As noted earlier, the Washington Post has been trying to get some answers about the donations being given to finance the Bill Clinton Presidential Library. My feeling has always been that if one has nothing to hide, one is not afraid of allowing transparency. By their actions, Billary suggest that there just may well be some unsavory dirt to be found. If there is nothing to hide, why are they hiding information? As noted before, here we go again!! The country does NOT need this crap for 4 to 8 more years. Here are some highlights from the Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/14/AR2007121402124.html):
A handful of major donors' names to the Clinton library were disclosed in 2004 when a New York Sun reporter accessed a public computer terminal at the library that provided a list of donors. Soon after the article appeared, the list of donors was removed. The amount of the contribution from Saudi Arabia and several other countries, as well as the percentage of the total given by foreigners, had not been revealed.
The Post confirmed numerous seven-figure donors to the library through interviews and tax records of foundations. Several foreign governments gave at least $1 million, including the Middle Eastern nations of Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, as well as the governments of Taiwan and Brunei.
In addition, a handful of Middle Eastern business executives and officials also gave at least $1 million each, according to the interviews. They include Saudi businessmen Abdullah al-Dabbagh, Nasser al-Rashid and Walid Juffali, as well as Issam Fares, a U.S. citizen who previously served as deputy prime minister of Lebanon.
Clinton has been criticized for asking for donations, including from Saudi Arabia, at questionable moments. In an op-ed column in the Wall Street Journal last year, former FBI director Louis J. Freeh said Clinton "hit up [Saudi Arabia's head of state] Prince Abdullah for a contribution to his library" during a meeting in which Freeh wanted Clinton to ask about the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing. Clinton has publicly disputed Freeh's account.
Clinton has also been challenged by members of Congress for accepting a reported $450,000 donation to his library from the former wife of fugitive financier Marc Rich before he granted Rich a pardon for tax evasion in 2001. Neither Clinton nor the Rich family confirmed the donation.
2 comments:
Michael,
This is the reason I don't want the Clintons in. I believe they are amorale. It is all about the end result. Look at what they are trying to do to Obama. They know if they can paint him as the black candidate it will cause a divide. If they persue this path I and are successful she could end up with apathy being displayed by the blacks in November. Bill is a very smart guy its too bad he was raised without any morals.
I totally agree with you. Bill and Hillary always have put personal ambition ahead of everything else, imcluding what is best for the Democrat Party not to mention the country as a whole. I suspect we have only seen the beginning of the sleaze that they will use to try to win the nomination only - in my view - to lose in November.
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