Myra Adams NRO Review of Documentary – “Clinton Cash”

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An hour long documentary has been produced based on the best selling book, “Clinton Cash,” by Peter Schweizer. Myra Adams provides a review and the “official trailer” to give us a peek at what to expect:

To those who would uncover the truth about the Clinton Foundation, “follow the money” seems quaint advice, considering that billions of dollars were involved — making for a scandal ten-times the size of Watergate. …

… In the most headline-making, eye-popping deal of all, the Clinton Foundation made millions while Russia gained control of over 20 percent of the U.S. uranium reserves spread across Wyoming, Texas, and Utah. This was made possible by Hillary Clinton’s State Department, which approved the deal despite its obvious potential to threaten American national security. It all adds up to an ugly conclusion: Mrs. Clinton sold out the U.S. to enrich her family to the tune of $153 million in speaking fees alone — and at least $2 billion in the coffers of their foundation.

The documentary is now in search of a distributor…watch for it later this summer and let us know if you see that it’s playing.

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8 Responses to Myra Adams NRO Review of Documentary – “Clinton Cash”

  1. Peggy says:

    Two other great venues on the Clintons are Denish D’Souza’s book, “Stealing America” and his movie, coming out this summer, “Hillary’s America.” I read the book and am looking forward to the movie.

    Dinesh D’Souza’s ‘America’ warns Hillary Clinton will ‘finish off’ the country:

    http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/dinesh-dsouzas-america-warns-hillary-clinton-will-finish-off-the-country/article/2549114

  2. J. Soden says:

    I read Clinton Ca$h when it first came out. GREAT book, and lays out a number of Clinton $henanigan$.
    Only downside to reading the book was keeping the Clinton $leaze from oozing out into my lap. Will definitely go see the movie once it’s released!

  3. Chris says:

    Does it even occur to you to fact-check things like this? Or do you just think to yourself, “Whee, something bad about someone I don’t like! I’d better spread this rumor as soon as possible before it’s proven wrong!”

    It doesn’t, which is why you get caught spreading lies so freaking often:

    The author of “Clinton Cash” falsely claimed Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State had “veto power” and “could have stopped” Russia from buying a company with extensive uranium mining operations in the U.S. In fact, only the president has such power.

    At the time of the sale, Clinton was a member of the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States, which is required by law to investigate all U.S. transactions that involve a company owned or controlled by a foreign government. Federal guidelines say any one of nine voting members of the committee can object to such a foreign transaction, but the final decision then rests with the president…

    Even the president cannot prohibit a transaction without “credible evidence” that the “foreign interest exercising control might take action that threatens to impair the national security,” according to the regulation.

    http://www.factcheck.org/2015/04/no-veto-power-for-clinton-on-uranium-deal/

    But it probably doesn’t matter; you will once again ignore the evidence, call me something like “condescending” (yeah, deservedly so) or “hall monitor” (what of it?), Pie will call me “Piss Chris,” and neither of you will provide any kind of rational counter-argument. Your other conservative readers will ignore the fact that you presented them with a lie, because they enjoy being lied to, Libby will get in a few good digs, and Dewey will say something about the Koch Brothers.

    It’s all so predictable.

    Of course, you could always prove me wrong and concede that Schweizer was in error. But that would require you to abandon a potential weapon against your sworn enemy, and you’re pathologically incapable of doing that.

    Oops–there I go again, being condescending.

    Prove me wrong. Tell the truth, and prove me wrong.

  4. Tina says:

    NY Post

    Schweizer’s research has withstood a year of intense scrutiny from critics because it is fact, not fiction. And the facts are compelling.

    The film whisks you around the globe, retracing how the Clintons personally pocketed six-figure speaking fees and collected billions of dollars for their family foundation.

    How? By trading on Hillary’s position as secretary of state and possible future president. …

    …The Clintons earned the bulk of their money from speaking fees. It was simple: Bill’s fees skyrocketed when Hillary became secretary of state in 2009, suggesting that countries and companies hiring him counted on getting more than just Bill — they also expected to land what his wife had to offer.

    For example, a Nigerian newspaper publisher tied to the ruling People’s Democratic Party — which is anything but democratic — paid Bill a whopping $1.4 million to deliver two speeches in 2011 and 2012. The Clintons closed their eyes to the human-rights abuses by Nigeria’s brutal president, Goodluck Jonathan, as they collected their checks.

    Secretary Clinton even made an official visit to Nigeria in 2012, congratulating Jonathan on his non-existent “reform efforts.” It was American legitimacy bestowed at a bargain price. And just the opposite of what Human Rights Watch had implored her to do.

    Here’s another example of the pair’s lucrative shenanigans. TD Bank never engaged Bill Clinton to speak during his first eight years out of the White House. But in 2009, four days after Hillary was nominated as secretary of state, Bill made the first of a string of speeches for which TD paid almost $2 million. An astounding amount.

    And guess what? TD Bank was the single largest shareholder in the Keystone XL pipeline, which required State Department approval. Lo and behold, Hillary Clinton decided to support the pipeline — a heresy to environmentalists — and delayed the Obama administration’s rejection of it.

    Coincidence? There’s no smoking gun proving the Clintons’ speaking fees came with promises in return. But Schweizer says the evidence points to a pattern of conduct that other politicians would never get away with. They’ve been sent to jail for less.

    IB Times:

    Schweizer is the founder and president of the Government Accountability Institute, a Florida group of researchers and reporters who “investigate and expose crony capitalism, misuse of taxpayer monies and other governmental corruption or malfeasance,” the GAI website says.

    Media Matters cries foul…he’s a conservative so he’s a liar…you know the drill.

    However:

    Schweizer’s books have taken on both Democratic and GOP figures. His last book, 2013’s “Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes and Line Their Pockets,” took aim at House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio. It accused the speaker of taking political stances based on how much cash he could raise before a crucial vote. It also stated that then-Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., had a political action committee that spent hundreds of thousands of dollars at resorts in Florida and California and at steakhouses, a 2013 review in the New York Times said.

    This man has the credentials and the means to do in depth research. His ork os of interest whether or not you find it interesting, Chris.

    The factcheck webspage cites the statute regarding “veto power”:

    The committee, which is known by its acronym CFIUS, can approve a sale, but it cannot stop a sale. Only the president can do that, and only if the committee recommends or “any member of CFIUS recommends suspension or prohibition of the transaction,” according to guidelines issued by the Treasury Department in December 2008 after the department adopted its final rule a month earlier.

    Factcheck hung their argument on the following: “The committee, which is known by its acronym CFIUS, can approve a sale, but it cannot stop a sale. Only the president can do that…”

    However, the statute includes more information: “…Only the president can do that, and only if the committee recommends or “any member of CFIUS recommends suspension or prohibition of the transaction,”

    This portion asserts that the President takes action “only” when the committee or any member recommends.” Hillary could have chosen to be the one committee member that recommended prohibition of the transaction. I would say she had veto power.

    Your trust in Factcheck isn’t any different than my trust that Sweitzer may very well have a good case against the Clintons. Factcheck isn’t the final arbiter of truth.

    Factcheck is “is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, and is funded primarily by the Annenberg Foundation. Although founded by a conservative, this organization took a hard left turn after the founders death. Bill Ayers and Barrack Obama are/have been associated with the foundation.

    But that isn’t the only media influenced by big money power. Read “George Soros: Media Mogul” over at Media Research Center for the full low down. The reputation for many in the media to lie or bend the truth for Democrats is well known. The election of Obama was like an expose of media fawning bias. It continues today.

    It’s okay with me that you believe what Factcheck writes. I’d like the same courtesy from you but I’m pretty sure your need to be right trumps (pardon the pun) everything else.

    By the way, when did you drop your own disdain for this deplorable couple?

  5. Chris says:

    Fair rebuttal, Tina. Here’s why it’s wrong:

    “Hillary could have chosen to be the one committee member that recommended prohibition of the transaction.”

    Ok, but the fact that no one else objected means there were probably good reasons not to that had nothing to do with any donations. The quoted portion in the article makes it sound like Clinton ignored a clear a present danger from the deal because of greed:

    “This was made possible by Hillary Clinton’s State Department, which approved the deal despite its obvious potential to threaten American national security”

    But apparently neither any of the other eight voting members, nor the president, saw this threat as “obvious,” and none of them benefitted from it financially as far as we know. So the claim that Clinton only agreed to this deal to enrich herself doesn’t hold up when you consider that every other member also voted for the deal as well.

    Obama may have been associated with the foundation behind Fact Check, but the site also criticizes Obama and Democrats all the time. That is what makes them reliable and reputable.

    I have disdain for many things the Clintons have done. That doesn’t make every single claim against them true in my eyes, just as I don’t see every claim against conservative politicians I disdain as true. Heck, I’ve defended even Trump from false or unfair claims on these pages before. I’m about facts and fairness, Tina; I don’t just believe every accusation I hear.

  6. Tina says:

    You do make occasional concession statements, Chris, just enough to make you seem credible. But you are not fair nor do you always care about facts. You are often arrogant and condescending insisting that “facts” have been “discredited.” Your attitude in general is that you are right and others, once you’ve decided they’re racist, unethical, liars…whatever, are wrong. It’s the hall monitor syndrome and it’s incredibly off-putting.

    • Chris says:

      Tina, my attitude is one of exhaustion–when I see people who should know better refuse to acknowledge facts staring them in the face, it makes me frustrated, and that’s when my condescending side comes out. You’re right that I’m more condescending to conservatives than liberals; that’s not fair. But my arguments are fair, even if my attitude isn’t. And the attitude should matter less than the argument.

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