The Clintons Got $3.4M In Fees From Keystone Investors. She's now against it, but what is she doing?

[pantsonfire]

A newly released GAI [Government Accountability Institute] timeline reveals how Bill Clinton bagged $1.8 million for 10 speeches between Nov. 2008 and mid-2011 funded by one of the largest shareholders in the Keystone XL pipeline, TD Bank, which held a $1.6 billion investment in the deal.

During this period, then-Sec. of State Hillary Clinton made critical decisions related to the Keystone XL pipeline’s advancement. Hillary’s "critical decisions" amounted to putting off any decision on the Keystone Pipeline. Which is something the environmentalists could not understand. But delaying the decision allowed Bill and eventually Hillary herself, as well as the rest of the Democrats, to continue to collect donations from both sides of the issue for as long as possible. Which is something Hillary then did in spades.

Her $1.6 million added to Bill’s $1.8 million means that Keystone Pipeline investors put at least $3.4 million dollars right into the pockets of the Clintons’. (And not their foundation.)

http://sweetness-light.com/archive/the-clintons-got-3-4m-in-fees-from-keystone-investors

[ozone_man]

1. I expect a return on my investment!

With compounded interest and exponential profit of course.

[2cannan]

5. Like the return she made on this investment?

1) 1992: The Commodity Trades

During Bill Clinton's first run for the White House, his campaign declined to release all of the couple's tax returns. Later it emerged that the campaign had weighed requests from the press and decided not to do so, because a few of the returns showed Hillary Clinton's spectacular success in commodities trading, in which she made almost $100,000 from an initial investment of $1,000 in a matter of months for a return of almost 10,000 percent. Hillary Clinton threatened a campaign lawyer who had access to the material with retribution if she released the data: "You'll never work in Democratic politics again," the lawyer, Loretta Lynch, says Clinton told her. It wasn't until 1994, as the New York Times prepared to publish an article detailing the trades, that the Clintons made public the returns.

https://www.propublica.org/article/hillary-clintons-top-five-clashes-over-secrecy

Yes, that Loretta Lynch!

[ozone_man]

6. Yes, like that! n/t

[JudyM]

2. Whoa. Man, I wish this could be raised in the debate.

[truedelphi]

3. What has happened with Code Pink? Do they support Hillary or

Sanders?

Anyway it would be so cool if someone streaked across the stage with a sandwich board asking the question about Hillary and the fracking dough!

[Zira]

7. I just went to their site. Looks like they don't want to tick any of their donors off. They aren't

picking a side but have at least one anti sanders article there - it was on him not discussing his foreign policys so they don't trust him. They don't mention the name Clinton in the article or in any recent articles on their site that I can see. Definitely don't want to tick off their donors.

[truedelphi]

8. Well that is pretty lame and pathetic.

I guess Medea Benjamin who started Code Pink is not with them any more - there is no way she would support Hillary

[Politicalboi]

4. She's so progressive

NOT! How, how do others here support THIS? Do you really think they gave her that money because they really really like her?