Half of Clinton's nongovernment meetings at State were with donors

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- More than half the people outside the government who met with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state gave money - either personally or through companies or groups - to the Clinton Foundation. It's an extraordinary proportion indicating her possible ethics challenges if elected president.

At least 85 of 154 people from private interests who met or had phone conversations scheduled with Clinton while she led the State Department donated to her family charity or pledged commitments to its international programs, according to a review of State Department calendars released so far to The Associated Press. Combined, the 85 donors contributed as much as $156 million. At least 40 donated more than $100,000 each, and 20 gave more than $1 million.
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The meetings between the Democratic presidential nominee and foundation donors do not appear to violate legal agreements Clinton and former president Bill Clinton signed before she joined the State Department in 2009. But the frequency of the overlaps shows the intermingling of access and donations, and fuels perceptions that giving the foundation money was a price of admission for face time with Clinton. Her calendars and emails released as recently as this week describe scores of contacts she and her top aides had with foundation donors.
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Clinton's campaign said the AP analysis was flawed because it did not include in its calculations meetings with foreign diplomats or U.S. government officials, and the meetings AP examined covered only the first half of Clinton's tenure as secretary of state.
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Reading the rest of the article beyond just the small pulled quote, doesn't seem too bad to me. It mostly looks like another case of "we couldn't find any evidence of any wrong doing, but it looks like it if you don't the specifics!"
 
remist said:
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Any evidence or indication of quid pro quo?

No?

Title of the article should be, "THIS JUST IN: HILLARY CLINTON MEETS WITH PEOPLE ON HER FREE TIME".

I think it's disgusting at this point that the desire to find Hillary Clinton guilty of some international scandal has become so great that we're willing to tear down a charity responsible for providing aid to women and children globally, and for whom no major legit scandal has been discovered, simply because the Clinton name is attached to it. I mean, do the people calling for The Clinton Foundation to be shut down even know what it is? What it's responsible for? The good it does?

Meanwhile, we have a man who is literally funneling champaign money into his failing businesses, and who may very well be indebted to hostile nations, and receives only a fraction of the scrutiny.
 
Personally I prefer the standard practice of every politician for decades and decades of just handing money directly to them to increase the chances they take my phone calls. This charity stuff needlessly benefits poor and sick people and I'm just not comfortable with that.
 
Important bit:

The meetings between the Democratic presidential nominee and foundation donors do not appear to violate legal agreements Clinton and former president Bill Clinton signed before she joined the State Department in 2009.
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Correlation? Yep.

Causation? Nope.

If there's widespread corruption, find evidence of it. Until then it's just hot air.
 
EskimoJoe said:
But it doesn't matter if she did nothing wrong! What matters is if it looks like a little bit like she did! If it looks like she did, we can safely assume she did, obviously. She's a Clinton. They do have such a shady history.
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I expect a least a dozen GOP congressional hearings, a few books and at least one movie ...
 
God, seeing all these "Guis the Clintons are totally corrupt we promise, but we don't have any proof but OMG aren't they guilty of something....whatever it is" stories takes me back to the 90s.

Get me a Caprisun, put Power Rangers on the TV, and I'll be back in 4th grade again.
 
Donors who were granted time with Clinton included an internationally known economist who asked for her help as the Bangladesh government pressured him to resign from a nonprofit bank he ran; a Wall Street executive who sought Clinton's help with a visa problem and Estee Lauder executives who were listed as meeting with Clinton while her department worked with the firm's corporate charity to counter gender-based violence in South Africa.
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Golly gee, this sure seems nefarious! Nobel prize winner running a nonprofit? More like Dr. EVIL! A visa issue? Probably a visa from MORDOR!
 
You left out the part that points out the Clinton Foundation exists solely to give Hillary a gold painted pony for every day of the year and all the pickels/dildos she can eat.
 
We're literally posting this stuff on a forum that's run by a guy that got a photo-op with a sitting president by donating money.

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What makes you think that?
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The fact you didn't actually seem to read the entire article before posting it? Also that you left out all of the important bits in your quote.
 
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