Mainstream press outlets are mounting a new brand of coverage on
Hillary Clinton's campaign. They're questioning her ability to win the
nomination and/or the general election. All of a sudden, the done deal
is not done.
What's behind this switch?
Aside from fear of The Donald, there is the boiling Hillary email
scandal. There is also the specter of further revelations about the
syndicate known as the Clinton Foundation. That's a big one. A very
big one.
As I've previously reported, the sale of 20% of the uranium in the US to
Putin---that's right---involved donors to the Foundation---unreported
donors---as well as the participation of Mrs. Clinton's State
Department. Detailed by the NY Times, the scandal has lain there for
several months like a poisoned meal, with the press afraid to touch it
further.
Now, enter a financial analyst named Charles Ortel. Ortel made a name
for himself by publishing his analysis of serious problems in General
Electric's financial reports (2008). On his website, he has begun
taking apart the entire Clinton Foundation, brick by brick. Here is an
explosive excerpt from his overview:
"In financial terms, the size of criminal activities directly involving
the Clinton Foundation exceeds $2 billion---counting affiliated and
indirect criminal activities, the size exceeds $50 billion. The
geographic scope of these unprosecuted criminal activities touches all
50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and more than 100 foreign
countries where Clinton Foundation entities operate or solicit
donations."
"Beginning late in 2008, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, and others
expanded efforts to cover up illegal operating and fundraising
activities of the Clinton Foundation since inception. Working ultimately
with individuals inside the I.R.S. and elsewhere, these persons led
efforts to 'restructure' the Clinton Foundation to make it appear that
it had been legally constituted and validly operated in compliance with
applicable laws, when this was certainly not the case."
"Trustees and other persons have been engaged in an unprosecuted
criminal conspiracy to operate the Clinton Foundation in the guise of a
public charity, when it is, instead, an illegal money-laundering and
influence peddling scheme."
"In fact, the Clinton Foundation has engaged in widespread unauthorized
activities, including illegal operations internationally and in the
U.S., and illegal fundraising across state and national boundaries,
using telephones, mail, and the internet."
"Moreover, the Clinton Foundation has never validly been authorized by
the I.R.S. to pursue tax-exempt purposes other than serving as an
archival records repository and research facility in Little Rock,
Arkansas."
"Instead of concentrating upon its specifically-authorized tax-exempt
purposes, trustees performed lax oversight and installed ineffective
controls, creating conditions where Bill Clinton, Ira Magaziner, and
others deliberately and illegally diverted substantial sums from the
Clinton Foundation and its affiliates."
In light of Ortel's analysis, to say the Clintons have wandered off the reservation would be a vast understatement.
So...how have they remained free of this tsunami of a scandal? Who has been protecting them?
Let us return to the period when Bill Clinton was the Governor of Arkansas---and a 1995 book titled
Compromised, by Terry Reed (former CIA asset) and John Cummings (former Newsday reporter).
Buckle up.
According to the authors, Bill Clinton was involved with the CIA in some
very dirty dealings in Arkansas-and I'm not just talking about the
cocaine flights landing at the Mena airport.
It seems Bill had agreed to set up secret CIA weapons-making factories
in his home state, under the radar. But because Arkansas, when it comes
to money, is all cronies all the time, everybody and his brother found
out about the operation and wanted in. Also, Bill was looking for a
bigger cut of the action.
This security breach infuriated the CIA, and a meeting was held to dress
down Bill and make him see the error of his ways. His CIA handlers told
him they were going to shut down the whole weapons operation, because
Bill had screwed up royally. A screaming match ensued---but the CIA
people backed off a bit and told Bill he was still "their man" for the
upcoming 1992 run for the Presidency.
Of course, there are people who think Reed and Cumming's book contains
fiction, but John Cummings was a top-notch reporter for Newsday. He
co-authored the 1990 book,
Goombata, about the rise and fall of
John Gotti. He exposed US operations to destroy Cuban agriculture with
bio-weapons. It's highly doubtful he would have put his name on
Compromised without a deep conviction he was correctly adding up the facts.
Here, from
Compromised, is an account of the extraordinary
meeting, in Arkansas, between Bill Clinton and his CIA handlers, in
March of 1986, six years before Clinton would run for the Presidency.
Author Terry Reed, himself a CIA asset at the time, was there. According
to the authors, so was Oliver North, and a man named "Robert Johnson,"
who was representing CIA head Bill Casey.
Johnson said to Bill Clinton:
"Calm down and listen...We are all in this together...I'm not here to
threaten you [Bill]. But there have been mistakes. Bill, you are Mr.
Casey's fair-haired boy. But you do have competition for the job you
seek [the US Presidency]. We would never put all eggs in one basket. You
and your state have been our greatest asset...Mr. Casey wanted me to
pass on to you that unless you fuck up and do something stupid, you're
No. 1 on the short list for a shot at the job you've always wanted.
"That's pretty heady stuff, Bill. So why don't you help us keep a lid on
this [CIA weapons-manufacturing] and we'll all be promoted together.
You and guys like us are the fathers of the new government. Hell, we are
the new covenant."
By this account, Bill Clinton was the CIA's boy back in 1986, long
before he launched himself into his first Presidential campaign.
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