FBI investigation widens: Clinton Initiative and Terry McAuliffe Under Investigation
We've been waiting for the other shoe to drop. And when it does, will we even know for sure that the shoe is dropping?
Because this looks like a shoe dropping right now--
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/23/politics/terry-mcauliffe-fbi-doj-federal-i...
The first thing that I thought when I saw this guy's name in headlines was: he's a Clintonista. Using the scandal that engulfed the prior R incumbent in VA as a tide, McAuliffe swept into office without too much of a stiff challenge. And it sounds like his campaign fundraising is not too dissimilar from Madame Clinton's style of fundraising:
As part of the probe, the officials said, investigators have scrutinized McAuliffe's time as a board member of the Clinton Global Initiative, a vehicle of the charitable foundation set up by former President Bill Clinton.
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Among the McAuliffe donations that drew the interest of the investigators was $120,000 from a Chinese businessman, Wang Wenliang, through his U.S. businesses. Wang was previously delegate to China's National People's Congress, the country's ceremonial legislature.
Other reports are linking the DOJ to the investigation, but more info is needed.
http://dcist.com/2016/05/virginia_governor_terry_mcauliffe_u.php
McAuliffe was head of the DNC from 2001 to 2005, overseeing a tepid Congressional election strategy and the humiliating defeat of John Kerry by an unpopular and highly controversial Dubya re-election bid.
Even if these contributions are "legal", they deserve scrutiny. Do we really want wealthy green-card holders donating six figures to campaigns? Should elections be decided by money? Are the rules written in such a way as to make shitty and unethical behavior 'legal'?
Americans are increasingly vocal about their answers to these questions. Clintonistas have no valid response, and are weak on the corruption issue since they were at the head of the trough. Hiding behind the name of 'charity' will not be enough to boost Hillary's favorables.
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Everything connected
to the Clintons is as dirty as they are. It would be nice if the whole lot got arrested but that will never happen with Obama in charge. Maybe we do want the GOP to get the WH. They'll investigate the hell out of the Dem Wall Street party.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
It absolutely is
These people are all so filthy we can smell them across the globe. I don't quite know what I think of Comey, he must be overwhelmed by the stench of being near these people. Karma would be if we could build a huge private prison in the lowest part of the US coast, and just wave as they are swallowed by the melted ice. Comey must be getting untold pressure. I'm still thinking about that Hunt piece that came out yesterday, I know things are connected, but don't quite get what part of the scam that was. It did say something about this "conflict" affecting her as President, OR EVEN as a candidate. The really odd thing was at the end, it said that Obama has had an administration with few ethical lapses. Until he got entangled with the Clintons like he is now. McAuliffe is said to have taken in $13 million from 120 other donors. Can you imagine just HOW many there are? I'll bet they're not feeling so good right now.
Ethical lapses by Obama
I guess to some people killing innocent bystanders by drone, not once but all the time, is not an ethical lapse. Lying as a candidate apparently doesn't qualify either. Nor does locking people up without fair trials, or sometime with no trials, people like whistle blowers or Guantanamo inmates. Pretending to be sympathetic to undocumented people, but breaking records for returning them to dangerous countries. Pretending to be against war while providing weapons and military personnel all over the world, leading us into endless war without ever asking approval. Pushing harmful trade agreements to benefit rich corporations. And on and on and on. He is not better than the Clintons, but just has a charming personality, like any good con man, that leads people to believe him, until they wake up.
Barbara Marquardt
Agree Clinton's Are Dirty as Can Be But
the Republicans are hardly the ones who should be looked to for investigation. In addition to being totally lacking in any type of ethics, morals or patriotism the Republicans are just plain stupid. They constantly go after the Clinton's for bullshit made up allegations when there is an entire swamp filled with stinky, smelly bad shit they ignore
If the Dems won't do it, and they won't.
Look at how crooked the Dems ran this primary. No bankers in jail. I doubt Obama will allow an FBI indictment of Hillary. So it only leaves the Republicans
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
It does seem like they are in cahoots, doesn't it?
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
As stated before at Naked Capitalism-
"The Clintons are fortunate in their enemies"-meaning the stoopid makes them ineffective
Obama was knackered nearly at go.
Nope and (chump) change. The Clinton's once remarked publicy that not long ago he'd have been carrying their bags. He clearly is and has.
Sad his Presidency was, evidently, so corrupted.
You made me look up
"Knackered." LOL
From the urban dictionary:
1. Exhausted
2. Sexually spent
3. Reprimanded
4. Broken / malfunctional
1. I was knackered when I got in from work.
2. After my seventh ejaculation I was well and truly knackered.
3. The teacher caught us smoking and now we're going to get really knackered.
4. I tried to fix my dad's PC but now it's more knackered than ever.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Love words
used to tell my students that our lexicon in the U.S. is shrinking: and this limits the richness of argument and the ability to understand what is being said.
Quite awhile back one student reported being beaten for "using big words" and "talking down" to someone.
Just speaking for myself but
number 2 makes me think that knackered might be "Exaggeration of sexual exploits". I guess I'm just not that strong but 7 ejaculations?...sheesh.
There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties.. This...is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.--John Adams
Terry McAuliffe's campaign manager was
Robby Mook, who managing Hillary's annointment.
Hillary Breathes or Shifts Her Weight From One Foot to the Other
and she runs into the appearance of impropriety. She's a structural nexus of corporate sponsored public policy.
The idea that this woman is going to kill CU & McCutcheon is ridiculous. She is a master of the current system.
“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ~ Sun Tzu
THANK YOU for listing McCutcheon! n/t
'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member
She benefits far too much from the system to reform it--agree
One thing the Democratic Party and the DNC refuse to
acknowledge -
We elected President Obama in a wave election because we were tired of Bushes and Clintons and wanted to enter a new era with a different and new cast of characters. President Obama did himself a big disservice when he populated his White House with Clinton types like Rahm Emanuel and he robbed himself of a lot of his own legacy, future king making, and unhappily, respect.
I see Bill and Hillary and it's like turning on Saturday Night Live still featuring Joe Piscobo. These tired old self-serving war horses need to go out to pasture and enjoy their possibly ill-gotten gains without imposing on the rest of us anymore.
As to the Party itself, I can't even begin to describe how revealing in a very bad way this election cycle has been. They simply don't deserve anyone's support. I'd rather confront Republican legislative initiatives presented and passed by Republicans and not as bi-partisan centrist compromise introduced and carried by the corporate Democratic wing. If it's schism time - let it happen. Divorce is hard and stressful, but people do it because they know the days dawning on the other side will be filled with more potential even if presenting short-term hardships.
The effort on the Dem side still seems to be focused on demonizing and smearing Sanders and his supporters. Insanely stupid.
" “Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.” FDR "
#NeverHillary #NeverTrump #BernieOrJill
Agreed, but I don't think it's stupid from their point of view. Bernie is the only real threat to the status quo. Trump will be a disaster for main street, not Wall Street.
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - JFK | "The more I see of the moneyed peoples, the more I understand the guillotine." - G. B. Shaw Bernie/Tulsi 2020
totally great comment PLitH
“There are moments which are not calculable, and cannot be assessed in words; they live on in the solution of memory… ”
― Lawrence Durrell, "Justine"
SNL or House of Cards?
Honestly, after watching the latest season of House of Cards, I can't look at the Clintons without thinking of them blowing up the middle east just to divert attention from their constant Underwoodian corruption.
"We are the terror."
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when we are afraid of the light.
--Plato
Strange as fiction.
There was the Al-Shifa pharmaceutical bombing incident which gave substance to the slightly earlier Wag the Dog movie.
Clinton's Are Capable of Anything
But I believe it was Bush and the Republicans, added by Neo-Liberal's who destroyed the middle east
With Clinton's support of the AUMF.
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
House of Cards
is a documentary, not fiction.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
House of Cards should be required
watching for every voter before they are allowed to cast a ballot.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when we are afraid of the light.
--Plato
Bernie is the only chance for the Dem party to survive
If the Dems go ahead and nominate Clinton, that is the end. They will not only lose to Trump in November but will fracture the party into splinters. If that happens it will be sad but necessary as the party of FDR is now the party of Regan and the party of Regan is the party of the KKK
Sordid and incestuous.
That's your 'Party of the People'.
Stick a fork in them. They're done.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
I don't know everything about immigration law, but I know
some, as I live very close to the Mexican border. The report from CNN said that Mr. Wang owns an American business, and holds an American green card. It is my understanding that a green card entitles its holder to permanent residence in the US. So, if a person owns an American company (if public, owns majority of shares), does that entitle that person to have permanent legal residence? And does "residence" require an actual physical presence? I find these questions to be important to this investigation. In these here parts, it's really difficult to get a green card. But if you can donate huge sums of cash to politicos, ve have vays? This smells really bad.
Basically the Government sells green cards
If you can invest half a mil in a business that employs at least 5 people, you can get one easy. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EB-5_visa
That used to be the entry ticket price
to Canada, IIRC. Probably the price has risen, unless you can punch in through Syria.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
Today appears to be a bad
Today appears to be a bad news day for Clinton. She has declined a California debate she had previously agreed to, her cronies are under genuine (not GOP ginned up) investigation, her poll numbers are normalising to the position you would expect for such terrible negatives and she is spending today in L.A. grifting for cash with that asshole from CAA while Bernie is down the street drawing thousands to his rally in Santa Monica (which I can't go to even though it is only a couple of miles away, because work). Great visuals.
It doesn't get any better for her.
Oh look: Harry Reid is giving an emphatic no to Warren being VP. Ruh-roh!
Bonus: Mark Cuban being touted as VP material, and Bill confirmed as economics czar.
I would hope that
neither Warren nor Sanders entertains the notion of being VP. It would be a complete waste of talent.
dfarrah
Dance with the one that brung ye
Clinton ought to pick Wasserman-Schultz: there would be no talent waste there.
DWS suits HRC, for she is a shameless troll and thug
Bernie is taking the highest of roads, Hillary is taking the lowest.
Be a Friend of the Earth, cherish it and protect it.
Didn't
Didn't her negative numbers really start taking a turn for the worst,
right after she said she was going to put Bill in charge of "spending stuff" --
er, I mean "investing in stuff"?
Hmmm? Odd coincident in any event.
People are not voting for Bill. Soon they won't be voting for Hill either.
Unfortunately she did have some good news
Older African Americans in California seem to be solidly supporting her. This must have something to do with not getting any information outside of mainstream media. I think Bernie will do well with most other demographics in California, including younger African American voters.
Beware the bullshit factories.
Accepting the idea that you've been conned and screwed by
your church and community leaders, whose POV is continually reinforced by the self-serving MSM, requires some serious reeducation (a kind of cultural revolution of sorts).
Hillary is using Christianity to Do it
I think Hillary is using the Churches to get older black voters to vote for her... IF Bernie caught on and did another "Liberty University" type rally to speak to the Black Church.. I think that would change the dynamics radically... addressing "A Moral Economy".
Exactly what I heard too. In Harlem, the Clintons allegedly paid
$1 million to a prominent church presumably for these reasons (obviously).
Heard this from a staff member of a Harlem elected official i met at the Bernie Brooklyn office opening.
Clinton Foundation = money laundering. Arms deals with Saudi Arabia, business deals with hotel magnates in Haiti, et al.
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
- Kurt Vonnegut
Not to be rude, but that's not exactly news
It's been clear for a while that she's going to get most of the African-Americans over 45. As far as I can tell, it's because she successfully wooed their leadership, and they trust their leadership. And that's that.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Warren as VP would be disastrous--for us.
I hope to god, if she's offered it, she has the guts to turn it down.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Hillary is not a good campaigner.
I'm frequently surprised because usually people in her position are very good about what they actually say, even though they may be lying through their teeth. She can't even lie well, and when she tells the truth, it's worse.
If I wanted to be president and if Bill were my husband, I'd install him in a very isolated villa somewhere, staffed with lots of pretty women. Some place where the internet can't reach, like surrounded by the Alps or something.
Life is strong. I'm weak, but Life is strong.
...And take a crash series of charm lessons
Voice lessons, deportment lessons, what to wear for the camera so it doesn't look like potato sacks, etc. etc. etc. If she were going to fool enough of the people, she should have started the program a year or more ago. Now there isn't time and her bone-deep ugly is showing.
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
The thing is,
You know she has a stylist, and has been tutored on speaking, etc. the problem is that everything is homogenized, pasteurized, poll tested so that the result is the equivalent of pasteurized cheese food product.
Precisely, Leu!
There's no passion for anything (except getting money from corporations). There's never a genuine reaction. There's no hope, no drive to accomplish anything - except getting power for herself.
You see interviews with Bernie, and he can be genuine because he doesn't have to carefully lie and watch every word. And he laughs - a real laugh - like a human being.
I don't know what Hillary is - maybe one of those alien hybrids we hear about on TV shows - but I don't think I've ever seen her just be real.
Look up the symptoms of Narcissistic Personality Disorder
someone who spends her vacation time with Henry "genocide is necessary" Kissinger doesn't give a rat's ass about anyone else. She has toadies, not advisors and cultivates powerful men pretending she got where she is through her own efforts.
Feminist: but the stupid and uncritical is strong in the U.S.: our overlords deprive us of rational information: create a culture of ugliness, boredom and decay: and we're all battered dependents in this.
Yes, Hillary wears potato sacks, but why?
She has hundreds of millions of dollars to spend, so why the potato sacks?
I think she has medical problems which require potato sacks to hide what has happened to her body.
Why should we "Buy a pig in poke"? Her medical and bodily problems are not the real issue, her political right wing orientation and multi-millionaire class perspectives are worse. In combination, we should react in total horror at the thought of her winning this race.
Be a Friend of the Earth, cherish it and protect it.
Nobody cares
if an elderly woman is chubby/dumpy. It's not like she needs to portray herself as the [young and pretty] girl next door/next hot date or anything. But I do wonder why she insists on those butt-ugly 'designer' pantsuit jacket/tunics that flat out don't fit her. Does she believe the 3-D plaid or bizarre-colored fabrics hide her girth? Does she even notice that the last 20 pounds she gained has them straining at the boobs and/or belly and cinching at her upper arms? I thought she was going to pop a button in that MtP interview with Chuck Todd!
The guys - you know, those in the manly-man world of big league politiks - all wear dark business suits. Only color you ever see is in the tie. Why won't she wear nice dark pantsuits, fluffed with a colorful scarf or something? Dark is a whole lot more slimming than frickin' plaid, and she'd at least look like she's serious enough to play in the manly-man world of big league politiks. And just let me close with the observation (as a fashion/costume designer - something I trained for years to be) that gub-truck yellow is NOT a good color for her.
Life is absurd.
But it goes well with the GOLDman Sachs speeches
Under the potato sack
There is probably a bullet proof vest. Seems prudent.
I don't care what Hillary
I don't care what Hillary looks or sounds like (frankly I think she looks pretty good for a lady her age). I care that her words and actions are harmful. Focus on those please, and not the shallow visuals that our MSM loves so much.
She's almost exactly 4 years older than me
and her medical history is troubling, to say the least. Her physical appearance is reflective of her health status, and that ain't good. To make that a point of contention is not sexist nor is it immaterial to her candidacy. Just sayin'
It's more evidence
of poor judgement.
Beware the bullshit factories.
When McAuliffe was elected, it was just a matter of . .
when, not if. So far he's actually been an OK Governor, but his history is bad.
Mother Jones had a damning profile about him a few years ago.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/11/terry-mcauliffe-governor-vir...
One other aspect of this is that, per the story, McAuliffe has a history of abusing his power with respect to journalists.
It reminds me a bit of a current controversy that has unfolded with Clinton's left hand, Neera Tanden, Joan Walsh at the Nation and a 20 something year old blogger who was fired from his job Friday from a liberal think tank and is currently being subjected to a harassment campaign from Clinton supporters and some right-wingers who have an axe to grind with him over his past writing.
Gawker reported on his firing this past weekend.
Clinton-world makes people of goodwill despair for humanity.
The one good part about a Clinton presidency is that the GOP House would have an incentive to unwind and investigate the Clinton Foundation. I think it's one thing to set up a foundation once a politician has left office for good. It's a different case for people who are still active in politics. It is not hard to envision serious conflicts of interest.
I believe "Dump Terry McAuliffe" is still here :-)
I don't remember what his new handle is, but I always loved his old one.
You couldn't have such a handle these days at TOP without taking massive shit for it.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Maybe it's Shahryar?
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
No,,Sharyar
was the same name at the other place. He is not Dump Terry McAuliffe
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Yes, he is a member here under a new name
It's Tammany Tiger, but he has not been here for a long time.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Oh, *right*! We should see if we can get him to come by.
I'd love to hear what he has to say about all this.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Sorry, but this is part of why Clintons always get a pass
The Benghazi committe, just like Star, always jump in and create massive media frenzy with NO REAL CONSEQUENCE because a. it helps criminals fuel the "victim" meme that has veiled and escalating pattern of corruption
B. They are one big party against all of us.
Especially since there's a much bigger story
about creating a clusterf*ck in Libya when there didn't have to be one.
Beware the bullshit factories.
Whoever controls the Justice Dept. controls who goes to Prison
"If you're corrupt, found guilty as hell, but also an inner member of the administration in control, chances are you go scott free."(Confucious)
"Twas ever thus."
Some positions are nexus points and can influence many things. At one time we recognized the importance of state registrars of voters. Under Obama, that goal fell by the wayside
Not sure if this is related but
he at the least has very poor judgement. The Virginia papers that bother to report this are saying McAullife got bamboozled out of 1.4 mil by a Chinese firm promising jobs in Appomattox. I remember how excited they were for the 300 plus jobs. They threw money at a company that was not vetted.
http://pilotonline.com/opinion/editorial/editorial-taxpayer-money-for-no...
They've been corrupted to the bones for a while
Here was what he publicly said during the 2008 campaign:
"“The Clintons get hundreds of requests for favors every week,” said Terry McAuliffe, the chairman of Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaign. “Clearly, the people you’re going to do stuff for in the future are the people who have been there for you.”
Mr. McAuliffe, who knows of Mr. Band’s diligent scorekeeping, emphasized that “revenge is not what the Clintons are about.” The accounting is more about being practical, he said, adding, “You have to keep track of this.”
Mr. Band, who declined to comment, is hardly alone in tallying those considered to have crossed the former candidate or the former president in recent months by supporting Mr. Obama. As the Obama bandwagon has swelled, so have the lists of people Clinton loyalists regard as some variation of “ingrate,” “traitor” or “enemy,” according to the associates and campaign officials, who would speak only on condition of anonymity."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/us/politics/11clinton.html
Necrotic