The election of 2016 has brought to the forefront of the American psyche how dysfunctional our broadcast media has become. In 1996 the Telecommunication Act, deregulated the media, “The Telecommunications Act of 1996...enabled the handful of corporations dominating the airwaves to expand their power further. Mergers enabled tighter control of information...The Latin American writer Eduardo Galeano commented..."Never have so many been held incommunicado by so few.” Howard Zinn, “A People’s History of the United States, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996.
Here is the elephant in the room, the media and its coverage of the numerous scandals that are linked to Hillary Clinton, her private email server, The Clinton Foundation, her tenure as Secretary of State from 2009 till 2013, special favors, and espionage. Our media is being complacent, almost ignoring the biggest political and criminal scandal our country has ever known. Pundits brush off the fact that Hillary Clinton is under a full FBI investigation, a civil lawsuit and dozen of Freedom Of Informations Act lawsuits. Fox covers it, but that's basically it. For the rest of the networks, It almost doesn't matter, but it does, it matters a lot! Never before in our history, at least that I am aware of, has a presidential nominee been under a serious FBI investigation, and a civil lawsuit, both of which could lead to serious charges and an indictment. Let’s take a detailed look at some of what is going on.
In 2013 Sid Blumenthal was hacked by Marcel Lazăr Lehe, an out of work taxi driver in Romania with a penchant to hack in his spare time. Marcel Lazăr Lehe goes by the name Guccifer, Guccifer is a combination of Gucci and Lucifer, “The pseudonym Guccifer is a portmanteau of Gucci and Lucifer, meaning “the style of Gucci and the light of Lucifer,” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ The FBI opened the Benghazi investigation in May of 2013, and in March of 2015 the FBI opened an investigation on Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server. Hillary Clinton exclusively used her private email server while she served as Secretary of State. If it is proven that Guccifer hacked her server, she will be charged with espionage.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton_email_controversy
With a cheap computer and a stealth wit, Guccifer hacked into some major American leaders email, and social media accounts, Collin Powell, George W. Bush, and Sid Blumenthal, were a few of his high profile victims. It was because of Guccifer’s hack that we discovered Clinton’s private server. What Guccifer discovered was detailed correspondence between Clinton and Blumenthal regarding Libya and the 2012 Benghazi attack. Please note, when Hillary Clinton became Secretary of State, she wanted Sid Blumenthal on the White House payroll. Sid Blumenthal was Clinton’s senior advisor for her 2008 campaign, and a longtime friend who also served as Bill Clinton’s assistant and senior advisor. “According to a report in the New York Times, "Emanuel talked with Mrs. Clinton ... and explained that bringing Mr. Blumenthal on board was a no-go. The bad blood among his colleagues was too deep, and the last thing the administration needed, he concluded, was dissension and drama in the ranks. In short, Mr. Blumenthal was out.”[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Blumenthal
Despite this, Sid Blumenthal had access to very sensitive information and was advising Hillary Clinton on Libya. What’s even more suspicious is that Blumenthal had close ties with Najib Obeida, a business man in Libya, “Blumenthal asserted that a businessman named Najib Obeida was among 'the most influential' of the Libyan prime minister's new economic advisers—without mentioning that Blumenthal was advising a group of contractors courting Obeida as a potential business partner.”[22] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Blumenthalhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Blumenthal
Here is where it gets even more interesting. After the Obama Administration refused to hire Blumenthal, he was hired by the Clinton Foundation. Blumenthal’s job at The Clinton Foundation was to highlight the legacy of Bill Clinton’s presidency. Employees at the foundation were not happy about it, “The foundation hired Blumenthal after former President Clinton requested it, and the move was scrutinized by some foundation employees, according to Politico.”http://spectator.org/62870_blumenthal-earned-10k-month-clinton-foundation-while-advising-state/ Was Blumenthal put on the Clinton Foundation's pay role to advise Clinton as Secretary of State? Why was he hired by the foundation after the White House refused to put him on it's payroll? There is a glaring conflict of interest here and more questions need to be answered about Blumenthal’s role as an unofficial advisor to then Secretary Clinton.
The Select Committee on Bengazhi is moving at the pace of a snail with partisan bickering, “I wanted to have this completed by the end of December 2015,” Chairman Gowdy told Politico. “But you have to have access to documents and witnesses — that is the lifeblood of an investigation… And when one side controls documents and the witnesses and the other group is trying to conduct the investigation, that creates something of a quandary.” https://benghazi.house.gov/news/press-releases/over-10000-days-of-delays-obama-administration-s-delays-on-benghazi-documents
Both the media and the Clinton campaign and the DNC accuse the committee of being political. “The House voted May 8, 2014 to establish the United States House Select Committee on Events Surrounding the 2012 Terrorist Attack in Benghazi, voting 232-186 — 225 Republicans and 7 Democrats in favor, 186 Democrats voting against.[24] The Democratic National Committee sent out a statement describing the committee as a "ploy" and "political stunt.”[25] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigation_into_the_2012_Benghazi_attack
What does that mean? Is it being political to be investigating a democratic nominee? Yet there is very good reason to investigate what happened in Benghazi, and the American people have a right to know what happened. This we do know, “Blumenthal, a longtime confidant of Bill and Hillary Clinton, earned about $10,000 a month as a full-time employee of the Clinton Foundation. During the 2011 uprising in Libya against Muammar Gaddafi, Blumenthal prepared, from public and other sources, about 25 memos which he sent as emails to Clinton in 2011 and 2012, which she shared through her aide, Jake Sullivan, with senior State Department personnel. In the form of intelligence briefings, the memos sometimes touted his business associates and, at times contained inaccurate information.[20][21]” .https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Blumenthal The Obama Administration is dragging it’s feet and the media is the echo chamber of, “its political and right wing attack against Clinton”, and the public has almost forgotten, maybe even tired of the political infighting.
Let’s take a look at The Clinton Foundation. The Clinton Foundation was set up in 2001 at first is was the William J. Clinton Foundation, now it is The Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Foundation. The foundation is a nonprofit 501c3. That means they do not pay any taxes, and that the money raised is to be used for charity and the foundations operational costs. Could Hillary be using funds from The Clinton Foundation to fund her campaign? Could she be laundering foreign donations from the foundation to her campaign? The foundation does not have to disclose who its donors are. The Clinton Foundation did release some of its donors and controversy immediately ensued, “The ethics agreement between the State Department and the Clinton Foundation that was put into force at the beginning of the Secretary of State Clinton's tenure came under scrutiny from the news media during February 2015. A Wall Street Journal report found that the Clinton Foundation had resumed accepting donations from foreign governments once Secretary Clinton's tenure had ended.[69] Contributions from foreign donors who are prohibited by law from contributing to political candidates in the U.S. constitute a major portion of the foundation's income. The foundation's chief communications officer Craig Minassian explained that it is a "false choice to suggest that people who may be interested in supporting political causes wouldn’t also support philanthropic work."[3] A Washington Post inquiry into donations by foreign governments to the Clinton Foundation during the secretary's tenure found six cases where such governments continued making donations at the same level they had before Clinton became secretary, which was permissible under the agreement, but also one instance of a new donation, $500,000 from Algeria for earthquake relief in Haiti, that was outside the bounds of the continuation provision and should have received a special ethics review, but did not.[8] Foundation officials said that if the former secretary decided to run for president in 2016, they would again consider what steps to take in reference to foreign donations.[8] But in general, they stressed that, "As with other global charities, we rely on the support of individuals, organizations, corporations and governments who have the shared goal of addressing critical global challenges in a meaningful way. When anyone contributes to the Clinton Foundation, it goes towards foundation programs that help save lives."[8] State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki attested that the foundation's commitment to the ethics agreement in question "has been over and above the letter of the law”,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Foundation
Charles Ortel, a Wall Street financial analyst and investor who discovered accounting fraud at GE before its stock crashed, has been studying The Clinton Foundation's financial records for the past 15 month, and he has 40 reports that he plans to release. According to Charles Ortel, “The numbers that the Clinton Foundation supplies to the public in its legally mandated filings do not add up, are frequently incorrect, and appear to be materially misleading. In numerous cases, the Clinton Foundation appears to have followed inconsistent policies adding in appropriate portions of the various activities it pursued around the world to create “consolidated” financial statements.”http://charlesortel.com/tag/Clinton%20Foundation
With all of these allegations surrounding Hillary Clinton, how is that she is still eligible to run for president? If it is proven that Guccifer hacked her email and got into her private server, she could be charged with espionage. If the accusations of Charles Ortel prove correct, The Clinton Foundation is a fraud.Then what? I didn’t even cover the civil lawsuit, you confined more on that here, http://www.judicialwatch.org
There is also a new film to be released in July, Clinton Cash: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Cash
Why isn't the media asking the hard questions? Maybe this is why:
“NBC Universal, News Corporation, Turner Broadcasting and Thomson Reuters are among more than a dozen media organizations that have made charitable contributions to the Clinton Foundation in recent years, the foundation's records show.The donations, which range from the low-thousands to the millions, provide a picture of the media industry's ties to the Clinton Foundation at a time when one of its most notable personalities, George Stephanopoulos, is under scrutiny for not disclosing his own $75,000 contribution when reporting on the foundation.The list also includes mass media groups like Comcast, Time Warner and Viacom, as well a few notable individuals, including Carlos Slim, the Mexican telecom magnate and largest shareholder of The New York Times Company, and James Murdoch, the chief operating officer of 21st Century Fox. Both Slim and Murdoch have given between $1 million to $5 million, respectively.” Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/05/clinton-foundation-donors-include-dozens-of-media-organizations-individuals-207228#ixzz49bK6nyNQ
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