The Clinton Foundation

Check out this very interesting thread about the CF.  It appears that CF is essentially a money-maker for consultants and a fund-raiser.  Maybe a middle-man for actual charity donations, skimming off part of the money donated, with the Clintons themselves being paid out of that skim. Reminds me of - who's that group that bundles a bunch of charities and has annual drives where employers squeeze donations from employees?  The organization doesn't do any good at all themselves, but they pretend you're giving to charities when you pledge a certain amount of your pay to them, and your employer requires 100% participation, meaning you look like a skinflint who doesn't care about the needy if you return your ticket without agreeing to an automatic withdrawal from your pay.  You usually have to sit through a film about the charities on their list, and often, one of your co-workers who has benefited from one of those charities in the past will be manipulated into presenting the scam.  Don't know why their name escapes me now, because for years, I sat through those things, and never took the bait. It'll come to me.  Your charitable donations should go to charity, not administrators or bundlers.

Another bit of scrum I caught on the radio this morning was a bit about CF's promise that if Hillary is elected in November, CF will break up and move certain facets to other organizations, and Bill will resign his role on the board.  The piece ended with, "and then Chelsea Clinton will be the only Clinton on the Foundation board."  (I may have paraphrased.)  What I immediately thought was, so how's that make it all above-board?  It would be wrong for the president's husband to stay on the board, but not the president's daughter?

UPDATE 8/25:

FURTHER UPDATE:

Here's Glenn Greenwald at The Intercept on the subject.