How the Clintons and the Rest of Washington Are Getting Rich From the Turkey Coup --- the top 10 US weapons buyers: Saudi Arabia, UAE, Turkey, South Korea, Australia, Taiwan, India, Singapore, Iraq, and Egypt. Experts believe the Middle East will remain a top destination for weapons for some time -- it currently accounts for about 40% of U.S. arms exports.
On Tuesday, July 19, 2016 at 2:19:11 PM UTC-5, Travis wrote: > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Travis <[email protected] <javascript:>> > Date: Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 1:57 PM > Subject: Fwd: [grendelreport] How the Clintons and the Rest of Washington > Are Getting Rich From the Turkey Coup > To: > > > > > > > > > http://heatst.com/politics/how-the-clintons-and-the-rest-of-washington-are-getting-rich-from-the-turkey-coup > > - > > How the Clintons and the Rest of Washington Are Getting Rich From the > Turkey Coup > > > > > By Ira Stoll| 3:12 pm, July 18, 2016 > > Here’s one outcome of the Turkish coup attempt that you can bet on: > Washington lobbyists will be getting rich off it. > > The Podesta Group, a firm with close ties to Bill and Hillary Clinton, > registered in May to lobby for the “Alliance for Shared Values.” That > comically named organization supports Fethullah Gulen, the > Pennsylvania-based imam that the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, > blames, rightly or wrongly, for the coup. > > The extensive web of ties between Gulen, his supporters, and the Clintons > has been amply documented > <http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/13/new-ties-emerge-between-clinton-and-mysterious-islamic-cleric/> > by > Chuck Ross of the *Daily Caller*. Gulen allies gave money to the Hillary > Clinton campaign and to the Clinton Global Initiative, as well as between > $500,000 and $1 million to the Clinton Foundation. Gulen’s supporters have > also been operating a charter school network, which “60 Minutes > <http://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-charter-schools-tied-to-powerful-turkish-imam/4/>” > > and others allege may be designed to funnel U.S. taxpayer money back to his > supporters in Turkey. > > Hillary Clinton has been out on the campaign trail calling for overturning > the Supreme Court’s *Citizen’s United* decision to end what she calls > “the stranglehold of wealthy special interests in Washington.” Meanwhile, > her non-profit foundation is going around vacuuming up millions of dollars > in donations from individuals and entities that have an interest in her > policies. It’s an outrageously brazen and hypocritical act of crookedness > even by Clinton standards. > > Getting less attention, but just as newsworthy, is that *Erdogan’s > government*has also been spreading money around American politics. > > Last month, Turkey’s embassy in Washington hired a former communications > director for Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, Thomas Blank, according to > a Foreign Agents Registration Act filing with the Department of Justice. > Turkey also earlier this year hired the firm of a former Republican > congressman from Minnesota, Vin Weber, for $20,000 a month for consulting > services “relating to its investigation into Fethullah Gulen and his > organization in the United States.” Turkey’s embassy in Washington also > earlier this year hired the Gephardt group, led by former House Majority > Leader Richard Gephardt, for a fee of $1.7 million for 11 months work. And > it spent $600,000 on a yearlong contract with a Washington firm for legal > advice and representation aimed at getting Gulen extradited to Turkey from > America. > > Mr. Gephardt — a registered foreign agent of Turkey with (did we mention > it?) a $1.7 million, 11 month lobbying contract for Erdogan’s increasingly > brutal Islamist government — will be a Clinton superdelegate to the > Democratic National Convention, is a Clinton campaign donor, and is a > member > <http://blog.4president.org/2016/2015/11/hillary-for-america-announces-missouri-and-vermont-leadership-councils.html> > of > an official Clinton campaign “leadership council” for the state of Missouri. > > The political conflict in Turkey creates what the author Peter Schweizer > calls a “double milker” situation. The politicians and former > politicians-turned-lobbyists in Washington are able to collect legal or > lobbying fees, campaign contributions, or “charitable donations” — to use > the term very loosely — from *both sides* of the issue. In this case, > Clinton is fundraising from both allies of Gulen and allies of Erdogan. > > No one — except perhaps Mrs. Clinton herself, with her nonsense about the > “stranglehold of wealthy special interests” — wants to prevent countries or > individuals from arguing their case in Washington. That’s what the First > Amendment rights of speech and petition are all about. > > But even so, you’ve got to wonder: What does Erdogan think he’s getting > for that $1.7 million, or what do the Gulen supporters think they are > getting for their fees to Podesta and their donation to the Clinton > Foundation? It would be nice if a President Clinton would set our policy in > Turkey based on what is in American interests, or even, for that matter, on > some combination of American interests and American values. By American > values, though, I mean freedom, democracy, and rule of law, not > enrichment-by-influence-peddling. > > > ------------------------------ > [image: Avast logo] <https://www.avast.com/antivirus> > > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/antivirus> > > > > __._,_.___ > ------------------------------ > Posted by: "Beowulf" <[email protected] <javascript:>> > ------------------------------ > > > Visit Your Group > <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/grendelreport/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJmcHFiM3BpBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzE0Njg5NTI4MTc-> > > > > [image: Yahoo! 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