Corrupt: Clinton aides fast-tracked a Top Secret security clearance for an unqualified large financial donor
06/20/2016 / By JD Heyes
(Clinton.news) There may be a sizeable portion of the American electorate that finds it difficult to support this year’s likely Republican presidential contender, but you can certainly say two things about Donald J. Trump: He isn’t corrupt (lest he would have already been charged with a crime by the current administration, to be sure); and he is no political insider bending and breaking rules the rest of us mere mortals have to live under.
The same things, however, cannot be said about likely Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, the only presidential candidate in history who is under active criminal investigation by an agency of the federal government for alleged violations of federal intelligence and ethics laws.
What we’ve learned throughout this investigatory process for sure is that when it comes to political donations to the Clinton Foundation, which poured in from foreign and other sources during Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state, there is nothing the candidate wasn’t willing to do in order to grant them the access they sought.
Take Rajiv Fernando, a major donor to the Clinton Foundation and a top bundler for President Obama’s campaigns. As reported by the Washington Examiner, Clinton’s State Dept. aides rushed a Top Secret clearance through for him so he could be placed in a high-level position for which he was not qualified.
The news site noted further that Fernando “landed a high-level appointment to the International Security Advisory Board in 2011, only to resign amid scrutiny of his credentials four days [later].”
Emails that were obtained by Citizens United, a conservative watchdog organization, and were later shared with Fox News, seem to indicate that Clinton’s top aides intervened directly on Fernando’s behalf, so they could get the Chicago businessman on the board more quickly.
When ABC News reporters queried the State Department for a copy of Fernando’s resume, officials at the agency were told to “stall” the inquiry as aides talked over how to “protect” Clinton from any fallout that might ensue.
Former Clinton chief of staff Cheryl Mills, who has been deposed about her role in Clinton’s email scandal, drafted a statement a few days later announcing that Fernando resigned. Fernando had contributed some $5 million to the Clinton Foundation, donor records say.
And last July, she attended a private fundraiser at Fernando’s home for which supporters had to pay $2,700 to get in.
Anyone who really believes that Hillary Clinton is on the up-and-up, or knows she isn’t but simply doesn’t care, is a massive part of what’s wrong in Washington, D.C.
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