Vincent J. Curtis
24 August 2016
Further proof, if any was needed, of Hillary’s corrupt use
of her office for personal financial benefit came to light yesterday. After three years of being stonewalled by the
State Department of John Kerry on a
FOIA request for Hillary’s calendar and schedules, and finally going to court
over it, the Associated Press (AP) finally received the documents that show
Hillary’s pay-to-play scheme in action.
That Hillary corruptly misused her office for personal
financial gain has been in the public domain since the publication of the book Clinton Cash by author Peter Schweizer in
2014. With just publically available
sources, Schweizer was able to document a remarkable series of co-incidences in
which Hillary dispensed the powers of her office to the benefit of contributors
to the Clinton Foundation or who financed (to the tune of $500,000 +) speeches
given by husband Bill.
The contents of the book called for an investigation by the
FBI, but so far that dog hasn’t barked.
Clinton hit-men denounced the book as “discredited” and “completely
lacking in proof.” (The latter, as Switzer admitted. Proof is the stuff the FBI brings to
court. Like emails, phone records, and
appointment calendars, and even these are not “proof,” merely stronger
circumstantial evidence.)
(As I’ve noted many times before, to be lacking in proof
does not mean there is no truth to the accusation. That it is false to say the deed was
done. If the perp destroys the evidence,
then there is no proof crime – which is partly why destruction of evidence is
itself a crime. Listen carefully to a
Clinton denial or counteraccusation and you won’t hear them say that the
accusation is untrue. They will say, “you have no proof.”. Or, “These are attacks by Republicans…” These refutations are non-denial denials.)
All the release of these latest documents do is strengthen
the belief that many held earlier: that Hillary is a corrupt liar who used her
office for profit. The question is
whether the scales will start to fall from the eyes of those inclined to
support Hillary for President.
Clinton campaign spokeliar Brian Fallon said that the AP
story relied on “utterly flawed data”
"It cherry-picked a
limited subset of Secretary Clinton's schedule to give a distorted portrayal of
how often she crossed paths with individuals connected to charitable donations
to the Clinton Foundation.
"The data does not account for more than half of her tenure
as Secretary. And it omits more than 1700 meetings she took with world leaders,
let alone countless others she took with other U.S government officials, while
serving as Secretary of State.
"Just taking the subset of meetings arbitrarily selected by
the AP, it is outrageous to misrepresent Secretary Clinton's basis for meeting
with these individuals. Melinda Gates is a world-renowned philanthropist whose
foundation works to address global health crises and eradicate disease in the
developing world. Meeting with someone like Melinda Gates is squarely in the
purview of America's top diplomat, whose job involves confronting these same
global challenges." (extract courtesy
of Fox News.)
Why a news report would reprint dictation from a spokeliar
for Hillary’s Campaign escapes me.
Fallon has no direct knowledge of this affair at all. He didn’t work for Hillary at that time. His dismissal of “cherry picking” and “arbitrary
selection” would be flaws obvious to those doing the analysis, and the AP is
not exactly stupid or rabidly anti-Clinton, as most of the press are rabidly
anti-Trump. Fallon obviously took his
lines from Bill or Hillary herself.
Maybe the media think that reprinting unchallenged dictation amounts to “balance”
in a news story concerning the Clintons.
The press report exposing Hillary’s corruption thus contains
an unanalyzed, unchallenged Clintonian non-denial denial.
What is called for is a denial or an explanation, and a
press conference, by Hillary Clinton herself.
But don’t hold your breath for one.
No reporter asked Fallon when Hillary would address this serious matter
personally, and if not, why not. I guess
everybody knows how this game is played, and it was too tiresome to go through
the motions of actual journalism.
Trump is going to have to keep hitting on this further proof
of Hillary’s corruption to make the media get up and do its job. His call for a special prosecutor is an old
dog-whistle to the media, and repeated blasts on it might make the media sit up
and take notice.
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