The Watergate conspiracy and investigation spawned many
things; it brought into vogue so-called investigative journalism and added the
famous catch phrase “follow the money” to the lexicon. There is a striking
coincidence that Hillary Clinton came of age in Washington during the Watergate
era as a member of the House Judiciary Committee staff charged with
investigating that scandal. She was later removed from the investigation because
she “… engaged in a variety of self-serving
unethical practices in violation of House rules.”
Bestselling author Peter
Schweizer has served up Clinton
Cash – The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses
Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich, in which he details what I
can only describe as a series of complex and multi-layered enterprises; that are
chock full of cut outs and bag men who seemingly shield the Clinton’s from
leaving direct fingerprints. At times this thing reads like a criminal
indictment, building a dense series of circumstantial evidence that point
directly at the Clinton’s involvement in a lucrative criminal conspiracy.
Bill and Hillary come off like a modern day Bonnie and
Clyde without the Tommy guns and certainly without the Mont Blanc pens of white
collar criminals, because nothing is ever written down on paper and as far as
electronic communications, we know who owns the server. The problem may be that
to “follow the money” through the intricate webs of Friends of Bill and Hill,
scumbag business types, tin pot dictators and other lowlifes that the Clintons
have chosen to do business with, may be just a little too complex for the
average, low information, Clinton/Obama voter.
The astounding thing is it is those same people who get
jacked up about the Koch brothers, two successful, U.S. citizens who make above
board (legal), public donations to support candidates and causes they believe
in. Yet they will go out of their way to say there is nothing fishy about the
Clintons getting paid massive amounts for speeches or the Clinton Foundation accepting
donations from foreign dictators and tyrants, many of whom stand accused of
heinous crimes and human rights violations. Laughably those donations often
offer these dirt bags a form of International cleansing or legitimacy due to
their association with the Clintons.
Schweizer and his team of investigators offer up a
densely notated collection of information that ties the Clintons and their
associates to what I can only describe as shady dealings. It gives new meaning
to Bill Clinton’s recent protestations to NBC News that “I have to pay our
bills” when you see the number of sycophants, hangers on, defenders and
contributors that have reaped a windfall from their association with the
Clintons.
It may be hard to believe after wading through uranium
deals, donations from dictators and so many other scummy shenanigans that perhaps
the most damning chapter of the book is the one that details the billions of
dollars, many of them U.S. taxpayer dollars, of Haitian earthquake relief funds
that were in the direct control of Bill and Hillary. While they detailed many
grandiose plans to not only rebuild, but also to modernize and bring Haiti into
at least the 20th century with new infrastructure and industrial
facilities, what we bought with our billions didn’t even come close.
Massive and possibly criminal cost over-runs,
shortfalls on promised basics like housing and projects were piles of money
were allocated and spent and yet there was nothing delivered abound. Along the
way, plenty of Clinton contributors and friends, many often NOT remotely
qualified to deliver on the contracts they were rewarded, became staggeringly
enriched. Again, follow the money. Five years after the earthquake that
devastated the third world nation, much of Haiti remains in a state of disrepair
and tens of thousands still live on the street. Why there has not been an audit
or accounting of how the taxpayer’s money was spent is a mystery accept to
those who understand how the Obama/Democrat, Justice Department operates.
Has Schweizer uncovered that one smoking gun piece that
nails the Clintons? No, but he and his team have built a solid case for a much
closer, much more detailed examination of the potential corruption of not only
U.S. policy, but of the finances and operations of the Clinton Foundation and
their associates. Will that happen? Based on the history of the Clintons, I
wouldn’t hold my breath.
