A key gear in the Clinton machine that has sucked in hundreds of thousands of dollars lobbying on behalf of the Saudi absolute monarchy has also worked for Russia's biggest bank.
What is more important about the story is not that it exposes some kind of nefarious Russian plot - as questionable "NSA spook" author John Schindler appears to suggest with Cold War-esque hand-wringing in his Observer article - but rather that the Clinton machine is ultimately loyal to the dollar and to the dollar alone.
At the 2016 Summit on Saudi Arabia, the first international conference to challenge the U.S. relationship with the Saudi regime, Saudi human rights lawyer Abdulaziz al-Hussan recalled that, when he worked as a human rights lobbyist in the West, he was constantly "Depressed by how nobody wanted to say anything about human rights in Saudi, because of all the money."
The Podesta Group is by no means the only part of the Clinton machine with ties to Saudi Arabia.
Perhaps most egregious of all, huge arms deals approved by Hillary Clinton's State Department also happened to place weapons in the hands of governments that donated money to the Clinton Foundation - including the autocratic Gulf regimes in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar - an investigation the International Business Times found.
Bill Clinton has garnered enormous fees for speeches in Saudi Arabia, investigative reporter Michael Isikoff points out, including $600,000 for two talks while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state.
In his report on the Clinton machine's ties to Saudi Arabia, Isikoff also notes that two "Of the Clinton lobbyist-bundlers, Richard Sullivan and David Jones, are principals in a firm that, until late last year, represented the Russia Direct Investment Fund, a sovereign wealth fund co-founded by Vladimir Putin when he was prime minister."
https://www.salon.com/2016/04/08/with_saudi_and_russian_ties_clinton_machines_tentacles_are_far_reaching_according_to_panama_papers/
What is more important about the story is not that it exposes some kind of nefarious Russian plot - as questionable "NSA spook" author John Schindler appears to suggest with Cold War-esque hand-wringing in his Observer article - but rather that the Clinton machine is ultimately loyal to the dollar and to the dollar alone.
At the 2016 Summit on Saudi Arabia, the first international conference to challenge the U.S. relationship with the Saudi regime, Saudi human rights lawyer Abdulaziz al-Hussan recalled that, when he worked as a human rights lobbyist in the West, he was constantly "Depressed by how nobody wanted to say anything about human rights in Saudi, because of all the money."
The Podesta Group is by no means the only part of the Clinton machine with ties to Saudi Arabia.
Perhaps most egregious of all, huge arms deals approved by Hillary Clinton's State Department also happened to place weapons in the hands of governments that donated money to the Clinton Foundation - including the autocratic Gulf regimes in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar - an investigation the International Business Times found.
Bill Clinton has garnered enormous fees for speeches in Saudi Arabia, investigative reporter Michael Isikoff points out, including $600,000 for two talks while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state.
In his report on the Clinton machine's ties to Saudi Arabia, Isikoff also notes that two "Of the Clinton lobbyist-bundlers, Richard Sullivan and David Jones, are principals in a firm that, until late last year, represented the Russia Direct Investment Fund, a sovereign wealth fund co-founded by Vladimir Putin when he was prime minister."
https://www.salon.com/2016/04/08/with_saudi_and_russian_ties_clinton_machines_tentacles_are_far_reaching_according_to_panama_papers/
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