Submitted by: Kathy Hawkins
Former Congresswoman Jane Harman (D-CA) takes a "guess" on Fox News Sunday, that the unreported $500,000.00 Algerian donation to the Clinton Foundation "got lost in the system," and
was never submitted to the State Department for approval. Hillary
Clinton was Secretary of State at the time, and the buck would have, or
should have, stopped at her desk for final approval, had it been
questionable, which it surely was. Political candidates are not allowed
to take money from foreign governments. Algeria is "foreign," is 99 percent Sunni Muslim with
99 percent Berber/Arab ancestry. She was not a political candidate, at
the time, you are saying? Hillary Clinton has been a political candidate
since she followed Bill into the White
House in January 1993. See the transcript and video below.
Flag of Algeria
CHRIS WALLACE: Congresswoman Harman, does that bother you at all. Are you at all troubled by these donations going to the Clinton Foundation?
JANE HARMAN: Uh, yes. Uh, there was a process set up. All other contributions
Jane Harman
were
reviewed, as I understand it--there was transparency. This was an
unsolicited contribution of $500,000.00 at a time when the U.S. deluged
with help from Haiti. I guess it got lost in the system. I think it
needs to be explained. I don't understand why the money wasn't returned,
or in some way, after-the-fact approval wasn't sought, but I assume the
Foundation will explain it.
About five years have passed. No explanation so far.
With
Hillary's post at the State Department, came the necessity for a new
agreement on what countries could contribute to the Clinton Foundation
while she sat at the head of the Department. If a country had donated
before, and wanted to continue to donate in similar amounts to past
donations, they were allowed to do so. Apparently, Algeria did not fall
into that parameter. Notice below Hillary's "formal" involvement with
the Foundation. Can you think of any Republican candidate who could get
away with distancing herself from her husband?
Rarely,
if ever, has a potential commander in chief been so closely associated
with an organization that has solicited financial support from foreign
governments. Clinton formally joined the foundation in 2013 after
leaving the State Department, and the organization was renamed the Bill,
Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation...
The Washington Post reported last week that
foreign sources, including governments, made up a third of those who
have given the foundation more than $1 million over time. The Post found
that the foundation, begun by former president Bill Clinton, has raised
nearly $2 billion since its creation in 2001.
Foreign
governments and individuals are prohibited from giving money to U.S.
political candidates, to prevent outside influence over national
leaders. But the foundation has given donors a way to potentially gain
favor with the Clintons outside the traditional political limits...
The
Wall Street Journal reported last week that the foundation had accepted
new foreign-government money now that the 2008 agreement has lapsed.
A
review of foundation disclosures shows that at least two foreign
governments — Germany and the United Arab Emirates — began giving in
2013 after the funding restrictions lapsed when Clinton left the Obama
administration. Some foreign governments that had been supporting the
foundation before Clinton was appointed, such as Saudi Arabia, did not
give while she was in office and have since resumed donating. Read more at the Washington Post
There
is musing all around about why Hillary may take many more months before
she declares herself to be a 2016 presidential candidate. All the more
time to take those foreign government donations.
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