Hillary approved arms sales after big donations from

Posted: Aug 25, 2016

eyebrow-raising stories from the Clinton Foundation “pay to play” scandal is Crown Prince Salman of Bahrain – whose kingdom donated up to $150,000 directly to the Foundation, plus another $32 million to the Clinton Global Initiative – securing a meeting with the Secretary of State, after which she approved some highly controversial arms sales to Bahrain.... Included among the Abedin-Band emails is an exchange revealing that when Crown Prince Salman of Bahrain requested a meeting with Secretary of State 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.... Huma Abedin is a top aide to Hillary Clinton, who figures in many of these long-hidden emails as a “fixer” for Clinton Foundation donors. Douglas Band was an executive of the Foundation, with a long history of working for the Clinton family. Judicial Watch cites “more than a dozen email exchanges” where Abedin “provided expedited, direct access to Clinton for donors who had contributed from $25,000 to $10 million to the Clinton Foundation,” often coordinating closely with Band. It is further noted that in a deposition to Judicial Watch, Abedin admitted one of her duties at the State Department was to take care of “Clinton family matters,” an outrage in and of itself, especially since she was treated to an unprecedented double (really, triple) dipping arrangement that allowed her to collect private sector paychecks while working full-time for State. Did Prince Salman get what he wanted from Secretary Clinton? It sure looks that way. “Soon after the correspondence about a meeting, Clinton’s State Department significantly increased arms export authorizations to the country’s autocratic government, even as that nation moved to crush pro-democracy protests,” writes International Business Times.... were still among the items on hold.) CounterJihad brings it all home by reminding readers that the American people, their representatives, and law enforcement were never supposed to see these Clinton documents. She blatantly broke the law to destroy them, instead of handing them over to the State Department. No thanks are due to our vaunted mainstream media and its “investigative reporters,” either – we have only learned these vital facts about Hillary Clinton, in the final months of a presidential election, because of Judicial Watch’s Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, and the chain of events that led to an FBI criminal investigation of Clinton’s private email server. “Clinton’s lawyers deleted these emails without turning them over to the State Department, though it turns out that they are clearly public records that explain just how a momentous decision was made on a major arms deal. In spite of that, the FBI recommended no prosecution,” writes CounterJihad, in a fitting epitaph for the rule of law. ;