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Octafish

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18. Stratfor via WikiLeaks saw problems from the beginning for Clinton Foundation...
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 05:33 PM
Jun 2016

If the for-profit spies noticed what was in the hopper, it's a good bet somebody else noticed the shake down.



2010-2011: Stratfor privately says the Clinton Foundation could be a "shakedown operation" for the Clintons. In 2012, WikiLeaks publishes over five million e-mails from the US-based private intelligence company Stratfor. Stratfor provides confidential intelligence to major corporations and branches of the US government. At some unknown point in either 2010 or 2011, Bart Mongoven, vice president for Stratfor’s public policy intelligence group, writes in an email to Rodger Baker, Stratfor's vice president of geopolitical analysis: &quot Bill) Clinton's biggest project on climate change comes through the Clinton Global Initiative, which has climate among its top priorities. The CGI acts as a funnel for money from wealthy individuals and corporations toward programs and policies that Clinton supports (or that support his or his wife's political objectives). CGI has raised more than $100 million for climate change organizations... CGI and the Clinton Foundation are suspected of being shakedown operations for the Clintons, and especially for Hillary Clinton from 2001 to 2008. If a corporation wanted to be on the Clintons' good side, it had to show up at CGI or give money to the Foundation. The money from CGI or the foundation would go to non-profits that promoted issues of importance to Hillary Clinton's political calculus. In other words, if she needed something to be an important national issue, he would pressure a corporation or billionaire to fund activists who would promote the issue that she needed. CGI has been a good way to read the tea leaves on Hillary Clinton, and it may still be. Either way, the future priorities of CGI are important to understand. Other, less cynical people, say that the CGI and the Clinton Foundation are simple, well-meaning organizations dedicated to funding good works and making the world a better place. (I'll let you come to your own conclusions.)" (WikiLeaks, 10/19/2012)

Source: The Clinton Email Scandal Timeline ©2016 #ClintonEmailTimeline

http://www.thompsontimeline.com/The_Clinton_Foundation_Timeline_-_Part_2#entry000010stratfor



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Four Points make me FOR Bernie [View all] Octafish Jun 2016 OP
I'm sure Bernie Sanders will be able to bring these issues up when he's back in the Senate. brooklynite Jun 2016 #1
I hope Hillary does if she's the nominee. Octafish Jun 2016 #4
Hillary agrees with all those. YouDig Jun 2016 #2
Not when it comes to NSA domestic spying. Octafish Jun 2016 #5
That article has nothing to do with your OP. YouDig Jun 2016 #6
Here's help. Octafish Jun 2016 #9
That article still has nothing to do with your OP. What does the NSA have to do with YouDig Jun 2016 #10
Yes it does, esp. considering how much NSA work is done by private contractors. Octafish Jun 2016 #13
Octafish... brentspeak Jun 2016 #29
Truer words were never spoken (about the entity and praising Octafish's efforts)! nt 2cannan Jun 2016 #32
Swoon.. Ah, Octafish! Melissa G Jun 2016 #36
Here's detail on how NSA spying helps the well-to-do. Octafish Jun 2016 #11
I'm about conspiracy theoried out. YouDig Jun 2016 #12
Profound for you. Octafish Jun 2016 #14
You've only been here for about 60 days, I dig that. bobthedrummer Jun 2016 #15
Stratfor via WikiLeaks saw problems from the beginning for Clinton Foundation... Octafish Jun 2016 #18
I like your taste in westerns, Octafish. senz Jun 2016 #27
Thanks, senz! Sergio Leone and Jethro Tull all day long. Octafish Jun 2016 #33
Interesting, Octafish. senz Jun 2016 #42
Uh-huh. The USA is a Reaganomic Republic. immoderate Jun 2016 #3
Trickle Down Voodoo has WASTED 7/8 of all the wealth in history on the rich. Octafish Jun 2016 #7
The rat exercising the trap laserhaas Jun 2016 #25
K&R bobthedrummer Jun 2016 #8
The Good Shepherd Octafish Jun 2016 #16
Why doesn't that important OP have a "permalink?" I thought all comments did. senz Jun 2016 #30
Interesting article. Xyzse Jun 2016 #17
Glen Ford is a real journalist. Octafish Jun 2016 #19
I don't want to hear his voice unless it says...I concede. nt. Demsrule86 Jun 2016 #22
Your attitude explains your level of awareness. Octafish Jun 2016 #31
It is customary for the loser of any election or primary to concede. Demsrule86 Jun 2016 #37
I'm for my nextdoor neighbor, Stan...but he's not on the general election ballot either. nt eastwestdem Jun 2016 #20
Is Stan a Democrat? Here's some of what one Democrat managed to do in only 1,037 days in office. Octafish Jun 2016 #23
Have you ever heard about a little altercation called the bay of pigs? Demsrule86 Jun 2016 #38
JFK stood up to the warmongers. Every time. Octafish Jun 2016 #39
for who? Oh yeah Bernie ...well he lost. So who cares? Demsrule86 Jun 2016 #21
Who's the real loser, Demsrule86? Octafish Jun 2016 #24
The corporate Red states laserhaas Jun 2016 #26
Agents for Bush Octafish Jun 2016 #34
WOW...I've read 'Crossing the Rubicon' 4 times laserhaas Jun 2016 #35
Concise and well put felix_numinous Jun 2016 #28
That's an excellent list, I couldn't agree more. Uncle Joe Jun 2016 #40
Not long ago = still does today. N.T. Donald Ian Rankin Jun 2016 #41
A Dr. Strangelove for the 21st Century (Steve Breyman May 9, 2014) kick bobthedrummer Jun 2016 #43
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