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riversedge

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Thu Sep 1, 2016, 09:04 AM Sep 2016

Brian Fallon: This headline is egregiously false. Server hosting HRC's email during State tenure wa

It never ends. Politico doing another Hit piece--instilling nasty innuendo's--even as they print that there was nothing illegal done.




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This headline is egregiously false. Server hosting HRC's email during State tenure was paid for w/personal funds



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>>>>>>>>Politico Article<<<<<<<<<<<

Bill Clinton used tax dollars to subsidize foundation, private email server

Program for ex-presidents paid salaries and benefits to Clinton aides at the center of controversies.

By Kenneth P. Vogel

09/01/16 05:27 AM EDT




Bill Clinton's staff used a decades-old federal government program, originally created to keep former presidents out of the poorhouse, to subsidize his family’s foundation and an associated business, and to support his wife’s private email server, a POLITICO investigation has found.

Taxpayer cash was used to buy IT equipment — including servers — housed at the Clinton Foundation, and also to supplement the pay and benefits of several aides now at the center of the email and cash-for-access scandals dogging Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

This investigation, which is based on records obtained from the General Services Administration through the Freedom of Information Act, does not reveal anything illegal. But it does offer fresh evidence of how the Clintons blurred the line between their non-profit foundation, Hillary Clinton’s State Department and the business dealings of Bill Clinton and the couple’s aides.

The thousands of pages of newly uncovered records reveal sometimes granular detail about how Bill Clinton’s representatives directed the spending of taxpayer cash allocated by the GSA under the Former President’s Act.

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Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/bill-clinton-used-tax-dollars-to-subsidize-foundation-private-email-support-teneo-227613#ixzz4J0alel00

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Brian Fallon: This headline is egregiously false. Server hosting HRC's email during State tenure wa (Original Post) riversedge Sep 2016 OP
Certain media wants Trump to win Peigan68 Sep 2016 #1
Politico always has. riversedge Sep 2016 #2
We told this fact to Politico days ago and will be demanding a correction................... riversedge Sep 2016 #3
REC riversedge Sep 2016 #4

riversedge

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3. We told this fact to Politico days ago and will be demanding a correction...................
Thu Sep 1, 2016, 10:54 AM
Sep 2016



Brian Fallon ‏@brianefallon 2h2 hours ago

We told this fact to Politico days ago and will be demanding a correction.
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