.) The most interesting of these was the patented PSD with build-in stray light eliminatation, the NT-PSD which was introduced in 1995….Applications using SiTek PSD: Non-contact distance measurement system, Optical spectrum analyzer, Position and motion measurement system, Alignment and leveling measurement system, Three-dimensional machine vision (contour mapping), Angle measurement system, Non-contact distance measurement system The system uses the technique of optical triangulation. By projecting a laser or a LED on a surface and then measuring the scattered light position by an optical system and a PSD, it is possible to determine the distance to the object. The distance can be measured with extreme precision and at high speed thanks to the outstanding linearity and resolution of the PSD. The ability of the PSD to operate with various light intensities makes the measurement system insensitive to ambient light. (15)<br />
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BEI Medical Systems Company (formerly BEI Electronics) makes medical devices for gynecology and other women's health fields. A device developed by the company to treat excessive uterine bleeding -- the HydroThermAblator -- is undergoing clinical trials in the US, but it is available on a limited scale in Europe. The company's products include catheters, disposable and reusable instruments, electrosurgery units, and endoscopes. <b><u>BEI spun off its defense unit to focus on commercial markets</u></b>, adopting the name of its medical products subsidiary in the process. It has also sold its Gynesys catheter infertility system and its HysteroSys products to Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ethicon. (16) (17)<br />
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(10K) On June 30, 1997, the Board of Directors of Electronics announced a formal plan to discontinue the operations of the Defense Systems segment. Accordingly, the results of operations of the segment have been presented as discontinued operations for all periods presented and the assets and liabilities of the segment have been segregated in the consolidated balance sheets. Previously, in September 1995, Electronics had reached a decision to exit the HYDRA 70 (H 70) rocket manufacturing line of business which made up a substantial portion of the Defense Systems segment. Additional products of the segment included weapons management systems and sales under a cost-plus fee advanced rocket development contract. <br />
(10K)As result of the decision to exit the rocket line of business, the Company has incurred costs relating to employee severance and the closure and withdrawal from the leased facility in Camden, Arkansas and similar costs related to its owned facility in Euless, Texas. At the end of fiscal year 1996, the balance in the reserve account consisted of $374,000 and $500,000 for employee severance and facility closure costs, respectively. During fiscal year 1997, the Company accrued an additional $33,000 for employee severance costs. Costs incurred during the period for severance and facilities closure of $362,000 and $362,000, respectively, were charged against the reserve. The balance in the reserve at the end of fiscal 1997 consisted of $45,000 for employee severance and $138,000 for facilities closure costs. The remaining reserves were used during fiscal 1998. At the end of fiscal 1998, all inventory and equipment assets of the rocket business had been written off or disposed of and the operations of the Defense Systems segment had been shut down. <br />
(10K) Basis of Presentation: BEI Technologies, Inc. ("Technologies" or the "Company") was incorporated on June 30, 1997 in the State of Delaware, as a wholly owned subsidiary of BEI Electronics, Inc. (Electronics). On September 27, 1997, Electronics distributed to holders of Electronics common stock one share of common stock of the Company for each share of Electronics common stock held on September 24, 1997 (the "Distribution"). In connection with the Distribution, Electronics transferred to Technologies all of the assets, liabilities and operations of its BEI Sensors & Systems Company, Inc. (Sensors & Systems) and Defense Systems Company, Inc. (Defense Systems) business segments. As further described in Note 2, on June 30, 1997, the Board of Directors of Electronics also approved a formal plan to discontinue the operations of its Defense Systems segment. The remaining operations of Defense Systems were discontinued as of July 4, 1998. <br />
(10K)Contingencies and Litigation Claim against U.S. Government The Company believes that its subsidiary, Defense Systems Company (DSC), suffered substantial monetary damages due to actions of the U. S. Government in connection with the parties' H 70 contract in effect during the 1992-1996 timeframe. As a result, DSC filed a substantial claim before the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals. Due to the uncertainties inherent in the formal claims process, the Company has not recorded any recovery of these claims in the accompanying financial statements. <br />
BEI Defense Systems Company (DSC) has over 40 years experience in electronics manufacturing for industrial, medical and military applications…DSC's commercial division offers Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) from consignment to complete turnkey in our secure 72,000 square feet facility which is electrostatic discharge (ESD) protected. DSC manufactures and markets weapons control systems<br />
to the U.S. Government, U.S. Prime Contractors and approved foreign customers through its defense division Euless, Texas [links to BEI Technologies] (14)<br />
BEI Defense Systems Company*, Euless, Texas, is being awarded a $5,693,282 firm fixed price contract for various spare parts for the AH-1 Cobra Helicopter. Work will be performed in Euless, Texas, and is expected to be completed by September 15, 1997. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This is a <b><u>sole source contract initiated on March 20, 1996</u></b>. The contracting activity is the U.S. Army Tank- Automotive & Armaments Command, Warren, Michigan (DAAE20-96-C- 0309). (8)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><i></i><i> "</i>In 1985, Maria Haley and another Asian, John Riady arranged a trip to the Far East for governor Clinton. Riady was in Arkansas working for Worthen Bank, which his family's Lippo Group, partly owned. Lippo was a $6 billion conglomerate, that recently gave more than $1 million into president Clinton's election campaigns. In Hong Kong, president Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton with a dozen businessmen and officials, were lavishly entertained by the Riady's. The escort on that occasion was John Huang, Riadys' top man in America Later, president Clinton appointed Huang to a top position in the Commerce Department and the DNC. Following that Asia trip and trade mission, Arkansas opened state offices in Tokyo and Taipei. Little Rock attorney Joseph Giroir, a director of Worthen Bank and Hillary Rodham Clinton's boss at the Rose Law Firm, began making deals in Asia for the Arkansas firms of <i>Tyson Foods Inc.</i> and <i>Wal-Mart Stores Inc.</i> At the same time,a close friend of governor Clinton, attorney Mark Grobmyer, the law partner of Maria Haley's husband, opened the <i>Mid-South International Trade Center.</i> Following the 1992 presidential election, many of the Arkansans followed Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton to Washington. Inside the White House, the Arkansas internationalists had a pipeline to Maria Haley, who worked in the personnel office, and to Mark Middleton, a young Little Rock lawyer who was a deputy to president Clinton's first chief of staff, Mack McLarty. Haley and Middleton were both well known to president Clinton's Arkansas supporters, who donated $4 million to his 1992 campaign…." (22)<br />
"Pennsylvania Four prominent Asian-Americans, at the center of the political money scandal, funneled $895,000 into the Pennsylvania State Democrat Party. At the urging of John Huang, one of the largest donations, $25,000, came from Pauline Kanchanalak. Kanchanalak's sister-in-law, Duagnet Kronenberg also, gave $25,000. Sen Jong Hsui contributed $20,000, and C. Joseph Giroir Jr. from Little Rock Arkansas gave another $25,000. (23)<br />
"The Cox report notes some very interesting parties helped John Huang stay in touch with his boss. According to the Cox report, "Huang maintained contact with representatives of the Lippo Group while he was at the Department of Commerce." "During the 18 months that he was at Commerce," states the report, "Huang called Lippo Bank 232 times, in addition to 29 calls or faxes to Lippo Headquarters in Indonesia. Huang also contacted Lippo consultant Maeley Tom on 61 occasions during the same period. Huang's records show 72 calls to Lippo joint venture partner C. Joseph Giroir....." (24)<br />
"...The Riady relationship extended beyond the Clintons themselves to their friends and to Hillary's associates at Rose, including its head, Joe Giroir, and a White House aide named Mark Middleton, who later invoked the Fifth Amendment when he was called before a congressional committee. It was the Riadys who provided a $100,000 "job" for the indicted Web Hubbell, at the moment when he had indicated to the Starr prosecutors that he might be ready to talk. After the payment from Riady and others, Hubbell changed his mind and chose jail instead. (25)<br />
"...A central figure in the economic track of Chinese activities was the vice president and Far-East area manager for the Worthen Bank, a Chinese-born American named John Huang, who was a friend of Bill from Little Rock days. Triplett and Timperlake make a strong case that it was through the personal intervention of Hillary Clinton that in 1994 Huang was made a top official in the Commerce Department, where he had access to all the information an agent would need to strip America of the supercomputer technologies vital to the development of advanced weapons systems. Huang also inexplicably retained his top security clearance in the Commerce Department when he left the government. The decision to leave the government for a position at the Democratic National Committee was made for Huang at a meeting in the Oval Office attended by the president, Huang, Riady, Riady partner and former Rose law firm head Giroir and presidential aide Bruce Lindsey....." (25)<br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">"….In the 1980's, the war on drugs was being feverishly pitched by the Federal Government. It was during this time that a Senate subcommittee recommended that the Treasury Department set up some means of monitoring currency deposits, both foreign and domestic….The job for this massive undertaking was given to the National Security Agency at their Ft. Mead facility. This defense base houses intelligence gathering (Echelon) and communications security….In an effort to monitor all banking transactions the NSA tapped into Fedwire, CHIPS, and Swift. Most of these banking transfers were encrypted. Even after breaking the code, all that the NSA had left was two account numbers, the amount of the transaction, and when it took place. It was soon realized that all this information was worthless without knowing who owned the accounts…..the NSA came to the conclusion that they themselves would become the software supplier for the banking industry…It didn't take long for the NSA to find a contractor for their bank software needs. None other than Vince Foster would point the way to a</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">small</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">Little Rock, Arkansas bank data processing company known as Systematics, Inc. Systematics was founded in the late 1960's by Jackson Stephens. Vince Foster was one of Jackson Stephens deal makers at the Rose Law firm…. According to intelligence sources, Webster Hubbell also played a key role in over seeing Systematics for the NSA. In the now declassified documents that the Zone has seen, they confirm that both Hubbell and Foster had access to NSA secrets….(26)<br /><br /> "Systematics founder, Jackson Stephens, was also a partner of the Lippo Group. Lippo is owned by Mochtar Riady who jointly purchased the Worthen Bank in Little Rock along with Stephens. Mochtar's son, James Riady, ran the bank with William Cravens serving as President. As we have reported before in other articles, the Riady's are key figures in the Chinese intelligence spy ring in the U.S. The Lippo Group is a joint venture of China resources, a trading and holding company that serves as a front for Chinese espionage operations. William Cravens became good friends of Bill and Hillary Clinton during the 1980's. In the early 1990's, Craven would leave his post at Worthen Bank and become a key figure at Systematics. Craven would later use Hillary's Rose Law firm to develop special legal contracts between the National Security Agency and Systematics….(26)<br /><br /> "The technology behind the Clipper Chip is really quite simple. Vendors of equipment that encrypts the communications will need to include the chip in their products if they want to sell those products to any Federal agency who adopt the new FIPS standard. Every chip will have a back door technology allowing the Government or who ever, the ability to decrypt the communications by using this back door. Each Clipper Chip that is manufactured will have a unique identification code, along with a pair of software decryption keys. The pair of decryption keys will be given to the Federal Government. One key will be kept by the Treasury Department and the other key will be kept by the Commerce Department. Under the same laws that are presently used for legal wiretapping with a Judicial warrant, a law enforcement or intelligence agency would be able to obtain the authority to intercept the communications originating from any Clipper equipped device. An agency would merely show proof of its authority to the key holding agencies to receive both decryption keys. According to former CIA Director John Deutch, the Department of Justice proposed legislation that would outlaw the import and domestic manufacture, sale, or distribution of encryption that did not have this back door key recovery. The Department of Justice has set guidelines for agencies engaged in authorized surveillance to obtain the keys….(26) <br /><br /> "The controversy and leaks surrounding the Clipper Chip project forced the NSA to announce in June 1998, that is was scrapping the five year old project. The National Security Agency released both the Key Exchange algorithm and the Skipjack algorithm to computer security companies that were interested in developing off-the-shelf products that would work with existing federal communications systems. But the damage caused by the project can not be underestimated. Indeed, China now has all the latest encryption technology to unlock almost any communications device. Top this with the crash of the 1996 Chinese rocket that was carrying U.S. satellite technology, a missing encryption chip,<br /> and you have disaster in the making….(26)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">"In the early 1990's, Systematics, Inc was sold to Alltel Inc. Alltel has customers in 44 countries around the world and provides information processing management, outsourcing services and application software to the mortgage, financial, healthcare and telecommunications industries. They were were well entrenched in the Clippper Chip project from their Systematics holdings. Charles Wilbourne Miller, 63, was Alltel's executive Vice president and served on the board of directors. Miller was also well established in his own security software company. On November 17, 1998, Miller was found shot to death about 300 yards from his Little Rock ranch. Law enforcement officials found a .410 gauge shot gun near his body. They also found a .357 ruger revolver submerged in water. Miller's death was ruled a suicide and that the ruger was the gun that Miller used to kill himself. It was later determined however, that two rounds in the gun cylinder had been spent. Apparently, only in Arkansas can one kill himself using two bullets and two guns. (26)<br />
How spooky does it get? An odd link to this story is that the NSA chose Arkansas-based Systematics on Sept. 14, 1990, to construct the "Mission: Impossible" room called the Secured Compartmentalized Information Facility, or SCIF, in Fort Gillem, Ga., according to an unclassified NSA memo. At that time Systematics was fun by Jackson Stephens who, along with Mochtar Riady and James Riady controlled Lippo's Worthen bank, which gave Clinton a multimillion-dollar loan to get through the 1992 presidential election. The same Lippo Group, which later dumped Worthen, is linked to China Resources, a front for Chinese military-intelligence operations, say U.S. defense intelligence sources. The concern of the U.S. intelligence community is whether Chinese agents penetrated the SCIF. An NSA staffer notes that the Chinese once managed to bug the Russian Embassy in Beijing, and that if they built the SCIF "they could do a lot of things there." That brings the story back to Huang, who worked with the Riadys at Worthen Bank and appears to have formed another intriguing friendship with PLA arms dealer and White House coffee-klatsch guest Wang Jun. China's Far Eastern Economic Review reported in April that Wang admitted to Beijing's political leaders that he had paid Huang $30,000 for reasons unexplained. One Senate investigator says this could be the "smoking gun" that ties Huang to the PLA. (8)<br />
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Statement by Terri Swearingen in accepting the Goldman Prize for North America on April 14, 1997. Terri was awarded the prize for her work in fighting the building and operation of Von Roll's hazardous waste incinerator, known as WTI, in East Liverpool, Ohio...... Among the many distinctions afforded Arkansas billionaire tycoon Jackson Stephens is the fact that his firm, Stephens Inc. marshaled the WTI hazardous waste incinerator's march from conception to birth. In our opinion, it was the power of his financial empire that moved a poorly designed monstrosity on the Ohio River from the truly dumb idea that it was (and is) to its current manifestation as an ugly and dangerous reality. In an attempt to understand why the U.S. government, particularly U.S. EPA Region 5, committed so many illegalities and allowed this incinerator to be built, it helps to understand that Jackson Stephens always gets what he wants. In fact, no matter what you think about him, it is hard to deny that he seems to be everywhere, with his hands on everything. Stephens is the chairman of Stephens Inc., the nation's largest investment bank off Wall Street. Its home office is located in little ol' Little Rock, Arkansas. He and his brother, Witt, built the Stephens Inc. empire out of a bible, belt buckle and bond business. In 1994, Stephens Inc. was listed as one of the biggest institutional shareholders in 30 large multinationals including the Arkansas based firms Tyson Food (# 10), Wal-Mart (# 113) and Alltel (# 12). Interestingly, it was Stephens who staked Sam Walton when he started Wal-Mart in 1970, and financed Tyson's takeover of Holly Farms in 1988. (Stephens, Tyson and Walton (1917-1992), all billionaires from Arkansas.) Stephens sold a 275 phone exchange to Alltel when they broke into the phone market, and guaranteed in 1990 that Alltel would get Systematics by refusing to sell his 10% stake in Systematics to anyone but Alltel. In many ways Arkansas is the house that Jack built. Unfortunately, for the folks in East Liverpool, Ohio, and the Tri-State area (WV, PA, OH) who were saddled with Von Roll's hazardous waste incinerator, Arkansas was never big enough for Stephens...... (45)<br />
"....An odd link to this story is that the NSA chose Arkansas-based Systematics on Sept. 14, 1990, to construct the "Mission: Impossible" room called the Secured Compartmentalized Information Facility, or SCIF, in Fort Gillem, Ga., according to an unclassified NSA memo. At that time Systematics was fun by Jackson Stephens who, along with Mochtar Riady and James Riady controlled Lippo's Worthen bank, which gave Clinton a multimillion-dollar loan to get through the 1992 presidential election. The same Lippo Group, which later dumped Worthen, is linked to China Resources, a front for Chinese military-intelligence operations, say U.S. defense intelligence sources. The concern of the U.S. intelligence community is whether Chinese agents penetrated the SCIF. An NSA staffer notes that the Chinese once managed to bug the Russian Embassy in Beijing, and that if they built the SCIF "they could do a lot of things there."..." (46)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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"...1990 Systematics (ALLTEL Information Services) acquired...<br />
1997 Company signs a seven-year agreement with Colonial State Bank, one of Australia's largest banks, to create and operate a comprehensive information and telecommunications system. <br />
ALLTEL purchases PCS licenses for 73 markets in 12 states<br />
ALLTEL's wireless and wireline businesses converge into a single organization capable of delivering a full suite of communications products to customers.<br />
1998 Merged with 360° Communications...."<br />
"...ALLTEL offers a complete portfolio of multicurrency solutions for banks active in the wholesale and commercial banking markets. The Vertex family of products has been designed for financial organizations which are particularly active in the treasury, dealing, and major wholesale banking marketplace; whilst the ALLPROFITS suite of applications is designed for instances where the underlying banking business has a foreign trade related emphasis. As modular applications, the component parts can be used individually or as part of an integrated solution. When used in combination, the applications can combine to form a solution which will support the head office and global branches within the confines of a consistent business and technical architecture spanning different geographic regions and time zones..."<br />
Freeper Trident/Delta adds "....There is a tenuous connection with Alltel the logical successor of Jackson Stephens Systematics. Alltel has as one of its specialties, a service to "run" small and medium sized financial institutions computer systems in an on-prem, outsourced fashion. In simpler terms, Alltel has access to all the assets of many many banks .... I tumbled onto this while doing an analysis for a bank in Ohio and found that Alltel had links from the banks mainframe and cash control systems to their headquarters in, You guessed it, Little Rock.... There is a bank in LA (name withheld for the moment until I can review the contract) that is vetting money for Hong Kong Chinese in Vancouver, Canada, they appear to have no other depositors AND they are courting high-tech firms with promises of low interest R&D loans Care to guess who runs their back office and computer operations????? ALLTEL!!!! ..."</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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"…Lawyer C. Joseph Giroir Jr. was not among the high-powered U.S. corporate executives asked to accompany Commerce Secretary Ronald H. Brown to China two years ago. But when the group landed in Beijing, Giroir was there to hear Brown announce a $1 billion deal for his client, Indonesia's Lippo conglomerate….. Arkansas deal-maker whose influence on Clinton in international trade matters dates to the 1980s. …. Following the advice of the Riadys, Giroir formed the Arkansas International Trade Co. to match the Lippo Group with American companies in joint ventures. Giroir, for example, created a multimillion-dollar marriage between Lippo and the Arkansas-based retail giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to open a Wal-Mart superstore in Lippo Village, a development in Jakarta, Indonesia ….. Giroir also brought together a Little Rock division of the New Orleans-based Entergy Corp. and the Lippo Group to clinch a $1 billion deal, now shelved, to supply power equipment to China. He also helped chart Asian inroads for Arkansas-based Tyson Foods Inc., the world's largest poultry producer…. Giroir's departure [From Rose Law Firm] led to a huge power shift at the firm, with lawyers Webster L. Hubbell and Vincent Foster gaining control along with Hillary Clinton, who had been hired by Giroir as one of the firm's first female lawyers….One of his original Rose clients was Lippo chairman Mochtar Riady, who had formed a joint venture with Jackson T. Stephens, founder of Stephens Inc. in Little Rock, the nation's largest investment banking firm off Wall Street….. The Stephens-Lippo collaboration used its newly purchased Worthen Bank to finance trade expansion. In 1983 and 1984, the bank extended millions of dollars in credit to Stephens and Lippo-owned ventures. The loans were repaid, but a federal examination found that Worthen extended too much credit to the Stephens-Lippo ventures.…. On Riady's behalf, Giroir drafted a sister city agreement for Jakarta and Little Rock in 1993. He also participated in meetings with trade ministers during the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation in Seattle…." (27)<br />
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"…investigators say, Joe Giroir was its back-room brains…. investigators tell TIME that Giroir played a more pivotal role for the Indonesian conglomerate in its quest for influence in Washington: after securing Lippo as a $3 million investor in his company, Giroir contributed a total of $175,000 to the Democrats. ….The Riadys, who control Lippo, formed a partnership with their old friend Giroir to line up U.S. investors for the family's Asian ventures…. Giroir already knew the Riadys and was a board member of Worthen National Bank, which they owned jointly with the investment firm Stephens Inc. The new Riady-Giroir venture--Arkansas Industrial Development Corp., from which Giroir drew a $360,000-a-year salary--was financed by a Lippo subsidiary. Giroir's job included serving as Lippo's unofficial representative to the White House. Investigators tell TIME that Giroir used his Arkansas contacts to set up a meeting there in April 1994 for prospective Chinese partners with Lippo in a huge China power-plant project. But Huang, then head of Lippo's U.S. operations, wanted a regular role for himself in the Clinton Administration. So investigators now want to know if Giroir pulled any strings to get Huang hired in July 1994 as a Commerce Department deputy assistant secretary, a job that gave him access to classified economic data from Asian countries where Lippo has a big stake. At Commerce, Huang stayed in regular contact with Giroir, as well as Lippo, and frequented the Washington office of a company that Giroir represented, using its phones and a fax machine for what investigators suspect were transmissions of secret material to Lippo….. Investigators tell Time that at a May 1996 fund raiser organized by Huang, Giroir wrote a check to the national party for $25,000 and let Huang fill in the names on three other checks of $25,000 each that wound up in state party coffers. And on July 30, at Huang's direction, Giroir contributed a total of an extra $75,000 to three states…." (28)<br />
The House committee is expected to ask Mr. Middleton about $275,000 he received from the Riadys through the Arkansas International Development Corp.; whether he had any role in finding Huang at job in 1995 at the Democratic National Committee; his connections to Chinese financier Ng Lap Seng, who wired $1 million into Trie's bank account; and about meetings he arranged for the president and the first lady with would-be contributors, some of whom have since been indicted. (40)<br />
A year ago, we wrote about the Riadys' 1985 bailout of Little Rock's Worthen Bank, which put then-governor Bill Clinton permanently in their debt. But other conduits are pouring Bamboo Network money into the U.S. and giving the Clinton administration an unprecedented slush fund.......Even after the Worthen deal came undone, the Riadys kept up their American investments, and their contacts with Arkansas businessmen. Through their multi-layered Lippo corporate structure, they bought Southern California's Bank of Trade, renaming it Lippobank and developing clientele among several Asian-American communities. Their Hong Kong bank struck up a partnership with First Union Bank of North Carolina. Arkansas firms like Entergy and Wal-Mart made Asian deals with Lippo, often working through Little Rock lawyer C. Joseph Giroir, Jr., the former lead partner of the Rose Law Firm who helped hire Hillary Rodham Clinton in 1977. (Wal-Mart last year opened its first store in the high potential Indonesian market in a Riady development called Lippo Village.) The Indonesian state of Jakarta made a "sister state" compact with Arkansas, and, according to the files of the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission (AIDC), former Governor Jim Guy Tucker wrote his counterpart to propose using an Arkansas parking-meter company to set up a parking system there. According to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, the Riady-Lippo file at the AIDC was more than five inches thick, containing hundreds of letters between James Riady and former Gov. Bill Clinton. ...." (43)<br />
The multi-billionaire Liem took a bath in the Worthen debacle, ultimately paying $3 million to the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation to settle a suit against his agent Giroir. But Liem/Salim has found other footholds in the U.S. Another of his front companies, Hong Kong-based First Pacific Holdings, in 1982 bought the Hibernia Bank in San Francisco (previously famous for being robbed by Patty Hearst and the Symbionese Liberation Army). Hibernia developed problems and Liem sold it to Security Pacific Corp. in 1988. But in the meantime he brought his own flagship (and Riady's training ground), the Bank Central Asia, into the U.S.; it now does business in New York and Los Angeles. Other outposts of the Bamboo Network show up in surprising places. The 300 members of the Mashantucket Pequot Indian tribe in eastern Connecticut are famous for running the world's most profitable casino, grossing nearly around $600 million last year. Less well known is that their Foxwoods Management Co. is partly owned by the Malaysian Chinese gambling tycoon Lim Goh Tong. Lim put up the $55 million seed money for the Foxwoods casino when no one else would touch the project. He currently is said to have $250 million invested in the rapidly expanding company. A common feature of the Bamboo investors is their generosity in making campaign contributions. The Foxwoods Casino is one of the three largest patrons of the Democratic National Committee, giving around $400,000 in the 1993-94 election cycle and ensuring tribal leaders ready access at the White House. But nothing approaches the operation run by the former Lippo employee and mid-level Commerce Department official John Huang. (43)<br />
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</span><u><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"> </span></u></b><u><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"></span></u><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><u><b>1974</b></u>Giroir, Secretary of Electronics 1974 to 1995, BEI Electronics</span><br />
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<b><u></u></b><u></u><u><b>1978</b></u>Giroir, Director of Electronics 1978 to 1997, BEI Electronics</span><br />
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<b><u></u></b><u></u><u><b>1979</b></u>Mochtar Riady and Stephens Inc set up Stephens Finance Ltd. In Hong Kong. (29)</span><br />
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<b><u></u></b><u></u><u><b>1983</b></u>Mochtar Riady forms Lippo Finance & Investment in Little Rock. Non-citizen Riady hires Carter's former SBA director, Vernon Weaver, to chair the firm. The launch is accomplished with the aid of a $2 million loan guaranteed by the SBA. Weaver uses Governor Clinton as a character reference to help get the loan guarantee. First loan goes to Little Rock Chinese restaurant owner Charlie Trie. (29)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">Mochtar Riady and Stephens Inc buy the Hong Kong Chinese Bank.(29)<br />
Riady buys a stake in the Worthern holding company whose assets include the Stephens-controlled Worthen Bank. Price: $16 million. Deal handled by C. Joseph Giroir II. Giroir was the Rose law firm chair who hired Hillary Clinton. Giroir would continue to be a deal-maker for the Riadys and Liem Sioe Liong (29)<br />
<b><u></u></b><u></u><u><b>1985</b></u>Arkansas state pension funds -- all of which have been deposited in Worthen by Governor Bill Clinton -- suddenly lose 15% of their value because of the failure high risk, short-term loans. The $52 million loss is covered by a Worthen check for $32 million (written by Jack Stephens in the middle of the night), a bank officer misconduct insurance policy, and Mochtar Riady's mass purchase of new common stock issue by the bank. Clinton escapes a major scandal. (29)</span><br />
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Mochtar's son James comes to Arkansas to manage Worthen as president. He bonds with Clinton and Charlie Trie. Riady turns the New York branch of Worthen into a branch of BCA, which is controlled by Liem Sioe Liong. (29)</span><br />
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Lippo executive and Chinese native John Huang assumes vice presidency of the Hong Kong Chinese Bank. He is also active in Lippo's operations in Arkansas.(29)<br />
Worthen is investigated by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for improper loans to companies owned by the Riadys and Stephenses. Also targeted: $14 million in loans to businesses owned by Liem Sieo Liong.(29)</span><br />
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Among Mochtar and James Riady's further ventures is the takeover of the First National Bank of Mena in a tiny town better known for its Contra arms supply, drug running and money-laundering operation, then for its other economic development potential.(29)<br />
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</u></b>James Riady takes over operations of a new branch of the Lippo Bank, working with a Hong Kong Lippo executive, John Huang. Warren Stephens raises $50,000 overnight so Clinton can buy TV time in his struggling re-election bid. (29)</span><br />
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</u></b>With Jackson Stephens, Mochtar Riady buys BCCI's former Hong Kong subsidiary from its liquidators (29).<br />
<b></b><b>China Resources Company Ltd begins buying stock in the Hong Kong Chinese Bank at 15% below market value</b>. Intelligence sources later report that the firm is really a front for Chinese military intelligence.(29)</span><br />
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The Arkansas Industrial Development Commission set up deals to further the Indonesian - Arkansas connection. The commission even arranged for James Riady to talk with a New Jersey company about building a diaper manufacturing plant in Jakarta, according to the Arkansas Democrat Gazette. Deals were worked on for Wal-Mart, Tyson's Foods, and JB Hunt and documents uncovered by the paper "make reference to Clinton's ideal position as president . . . in helping to secure Arkansas-Indonesian deals." Said a former US ambassador in Jakarta at the time, "There were lots of people from Arkansas who came through Indonesia."…" (29)<br />
<b><u>April, 1993<br />
</u></b>C. Joseph Giroir, a former law partner of First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, incorporated the Arkansas International Development Corporation ("AIDC"). AIDC was initially capitalized by funding from the Riady's Lippo Group. The purpose of AIDC was to develop projects or joint ventures for the Lippo Group. In 1995, Giroir and Lippo formed a limited liability company, also referred to as AIDC. Through the corporation, the Riadys paid Giroir a salary of between $350,000 and $600,000 with bonuses. Similar to the Riadys, Giroir was a major contributor to the DNC. In 1996 alone, Giroir contributed close to $200,000 in conjunction with fundraisers organized by John Huang. (30)</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
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</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">Ng Lap Seng, a wealthy Macau businessman with ties to organized crime, became Charlie Trie’s partner in his attempt to purchase the dilapidated Camelot Hotel [see Juanita Broaddrick] in Little Rock. Trie and Ng entered the U.S. in March 1994 to discuss the hotel proposal and inspect the building. Ng brought $80,000 in cash with him on his trip to the United States. Witnesses later saw Ng give Trie thousands of dollars in cash. These seem to be the earliest examples of the receipt by Trie of large amounts of money from Ng Lap Seng. In the coming years, Trie was to receive over $1 million from Ng, over $130,000 of which he would funnel into the DNC. One prominent lawyer who assisted Trie and Ng was C. Joseph Giroir. Giroir was a close friend of Clinton and a major DNC fundraiser<u>.</u> (31)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">James Riady hosted a luncheon for Commerce Department officials traveling in Indonesia to promote the U.S.-ASEAN Alliance for Mutual Growth. The luncheon attendees included Commerce Undersecretary Jeffrey Garten and Deputy Undersecretary David Rothkopf, who would later be John Huang’s superiors in the International Trade Administration at Commerce. Rothkopf was unable to recall who at the Commerce Department had organized the luncheon, which was held at James Riady’s home. However, Rothkopf recalled that Melinda Yee, a good friend of John Huang and the Riady family, did attend the luncheon as well. Melinda Yee invoked her Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination and is not cooperating in the Committee’s investigation. Ms. Yee had assisted in organizing a Commerce Department contract signing ceremony with the Lippo Group and its American joint venture partner. Along with Melinda Yee, John Huang and Lippo consultant Joe Giroir played a major role in the Lippo contract’s inclusion in the signing ceremony. (32)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><u></u><u><b>April, 1994</b></u><br /> Joe Giroir, who helped hire Hillary Clinton at the Rose Law Firm, used his Arkansas contacts to set up a meeting there in April 1994 for prospective Chinese partners with Lippo in a huge China power-plant project. Huang, then head of Lippo's U.S. operations, wanted a regular role for himself in the Clinton Administration, and it is believed that Giroir pulled strings to get Huang hired in July 1994 as a Commerce Department deputy assistant secretary, a job that gave him access to classified economic data from Asian countries where Lippo has a big stake. At Commerce, Huang stayed in regular contact with Giroir, as well as Lippo, and frequented the Washington office of a company that Giroir represented, using its phones and a fax machine for what investigators suspect were transmissions of secret material to Lippo. Giroir knew the Riadys and formerly a board member of Worthen National Bank, which they owned jointly with the investment firm Stephens Inc. <br />
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</u></b>China's Vice Premier Li Lanquing and a delegation visited Arkansas to discuss China's trade and investment policies with Arkansas companies. The delegation, accompanied by Joe Giroir and representatives of Lippo, Tyson and Wal-Mart, toured company sights in northwest Arkansas. <br />
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</u></b>Charlie Trie hired Antonio Pan to assist him in his various enterprises. Pan was a longtime employee of the Lippo Group in Hong Kong and in Arkansas. As a Lippo employee, Pan had a number of contacts with Presidential friend Joe Giroir. In fact, when he departed Lippo to work for Trie, Pan wrote a brief note to Giroir letting him know: "A longtime friend of mine invited me to provide my service to his company’s investment in the Asian region. After I obtained my current superior’s understand [sic] and concurrence, I will resign my current position of Senior Vice President of marketing from this company. Please continue to extend your support to Lippo Group . . . ." (33)<br />
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</u></b>Huang, James Riady and Joseph Giroir, former Rose Law Firm managing partner, met with Clinton and Lindsey in the White House. All agreed that Huang can better serve the president as a fund-raiser. </span><br />
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<b><u></u></b><u></u><u><b>September 13, 1995</b></u><br /> John Huang attends an Oval Office meeting with President Clinton, James Riady, Joseph Giroir, and Bruce Lindsey. At the meeting, Huang or Riady requested of the President a "transfer" for Huang from Commerce to the DNC, and President Clinton obliged the request. Huang's WAVES entry that day does not disclose that he sat in the Oval Office with President Clinton, had a lengthy chat, and succeeded in securing a new job at the DNC. Instead, the record simply recounts that Huang had a 5:15 pm appointment that day in the West Wing. The "visitee" is listed as Nancy Hernreich; the requestoris Rebecca Cameron, Hernreich's assistant. Commerce Dept. officials claim that they had no knowledge that Huang had this sort of access – (34)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
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POTUS met in Oval Office with Bruce Lindsey, John Huang, Joe Giroir, and James Riady, a Lippo executive. It is a 20 minute meeting described by the White House as a "social visit." But Lindsey testified to Senate that during the meeting Huang told POTUS he wanted to raise $ for Democrats. – (35)<br />
<b><u>September 26, 1995<br />
</u></b>In a bar in the lobby of the Willard Hotel, Middleton introduces DNC finance chairman, Marvin Rosen to Huang and Giroir - a meeting Giroir asked Middleton to set up once he learned Rosen would be new DNC Finance Chair. –(35)</span><br />
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<u></u><u>October 23, 1995</u>Middleton phoned Rosen, he said he would like to set up a meeting with Rosen, Joe Giroir and John Huang. (35)</span><br />
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</u></b>BEI Defense Systems Company*, Euless, Texas, is being awarded a $5,693,282 firm fixed price contract for various spare parts for the AH-1 Cobra Helicopter. Work will be performed in Euless, Texas, and is expected to be completed by September 15, 1997. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This is a <b><u>sole source contract initiated on March 20, 1996</u></b>. The contracting activity is the U.S. Army Tank- Automotive & Armaments Command, Warren, Michigan (DAAE20-96-C- 0309). (8)<br />
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</u></b>At a fundraiser arranged by Huang and Charlie Trie, President Clinton addressed the large number of foreign nationals attending the event at the Sheraton Carlton: "I say to the Asian American community here <b>– </b>and to those who come from other countries to be with us here tonight<b> –</b> the United States is very grateful for the people who have come from the Asian Pacific region, who have made our country their home." Among the group of foreign nationals was a high ranking executive at the Lippo Group, Roy Tirtadji. Giroir had contributed $100,000 towards the event so that he and approximately 20 others, including Tirtadji, could attend. However, Tirtadji, and not Joe Giroir, sat at the head table with the President. Half of the guests seated with President at this event were foreign citizens. The President only sat at the head table for about 15 minutes. According to one witness who sat at the head table at this event, during the time the President sat at the table, either no one wanted to speak, or could not speak English. Therefore, this witness, Jitu Somaya, then struck up small talk with the President to fill the time. In fact, the event contained so many foreign nationals that it provoked concern among one Democratic official who said, "’. . . I hope people are checking this one out. It was peculiar. There were a lot of people who didn’t speak English or spoke very, very poor English.’" President Clinton again singled out Huang and Charlie Trie for praise in front of the donors they solicited. The event was slated to raise $500,000, but documents provided to the House Committee show that $577,000 was raised from only 23 different donors. <br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><strong>SOURCE REFERENCES</strong>:<br /> (1) </span><a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a1005884.htm"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial";">Clinton's Mystery Man </span></a><span style="font-family: "arial";"> 8/1/97 <em>Editorial</em><i> </i> Investors Business Daily<br /> (2) </span><a href="http://www.federal.com/oct21-96/Lippo"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial";">http://www.federal.com/oct21-96/Lippo</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial";"> . 10/21/96 The Washington Weekly<br /> (3) </span><a href="http://209.67.114.212/forum/a1000395.htm"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial";">http://209.67.114.212/forum/a1000395.htm</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial";"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">The Name Of The Rose The New Republic 4/4/94 <em>By L J Davis</em>(4) </span><a href="http://www.aci.net/kalliste/lippo.htm"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial";">http://www.aci.net/kalliste/lippo.htm</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Tenacious Tentacles by J. 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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8202192063193145623.post-74375316744053751372016-09-09T17:38:00.001-07:002016-09-09T17:38:23.830-07:00When Hillary assumed the job as Secretary of State, she assented to a limitation of the foundation's international activities and agreed to disclose contributors.<div style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>11 Items from Clinton Foundation's Dealings with Russian Uranium That Should Have Americans Worried</strong></span></div>
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By Michael Hausam
The New York Times on Thursday published an article about the Clinton Foundation, its receipt of millions of dollars from foreign governments and other interests, and the U.S. government's involvement in Russia's stated goal to expand its control of the world's uranium market.
All while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State.
The NY Times didn't reach a conclusion, but one question looms very large: As Secretary of State, did Hillary influence an international deal giving a Russian company 20% ownership of America's uranium production, in return for millions of dollars of cash donations to the Clinton Foundation?
Here is a list of 11 questionable items forming a chain of events:
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1.September of 2005: Canadian Frank Giustra visits Kazakhstan with Bill Clinton. Days later, his company UrAsia wins a major uranium deal with the country.
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2. 2006: Giustra donates $31 million to the Clinton Foundation.
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3.February 2007: UrAsia merges with Uranium One and expands into the U.S.<br />
4.June 2008: Russian atomic agency Rosatom begins talks to acquire Uranium.<br />
5.2008 to 2010: Uranium One and UrAsia investors donate $8.65 million to Clinton Foundation.
6.June 2009: Rosatom acquires 17% of Uranium.
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7.2010 to 2011: Millions more donated by Uranium One investors to Clinton Foundation.<br />
8.June 2010: Rosatom requests Committee on Foreign Investment (of which the State Department is a member and its approval is needed) to approve a majority ownership in Uranium One, promising not to purchase 100% of it nor take it private.
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9.June 2010: Bill Clinton receives $500,000 to speak at a conference held by the Russian investment bank involved in the Rosatom transactions.
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10.October 2010: Committee approves Rosatom's request to acquire a majority share in Uranium.
11.January 2013: Rosatom purchases remainder of Uranium One and takes it private.
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The origins of the story were reported in the NY Times in 2008 by Jo Becker, a co-author of the recent NYT piece:
Unlike more established competitors, Mr. Giustra was a newcomer to uranium mining in Kazakhstan, a former Soviet republic. But what his fledgling company lacked in experience, it made up for in connections. Accompanying Mr. Giustra on his luxuriously appointed MD-87 jet that day was a former president of the United States, Bill Clinton....
Within two days, corporate records show that Mr. Giustra also came up a winner when his company signed preliminary agreements giving it the right to buy into three uranium projects controlled by Kazakhstan’s state-owned uranium agency, Kazatomprom.
The monster deal stunned the mining industry, turning an unknown shell company into one of the world’s largest uranium producers in a transaction ultimately worth tens of millions of dollars to Mr. Giustra, analysts said.
Just months after the Kazakh pact was finalized, Mr. Clinton’s charitable foundation received its own windfall: a $31.3 million donation from Mr. Giustra that had remained a secret until he acknowledged it last month.<br />
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There are intricacies and subtleties to this story that aren't evident in the timeline.
For example, when Hillary assumed the job as Secretary of State, she assented to a limitation of the foundation's international activities and agreed to disclose contributors. It appears, at a minimum, there was incomplete follow-through upon these assurances.
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Furthermore, those involved in the transactions have denied that any special privileges were sought and that the donations were completely unrelated. The former chairman of Uranium One said this to Bloomberg News:
“I have never met Hillary Clinton. This donation was made in support of Frank Giustra, my business partner and friend for more than 20 years. There was no thought of influencing anyone."
The Clinton campaign has denied that Hillary had any direct involvement in Rosatom's obtaining approval to complete the deal. <br />
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A spokesman said that no one:
“...has ever produced a shred of evidence supporting the theory that Hillary Clinton ever took action as secretary of state to support the interests of donors to the Clinton Foundation.”
On the other hand, an individual - requesting anonymity - with knowledge of the Clintons' fundraising operations, commented on the possible motivations for giving massive sums of money to the foundation:
“Why do you think they are doing it — because they love them?”
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The NY Times supported its article by referring to multiple interviews, public records evaluations, and Peter Schweizer's yet-to-be-released book “Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich.”
Even so, NYT draws no conclusions, as evidenced by the following two sentences that appeared right at the beginning:
"Whether the donations played any role in the approval of the uranium deal is unknown. But the episode underscores the special ethical challenges presented by the Clinton Foundation, headed by a former president who relied heavily on foreign cash to accumulate $250 million in assets even as his wife helped steer American foreign policy as secretary of state, presiding over decisions with the potential to benefit the foundation’s donors."
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<a href="http://ijr.com/2015/04/305269-2-hillary-clinton-influence-russian-nuclear-fuel-deal-clinton-foundation-received-millions-dollars/">http://ijr.com/2015/04/305269-2-hillary-clinton-influence-russian-nuclear-fuel-deal-clinton-foundation-received-millions-dollars/</a>.
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8202192063193145623.post-89080057026492774872016-09-09T12:58:00.000-07:002016-09-09T13:05:00.219-07:00Thanks to Bill Clinton, The Chinese Army has a reliable global nuclear punch with powerful accuracy MISSILE-GATE<br />
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If there is any one man that the Chinese Army nuclear rocket forces should pin a medal on - it is Bill <br />
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Clinton. In 1993, China depended on 1950s era missile technology that was failure prone and inaccurate even with nuclear warheads. They needed help. So they dangled a checkbook in front of our President.<br />
Hughes CEO Michael Armstrong wrote President Clinton in 1993, threatening to pull his political and financial support if Clinton did not allow for space technology transfers to China. Armstrong listed numerous issues on which he had supported the president, noting that he needed Clinton's help on the export. Armstrong stated that Hughes would lose jobs in politically crucial California.<br />
"This will be public and political shortly," wrote Armstrong.<br />
In 1994, in return for Armstrong’s support Clinton approved a waiver for Hughes and later for satellite competitor Loral Space to transfer advanced satellite systems to China. Still, even with Clinton's signature, the cumbersome process of getting Defense Department and State Department approval was far too much for Armstrong. <br />
According to a Sept. 22, 1995, State Department memorandum, Secretary Warren Christopher <br />
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rejected plans to give the Commerce Department the authority to approve satellite exports after an interagency study noted that “significant” military and intelligence capabilities could be lost. <br />
Armstrong knew the State Department would never allow his exports without detailed oversight and he intended to do something about it. In 1995, Armstrong wrote Clinton National Security Advisor Anthony Lake, seeking to transfer all satellite export authority from the State Department to the much more friendly and ill-equipped Commerce Department. <br />
"The USG [U.S. government] does not require Congressional approval to remove commercial satellites from the United States Munitions List (USML), which is under State Department jurisdiction, and placing them on the Commerce Control List (CCL), which is under Commerce Department jurisdiction," wrote Armstrong.<br />
"It is my understanding that State has resisted vigorously Commerce attempts to do just that. For the national good, this situation must change. A commercial communications satellite is not a defense item. State Department control of satellites is not required for national security. Continued State Department control is damaging to the U.S. satellite industry and is not warranted."<br />
At the same time Loral leap-frogged over Armstrong and took the lead in seeking exports to China. In a September 1994 memo to Bill Clinton, Harold Ickes, then White House chief of staff, informed him that Loral CEO Bernard Schwartz could be used to raise campaign donations “in order to raise an additional $3,000,000 to permit the Democratic National Committee to produce and air generic TV/radio spots as soon as Congress adjourns.”<br />
Ickes then urged Clinton to invite Schwartz to the White House “to impress [him] with the need to raise $3,000,000 within the next two weeks.” In another memo, Ickes informed Clinton that Schwartz “is prepared to do anything he can for the administration.”<br />
Between October 1995 and March 1996, as Clinton mulled over whether to ignore the State, Justice, and Defense Departments’ objections against granting Loral waivers to export advanced technology to China, Loral Chairman Bernard Schwartz injected more than $150,000 into the DNC’s coffers.<br />
However, something went horribly wrong. In February 1996, a Chinese Long March rocket carrying a Loral Intelsat satellite failed and crashed on lift-off. The Chinese intended to launch the Loral satellite into deep space as they had been paid to do by Mr. Schwartz.<br />
However, when the satellites’ remains were recovered it was discovered that a vital computer control board was somehow missing from the space craft. Without the electronics on the missing board the satellite would have failed mysteriously in orbit. Yet, because of the rocket failure, the satellite was recovered nearly intact, except for the missing board.<br />
The missing board from the Loral Intelsat satellite is no mystery. Chinese engineers had removed it and kept the board for examination. The stolen Loral electronics consisted of radiation hardened, encrypted, telemetry chips, stored in a hardened flight control box similar to those found on airliners. <br />
Radiation hardened chips are useful for 3 things, space missions, atomic reactors and nuclear warfare. The fact that they were encryption control chips made it even more sensitive since they could be duplicated and used for military weapons such as nuclear tipped missiles.<br />
While the Loral crash investigation was still ongoing, President Clinton quickly moved the oversight of satellite exports from the State and Defense Departments to the Commerce Department. In response, Armstrong and his counterparts wrote a thank-you letter to Clinton. In a May 3, 1996, letter signed by the CEOs of Hughes, Lockheed and Loral, the three executives expressed their thanks directly to Bill Clinton.<br />
"In October of last year we wrote to you asking you to complete the transfer of responsibility for commercial satellite export licensing to the Department of Commerce. Your administration recently announced its intention to do just that."<br />
"We greatly appreciate this action which demonstrates again your strong commitment to reforming the U.S. export control system," states a letter signed by Hughes CEO Armstrong, Lockheed CEO Norman Augustine and Loral CEO Bernard Schwartz.<br />
With the stroke of a pen, Bill Clinton signed away decades of advanced US missile research and technology. While the Chinese were tearing apart the Loral satellites to obtain advanced electronics, Hughes also made significant contributions toward advancing the Chinese missile efforts.<br />
According to the State Department, the most serious violations occurred when Hughes gave the Chinese Army classified information that supported its analyses of the investigation of the January 1995 failure of the launch of a Chinese rocket carrying the Hughes-manufactured ASTAR II commercial communications satellite.<br />
On Jan. 26, 1995, approximately 52 seconds into flight, a Chinese LM-2E carrying the Hughes APSTAR II communications satellite failed. It was because of this failure that Hughes decided to pass secret missile technology to China. The joint Hughes and Chinese Army crash investigation teams discovered that the rockets’ nose cone had not been properly designed. <br />
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In response, Hughes engineers then passed to the Chinese all the information necessary to design a modern nose cone which could deploy a payload into space. Of course, that payload could be a civilian satellite or a nuclear warhead. The Hughes actions led to an investigation and national security violations charges were filed by the State Department.<br />
“Respondents decided to form and direct a launch failure investigation beginning in January 1995 and continuing throughout much of that year. The investigation involved the formation of several groups of leading technical experts from China and the U.S., which throughout the investigation engaged in an extensive exchange of technical data and analysis, producing a wide range of unauthorized technology transfers,” noted the State Department charge document.<br />
The national security charges caused a major upheaval at Hughes. Hughes not only lost its satellite and advanced US technology - it also lost its business. In the end, Hughes was forced to sell off its satellite division to Boeing. Boeing in turn agreed to fire most of the Hughes staff and pay a $32 million fine to the US government for the illegal transfers to avoid being banned from exports. <br />
Loral too suffered from the extensive investigations into the massive transfers of advanced US technology to Chain. Loral was forced to sell off all of its defense and military divisions. The company eventually went bankrupt and then re-established itself as a satellite maker now using <br />
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NON-US equipment. <br />
However, the quid pro quo was complete and the Chinese Army went to work with US technology in hand. Improvements in rocket electronics, nose cone design and guidance system assembly obtained directly from Loral and Hughes were quickly applied to the force of nuclear tipped strategic missiles. The technology that Loral and Hughes engineers so eagerly provided was used to improve Chinese nuclear missile accuracy and reliability to near state of the art.<br />
Previous flight test results indicated that almost half of the Chinese missile force would fail due to bad guidance and poor design. The remaining half was so inaccurate that they could miss their intended city targets by hundreds of miles. <br />
Today, the Chinese missile force will perform flawlessly, dropping nuclear payloads within 100 yards of any target on Earth. The Chinese Army has a reliable global nuclear punch with powerful accuracy thanks to Bill Clinton.<br />
CHARLES R. SMITH<br />
CEO FOUNDER OF SOFTWAR INC. <br />
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Secret memo on Loral deal </h1>
<span class="entry-date"> Posted By <cite>Charles Smith</cite> On <time> 04/21/2000</time> </span> </header><div class="entry-content">
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Despite an ongoing FBI investigation into the unauthorized transfer<br /> of advanced missile-guidance technology to China, <a href="http://www.loral.com/">Loral Space &<br /> Communications Corp.</a> requested and received<br /> Clinton administration approval to sell communications satellites to<br /> Beijing in 1996, a secret National Security Council memo obtained by<br /> WorldNetDaily shows.<br />
Congressional investigators have raised concerns that the satellite<br /> technology shared with the Chinese may have allowed them to improve<br /> their capability of launching intercontinental ballistic missiles. China<br /> currently targets 13 such nuclear-tipped missiles at the United States.<br />
<a href="http://www.loral.com/chairman/chairmansstatement.html"> Loral Chairman Bernard Schwartz</a> donated more than<br /> $1 million to the Democratic National Committee, according to Federal<br /> Election Commission records, and has recently made contributions to<br /> Hillary Clinton’s campaign for the U.S. Senate in New York. The $1<br /> million contribution was the single largest individual donation to the<br /> DNC that year.<br />
The July 1, 1996, action memo to National Security Adviser Anthony<br /> Lake, obtained through an intelligence agency source, reveals Loral<br /> requested that President Clinton delay a pending waiver for a satellite<br /> export.<br />
“In mid-June, Globalstar’s parent company, Loral requested that we<br /> temporarily delay evaluation of their request for a national interest<br /> waiver for this project,” the memo explains. “The company has now asked<br /> us to resume processing of their application, and State has confirmed<br /> its support for approval of the license.<br />
“The Dept. of State, with the concurrence of the Departments of<br /> Commerce and Defense and the Officer of Science and Technology Policy,<br /> recommends that the President report to Congress that it is in the<br /> national interest to waive the Tiananmen Square sanctions in order to<br /> allow the licensing of communications satellites and related equipment<br /> for export to China,” states the memo.<br />
President Clinton signed the waiver for Loral later that month.<br /> Loral was then under investigation for the loss of an encryption control<br /> board from a Loral Intelsat satellite that crashed in China. The<br /> missing board prompted an investigation by the FBI.<br />
According to documents obtained from the U.S. Commerce Department,<br /> Loral was aware that the exported satellite systems were developed from<br /> American military equipment. Loral documents obtained from the files of<br /> the late Commerce Secretary Ron Brown included a folder labeled “for<br /> Secy. Brown” with a page titled “Commercial Applications Of DoD<br /> Technology.” The Loral document lists “Intelsat,” “Cellular —<br />Globalstar” and “Direct Broadcast Satellite” technology along with a<br /> variety of other products developed from Department of Defense projects.<br />
In addition, a 1996 State Department report contradicts Clinton<br /> administration claims that advanced communications exports to China were<br />“civilian” projects. The report states that the Chinese army was keenly<br /> interested in obtaining Loral Globalstar satellite technology and the<br /> Loral purchase was possibly being financed by Chinese billionaire, Li<br /> Ka-Shing. The 1996 Department report was written by then-Ambassador to<br /> China James Sasser, a former U.S. Senator from Tennessee. The 1996<br /> State Department report was obtained through the Freedom of Information<br /> Act.<br />
The report states: “The PLA (People’s Liberation Army) has for some<br /> time been discussing with the MPT (Ministry of Posts and<br /> Telecommunications) the possibility of using frequencies allocated to<br /> the PLA for establishing a mobile phone network based on CODE DIVISION<br /> MULTIPLE ACCESS (CDMA) technology.”<br />
The 1996 report written by Sasser alleges that the Ministry of Posts<br /> and Telecommunications (MPT) and Li Ka-Shing were both directly involved<br /> with the People’s Liberation Army in financing the Loral export to<br /> China.<br />
“Already, foreign companies are interested in the new PLA-backed<br /> entity that is likely to emerge over the next year,” states the report.<br />“Recent press reports indicate that Hutchison Whampoa may be involved<br /> with the PLA about possible funding options.”<br />
Li Ka-Shing owns Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. and is reportedly the sixth<br /> richest man in the world. Hutchison Whampoa is the shipping company<br /> awarded the contract to control the ports at both ends of the Panama<br /> Canal.<br />
Li Ka-Shing has been described by intelligence sources as a “Howard<br /> Hughes” for the Chinese Military Intelligence Department, or MID. U.S.<br /> Army Southern Command documents on the Panama transfer noted that Li<br /> Ka-Shing was an “indirect” threat to the United States.<br />
Loral Globalstar satellite cellular phones use a unique<br /> communications technology originally built for the U.S. military called<br /> Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA). The July 1996 waiver signed by<br /> Clinton allowed Loral to export Globalstar CDMA technology to China.<br />
The Clinton waiver also allowed for China to acquire a secure<br /> telemetry control ground station for the Loral Globalstar satellites.<br /> The station is currently operating just outside of Beijing.<br />
Loral’s Globalstar is not the only satellite system under fire for<br /> alleged illegal transfers to the Chinese army. The State Department<br /> recently accused Motorola’s Iridium system of passing significant<br /> missile technology to China.<br />
However, neither satellite system seems to be a big hit with<br /> consumers or Wall Street investors. The ill-fated Iridium satellite<br /> phone system declared bankruptcy last year and now plans to write off<br /> the entire $5 billion space-based system. The extraordinary process of<br /> de-orbiting and destroying the array of 66 satellites is under way as<br /> Iridium operations shut down.<br />
“Iridium was one of the more colossal screw-ups in history,” says<br /> Douglas Humphrey, head of Cidera Inc., a satellite-based Internet<br /> routing company. “The magnitude of the damage is not yet fully<br /> realized. Wait a year or two. Iridium seriously damaged Wall Street<br /> perceptions of satellites.”<br />
According to an article, “Iridium, Overcapacity Worry Space<br /> Industry,” published in Aviation Week & Space Technology, Humphrey<br /> noted the big winners would be Loral and Schwartz.<br />
“There’s not room for three to five Iridium-like systems, only one or<br /> two,” the article noted. “… Bernie Schwartz built the cheap one<br /> (Globalstar) and he will win.”<br />
According to Hoyt Davidson, managing director at Donaldson, Lufkin &<br /> Jenrette Investment Banking, Schwartz is always looking for investment<br /> in his space systems.<br />
“Bernie Schwartz always has a prospectus ready in his back pocket,”<br />noted Davidson in the Aviation Week article.<br />
<a href="http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=16634">WorldNetDaily reported in 1998</a><br /> that Globalstar, the Loral subsidiary, accepted full partnerships and a<br /> $37.5 million investment by two Chinese government-front companies.<br />
That year, Loral’s Globalstar Limited Partnership division finalized<br /> a deal with China Telecom and CHINASAT, both wholly owned by Beijing’s<br /> Ministry of Information Industry.<br />
“The addition of China Telecom as a full partner solidifies<br /> Globalstar’s commitment to bringing the promise of mobile satellite<br /> communications to China’s 1.2 billion people,” said Schwartz in a public<br /> statement in 1998.<br />
The deal specified that Beijing’s government companies would manage<br /> all Globalstar operations in China, according to Schwartz. With the<br /> world’s largest population and one of the fastest-growing economies, the<br /> deal was estimated to increase Loral’s revenues by $250 million<br /> annually.<br />
The telecommunications deal was the result of a meeting between<br /> Schwartz and top Chinese officials made possible by a trade mission<br /> coordinated by then-Commerce Secretary Brown in August 1994. Schwartz<br /> met with People’s Liberation Army Gen. Shen Roujun.<br />
Besides construction, operation and maintenance of a Chinese<br /> telecommunications infrastructure, China Telecom lists among its<br /> specific responsibilities “emergency communication during wartime”; the<br /> construction and operation of government communications networks;<br /> ensuring security in communication; exercising “centralized control over<br /> public satellite communication” and “any duty that may be entrusted by<br /> MPT” (Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications) or the new Ministry of<br /> Information Industry.<br />
“Allegations that Space Systems/Loral provided missile guidance<br /> technology to the Chinese are false,” said Schwartz back in 1998. “SS/L<br /> makes commercial communications satellites, not launch vehicles. The<br /> company did not advise the Chinese on how to fix any problems with the<br /> Long March rocket. All company employees were specifically instructed<br /> not to provide any such assistance, and the company believes that its<br /> employees acted in good faith to comply with the strict and complex<br /> requirements of the export control laws.”</div>
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Was Ted Sioeng</strong></span><br />
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funneling money or just doing business?
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</strong></span><span style="font-size: small;">Paula Dwyer
August 11, 1997 — 12:00 AM EDT</span><br />
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Ted Sioeng had arrived. On the evening of July 22, 1996, he sat proudly beside Bill Clinton in the
glitzy ballroom of the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles at a dinner that raised $800,000 in
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whose limited English made small talk with Clinton difficult--what was a night to remember is now</campaign>
part of a nightmare he'd like to forget.
Sioeng (pronounced shong), 52, a multimillionaire who made a fortune selling used factory
equipment in China and exporting Chinese cigarettes to the West, finds himself at the center of
Donorgate. According to sources familiar with both Justice Dept. and Senate Governmental Affairs
Committee probes into whether Beijing attempted to influence last year's elections, Sioeng could be a
linchpin in the scandal. He and his daughter Jessica Elnitiarta have given about $400,000 to
politicians since 1995, the bulk of it to Democrats. And some of those donations allegedly coincided
with large wire transfers from the Bank of China to their U.S. bank accounts.
Is Ted Sioeng the key to Donorgate? Or is he simply a flamboyant entrepreneur doing business in
America the way he does business in Asia--using his wealth to boost political connections. Through
their lawyers, Mark J. MacDougall and Steven R. Ross of Washington, Sioeng and Elnitiarta deny
that Beijing was behind any of their contributions or that they ever acted on China's behalf.
This much is known: Intercepts of conversations indicate that top Chinese officials discussed ways to
influence U.S. politicians and may even have mentioned people friendly to Beijing who might be
enlisted in the effort. MacDougall says he wouldn't be surprised if Chinese diplomats raised Sioeng's
name--he is also called Sioeng San Wong--because he is pro-China.
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Sioeng, who declined to be interviewed, is not a permanent U.S. resident--his passport is from Belize-
-but his wife and children are. He has not been seen in the U.S. since winter and is believed to be
living in Hong Kong.
Sioeng's views on China are more emotional than political, say friends. He is not an ethnic Chinese
but was raised in Indonesia by a Chinese couple. Ideologically, he appears to be a free-market
capitalist. Sioeng became wealthy in his 20s by selling foam rubber padding in Indonesia. And he was
among the first to recognize that money could be made in a newly opened China in the 1970s.
First, Sioeng sold used cigarette-manufacturing equipment to co-ops in the southern province of
Yunnan. Later, he moved on to used medical and toy-making equipment. He also endeared himself to
the provincial government by donating money to build schools, hospitals, and roads. In return,
Yunnan officials granted him a license to sell the popular Hongtashan brand of cigarettes--called
Pagoda Mountain in the U.S.--outside of China. The wire transfers he receives from the Bank of
China, according to a source familiar with the transactions, are quarterly dividends from his cigarette
joint venture, a dollar-based business.
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Despite his affection for China, Sioeng seems crazy about the U.S. He is known to wear ties imprinted
with the Statue of Liberty, and friends say he became so enamored of America that he decided to raise
his five children here. His wife obtained a visa through an immigration lottery, and in 1987, the
family moved to Los Angeles. Sioeng stayed behind to take care of business but made frequent
extended visits.
His eldest child, Jessica Elnitiarta--she uses her mother's maiden name--heads the family interests in
California and is the sole shareholder of Panda Estates Investment Inc. Panda holdings include two
Hollywood hotels and a 24-unit luxury condo in Beverly Hills. The properties are worth some $25
million and the condo alone produces nearly $1 million in annual pretax profit, according to Sioeng's
lawyers. This means Elnitiarta, 31, easily could have made political donations out of her own pocket.
"The amount of money they gave was not a big deal to them," says a friend.
Sioeng's most visible asset is the International Daily News, a Chinese-language newspaper in
Monterey Park. Formerly pro-Taiwan, the paper today is pro-China, some readers say, because it runs
releases issued by Beijing news agencies. <br />
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But Jamie Lim, deputy general manager, says Sioeng isn't
around enough to influence its content.
DEEP POCKET. Sioeng often donated money to Asian-American groups, and his generosity to Iowa
Wesleyan College was recognized with an honorary doctorate. Inevitably, pols began to view Dr.
Sioeng, as he sometimes calls himself, as a deep pocket, too. California State Treasurer Matt Fong, a
Republican, was among the first to come calling. Fong, now running for a U.S. Senate seat, received
$100,000 from Sioeng and Elnitiarta in 1995. When reports suggested the money came from China,
he returned it.
Others familiar with Sioeng's giving say they don't see China behind the donations. Fong aggressively
solicited Sioeng after his 1994 treasurer's race, they say. And Fong concedes that he went to Sioeng's
office "no more than 10 times" seeking money. Sioeng has told friends he gave Fong $50,000 because
he was weary of his pleas. Fong even helped him write the check because of Sioeng's difficulty with
English.
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Elnitiarta gave the money, says a friend, because she was told the
NPF would hold an event at her hotel. It never did.
Soon, Sioeng's largesse caught the eye of <strong><span style="color: red;">Democratic fund-raiser John Huang</span></strong>. He invited Sioeng and
Elnitiarta to his maiden event as a DNC fund-raiser in February, 1996, and to the now infamous April,
1996, Buddhist Temple lunch with Vice-President Al Gore.
It was also Huang who invited Sioeng to the Century Plaza fund-raiser. A Democratic source says
Huang's practice by this time was to solicit wealthy Asian Americans to buy entire tables so they
could impress foreign guests with their White House connections. Elnitiarta gave $250,000 altogether,
and this enabled Sioeng to invite associates from mainland China to three DNC events. The DNC has
kept Elnitiarta's donations, which are legal because she's a permanent U.S. resident. If nothing else,
she and her father have learned that a few hundred thousand dollars can buy plenty of political
connections--and a whole lot of grief--in America.
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James Riady</span></span></span></a><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
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Justice investigation</span></span></span></a><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
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investigations</span></span></span></a><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<strong>Customs Service Probe Hits Loral With $20 Million Fine <br />(Loral passed technology to China to improve missile systems)</strong></div>
The U.S. Customs Service announced January 10 that its four-year probe of Space System/Loral has resulted in that company paying a $20 million fine. The Customs Service charged Loral with violating the Arms Export Control Act, which governs the transfer of sensitive U.S. technology to foreign governments, by turning over technology to China that allowed it to improve the guidance systems for its missiles, according to a news release from the U.S. Customs Service on its probe of the satellite manufacturer. In an agreement reached between Loral and the State Department, the company agreed to pay the fine without admitting or denying the government's charges. While the $20 million fine is the largest paid by an American company under the Arms Export Control Act, Loral will use approximately $6 million from the fine "to implement better export controls," according to the news release. The government will receive the remaining $14 million. Following is the text of the news release: (begin text) <div align="center">
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Thursday, January 10, 2002 U.S. Customs Probes Into Satellite Manufacturer Results in Record $20 Million Fine Washington, D.C. -- The U.S. Customs Service today announced that Space System/Loral, a U.S. satellite manufacturer, has agreed to pay a $20 million fine for allegedly passing licensable technology to China to improve its missile guidance systems. The Customs Special-Agent-in-Charge Office in Baltimore investigated the case. The four-year investigation began in May 1996 after reports surfaced that Loral had released sensitive technical data to the Chinese. Earlier that year, Loral had undertaken a review of a failed launch of one of its satellites in China. The satellite was built for Intelset and was being launched by a Chinese rocket. Loral later admitted to the U.S. State Department of having unintentionally released sensitive information to Chinese authorities after the review. Loral was charged with violating the Arms Export Control Act, which governs the transfer of sensitive U.S. technology to foreign governments. Under the terms of an agreement reached between Loral and the State Department, the company agreed to pay the fine without admitting or denying the government's charges. The $20 million fine is the largest paid by an American company under the Arms Export Control Act. Approximately $6 million will be used by Loral to implement better export controls, and $14 million in cash will be paid to the government. The U.S. Customs Service is charged with preventing the illegal movement of U.S. munitions and technology having sensitive civil and military applications to proscribed destinations around the world, and to terrorist organizations that pose a threat to the national security of the United States. (end text) (Distributed by the Office of International Information Programs, U.S. Department of State. Web site: <a href="http://usinfo.state.gov/">http://usinfo.state.gov</a>) <br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Clinton Foundation distributed useless drugs to AIDS patients</span></strong><br />
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NEW YORK – While <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2015/04/clinton-foundation-scheme-defrauds-air-travelers/">skimming tens of millions of dollars from U.N. levies imposed on airline travelers</a>, the Clinton Foundation’s Clinton Health Aids Initiative worked closely with a pharmaceutical company in India to distribute “drastically substandard” generic antiretroviral drugs to Third World countries that had no chance of helping HIV/AIDs patients, according to a Wall Street<br />
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As <a href="http://wnd.com/?p=1934515">WND reported Wednesday</a>, over the past six weeks, Charles Ortel shared with WND, prior to publication, the results of his six-month, in-depth investigation into what he characterizes as an elaborate scheme devised by the Clintons to enrich themselves. WND reported Thursday the Clintons appear to have personally profited from an airline-ticket levy program run by the U.N. group UNITAID that used the Clintons’ international prestige to “leverage” manufacturers of prescription quality drugs and health-care products and sell them to developing countries at a discount price.<br />
<a href="http://www.clintonhealthaccess.org/about/leadership/Ira-Magaziner">Ira Magaziner</a>, the chief executive officer and vice chairman of the Clinton Health Aids Initiative, known as CHAI, approached the Indian company, Ranbaxy, in 2002 to negotiate a deal. It allowed CHAI to assume a controlling position to administer the airline-ticket levy program through UNITAID, a program of the U.N.’s World Health Organization in Geneva.<br />
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CHAI proposed to Ranbaxy that “they could put the developing countries together to form a sort of ‘buying club’ that could “ramp up economies of scale and lower cost,” according to Professors Ethan B. Kapstein of Arizona State University and Joshua W. Busby of the University of Texas at Austin in their <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=HVlsAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA164&lpg=PA164&dq=chai+%2B+ranbaxy+drugs&source=bl&ots=t1X0ud4SKG&sig=W9KQiY3VyPGiCFR9LwSCSa3haH8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=UT85VeycO4S8ggS23YCQBw&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=chai%20%2B%20ranbaxy%20drugs&f=false">Cambridge University Press 2013 book “AIDS Drugs for All.”</a><br />
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<b><i><a href="http://superstore.wnd.com/Search?search=hillary">Another scandal with Hillary Clinton at the center is uniquely exposed in Aaron Klein’s “The REAL Benghazi Story: What the White House and Hillary Don’t Want You to Know”</a></i></b><br />
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<a href="http://kaiserhealthnews.org/morning-breakout/dr00020986/">A Kaiser Health News “Morning Briefing” dated Nov. 21, 2003,</a> reported former President Bill Clinton “visited Indian generic drug Ranbaxy Laboratories’ pharmaceutical plant in Gurgaon, India, to show support for Indian companies that have agreed to manufacture low-cost generic antiretroviral drugs for nationwide HIV/AIDS treatment plans in four African and more than 12 Caribbean countries.”<br />
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<b>Clinton hooks up with UNITAID and WHO</b><br />
<a href="http://www.unitaid.eu/en/what/hiv/16-home/991-unitaid-chai-partnership">According to the UNITAID website</a>, CHAI, established by President Bill Clinton in 2002, approached UNITAID, created in 2006, “to reach groups in developing countries that were neglected by HIV drug markets,” resolving to combine forces in 2008.<br />
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The UNITAID-CHAI joint venture’s goal was to combine UNITAID’s innovative financing that relied on levies charged on airline tickets in participating countries with CHAI’s entrepreneurial approach to getting international pharmaceutical companies to produce antiretroviral, or ARV, drugs throughout the developed world at prices discounted because of the massive scale of the market.<br />
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<a href="http://www.wnd.com/files/2015/04/charles-ortel.jpg">Charles Ortel</a><br />
“The deal positioned the Clinton Foundation to have access to hundreds of millions of dollars from what amounted to a tax imposed on millions of average airline passengers,” explained Ortel.<br />
“The Clinton Foundation financial reporting strongly suggests the Clintons were able to skim off for their personal use tens of millions of dollars from the funds WHO sent to CHAI from UNITAID levies,” Ortel said.<br />
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“The scam was perfected,” he concluded, “when a key player in developing the CHAI ‘discount generic drug’ strategy touted as revolutionary by Bill and Hillary Clinton, namely Ranbaxy in India, achieved their ‘economy of scale’ by selling drugs the company knew were so drastically substandard that the Ranbaxy ARV products had no chance of curing any HIV/AIDS patients taking the drugs in the third world countries to which the Clinton Foundation delivered them.<br />
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“It seems in hindsight a textbook case of reckless and wanton neglect,” Ortel stressed.<br />
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Ranbaxy on May 13, 2013, <a href="http://fortune.com/2013/05/13/maker-of-generic-lipitor-pleads-guilty-to-selling-adulterated-drugs/">pleaded guilty to seven federal criminal counts of selling adulterated drugs</a> with an intent to defraud.<br />
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The company failed to report that its drugs didn’t meet specifications and made intentionally false statements to the government.<br />
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Ranbaxy <a href="http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/generic-drug-manufacturer-ranbaxy-pleads-guilty-and-agrees-pay-500-million-resolve-false">agreed to pay $500 million in fines, forfeitures and penalties, the most ever levied against a generic-drug company</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://fortune.com/2013/05/15/dirty-medicine/">A Fortune magazine article in May 2013 by investigative reporter Katherine Eban titled “Dirty Medicine”</a> detailed the Ranbaxy pharmaceutical scandal.<br />
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The article captured the moral bankruptcy of Ranbaxy through a conference call Dr. Kathy Spreen, Ranbaxy’s executive director of clinical medicine, had with a dozen company executives in which a participating Ranbaxy executives dismissed concern that the company was producing defective drugs.<br />
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“Who cares? It’s just blacks dying,” the executive said, according to Fortune.<br />
Fortune further reported a decision by Ranbaxy to withdraw all seven of its ARVs tested by Vimta Labs from WHO prequalification, <a href="http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2004/pr79/en/">as announced by the WHO Nov. 9, 2004,</a> was dishonest.<br />
Ranbaxy executives plotted to blame the problem on fraudulent tests run by one rogue contractor without disclosing further problems that may have made it more difficult, if not impossible, to re-establish WHO approval of Ranbaxy ARV drugs tested by labs other than Vimta.<br />
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Less than a year later, on Aug. 16, 2005, <a href="http://www.thebody.com/content/art9525.html">Ranbaxy managed to get the World Health Organization to reinstate the seven ARV drugs to the WHO prequalification list</a>. The company did it simply by convincing the WHO that Ranbaxy management had solved the problem by replacing Vimta Labs with “globally recognized contract research organizations” assigned to conduct independent tests of the ARV drugs Ranbaxy had produced in its “WHO-approved plants.”<br />
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The Fortune magazine exposé, however, made clear Ranbaxy never stopped the subterfuge until forced to do so by the Department of Justice settlement in 2013.<br />
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Fortune reported Ranbaxy “manipulated almost every aspect of its manufacturing process to quickly produce impressive-looking data,” including forging standard operating procedures to hide from health inspectors the truth that Ranbaxy never stopped substituting “cheaper, lower-quality ingredients in place of better ingredients, to manipulate test parameters to accommodate higher impurities, and even to substitute brand-name drugs in lieu of their own generics in bioequivalence tests to produce better results.”<br />
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The Fortune article further exposed “systematic fraud in Ranbaxy’s worldwide regulatory filings” designed to hide that the majority of products filed in Brazil, Mexico, the Middle East, Russia, Romania, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia and African nations “have data submitted that did not exist or data from products and from other countries.”<br />
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Fortune noted Ranbaxy “not only invented data but also fraudulently mixed and matched data, taking the best results from manufacturing in one market and presenting it to regulators elsewhere as data unique to drugs in their markets.”<br />
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For its HIV drugs, Fortune concluded Ranbaxy “had used ingredients that failed purity tests and blended them with good ingredients until the resulting mix met requirements,” such that “a mélange cold degrade or become toxic far more quickly than drugs made from the high-quality materials required.”<br />
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“The Ranbaxy tragedy,” Ortel pointed out, “was that even after the Clintons had reason to suspect Ranbaxy was producing defective ARV drugs for HIV/AIDS patients in Third World countries.<br />
“Yet, CHAI continued to allow Ranbaxy to sell Ranbaxy ARV drugs into the stream of pharmaceuticals that flowed to desperately poor suffers, as if there were no problem.”<br />
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<b>Clintons endorse Ranbaxy</b><br />
<a href="http://www.unitaid.eu/en/resources/331-clinton-health-access-initiative-unitaid-and-dfid-announce-lower-prices-for-hivaids-medicines-in-developing-countries">A UNITAID press release May 17, 2011,</a> announced that since 2008, the CHAI partnership with UNITAID had “achieved price reductions that will generate global savings of at least $600 million over the next three years, making HIV treatment more widely available.”<br />
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“With more than nine million people worldwide in need of HIV/AIDS treatment, we must see rapid action to increase people’s access to treatment,” Clinton said in the UNITAID press release.<br />
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What Clinton neglected to mention was that since the formation of the CHAI partnership with UNITAID in 2008 through the date of the 2011 press release, Ranbaxy ARV drugs were on the list of CHAI-provided HIV/AIDS drugs available for distribution in Third World countries.<br />
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Fortune made clear the Ranbaxy scam of producing adulterated ARV drugs was known to Ranbaxy executives as early as 2004. It was made public in a U.S. Justice Department court filing in 2008 but not stopped until January 2012, when the Justice Department placed Ranbaxy under a sweeping consent degree the Justice Department described as “ground breaking in its international reach.”<br />
The UNITAID May 15, 2013, statement mentioned in the last paragraph that Ranbaxy was among the CHAI/UNITAID “key suppliers of ARVs.”<br />
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<a href="http://www.clintonhealthaccess.org/files/chai_arv_ceilingPriceList_201105_english.pdf">A CHAI-produced “Antiretroviral (ARV) Price List” dated May 2011</a> that includes Ranbaxy on the list of approved drugs boasted: “The Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) supports national governments to expand high-quality care and treatment to people living with HIV/AIDS. CHAI offers reduced prices for antiretrovirals (ARVs) to members of its Procurement Consortium.”<br />
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Yet, in a visit to Mumbai April 11, 2013, Bill Clinton praised Ranbaxy for its role in assisting his Clinton Foundation in leading efforts to treat AIDS patients by agreeing 10 years earlier to cut the price of its ARV drugs sold in developing nations.<br />
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“I told myself that never again will I come to India without saying a thank you,” drawing applause from 600-plus people who included “some of India Inc.’s leading CEOs, businessmen, and strategists,” <a href="http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-04-11/news/38463484_1_clinton-foundation-india-inc-drug-maker-cipla">the Economic Times reported</a>.<br />
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Despite Ranbaxy being in the process of finalizing the $500 million settlement with the Department of Justice, Clinton was as enthusiastic during his 2013 to India as he was 10 years earlier, when on Nov. 21, 2003, <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=VvU7F601uk8C&pg=PA73&lpg=PA73&dq=ranbaxy+%2B+clinton&source=bl&ots=Tm3bX5jhhA&sig=S28uzoL5MZO2q-Q_kLwSipIjM84&hl=en&sa=X&ei=N3g5VdL9NuKasQTt4YGgDg&ved=0CDUQ6AEwBjgK#v=onepage&q=ranbaxy%20%2B%20clinton&f=false">he was there to announce the Ranbaxy deal</a>.<br />
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In 2003, <a href="http://www.rediff.com/money/2003/nov/21clinton.htm">Clinton used a Ranbaxy R&D facility in New Delhi to hold a press conference with Prime Minister Atai Bihari Vajpayee and several representatives of the Indian government</a> to announce the Clinton Foundation had just reached an agreement with Ranbaxy <a href="http://businesswireindia.com/news/news-details/ranbaxy-joins-hands-with-clinton-foundation-drugs-hivaids/4084">to sell to HIV/AIDS patients in the developing world</a>.<br />
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In the speech, Clinton bragged the Clinton Foundation in conjunction with Ranbaxy aimed to make low-cost ARV drugs in the countries of South Africa, Rwanda, Mozambique, Tanzania, Haiti, the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic and the Eastern Caribbean States with the goal of making ARVs available to “some 2 million people around the world in the next four to five years.”<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8202192063193145623.post-64954307934362747722016-09-07T11:06:00.001-07:002016-09-07T19:39:27.362-07:00Reason No. 10 for Note Voting for Hillary. Hillary is not Physically Fit to be President. She can not remember things.Hillary Clinton blamed her concussion for failing to remember briefings on how to preserve classified government records.<br />
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James Comey, the FBI Director, announced in July that Mrs Clinton would not be criminally charged over the scandal but condemned her for being "extremely careless".<br />
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One has to question Mrs Clinton's judgment and fitness to be president. Documents show that Mrs. Clinton used phrases like "I don't recall" and "I don't remember" a total of 39 times during her own three-and-a-half hour interview with agents on July 2.<br />
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In her FBI interview Mrs Clinton said she could not recall getting any briefings on how to handle classified information or comply with laws governing the preservation of federal records.<br />
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"However, in December of 2012, Mrs Clinton suffered a concussion and then around the new year had a blood clot," the report said. "Based on her doctor’s advice she could only work at State for a few hours a day and could not recall every briefing she received."<br />
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When the agents showed Mrs Clinton one of emails with the marking "c" the Democratic presidential nominee said she didn't know what it meant, adding maybe paragraphs were "marked in alphabetical order". The letter denotes "confidential" which is the first level of government classification.<br />
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September 11, 2012, Benghazi was before her fall.<br />
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<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/02/hillary-clinton-says-could-not-recall-all-briefings-due-to-concu/r">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/02/hillary-clinton-says-could-not-recall-all-briefings-due-to-concu/r</a><br />
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What did Hillary know about Benghazi?<br />
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The conservative lawyers at Judicial Watch just blew the lid off of the massive Obama White House cover-up after the Islamic terrorist attack at the American Embassy in Benghazi, Libya. This is Earth shattering news, and has devastating consequences for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.<br />
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The damning files obtained by Judicial Watch show State Department officials under Hillary Clinton’s command blatantly lied about the attack which killed four Americans in November 2012. It was not, as once stated, an escalation of a demonstration against an absurd YouTube video but rather a coordinated assault by Islamist terrorists on the US Embassy in Tunisia.<br />
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The State Department’s Diplomatic Security Command Center, also know DSCC, produced a memo obtained by the Washington-based government watchdog group entitled, “Emergency Message to U.S. Citizens: Demonstrations.” The DSCC would have known the true nature of the attack since it monitored the situation via drone.<br />
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The message is identical to the emergency message issued by the U.S. Embassy in Tunis and archived on the embassy’s website.<br />
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The emergency message reads in the first paragraph: “On September 11, 2012, violent demonstrations took place at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt and at the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya, resulting in damage in both locations and casualties in Benghazi. Media reports indicate that demonstrations may take place at the U.S. Embassy in Tunis on Wednesday, September 12, 2012.” ‘They knew’<br />
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Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said the DSCC “clearly knew in real time that a full-fledged terrorist attack was taking place on September 11 at the U.S. compound in Benghazi, and the American people deserve to be told the truth.”<br />
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“We are now into the fourth year of a massive Obama administration cover-up,” Fitton said.<br />
He said the DSCC communiqués “may further help unravel the Obama administration’s growing web of deceit.<br />
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via <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2015/01/judicial-watch-obtains-smoking-gun-benghazi-documents/" target="_blank">World Net Daily</a><br />
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Fitton goes on to explain how this was a coordinated effort to isolate the potential damage this could cause to Hillary Clinton’s campaign.<br />
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Judicial Watch cites testimony from Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Charlene Lamb under oath to the House Oversight Committee on Oct. 10, 2012, to make the case that the DSCC bureaucrats knew EXACTLY what was the cause of the attack:<br />
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The attack began at approximately 9:40 pm local time. Diplomatic Security agents inside the compound heard loud voices outside the walls, followed by gunfire and an explosion. Dozens of attackers then launched a full-scale assault that was unprecedented in its size and intensity. They forced their way through the pedestrian gate, and used diesel fuel to set fire to the Libyan 17th February Brigade members’ barracks, and then proceeded toward the main building.<br />
Judical Watch’s Fitton replied to what that testimony (above) means:<br />
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You are making people think they only needed to worry about demonstrations, when the truth was Americans in North Africa needed to know the night before Benghazi was hit by an intense terrorist attack, that came on violently, with heavily armed al-Qaida-backed militia carrying AK-47s and RPGs. ‘Be Warned’ should have been the message, ‘There was a terrorist attack, and you should be very careful right now.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8202192063193145623.post-49951715282770569422016-09-07T09:19:00.002-07:002016-09-07T20:02:25.416-07:00Reason No. 9 - Not to Vote for Hillary. Hillary did not follow her own guidance on Federal Records or Phone and Computer disposal by LawHillary did not follow the Law on disposal of equipment or records. She had no authority to destroy records on her own, or destroy Government Property own her own.<br />
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Any government employee who destroyed property with out approval would be held responsible for payment. Was an inventory of property conducted when Hillary left the State Department?<br />
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Classified material has to be logged. It would be interesting to find out how many classified documents have been logged out and are now unaccounted for. The burn bag episode and loose handling of classified material should prompt and inventory of these documents as well.<br />
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Below is the guidance found for the U.S. <strong>Sec. 14, STATE DEPT. BASIC AUTHORITIES ACT OF 1956 </strong> on Federal Records or Phone and Computer disposal by Law.<br />
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executive agencies are kept. Audits shall include
an evaluation of the effectiveness of internal
controls and audits, and a general audit of the
discharge of accountability for Government owned or controlled property, based on generally
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authorize the abandonment or destruction of
property, or the donation of property to a public
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Administrative services as the Secretary, with the approval of the Bureau of the Budget, determines may be performed more advantageously and more economically as central services; and (4) medical and health care services. Such fund shall also be available without fiscal year limitation to carry out the purposes of title II of this Act. The capital of the fund shall consist of the amount of the fair and reasonable value of such supply inventories, equipment, and other assets and inventories on order, pertaining to the services to be carried on by the fund, as the Secretary may transfer to the fund, less the related liabilities and unpaid obligations,<br />
together with any appropriations made for the purpose of providing capital. The fund shall be reimbursed, or credited with advance payments, from applicable appropriations and funds of the Department of State, other Federal agencies, and other sources authorized by law, for supplies and services at rates which will approximate the expense of operations, including accrual of annual leave and depreciation of plant and equipment of the fund. The fund shall also be credited with other receipts from sale or exchange of property or in payment for loss or damage to property held by the fund. There shall be transferred into the Treasury as<br />
miscellaneous receipts, as of the close of each fiscal year, earnings which the Secretary determines to be excess to the needs of the fund.<br />
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ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES SEC. 23. ø2695¿ (a) AGREEMENTS.—Whenever the head of any Federal agency performing any foreign affairs functions (including, but not limited to, the Department of State, the Broadcasting Board of Governors, and the Agency for International Development) determines that administrative services performed in common<br />
by the Department of State and one or more other such agencies may be performed more advantageously and more economically on a consolidated basis, the Secretary of State and the heads of the other agencies concerned may, subject to the approval of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, conclude an agreement which provides for the transfer to and consolidation within the Department or within one of the other agencies concerned of<br />
so much of the functions, personnel, property, records, and funds of the Department and of the other agencies concerned as may be necessary to enable the performance of those administrative services on a consolidated basis for the benefit of all agencies concerned.<br />
Agreements for consolidation of administrative services under this section shall provide for reimbursement or advances of funds from the agency receiving the service to the agency performing the service in amounts which will approximate the expense of providing administrative services for the serviced agency.<br />
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For purposes of this title, the following terms have the following meanings:<br />
(1) The term ‘‘employee’’ means an individual who is under the jurisdiction of a chief of mission to a foreign country (as provided under section 207 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980<br />
(22 U.S.C. 3927)) and who is—<br />
(A) an employee as defined by section 2105 of title 5, United States Code;<br />
(B) an officer or employee of the United States Postal Service or of the Postal Rate Commission;<br />
(C) a member of a uniformed service who is not under the command of an area military commander; or <br />
(D) an expert or consultant as authorized pursuant to section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, with the United States or any agency, department, or establishment thereof; but is not a national or permanent<br />
(6) The term ‘‘personal property’’ means any item of personal property, including automobiles, computers, boats, audio and video equipment, and any other items acquired for personal<br />
use, but excluding items of minimal value as determined by regulation or policy issued pursuant to section 303.<br />
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LIMITATIONS ON DISPOSITION OF PERSONAL PROPERTY SEC. 302. [4342] (a) GENERAL RULE.—Except as authorized under subsection (b), employees or members of their family shall not sell, assign, or otherwise dispose of personal property within a foreign country which was imported into or purchased within that foreign country and which, by virtue of the official status of the employee.<br />
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(b) APPROVAL BY CHIEF OF MISSION.—The chief of mission to a foreign country, or a designee of such chief of mission, is authorized to approve within that foreign country sales, assignment, or other dispositions of property by employees under the chief of mission’s<br />
jurisdiction (as described in section 207 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 3927)) to the extent that such sale, assignment, or other disposition is in accordance with regulations and policies, rules, and procedures issued pursuant to section 303.<br />
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(c) VIOLATION.—Violation of this section, or other importation, sale, or other disposition of personal property within a foreign country which violates its laws or regulations or governing international law and is prohibited by regulations and policies, rules, and procedures issued pursuant to section 303, shall be grounds for disciplinary action against an employee.<br />
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Pay for Play with your tax payer monies...... <br />
Former Ambassador Joe Wilson used his deep political ties to push for his energy company, Symbion Power, to win business in Tanzania as an Obama administration initiative called Power Africa began picking up steam.
Wilson had served on Bill Clinton's National Security Council and had gained national fame when his wife, Valerie Plame, was outed as CIA operative in what became known as the Plame Affair.
A series of emails sent between Wilson and Hillary Clinton's private email account indicate the former ambassador sought a private audience with Clinton to discuss the work of his company.
"I would love to bring you up to speed on what we are doing in Tanzania and our plans in both Nigeria and Ghana," Wilson wrote in one Jan. 2012 <a href="https://foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOCUMENTS/HRCEmail_NovWeb/287/DOC_0C05793734/C05793734.pdf" target="_blank">email</a> to Hillary Clinton.<br />
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The secretary of state responded warmly, writing back within the week: "I'd like to hear about your ongoing work. What about doing it over dinner w/ Sid and Jackie some time when you and I are both in DC?"
Hillary Clinton was referring to Sidney Blumenthal, the divisive political operative who served as an unofficial adviser during her diplomatic tenure, and his wife Jackie.
As a relatively small company compared to General Electric, Symbion could not have shouldered the risk of some major infrastructure projects in an unstable country like Tanzania without the support of such a large corporation. Wilson asked Hillary Clinton in a July 2011 email if she would <a href="https://foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOCUMENTS/HRCEmail_SeptemberWeb/O-2015-08632-182/DOC_0C05781956/C05781956.pdf" target="_blank">intervene in a business dispute</a> between General Electric and Symbion over contracts in Tanzania.
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The former ambassador told Hillary Clinton his company had "been stymied in our discussions with General Electric over the question of payment guarantees for purchase of the equipment."
He then pressed her to implore GE's CEO, Jeffrey Immelt, to "share some of the inherent risk with us" and "waive the payment guarantee requirement."
Hillary Clinton then asked Johnnie Carson, the State Department's assistant secretary for African affairs, to "find out more info." Carson later told his boss he had "discreetly" reached out to the U.S. embassy in Tanzania to learn about the GE-Symbion operation in the country.
Just months after Hillary Clinton suggested Wilson personally pitch her on Symbion's power prospects over dinner, the firm won a <a href="https://assets.mcc.gov/press/action-2011002095301-symbion-pike.pdf" target="_blank">$47.7 million contract</a> from the Millennium Challenge Corporation, an arm of the State Department, to develop the power grid in Tanzania.<br />
Washington Examiner <em>on June 13, 2015.</em><br />
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WASHINGTON D.C.—Former top Hillary Clinton aides Cheryl Mills and Jean-Louis Warnholz are quietly cashing in on State Department intelligence that Clinton received from her adviser Sidney Blumenthal about an energy crisis in Africa. Breitbart News has learned that Mills and Warnholz are racing toward a big payday, shipping cargo in Tanzania after Clinton “discreetly” helped her American friends’ companies move in on the area’s untapped energy market during her time as <source src="http://videos.tout.com/dry/mp4/1c51120a8c6310d6.mp4" type="video/mp4"></source> <br />
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Secretary of State. It’s a prime example of the legal but dubious ways that Clinton and her associates used the power of the State Department to pad their own wallets in the private sector after Clinton left the department.
Top Clinton State Department aide Cheryl Mills is the founder and CEO of BlackIvy Group, a small and mysterious energy investment firm headquartered inside a Microsoft building in the Washington D.C. suburb of Chevy Chase, Maryland. Jean-Louis Warnholz became the founding principal and managing director of BlackIvy Group in 2013 https://www.linkedin.com/pub/jean-louis-warnholz
after three years as a senior adviser to Clinton at the State Department. He previously worked for progressive billionaire George Soros’s Soros Economic Development Fund.
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“BlackIvy is developing a privately-financed dry port that will be located 56 km outside of the Port of Dar es Salaam, and will use shuttle trains to take transit and upcountry cargo to and from the Port,” BlackIvy spokeswoman Erin Pelton confirmed to Breitbart News.<br />
“BlackIvy is focused on in-land logistics, not operating seaports,” Pelton added, denying that BlackIvy is running into opposition from the Tanzania Ports Authority.<br />
So how did BlackIvy, a brand new firm with no discernible track record of building ports, manage to become an overnight player in the East African energy market?<br />
It turns out Clinton’s former aides had some help from a company called Symbion Power, which was created to profit off rebuilding efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan after the U.S. invasions. Symbion Power happens to be a very good friend of Hillary Clinton’s.<br />
<b>Hillary Clinton visited Tanzania in June 2011.</b> Where did she go to speak? The Symbion Power Plant in Dar Es Salaam, where she spoke in front of Symbion and General Electric (GE) logos. Soon after the speech, Clinton intervened in a business deal between Symbion and GE to help Symbion’s interests in Tanzania.<br />
An attendee quietly captured Clinton on video after her speech chatting up business executives, including one from General Electric.<br />
“Hi, Chris. Nice to see you. Thanks for GE’s contributions. I really appreciate it. You’ll have to tell Jeff Immelt — or, I’ll call him to tell him how much I appreciate it,” Clinton said to the General Electric official, referring to the GE CEO.<br />
“You with Mike also? Where are you all headquartered?” Clinton asked another businessman. “Excellent. Good. Very, very cool.”<br />
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Clinton’s friendship with Symbion appears to have helped her advisers at BlackIvy.<br />
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Warnholz represented BlackIvy Group at an <a href="http://www.gbsnonline.org/event/id/477927/Doing-Business-in-Tanzania.htm" rel="noopener" target="_blank">August 2014 forum</a> at Washington’s Grand Hyatt Hotel called, “<a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:q7tvVYXkGUQJ:www.africacncl.org/www/default/ckfinder/userfiles/1080/files/CCA%2520The%2520Africa%2520e-Journal_Sept%25202014.pdf+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Doing Business In Tanzania</a>: Accelerating Economic Development And Facilitating Investment.” The forum was hosted by the Corporate Council on Africa, which is chaired by Symbion Power CEO Paul Hinks. The Corporate Council on Africa is <a href="http://symbion-power.com/about/partners" rel="noopener" target="_blank">an official</a> Symbion partner. Hinks became chairman of the council in 2012.<br />
<a href="http://www.academia.edu/8550969/Building_East_Africa_s_Future_Tanzania_and_Accelerating_Infrastructure_Growth_Insights_from_the_U.S._Africa_Leaders_Summit" rel="noopener" target="_blank">At the conference</a>, which featured the President of Tanzania Jakaya Kikwete, Warnholz identified a major opportunity for electricity providers in East Africa. Warnholz recommended that Tanzania increase its electricity generation by 75.3 percent. Warnholz said that the East African region must increase its electricity generation by 5.3 percent per year for the rest of the decade—which would be a good trend for BlackIvy.<br />
BlackIvy spokeswoman Pelton denied that BlackIvy is working with Symbion in Tanzania. But it’s not surprising that Symbion CEO Hinks’s group gave BlackIvy access to the Tanzanian president. After all, Clinton started “discreetly” helping out Symbion during her time as Secretary of State.<br />
In October 2009, former ambassador Joe Wilson—husband of Bush administration scandal figure Valerie Plame—wrote a memo to Hillary Clinton in his capacity as a director of Symbion Power. Wilson asked Clinton friend Sidney Blumenthal to pass the memo along to Clinton, which he did.<br />
“I am now working with a serious American engineering and construction company, Symbion Power, that has been hugely successful in Iraq and Afghanistan (on fixed cost contracts). It specializes in power plants, substations and transmission towers and lines,” Wilson wrote. “We think the model is well adapted to Africa and have already begun work on a training center in Tanzania, where we will be bidding on all of the upcoming MCC financed power generation and distribution projects. I have asked Sid to pass a memory stick with a four minute video that explains what Symbion does and how it does it.”<br />
In November 2009, Wilson wrote another memo to Clinton, using Blumenthal as the middle man.<br />
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“As I wrote to you earlier, I am a director for Symbion Power and may soon assume more direct responsibility for all of Africa as Symbion expands there from its current operations in Iraq and Afghanistan,” Wilson wrote.<br />
Blumenthal passed the memo along to Hillary Clinton, and Clinton replied with an email that is highly redacted by the State Department.<br />
In July 2011, Wilson, by then chairman of Symbion Africa, sent Clinton an email asking her to intervene in Symbion’s negotiations with General Electric.<br />
Wilson explained that Symbion has “been stymied in our discussions with General Electric over the question of payment guarantees for purchase of the equipment. I know that you mentioned that you were going to call Jeff lmmelt after your trip. When you make that call, I would appreciate your telling him that Symbion, which is already operating a GE plant in Dar can only expand that plant to meet the challenge if GE is prepared to share some of the inherent risk with us and waives the payment guarantee requirement.”<br />
Clinton forwarded the memo to her State Department aide Johnnie Carson, saying, “could you pis find out more info about this for me before I respond?”<br />
“Madame Secretary: I will look into this Wednesday morning and get back to you quickly,” Carson replied.<br />
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Carson “discreetly” went through State Department channels to find out more information about the deal.<br />
“I have looked into the issues Amb. Joe Wilson raised in his email and discreetly reached out to our embassy in Dar Es Salaam to provide us With additional background on GE and Symbion operations in Tanzania,” Carson wrote.<br />
“Our Embassy thinks highly of Symbion’s work (you participated in an Embassy organized, MCC supported Symbion event during your visit to Tanzania in June),” Carson added. “The MCC program provided a $110 million contract to Symbion and a conglomerate of other firms, including one other American company, to install power lines and distribution sub stations across southern Tanzania.”<br />
“Recently, two U.S. firms (Richmond and Dowlan) were involved in a corruption scandal, but they left Tanzania a couple of years ago. Symbion purchased the GEmade equipment and power plant that Richmond and Dowlan left behind,” Carson said.<br />
“Tanzania purchases power from Symbion. Symbion needs a large turbine engine to make the power plant fully operational. Only 80 mega watts are used. It can bring on-line an additional 40 megawatts if it can access natural gas resources located near the capital, but would need to build out pipes and other equipment. GE has the technical capacity to assist if it jumps in.”<br />
“GE has opened an office in Dar Es Salaam and is currently considering potential investments. Ambassador Lenhardt is in contact with GE and encouraging the company to get involved,” Carson said.</div>
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<a href="https://pjmedia.com/columnist/debra-heine">Debra Heine</a> <span class="date date-formatted">September 6, 2016</span> <br />
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Newly released emails suggest that the Clinton camp manipulated a Senate Benghazi hearing in January of 2013 by feeding specific questions to Democrat Sen. Robert Menendez, who at the time was the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.<br />
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The emails, obtained by Citizens United<em>,</em> show Chelsea Clinton (who went by Diane Reynolds on clintonemail.com) asking former Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines how the hearing is going.<br />
Reines was very forthcoming, according to Catherine Herridge of <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/09/06/wired-it-emails-suggest-clinton-aide-stage-managed-benghazi-hearing-questions.html">Fox News:</a><br />
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"We wired it that Menendez would provide an opportunity to address two topics we needed to debunk (her actions/whereabouts on 9/11, and these email from Chris Stevens about moving locations,)" Clinton media gatekeeper Philippe Reines wrote to Chelsea Clinton the morning of the Jan. 23, 2013 hearing.</blockquote>
Hillary got caught on unlawful collusion with a Federal Investigation along with Democrat Senator Robert Menendez.<br />
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The two politicians conspired together while during an investigation into what happened at <br />
Benghazi to find out what happened to Americans who lost their lives.<br />
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<a href="https://pjmedia.com/trending/2016/09/06/clinton-camp-stage-managed-senate-benghazi-hearing-by-feeding-questions-to-dem-chair/">https://pjmedia.com/trending/2016/09/06/clinton-camp-stage-managed-senate-benghazi-hearing-by-feeding-questions-to-dem-chair/</a><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8202192063193145623.post-76991566426777660782016-09-06T13:15:00.000-07:002016-09-07T20:15:13.535-07:00Reason No. 6 - Note to Vote for Hillary. Pay-for-Play Corruption is "Simply Staggering!"<a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/weekly-updates/shocking-clinton-news/#anc1"><strong>New Emails: Clinton’s State Department Gave Special Access to Foundation Donors</strong></a><br />
<a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/weekly-updates/shocking-clinton-news/#anc2"><strong>Federal Court Orders Hillary Clinton to Answer Email Questions under Oath </strong></a><br />
<strong>Judicial Watch Forces Release of “Deleted” Clinton Emails – Hidden Emails Include Benghazi Material </strong><br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="anc1"></a><strong>New Emails: Clinton’s State Department Gave Special Access to Foundation Donors</strong><br />
<em>The true nature of the Clinton Foundation becomes ever clearer with each discovery of withheld emails. </em><br />
This week we released <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/tag/huma-production-10/"><strong>725 pages</strong></a> of State Department documents that include email exchanges in which Hillary Clinton’s top aide Huma Abedin provided influential Clinton Foundation donors special, expedited access to the secretary of state.<br />
In one flagrant example, the Crown Prince of Bahrain was forced to go through the Clinton Foundation to get access to the secretary of state. He got it after pledging $32 million to the Clinton Global Initiative.<br />
The new documents included <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/jw-v-state-huma-emails-production-10-unpublished-00684/"><strong>20 Hillary Clinton email exchanges</strong></a> not previously turned over to the State Department, bringing the known total to date to 191 of new Clinton emails (not part of the 55,000 pages of emails that Clinton turned over to the State Department). These records further appear to contradict statements by Clinton that, “as far as she knew,” all of her government emails were turned over to the State Department.<br />
The Abedin emails reveal that she apparently served as a conduit between Clinton Foundation donors and Hillary Clinton while Clinton served as secretary of state. In more than a dozen email exchanges, Abedin provided expedited, direct access to Clinton for donors who had contributed from $25,000 to $10 million. In many instances, Clinton Foundation top executive Doug Band, who worked with the Foundation throughout Hillary Clinton’s tenure at State, coordinated closely with Abedin. In Abedin’s June deposition to Judicial Watch, she conceded that part of her job at the State Department was taking care of “<a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/clinton-email-update-judicial-watch-releases-former-clinton-deputy-chief-staff-huma-abedin-deposition-testimony/"><strong>Clinton family matters</strong></a>.”<br />
Among the Abedin-Band emails is an exchange revealing that when Crown Prince Salman of Bahrain requested a meeting with Clinton, he was forced to go through the Clinton Foundation for an appointment. Abedin advised Band that when she went through “normal channels” at State, Clinton declined to meet. After Band intervened, however, the meeting was set up within forty-eight hours.<br />
According to the <a class="extl" href="https://www.clintonfoundation.org/clinton-global-initiative/commitments/crown-princes-international-scholarship-program"><strong>Clinton Foundation website</strong></a>, in 2005, Salman committed to establishing the Crown Prince’s International Scholarship Program (CPISP) for the Clinton Global Initiative. And by 2010, it had contributed $32 million to CGI. The Kingdom of Bahrain reportedly gave between <a class="extl" href="https://www.clintonfoundation.org/contributors?category=%2450%2C001%20to%20%24100%2C000&page=5"><strong>$50,000 and $100,000</strong></a> to the Clinton Foundation. And Bahrain Petroleum also gave an <a class="extl" href="http://projects.nytimes.com/clinton-donors/page/18"><strong>additional $25,000 to $50,000</strong></a>.<br />
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<strong>From:</strong><strong> </strong><a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/jw-v-state-huma-emails-production-10-00684-pg-448/"><strong>Doug Band</strong></a><br />
<strong>To</strong>: Huma Abedin<br />
<strong>Sent</strong>: Tue Jun 23 1:29:42 2009<br />
<strong>Subject</strong>:<br />
Cp of Bahrain in tomorrow to Friday<br />
Asking to see her<br />
Good friend of ours<br />
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<strong>From</strong>: Huma Abedin<br />
<strong>To</strong>: Doug Band<br />
<strong>Sent</strong>: Tue Jun 23 4:12:46 2009<br />
<strong>Subject</strong>: Re:<br />
He asked to see hrc thurs and fri thru normal channels. I asked and she said she doesn’t want to commit to anything for thurs or fri until she knows how she will feel. Also she says that she may want to go to ny and doesn’t want to be committed to stuff in ny…<br />
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<strong>From</strong>: <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/jw-v-state-huma-emails-production-10-00684-pg-379/"><strong>Huma Abedin</strong></a> [Huma@clintonemail.com]<br />
<strong>Sent</strong>: Thursday, June 25, 2009 10:35:15 AM<br />
<strong>To</strong>: Doug Band<br />
<strong>Subject</strong>:<br />
Offering Bahrain cp 10 tomorrow for meeting woith [sic] hrc<br />
If u see him, let him know<br />
We have reached out thru official channels</blockquote>
Also included among the <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/jw-v-state-huma-emails-production-10-00684-pg-148-149/"><strong>Abedin-Band emails</strong></a> is an exchange in which Band urged Abedin to get the Clinton State Department to intervene in order to obtain a visa for members of the Wolverhampton (UK) Football Club, one of whose members was apparently having difficulty because of a “<span style="color: red;"><strong>criminal charge</strong></span>.” Band was acting at the behest of Casey Wasserman, a millionaire Hollywood sports entertainment executive and President of the Wasserman Foundation. Wasserman has donated between <a class="extl" href="https://www.clintonfoundation.org/contributors?category=%245%2C000%2C001+to+%2410%2C000%2C000"><strong>$5 million and $10 million</strong></a> to the Clinton Foundation through the Wasserman Foundation.<br />
The Abedin emails also reveal that Slimfast tycoon S. Daniel Abraham was granted almost immediate access to then-Secretary of State Clinton, with Abedin serving as the facilitator. According to the <a class="extl" href="https://www.clintonfoundation.org/contributors?category=%245%2C000%2C001+to+%2410%2C000%2C000"><strong>Clinton Foundation website</strong></a>, Abraham, like the Wasserman Foundation, has given between $5 million and $10 million to the Clinton Foundation. The emails indicate that Abraham was granted almost immediate access to Clinton upon request.<br />
Additional Abedin emails in which the top Clinton aide intervenes with the State Department on behalf of Clinton Foundation donors include the following:<br />
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<li>On Friday, June 26, 2009, Clinton confidant <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/jw-v-state-huma-emails-production-10-00684-pg-539/"><strong>Kevin O’Keefe</strong></a> wrote to Clinton saying that “Kevin Conlon is trying to set up a meeting with you and a major client.” Clinton wrote to Abedin, “Can you help deliver these for Kevin?” Abedin responded, “I’ll look into it asap” Kevin O’Keefe donated between <a class="extl" href="http://www.eastbaytimes.com/ci_14108736"><strong>$10,000 and $25,000</strong></a> to the Clinton Foundation. Kevin Conlon is a Clinton presidential campaign <a class="extl" href="https://www.hillaryclinton.com/page/hillblazers/"><strong>“Hillblazer”</strong></a> who has raised more than $100,000 for the candidate.</li>
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<li>On Tuesday, June 16, 2009, <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/jw-v-state-huma-emails-production-10-00684-pg-420/"><strong>Ben Ringel</strong></a> wrote to Abedin, “I’m on shuttle w Avigdor Liberman. I called u back yesterday. I want to stop by to see hrc tonite for 10 mins.” Ringel donated between <a class="extl" href="https://www.clintonfoundation.org/contributors?category=%2410%2C001%20to%20%2425%2C000&page=27"><strong>$10,000 and $25,000</strong></a> to the Clinton Foundation.</li>
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<li>On Monday, July 6, 2009, <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/jw-v-state-huma-emails-production-10-00684-pg-549/"><strong>Maureen White</strong></a> wrote to Abedin, “I am going to be in DC on Thursday. Would she have any time to spare?” Abedin responded, “Yes I’ll make it work.” White donated <a class="extl" href="http://freebeacon.com/politics/clinton-foundation-donors-fill-hillarys-campaign-coffers/"><strong>$75,000</strong></a> to the Clinton Foundation.</li>
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<li>In June 2009, prominent St. Louis political power broker <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/jw-v-state-huma-emails-production-10-00684-pg-404-405/"><strong>Joyce Aboussie</strong></a> exchanged a series of insistent emails with Abedin concerning Aboussie’s efforts to set up a meeting between Clinton and Peabody Energy VP Cartan Sumner. Aboussie wrote, “Huma, I need your help now to intervene please. We need this meeting with Secretary Clinton, who has been there now for nearly six months. This is, by the way, my first request. I really would appreciate your help on this. It should go without saying that the Peabody folks came to Dick [Gephardt] and I because of our relationship with the Clinton’s.” After further notes from Aboussie, <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/jw-v-state-huma-emails-production-10-00684-pg-421-423/"><strong>Abedin responded</strong></a>, “We are working on it and I hope we can make something work… we have to work through the beauracracy [sic] here.” Aboussie donated between <a class="extl" href="https://www.clintonfoundation.org/contributors?category=%24100%2C001+to+%24250%2C000"><strong>$100,000 and $250,000</strong></a> to the Clinton Foundation.</li>
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<li>On Saturday, May 16, 2009, mobile communications executive and political activist <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/jw-v-state-huma-emails-production-10-00684-pg-252-253/"><strong>Jill Iscol</strong></a> wrote to Clinton, “Please advise to whom I should forward Jacqueline Novogratz’s request [for a meeting with the secretary of state]. I know you know her, but honestly, she is so far ahead of the curve and brilliant I believe she could be enormously helpful to your work.” Clinton subsequently sent an email to Abedin saying, “Pls print.” Jill and husband Ken Iscol donated between <a class="extl" href="https://www.clintonfoundation.org/contributors?category=%24500%2C001+to+%241%2C000%2C000"><strong>$500,000 and $1 million</strong></a> to the Clinton Foundation. Clinton subsequently appointed Novogratz to the State Department’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board.</li>
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The newly obtained Abedin emails also contain a memorandum sent to Cheryl Mills from State Department White House liaison Laura Pena revealing that <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/jw-v-state-huma-emails-production-10-00684-pg-413-414/"><strong>Rajiv Fernando</strong></a> was proposed for his controversial appointment to the sensitive International Security Advisory Board as early as June 2009. Fernando was not actually appointed until 2011, and his appointment raised a firestorm because, according to an <a class="extl" href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/clinton-donor-sensitive-intelligence-board/story?id=39710624"><strong>ABC News report</strong></a>, “he had no obvious experience in the field.” Fernando donated <a class="extl" href="https://www.clintonfoundation.org/contributors?category=%241%2C000%2C001+to+%245%2C000%2C000"><strong>$1 million</strong></a> to the Clinton Foundation.<br />
The Abedin emails reveal that even <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/jw-v-state-huma-emails-production-10-00684-pg-309/"><strong>U2’s Bono</strong></a> got into the act when former Bill Clinton aide Ben Schwerin, who helped set up the Clinton Foundation, urged Abedin to help the aging rock star broadcast from the international space station. In a May 27, 2009, email with the subject line “Bono/NASA,” Schwerin wrote, “Bono wants to do linkup with the international space station on every show during the tour this year.… Any ideas? Thks.” Bono has been a <a class="extl" href="https://www.looktothestars.org/celebrity/bono"><strong>donor</strong></a> to the Clinton Global Initiative. And in 2011, he gathered top entertainers for “A Decade of Difference: A Concert Celebrating 10 Years of the William J. Clinton Foundation.” According to <a class="extl" href="http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/music/news/story/2011-10-14/clinton-foundation-concert/50790334/1"><em><strong>USA Today</strong></em></a><em>, “</em>Some tickets were sold to the public for $50 to $550, and premium seats went for $1,000 to $5,000 on the Foundation website.”<br />
This is the tenth set of records produced for Judicial Watch by the State Department from the non-state.gov email accounts of Huma Abedin. The documents were produced under a <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/jw-v-state-jan-11-order-00684/"><strong>court order</strong></a> in a May 5, 2015, Freedom of Information (FOIA) <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-files-seven-new-foia-lawsuits-against-state-department-to-force-release-of-clinton-emails-other-secret-email-records/"><strong>lawsuit</strong></a> against the State Department (<a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/jw-v-state-00684-abedin-non-state-emails/"><em><strong>Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of State</strong></em></a> (No. 1:15-cv-00684)) requiring the agency to produce “all emails of official State Department business received or sent by former Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin from January 1, 2009 through February 1, 2013, using a ‘non-state’.gov email address.”<br />
Hillary Clinton has repeatedly stated that she believes that the 55,000 pages of documents she turned over to the State Department in December 2014 included all of her work-related emails. In response to a court order in other Judicial Watch litigation, she <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-hillary-clinton-submits-email-information-to-court-under-penalty-of-perjury/"><strong>declared under penalty of perjury</strong></a> that she had “directed that all my emails on clintonemail.com in my custody that were or are potentially federal records be provided to the Department of State, and on information and belief, this has been done.” This new email find is also at odds with her <a class="extl" href="https://www.hillaryclinton.com/briefing/factsheets/2015/07/13/email-facts/"><strong>official campaign statement</strong></a> suggesting all “work or potentially work-related emails” were provided to the State Department.<br />
In these emails we are seeing the most blatant abuse ever of a cabinet office. Hillary Clinton turned the State Department into a global revenue stream that enriched her private interests with millions of ill-gotten dollars. The scope of this pay-for-play corruption is simply staggering.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8202192063193145623.post-5958941578118004652016-09-06T10:32:00.002-07:002016-09-06T12:30:05.886-07:00Reason No. 5 Not to Vote for Hillary. Even the FBI says that she was "Extremely Careless" with classified informationHere Are the FBI's Files From the Hillary Clinton Email Investigation <br />
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The FBI released a summary of its file from the Hillary Clinton email investigation on Friday, showing details of Clinton's explanation of her use of a private email server to handle classified communications. The release comes nearly two months after FBI Director James Comey announced that although Clinton's handling of classified information was "<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/06/us/politics/hillary-clinton-fbi-email-comey.html?_r=0" target="_blank">extremely careless</a>," it did not rise to the level of a prosecutable offense. Attorney General Loretta Lynch <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/06/politics/loretta-lynch-hillary-clinton-emails-no-charges/" target="_blank">announced the next day</a> that she would not pursue charges in the matter. </blockquote>
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"We are making these materials available to the public in the interest of transparency and in response to numerous Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests," the FBI noted in a statement sent to reporters with links to the documents. </blockquote>
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The documents include notes from Clinton's July 2 interview with agents, as well as a "factual summary of the FBI's investigation into this matter," according to the FBI release. </blockquote>
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Throughout her interview with agents, Clinton repeatedly said she relied on the career professionals she worked with to handle classified information correctly. The agents asked about a series of specific emails, and in each case Clinton said she wasn't worried about the particular material being discussed on a nonclassified channel.<br /> Read the full documents below:<br /> FBI summary file:</blockquote>
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(Washington, DC) January 28, 2016 – Judicial Watch today released 246 pages of previously undisclosed Office of Independent Counsel (OIC) internal memos revealing extensive details about the investigation of Hillary Rodham Clinton for possible criminal charges involving her activities in the Whitewater/Castle Grande fraudulent land transaction scandal. The memos are “statements of the case” against Hillary Clinton and Webster Lee “Webb” Hubbell, Hillary Clinton’s former law partner and former Associate Attorney General in the Clinton Justice Department. Ultimately, the memos show that prosecutors declined to prosecute Clinton because of the difficulty of persuading a jury to convict a public figure as widely known as Clinton.
<span class="s1">Although some details of the documents have been previously reported, Judicial Watch is today publicly releasing the independent counsel prosecution memos for the first time. The prosecution memos—portions of which were heavily redacted—were obtained by Judicial Watch from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
An <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/nara-whitewater-oic-report-pg-17-38/"><span class="s2">April 10, 1998</span></a>, memo summarizes “the crimes under consideration”</span>
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<span class="s1">What, then are the crimes under consideration? Between January 1994 and February 1996 both Hillary Clinton and [Webster] Hubbell made numerous sworn statements to the RTC, the FDIC, the Senate and the House of Representatives, and to the OIC. Each of these reflected and embodied materially inaccurate stories relating to: how RLF [Clinton and Hubbell’s Rose Law Firm] came to be retained by MGSL [the Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan]; Hillary Clinton’s role in the IDC/Castle Grande venture; Hillary Clinton’s role in representing MGSL; Hillary Clinton’s role in representing MGSL before state agencies’; Hubbell’s representations to the RTC [Resolution Trust Corporation] and FDIC regarding Hillary Clinton’s role in the IDC/Castle Grande venture; and the removal of records from the RLF. The question, generally, is not whether the statements are inaccurate, but whether they are willfully so.</span><br />
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<span class="s1">The records released today by Judicial Watch were prepared for an “All OIC Attorneys” meeting on April 27, 1998, at which a final decision about whether to indict Clinton and Hubbell was the subject of a lengthy debate. The records explore in detail the role Clinton played in the fraudulent Castle Grande transaction, the role of Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan, and the subsequent lengthy cover-up as the Clintons sought and won the White House.</span><br />
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<span class="s1">Clinton, according to prosecutors, drafted an option agreement that concealed from federal bank examiners a fraudulent $300,000 cross-loan in the Castle Grande transaction. Her concealment of her role in this fraudulent transaction, including the hiding of her Rose Law Firm billing records concerning her legal work for Madison, were the subject of an OIC obstruction of justice probe.</span><br />
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<li class="li1"><b><i></i></b><span class="s1"><b><i>Vincent Foster and the Missing Rose Law Firm Billing Records. </i></b>The Rose records were a key piece of evidence in the probe. They were missing for years. After Foster’s July 1993 suicide, the OIC documents note, where the billing records went “is an open question…. Several pieces of evidence support the inference that personal documents which Hillary Clinton did not want disclosed were located in Foster’s office at the time of his death and then removed.”</span></li>
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<span class="s1">On <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/jw-v-nara-acknowledgment/"><span class="s3">March 19, 2015</span></a>, the National Archives admitted locating records responsive to the Ewing material request, confirming that it found 38 pages of responsive records in a folder entitled “Draft Indictment,” and approximately 200 pages of responsive records in a folder entitled “Hilary Rodham Clinton/Webster L. Hubbell Draft Indictment.” Judicial Watch is suing in federal court to <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-sues-national-archives-to-obtain-draft-indictments-of-hillary-clinton/"><span class="s3">force the release</span></a> of the draft indictment, which is being withheld by the National Archives to protect the privacy of Hillary Clinton.</span></div>
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In January 1996, a long sought-after copy of billing records from the Rose Law Finn were identified and turned over to prosecutors by Carolyn Huber, a White House assistant to Hillary Rodham Clinton. Ms. Huber, herself a former Rose Law Firm employee, recognized the records and realized that they had been among papers that she had removed six months earlier from the First Lady's <!-- Link Tag --> <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/arkansas/docs/floorplan.html"><b>book room</b></a> on the third floor of the White House. The mysterious appearance of the billing records, which had been the specific subject of various investigative subpoenas for two years, sparked intense interest about how they surfaced and where they had been. Shortly after the discovery of the records, Hillary Clinton made history -- she became the only First Lady ever called to testify before a Grand Jury inquiry. <b>What They Reveal</b> <img align="right" border="1" hspace="4" src="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/arkansas/art/bill1.gif" /> Ms. Clinton and her attorney have stated publicly that the billing records confirm that, as an attorney at the Rose Firm in the mid-80's, she was not significantly involved in the representation of Jim McDougal's savings and loan, Madison Guaranty. According to the Rose records, Hillary Clinton billed Madison for 60 hours of work over a 15 month period. Ms. Clinton's attorney argues that this represents a de minimus amount of work and includes billings for work performed by Rose Finn lawyers working for Hillary Clinton at the time. But Whitewater investigators believe that the billing records show significant representation. They argue that the records prove that Ms. Clinton was not only directly involved in the representation of Madison, but more specifically, in providing legal work on the fraudulent Castle Grande land deal. In particular, investigators zeroed in on the individual billings, including a dozen calls and meetings with Seth Ward, the individual whom regulators determined was a "straw man" in the Castle Grande deal. These contacts occurred during a period of time, including early 1986, that Ward was engaged in efforts to obtain sales commissions from McDougal that would later tip regulators to illegalities at Castle Grande. <!-- Graphic Tag --> <img align="left" border="1" height="224" hspace="10" src="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/arkansas/art/bill3.gif" width="297" /> Of particular interest to investigators has been Ms. Clinton's work on an option agreement drafted to provide Seth Ward with some $300,000 in commissions on the re-sale of his holdings at Castle Grande. Regulators determined that the option agreement was principally designed to further obfuscate and hide the fraudulent nature of the underlying Castle Grande transactions. The records also identified what investigators believe was a significant phone call on April 7, 1986 between Ms. Clinton and then-Madison loan officer Don Denton. When questioned by investigators about the call, Denton remembered speaking with Ms. Clinton about efforts to provide Ward with his commissions. According to their conversation, Denton believes that Ms.Clinton was familiar with the nature of the transaction -- again, a transaction that investigators believe was intended to deceive financial regulators. <!-- Graphic Tag --> <img border="1" height="151" src="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/arkansas/art/bill2.gif" vspace="4" width="497" /><b>Who Had the Records? </b>Investigators have examined the Rose billing records not only to determine the role Hillary Clinton may have played in the Castle Grande transactions, but more significantly to ascertain her role in their mysterious disappearance and subsquent reappearance. If someone had knowledge or possession of the billing records and knew that they were the subject of Federal investigative subpoenas, their failure to divulge or turn over the records could be the basis for criminal charges -- the obstruction of justice. The billing records found in <!-- Link Tag --> <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/arkansas/docs/floorplan.html"><b>Hillary Clinton's book room</b> </a>were a copy of an original version printed out from the Rose Firm computer in 1992, when the computer file itself was deleted. Webb Hubbell has testified that he recalls reviewing a copy of the billing records in response to press inquiries during the 1992 Presidential campaign. Hubbell says that he then passed the records on to Vince Foster who was, as far as Hubbell knows, the last person to have the records. Investigators believe the book room copy was indeed Vince Foster's. The copy contains notations, in red ink, that are Vince Foster's handwriting. These notations appear to be directed toward Hillary Clinton, including questions about some of the individual billings. <br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11.5pt;">WASHINGTON, June 4, 1996—<strong> </strong> Republicans on the special Senate Whitewater committee released a report from the Federal Bureau of Investigation today showing that the fingerprints of the First Lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton, were found on records discovered in the White House family quarters two years after they were first sought by investigators. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span><br />
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The following exchange, released as part of the <a href="https://foia.state.gov/Search/Results.aspx?collection=Clinton_Email">most recent data dump by Hillary Clinton </a>in which she unveiled over 7,000 pages of "non-personal" emails, and which is the direct result of the scandal erupting once it was revealed that Hillary Clinton had a personal email account (<a href="mailto:hdr22@clintonemail.com" title="hdr22@clintonemail.com">hdr22@clintonemail.com</a>) and a personal email server which supposedly nobody knew about, reveals that not only did the State Department help desk know about said personal email as early as 2010, but that revelation led to the following delightful exchange.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8202192063193145623.post-71055579978061239712016-09-06T08:26:00.000-07:002016-09-06T08:26:30.467-07:00Reason No. 3 - Not to Vote for Hillary - Hillary Fired for Lying on Watergate Committe<h1 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline">
Hillary Fired For “Lying, Unethical Behavior” on Watergate Committee</h1>
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Hillary Clinton might have a pretty hefty scandal brewing.<br /> It turns when she was an attorney working on the Watergate investigation, she was <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/04/01/488528/-Hillary-fired-from-Watergate-Committee-for-lying">fired</a> by her supervisor for “lying, unethical behavior.”<br />Jerry Zeifman, who said he is a lifelong Democrat, was a supervisor for 27-year-old Hillary Rodham on the committee. When the investigation was complete, Zeifman said he fired Hillary and refused to give her a recommendation.<br />“Because she was a liar,” Zeifman said. “She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality.<br /> Dan Calabrese <a href="http://www.eohistory.info/2013/hillaryHistory.htm">reports</a>:<br /> How could a 27-year-old House staff member do all that? She couldn’t do it by herself, but Zeifman said she was one of several individuals – including Marshall, special counsel John Doar and senior associate special counsel (and future Clinton White House Counsel) Bernard Nussbaum – who engaged in a seemingly implausible scheme to deny Richard Nixon the right to counsel during the investigation.<br /> Why would they want to do that? Because, according to Zeifman, they feared putting Watergate break-in mastermind E. Howard Hunt on the stand to be cross-examined by counsel to the president. Hunt, Zeifman said, had the goods on nefarious activities in the Kennedy Administration that would have made Watergate look like a day at the beach – including Kennedy’s purported complicity in the attempted assassination of Fidel Castro.<br /> The actions of Hillary and her cohorts went directly against the judgment of top Democrats, up to and including then-House Majority Leader Tip O’Neill, that Nixon clearly had the right to counsel. Zeifman says that Hillary, along with Marshall, Nussbaum and Doar, was determined to gain enough votes on the Judiciary Committee to change House rules and deny counsel to Nixon. And in order to pull this off, Zeifman says Hillary wrote a fraudulent legal brief, and confiscated public documents to hide her deception.<br /> The brief involved precedent for representation by counsel during an impeachment proceeding. When Hillary endeavored to write a legal brief arguing there is no right to representation by counsel during an impeachment proceeding, Zeifman says, he told Hillary about the case of Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, who faced an impeachment attempt in 1970.<br />“As soon as the impeachment resolutions were introduced by (then-House Minority Leader Gerald) Ford, and they were referred to the House Judiciary Committee, the first thing Douglas did was hire himself a lawyer,” Zeifman said.<br /> The Judiciary Committee allowed Douglas to keep counsel, thus establishing the precedent. Zeifman says he told Hillary that all the documents establishing this fact were in the Judiciary Committee’s public files. So what did Hillary do?<br />“Hillary then removed all the Douglas files to the offices where she was located, which at that time was secured and inaccessible to the public,” Zeifman said. Hillary then proceeded to write a legal brief arguing there was no precedent for the right to representation by counsel during an impeachment proceeding – as if the Douglas case had never occurred.<br /> The brief was so fraudulent and ridiculous, Zeifman believes Hillary would have been disbarred if she had submitted it to a judge.
Zeifman says that if Hillary, Marshall, Nussbaum and Doar had succeeded, members of the House Judiciary Committee would have also been denied the right to cross-examine witnesses, and denied the opportunity to even participate in the drafting of articles of impeachment against Nixon.
Of course, Nixon’s resignation rendered the entire issue moot, ending Hillary’s career on the Judiciary Committee staff in a most undistinguished manner. Zeifman says he was urged by top committee members to keep a diary of everything that was happening. He did so, and still has the diary if anyone wants to check the veracity of his story. Certainly, he could not have known in 1974 that diary entries about a young lawyer named Hillary Rodham would be of interest to anyone 34 years later.<br />
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Reason No. 2 Not to vote for Hillary -- Hillary Lies to families over the coffins of dead Americans: </div>
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As FactCheck.org chronicled on Friday, and L. Gordon Crovitz detailed in the Wall Street Journal on Monday, Clinton issued a statement on the attack at 10:32 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on September 11, 2012. It read, in part: “Some have sought to justify this vicious behavior as a response to inflammatory material posted on the Internet. The United States deplores any intentional effort to denigrate the religious beliefs of others.”<br />
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But that was a lie. At 11:12 p.m., just 40 minutes later, Hillary e-mailed her daughter, Chelsea, with the truth: “Two of our officers were killed in Benghazi by an al Qaeda-like group.” Hillary’s e-mail was addressed to “<strong><span style="color: red;">Diane Reynolds,” Chelsea’s code name</span></strong>. This smoking e-mail surfaced during Hillary’s October 22 hearing before the House Select Committee on Benghazi. </div>
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At 11:49 p.m., Hillary contacted Libyan president Mohamed Magariaf, also with the truth: “There is a gun battle ongoing, which I understand Ansar [al] Sharia is claiming responsibility for.” This group is al-Qaeda’s Libyan franchisee. RELATED: What Hillary Knew The next day, September 12, 2012, Hillary resumed her public lies: “Some have sought to justify this vicious behavior, along with the protest that took place at our embassy in Cairo yesterday, as a response to inflammatory material posted on the Internet,” she said in a speech at the State Department. “America’s commitment to religious tolerance goes back to the very beginning of our nation. But let me be clear — there is no justification for this, none.” Echoing Hillary’s lie du jour, Obama chimed in with his own lie that day: “Since our founding, the United States has been a nation that respects all faiths,” he declared in the Rose Garden. “We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others. But there is absolutely no justification to this type of senseless violence. None.” </div>
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Obama’s press secretary, Jay Carney, lied even more explicitly that day: “We have no information to suggest that it was a planned attack.” Hillary toggled back to private-truth mode at 3:04 p.m., when she phoned Hisham Qandil, prime minister in Egypt’s Islamist Muslim Brotherhood government. She told him: “We know the attack in Libya had nothing to do with the film. It was a planned attack — not a protest. Based on the information we saw today, we believe that the group that claimed responsibility for this was affiliated with al-Qaeda.” </div>
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<strong>The Benghazi Hearings Confirm Yet Again What a Brazen Liar Hillary Is</strong></div>
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Representative Jim Jordan (R., Ohio) said about Hillary’s initial statements on Benghazi. “You tell your family it’s a terrorist attack, but not the American people. You can tell the president of Libya it’s a terrorist attack, but not the American people. And you can tell the Egyptian prime minister it’s a terrorist attack, but you can’t tell your own people the truth.”</div>
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<strong>Hillary lies over American flag-draped caskets </strong><strong>at September 14, during the ceremony, Andrews Air Force Base</strong></div>
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Both Hillary and Obama welcomed home the flag-draped caskets of U.S. ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, technical officer Sean Smith, and former Navy SEALs Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods. “We’ve seen rage and violence directed at American embassies over an awful Internet video that we had nothing to do with,” Hillary said. Hillary took things a totalitarian step further when — according to Tyrone Woods’s father, Charles — Hillary told him, “We will make sure that the person who made that film is arrested and prosecuted.”</div>
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Obama stood before the United Nations General Assembly and lied, lied, lied: “There is no video that justifies an attack on an embassy,” Obama said that September 25. “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.” </div>
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Obama unveiled at the Democrat National Convention just five days before Benghazi: “al-Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead.” And it worked! </div>
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<strong>The truth now out in the open, nothing that either of these two liars utters can be taken at face value ever again.</strong> </div>
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Story by: Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor and a media fellow with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University.<br />
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Read more at: <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/426289/hillary-clinton-obama-benghazi-lie">http://www.nationalreview.com/article/426289/hillary-clinton-obama-benghazi-lie</a></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8202192063193145623.post-68031228125009411582016-09-06T00:09:00.001-07:002016-09-06T01:17:54.333-07:00Reason No. 1, not to vote for Hillary - she put serving US intelligence agents at risk - then laughed about wiping the server with a cloth Hillary is a liar. Jokes About <span style="color: black;">Wiping</span> Email <span style="color: black;">Server</span> 'With A <em><strong><span style="color: #6a6a6a;">Cloth</span></strong></em> -- Funny when her life is not on the line......<br />
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Info from: Charles R. Smith<br />
Investigative Journalist<br />
Hillary Clinton for breaching the names of serving agents with her unsecure email server set up in a bathroom closet. Yet, unlike Judge Payne, FBI Director Comey has declined to enforce what is a clear and present danger to the lives of serving US intelligence agents.<br />
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<a href="https://www.softwar.net/checkbook.html">https://www.softwar.net/checkbook.html</a><br />
At the link above see Mr. Charles Smith and his efforts to reveal the Clinton network of lies.<br />
The first and most damaging lie that the Clinton lawyers made was that a Chinese commissioner, named Shen, was a civilian representative of the communist government, and not a member of the People’s Liberation Army. This claim, and the accompanying claim of personal and business privacy, was made before a Federal Judge. The claim was part of an elaborate effort to deny access to over 1,000 pages of information dealing with Shen and his so-called Chinese civilian organization, the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (COSTIND).<br />
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When the Clinton lawyers finished explaining their lie, I dropped the complete bio of People's Liberation Army (PLA) General Shen upon the desk of Federal Judge Robert Payne. The dossier on General Shen included his current military status and details about COSTIND. Shen was not only second in charge of COSTIND but the unit itself was run entirely by and for the Chinese Army under the command of PLA General Ding Henggao.<br />
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General Shen and his commander, General Ding, was small when compared to what the Chinese Army obtained from the Clinton administration. In a span of eight years the PLA moved from a second rate peasant army to a first class, nuclear tipped, global fighting force. That great leap forward came from the incredible success of General Shen, General Ding and others like them who won the first information war. The Chinese Army took the Clinton White House armed only with a checkbook.<br />
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When U.S. warplanes struck new Iraqi air defense sites around Baghdad, Pentagon officials were mum in naming the country that sold the new air defense missile system to Saddam Hussein.<br />
The Washington Post revealed that China was assisting Iraqi air defense, an allegation promptly denied by Iraq. According to the Post article, Chinese engineers were helping Iraq to install a network of fiber-optic communications and computers designed to track and destroy U.S. warplanes. (The export also violates U.N. weapons embargoes against Saddam.) Later it was confirmed that Chinese engineers were indeed helping Iraq.<br />
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The real story behind Iraq's high-tech buildup remains untold until now. <br />
The Chinese fiber-optic air defense system in the Iraqi desert is in fact of U.S. origin. In 1994, Chinese spymaster Gen. Ding Henggao obtained the advanced fiber-optic system through his contacts inside the Clinton administration.<br />
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According to documents obtained using the Freedom of Information Act, in 1994 Ding was a close friend of Clinton Secretary of Defense William Perry. Perry and Ding's relationship spans three administrations. Perry reportedly met Ding in the late 1970s during the Carter administration.<br />
By 1994, Ding had risen to command the Chinese Army military research bureau "COSTIND," or the Commission on Science Technology and Industry for National Defense. <br />
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COSTIND, according to the General Accounting Office, "oversees development of China's weapon systems and is responsible for identifying and acquiring telecommunications technology applicable for military use." In 1994, the personal consultant to Perry teamed with Ding to buy an advanced AT&T fiber-optic communications system for "civilian" use inside China. <br />
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The communications system slipped past U.S. exports laws as a joint U.S.-Chinese commercial venture called "Hua Mei." The Chinese part of the venture was run by a newly formed firm named "Galaxy New Technology."<br />
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Stanford professor John Lewis, a close friend and the paid personal consultant for Perry, was the key board member of the project. According to the Far Eastern Economic Review, Lewis had his friend Perry write a letter on his behalf to U.S. government officials, favoring the fiber-optic export to China. Lewis located Adlai Stevenson III, the former Democratic senator from Illinois, to lead the American side of the joint venture. Gen. Ding's wife, Madam Nie Li, headed the joint project as the Chinese co-chairman. Lewis contracted AT&T to ship the secure communication system directly to a Chinese army unit using Galaxy New Technology as a front.<br />
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The documents show that Lewis not only worked for Stanford University and the Chinese army at the same time, but that he also worked for the U.S. Defense Department. In August 1994, Lewis and Secretary of Defense Perry traveled to Beijing to meet with Ding. According to the official list of attendees, Lewis accompanied Perry as his paid "personal" consultant. <br />
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AT&T officials who sold most of the equipment and software were adamant that there was no need to check the Chinese firm because the "civilian" Madam Nie Lie led it. Yet, the so-called civilian firm was actually packed with Chinese army officers and experts. Madam Nie Lie was not only the wife of Gen. Ding Henggao; Madam Nie was actually Lt. Gen. Nie Lie of the Chinese army. Another member of New Galaxy Technology, according to a Defense Department document, was Director and President "Mr. Deng Changru." Deng is also known as Lt. Col. Deng Changru of the People's Liberation Army, head of the Chinese communications corps. <br />
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Still another Chinese army officer on the Galaxy New Technology staff was co-General Manager "Mr. Xie Zhichao," better known in military circles as Lt. Col. Xie Zhichao, director of the Chinese army's Electronics Design Bureau.<br />
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In 1997, Rep. Henry Hyde pressed unsuccessfully for the Department of Justice to investigate the Galaxy New Technology scandal in a letter outlining his concerns. <br />
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According to Hyde, "in 1994, sophisticated telecommunications technology was transferred to a U.S.-Chinese joint venture called HUA MEI, in which the Chinese partner is an entity controlled by the Chinese military. This particular transfer included fiber-optic communications equipment, which is used for high-speed, secure communications over long distances. Also included in the package was advanced encryption software."<br />
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In 1994, the Chinese spymaster Gen. Ding personally penetrated the U.S. Defense Department at the highest levels, using his contacts with Secretary Perry to obtain a secure fiber-optic network. <br />
There was more than profit for Ding and his Chinese army company packed with electronics experts. <br />
The Chinese army's Electronics Design Bureau modified the American fiber-optic communication system, changing it into a secure air-defense system. The Chinese army then exported the newly modified system to Iraq.<br />
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The Iraqi air defense network, NATO code-named "Tiger Song," is made of U.S. and French fiber-optic parts modified by the People's Liberation Army. <br />
Iraqi missiles guided by Tiger Song regularly attack U.S. fighter jets. U.S. jets have recently retaliated, striking back with bombs and missiles. <br />
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Chinese military engineers from 2nd and 4th Signals Corps of the Chinese Army Headquarters are even now repairing the damaged Iraqi air defense system. The cat-and-mouse game of missile and electronic combat with Saddam is expected to continue for years as the Chinese army engineers improve the deadly Tiger Song network.<br />
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In 1998, Gen. Ding retired from active service in the Chinese army. However, he was decorated by President Jiang Zemin as a hero of the Chinese communist party for his <u><strong>successful operations against America.</strong></u> <br />
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Ding's attack on America ranks as one of the most successful espionage operations of the 20th century. <br />
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Tiger Song, the Chinese fiber-optic air defense system in the Iraqi desert, is a legacy of the Clinton years that will now need to be revisited regularly by U.S. bombers in the 21st century.<br />
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Breaking News at Newsmax.com <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/Pre-2008/Clinton-Administration-Sold-China/2001/02/22/id/656673/#ixzz4JSLskPz9">http://www.newsmax.com/Pre-2008/Clinton-Administration-Sold-China/2001/02/22/id/656673/#ixzz4JSLskPz9</a><br />
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Background Info from: <a href="http://alamo-girl.com/0231.htm">http://alamo-girl.com/0231.htm</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8202192063193145623.post-57802208547498807902016-06-12T12:08:00.000-07:002016-06-12T12:10:28.298-07:00ISIS Amaq News Agency has officially claimed responsibility for the shooting in Orlando. We Must Take the Fight to ISIS.<h1 class="voc-title" data-reactid=".1vbbips7q4g.1.1.0.0.3.1.0:$328490.0.2">
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ISIS Amaq News Agency has officially claimed responsibility for the deadly shooting in Orlando, saying that “a soldier of the Islamic State has carried out the attack.”<br />
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Suspected gunman <a href="http://www.vocativ.com/328482/get-out-keep-running-club-turns-to-facebook-during-mass-shooting/" target="_blank">Omar Mateen killed 50 people</a> inside a gay nightclub early Sunday morning; shortly beforehand, he called 911 to pledge his allegiance to the Islamic State. Long before ISIS issued its response, users on one of the main ISIS forums praised the violence. “Oh America, you will not sleep and shut an eye as long as there are Mujahedeen. May God will bless you my brother and grant you with heaven,” wrote one supporter. Said another, “Allah Akbar, the target is a place for deviant people, who also known as homosexuals.”<br />
As one ISIS supporter pointed out, the Florida shooting follows ISIS spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani’s <a href="http://www.vocativ.com/321089/isis-egyptair/" target="_blank">most recent speech</a>, in which al-Adnani called upon “soldiers and supporters of the Caliphate in Europe and America” to attack civilians, “spread the terror,” and “open the door of Jihad” in their homes during the holy Muslim month of Ramadan. Another ISIS sympathizer shared images and videos from Orlando and wrote, “there is nothing I love more than the blood of infidels. This is the month of victories and blessings.”</div>
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