And no one noticed?[Both Hillary and Bill Clinton] made a pledge to [Obama in 2008 that the Clinton Foundation would] publish all the donors on an annual basis to ease concerns that as secretary of state she could be vulnerable to accusations of foreign influence.
At the outset, the Clinton Foundation did indeed publish what they said was a complete list of the names of more than 200,000 donors and has continued to update it. But in a breach of the pledge, the charity's flagship health program, which spends more than all of the other foundation initiatives put together, stopped making the annual disclosure in 2010, Reuters has found.
Reuters
Mere coincidence.[T]he Clinton Health Access Initiative -] CHAI was spun off as a separate legal entity that year, but the officials acknowledged it still remains subject to the same disclosure agreement as the foundation.
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By the time Clinton left office in February 2013, the charity had received millions of dollars [...] in new or increased payments from at least seven foreign governments. Five of the governments came on board during her tenure as secretary of state while two doubled or tripled their support in that time, according to data provided by CHAI spokeswoman Daley.
That article is actually from March 2015, but this is the first I've seen it.The State Department said it was unable to cite any instances of its officials reviewing or approving new money from any foreign governments. Daley confirmed that none of the seven government donations had been submitted to the State Department [contravening the Clintons' assurance to the Obama administration that any such activity would be submitted for review].
And sadly, probably still better than what the Republicans came up with.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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