Other users are writing about Hillary Clinton’s most recent Houdini-esque escape from criminal responsibility for her handling of classified information and emails while Secretary of State. While she will not face any criminal prosecution at least until the end of the Obama administration, the announcement of no prosecution did not give her any glowing endorsement.
FBI Director James Comey said that Clinton and her aides were "extremely careless" in the handling of classified information and that Clinton should have known an unclassified email system was no place to conduct sensitive government business." Was this an isolated instance of bad judgment on the part of someone who wants to be president or was it yet one more example of behavior which suggests a lifelong pattern of incompetence and lack of integrity?
My bias is obvious. If you post a reply attacking me, I won’t care and I won’t respond. The bottom line is not what you think about me; the bottom line is the pattern of the facts. If enough people accuse Bill Cosby, the allegations must be true, right? Where there's smoke, there must be fire! So . . . if enough people accuse Hillary Clinton, the allegations are part of a vast right-wing conspiracy? Or is it possible that there is some truth in the allegations?
Saul Alinsky
In 1968, Hillary met with Saul Alinsky, a radical socialist who is regarded with reverence by many on the far left and with disdain by most on the right. His ideas were the subject of her college thesis. In her most recent memoir, Hillary wrote that she rejected a job offer from Alinsky to instead attend law school.
In a July 8, 1971, letter to Alinsky marked “personal,” Hillary wrote: “Dear Saul, When is that new book [Rules for Radicals] coming out – or has it come and I somehow missed the fulfillment of Revelation?
“I have just had my one-thousandth conversation about Reveille [for Radicals] and need some new material to throw at people,” she wrote, referring to a 1948 Alinsky treatise on community organizing. New material was in the book. In the preface, Alinsky paid tribute to the first radical reformer: Lucifer.
Watergate: Staff attorney Hillary Rodham fired for being a ‘liar’
Hillary actually played a role in the Watergate (Google it) saga, and her actions as a young attorney may have set the tone for her career. The 27-year-old Clinton was fired from the staff of the House Judiciary committee investigating the Watergate scandal in 1974.
She was fired by her supervisor, lifelong Democrat Jerry Zeifman, who called her a liar and much worse. “She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer,” he said. “She conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality.” Zeifman also refused to give Clinton a letter of recommendation, making her one of only three employees he snubbed during his 17-year career.
Hillary looks back and laughs about defending a child rapist
In an interview, Hillary was asked, “As a lawyer, you defended the rapist of a 12-year-old girl, calling the victim ’emotionally unstable’ and saying that girls have a tendency to ‘exaggerate or romanticize sexual experiences especially when they come from disorganized families.' Comments?”
She replied, “When I was a 27-year-old attorney doing legal aid work at the law school where I taught in Fayetteville, Arkansas, I was appointed by the local judge to represent a criminal defendant accused of rape. I asked to be relieved of that responsibility. But I was not and I had a professional duty to represent my client to the best of my ability, which I did.
However, she did not address the reports of unearthed recordings in which she boasts of knowing of her client’s guilt and laughing about the case. “It was a fascinating case, it was a very interesting case,” Clinton said on the tape. “This guy was accused of raping a 12-year-old. Course he claimed that he didn’t, and all this stuff. … I had him take a polygraph, which he passed – which forever destroyed my faith in polygraphs.” She laughed at the statement. She also laughed “when discussing the crime lab’s accidental destruction of DNA evidence that tied [the defendant] to the crime.”
Published profiles of the case reveal that Clinton’s strategy at the time was to attack the 12-year-old. She submitted an affidavit that said she was told the girl was “emotionally unstable” and was viewed as having a “tendency to seek out older men and engage in fantasizing.” She claimed the child “in the past made false accusations” and she exhibited “an unusual stubbornness and temper when she does not get her way.”
The woman who says she was raped by the defendant blasted Hillary in a 2014 interview, accusing her of intentionally lying about her in court documents. “Hillary Clinton took me through hell,” she said.
Capitalist Hillary Clinton becomes a livestock trader and makes a 9,987 percent profit!
Between 1978 and 1979, Hillary made massive profits from cattle futures trading. She reportedly made $99,537 in profit on a $1,000 investment (a 9,987 percent profit) in just nine months because of a “highly placed connection” at Tyson Foods, which was the largest employer in Arkansas and a big Bill Clinton donor.
According to the NY Times, “During Mr. Clinton’s tenure as Governor, Tyson benefited from several state decisions, including favorable environmental rulings, $9 million in state loans, and the placement of company executives on important state boards. … The commodities trades were the most successful investment the Clintons ever made."
The Whitewater scandal: Jail for their friends, but not Bill or Hillary
The Whitewater investigation began in 1994 with accusations against the Clintons and others concerning improper campaign contributions, political and financial favors, and tax benefits. Its initial subject was a failed Arkansas real-estate venture involving the Clintons in the 1980s that was linked to the collapse of Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan, a Little Rock savings bank run by the Clintons’ Whitewater business partners. Clinton friends James and Susan McDougal went to jail for fraud and for refusing to testify against the Clintons. James died while serving his sentence. Susan McDougalwas granted a pardon by President Clinton before he left office.
Vince Foster’s 1993 death
Vince Foster was deputy White House counsel and Hillary’s friend and law partner who had some involvement in the Travelgate and Whitewater scandals. In 1993, Foster was found dead in a park with a fatal gunshot wound to his mouth. His “suicide” was the subject of much speculation and three official investigations.
Investigations by the US Park Police, the Department of Justice, the FBI, Congress, two independent counsels all concluded Foster’s death was a suicide. However, one of the key investigators later revealed that the probe’s result was predetermined; contrary to the official report, only a few players would have been required to orchestrate the apparent suicide; and the crime scene had been altered. Federal investigators were not allowed to enter Foster’s office after his death, but “White House aides entered Foster’s office shortly after his death, giving rise to speculation that files were removed from his office.”
Hillary’s ‘missing’ Rose Law Firm billing records (vaguely reminiscent of missing emails)
In 1994, federal investigators subpoenaed Hillary’s billing records from her days as a partner in the Rose Law firm during the Watergate scandal. The White House said it didn’t have the 115 pages of files. Almost two years later, the subpoenaed billing records of the Rose Law Firm were discovered in the Clintons' private residence in the White House by a staffer. While Hillary claimed she had a minor role in the affair, the Washington Examiner reported that “when the records mysteriously turned up in the White House in 1996, they showed she met repeatedly with key figures in the scandal.”
‘Landing under sniper fire’ in Bosnia
In a foreign-policy speech on Iraq, Sen. Hillary Clinton recalled a trip she made to Bosnia in 1996 while she was the First Lady: “I remember landing under sniper fire,” Hillary said of her visit. “There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.”
Though it was a lie that could easily be outed, Hillary repeated the claim several times. When questioned, Hillary stood by her earlier statement: “There was no greeting ceremony, and we basically were told to run to our cars. Now that is what happened.” Later, she said that she had simply “misspoke.”
The truth is that Hillary landed on a tarmac and greeted a crowd, including an 8-year-old child who gave her a poem, under no duress. A review of more than 100 news articles which reported the event revealed no security threats to Hillary at the time.
FBI files on enemies in the GOP
In "Filegate," the Clintons illegally obtained FBI files on perceived adversaries, many of whom served in previous Republican administrations. Judicial Watch reported that, “in an effort to discredit the women who charged President Clinton with sexual misconduct, personal files and papers were illegally obtained and released. The courts found, under the Privacy Act, that the privacy of Linda Tripp and Kathleen Willey had been violated.” Hillary was linked “directly to the center” of the controversy.
Hillary’s extremist assistant
Huma Abedin is Hillary’s longtime deputy chief of staff. She has known ties to the Muslim Brotherhood – a group bent on “destroying Western civilization from within” – and other Islamic supremacists. The Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic supremacist connections not only extend to Abedin’s mother and father, who are both deeply tied to al-Qaida fronts, but to Abedin herself.
Sales of high-tech secrets to China!
Chinagate was uncovered by Judicial Watch founder Larry Klayman. Technology companies allegedly made donations of millions of dollars to various Democratic Party entities, including President Bill Clinton’s 1996 re-election campaign, in return for permission to sell high-tech secrets to China. Bernard Schwartz and his Loral Space & Communication Ltd. later allegedly “helped China to identify the cause of [a rocket failure], thereby advancing China’s missile program and threatening US national security,” according to records.
In a 2013 column titled “Proof Hillary isn’t fit to be president,” Klayman wrote: “In late 1996 and early 1997, the scandal had burgeoned to such a level that joint congressional hearings were empaneled, ultimately to be shut down when Democrats uncovered illegal fundraising by some Republicans. The two parties, faced with mutual assured destruction, simply took an exit stage left.”
Travelgate
In this scandal, the staff of the White House travel office was fired to make way for Clinton cronies, including Bill’s 25-year-old cousin, who was reportedly promised the position of office director. Hillary allegedly fired seven employees and gave the positions to her Arkansas friends and Bill’s cousin. According to the Washington Post, there was also an effort to award a White House airline contract to a Clinton friend.
Later, Hillary had the FBI investigate the former head of the travel office, Billy Dale, who was fired without notice and removed from White House grounds. Dale was charged with embezzlement but found not guilty of the crime in 1995. He was later audited by the IRS.
Covering Bill’s dirty deeds
Hillary Clinton hired private investigators to dig up dirt on perceived threats such as Juanita Broaddrick, the woman allegedly raped by Bill Clinton, and others with whom he had affairs (e.g., Gennifer Flowers, Kathleen Willey and Paula Jones.) These same investigators also stalked, scared, and threatened these women.
Despite Bill Clinton’s 20 years of extra-marital affairs, Hillary came to his defense after the Monica Lewinsky affair became public in 1998. Asked about the accusations, the then-first lady said, “Certainly, I believe they’re false. Absolutely.” She blamed the accusations on a “vast right-wing conspiracy.”
Presidential pardons sold for Hillary Senate contributions
Bill Clinton granted a pardon to convicted tax evader Marc Rich, whose wife made significant contributions to Hillary’s 2000 Senate campaign and the Clinton presidential library. Rich had been “indicted by a US federal grand jury on more than 50 counts of fraud, racketeering, trading with Iran during the US Embassy hostage crisis and evading more than $48 million in income taxes – crimes that could have earned him more than 300 years in prison.” Rich fled to Switzerland in 1983 after his indictment and remained on the FBI’s Most Wanted List until President Clinton pardoned him.
Hillary’s brothers, Tony and Hugh Rodham, reportedly received large amounts of money from people who were pardoned by Bill Clinton. Not surprisingly, Hillary said she and Bill were unaware of the scheme. However, Hillary’s brother was taking money and promising access to help get pardons to people like drug kingpin Carlos Vignali and convicted swindler Glenn Braswell. Hugh Rodham received hundreds of thousands of dollars from each, and they were both granted pardons.
Looting the White House
When the Clintons left 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in 2001, they looted the White House. Hillary tried to ship furniture to the Clintons’ personal home in Chappaqua, New York. The Clintons also tried to take $190,000 in gifts and furnishings from the White House.
While in the White House, the Clintons also sold government goods and services in exchange for political campaign contributions and personal profit. Sold were seats on overseas trade missions, export licenses for high technology sales to communist China and elsewhere, commissionerships, and judgeships, rides on Air Force One, overnight stays in the White House’s Lincoln Bedroom, burial plots at Arlington National Cemetery, and meetings with key Clinton-Gore administration leaders.
Benghazi: 4 Americans are dead but what does it matter?
In the months leading up to the attack, Hillary’s State Department cut security in Libya. On September 11, 2012, while Hillary was secretary of state, Islamic militants attacked a US special mission in Benghazi, Libya, and murdered US Ambassador J. Christoph Stevens and US Foreign Service Information Management officer Sean Smith. Two CIA contractors, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, were also killed.
A security decision finalized personally by Hillary may have unwittingly doomed the Americans in Benghazi. Hillary herself signed waivers that allowed the facility to be legally occupied, since it did not meet the minimum official security standards set by the State Department. The waiver legally allowed the CIA annex to be housed in a location about one mile from the US special mission.
According to accounts from Benghazi survivors, the delayed response time by those at the CIA annex may have cost the lives of Stevens and the three other Americans killed at the special mission. If the CIA annex had been co-located with the US special mission, a rapid response team would have been on site during the initial assault in which Stevens was killed.
State Department emails show Clinton knew while the attack was under way that it was being carried out by terrorists. Judicial Watch has obtained previously classified documents from the US Department of Defense and the Department of State revealing that DOD almost immediately reported that the attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was planned and carried out by al-Qaida and Muslim Brotherhood-linked terrorists. A federal court ordered the government hand over more than 100 pages of previously secret documents that showed then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other senior Obama officials were given reports within hours of the Sept. 11, 2012, attack. In those memos, the DOD described details of a plan 10 days in advance “to kill as many Americans as possible.”
Nonetheless, Hillary falsely blamed it on “rage and violence over an awful Internet video” when she spoke at a ceremony at Andrews Air Force Base on Sept. 14, 2012, as the remains of the four Americans were returned to the US
2013 Clinton Foundation
The Clintons appear to have siphoned off tens of millions of dollars annually from funds the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation has received from a United Nations-sponsored program that uses levies on airline tickets to help HIV/AIDs victims in the Third World, according to Wall Street analyst and investor Charles Ortel. The Clinton Foundation also reportedly distributed useless drugs to AIDS patients in third-world countries.
“Ongoing analysis of legally required public disclosures reveals that while Mrs. Clinton served as director, the Clinton Foundation and its principal constituent elements, filed false and materially misleading tax returns with the IRS and with other governmental authorities, for multiple years,” Ortel charges in his second report on alleged Clinton Foundation mismanagement.
Hillary has said, “I am very proud of the work the Foundation does,” but just 9 percent of the Foundation’s money went to charity in 2013. Fox News’ John Stossel noted, “Charity Navigator, the biggest charity rating service, won’t even list the Clinton Foundation in its rankings. This is repulsive. If a Republican candidate ran a charity that did that, it would be a scandal. But the Clintons must be immune.”
The New York Post reported Hillary’s former chief of staff and counselor, Cheryl Mills, “knows where the bodies are buried” in many Clinton scandals, has been at Hillary’s side since the 1990s and “has a long track record of hiding Clinton documents.” According to the Post, Hillary gave her the job of “identifying and preserving all emails that could potentially be federal records.” The Post added, “And, presumably, deleting.” Mills, who has officially been accused of perjury and obstruction of justice, is a key member of the Clinton Foundation board.
Bill and Hillary were broke when they left the White House
In a 2014 interview with ABC, Hillary claimed, '"You have no reason to remember, but we came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt."
A complete financial disclosure is not available to debunk this claim, but you should remember that, in 1999, the Clintons bought a five-bedroom home in Chappaqua, N.Y., for $1.7 million. In December 2000, just as they were leaving the White House, they bought a seven-bedroom house near Embassy Row in Washington, D.C. The price was $2.85 million and, according to the New York Times, the Clintons made an $855,000 down payment on the Washington house.
Clinton home in New York
Clinton home in Washington, DC.
Whether you consider this claim to be an outright lie, an exaggeration, or another example of "misspeak," it does suggest a lack of respect for the truth.
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