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Jarqui

(10,110 posts)
Fri Jan 29, 2016, 01:12 PM Jan 2016

Clinton email prober had deeper role in inquiry into 2000 Clinton campaign

Source: Politico

An official overseeing State Department investigations stemming from Hillary Clinton's email practices had a greater role than previously acknowledged in a probe of Clinton's first Senate campaign, according to a subpoena reviewed by POLITICO.
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However, a grand jury subpoena issued to Clinton's Senate campaign committee in January 2003 which bears Seide's name and title as an assistant U.S. Attorney and appears to have been hand-initialed by him made sweeping demands for the campaign's financial and fund-raising records. The materials covered by the subpoena are so wide-ranging that they do not appear consistent with a probe focused on the financial dealings of a single donor or company.
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In December 2003, a grand jury in Los Angeles indicted Clinton's national finance director David Rosen on four felony charges of intentionally underreporting in-kind donations by Paul for the gala by more than $700,000. After a three-week trial in 2005, a jury acquitted Rosen of all the pending counts. The joint fundraising committee subsequently paid a civil penalty to the Federal Election Commission and updated its finance reports to reflect the in-kind gifts. The law in force at the time permitted unlimited "soft money" gifts to such fundraisers.

Clinton allies have raised questions about the impartiality of the leadership of the State inspector general's office. Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) said the probe of the 2000 campaign "amounted to nothing" and that Seide's role raised in the prior inquiry and the current ones raised "all sorts of questions."



Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2016/01/clinton-email-prober-had-deeper-role-in-inquiry-into-2000-clinton-campaign-218407



There's more and there's a link of a previous story that would give you some useful background on this.

I haven't fully digested the significance of the report (many probably won't be interested) because the email story has gotten complex.

Maybe folks would like to chime in and see how this fits or doesn't fit with what is going on.
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Hekate

(90,189 posts)
1. Oh gods, not again. The hatred never stops. What the VRWC does to Hillary amounts to....
Fri Jan 29, 2016, 01:17 PM
Jan 2016

...a slow-walk assassination. They want her obliterated, and always have.

Jarqui

(10,110 posts)
2. I certainly don't see posting this story as hatred
Fri Jan 29, 2016, 01:26 PM
Jan 2016

I actually was feeling a little sorry for her from the Halperin video this morning (though I do not disagree with it's posting).

This report is a little offsetting in that someone involved with the email investigation had gone after her before and may have an axe to grind with her.

If you think I'd post that because I hate Hillary, I think your logic is a little messed up.

The story fairly presents something on the Clinton side of the email matter.

As well, it's news. It's a legitimate follow up report with real facts and dates, etc by a fairly mainstream (in today's internet world) political news outlet by a credible reporter. Why should DUers following this story be kept ignorant of the news about it? Makes no sense.

Hekate

(90,189 posts)
6. I'm sorry if you thought that's what I was saying.I was referring to the source of the investigation
Fri Jan 29, 2016, 01:50 PM
Jan 2016
Not to you.

You're just letting us know that when the "investigators" are investigated some of the same old names keep popping up. They never quit.

Jarqui

(10,110 posts)
7. I think this investigation is like a bulldozer
Fri Jan 29, 2016, 02:08 PM
Jan 2016

It's not moving quickly but it's massive with a lot of moving parts inside and it's going to keep on rolling and maybe flatten anything that gets in it's way.

Even if Hillary is squeaky clean innocent, the GOP are going to drag it out and dirty her up as much as they can with this email scandal.

They did it with Benghazi and this is no different. If this slows, then I think they'll find some excuse to look into the Clinton foundation and it's ties to the State Department while Hillary was Secretary of State.

They've been doing guilt by association crap since before Joe McCarthy. With control of the House and Senate, there's nothing to slow them down.

Bubzer

(4,211 posts)
4. The investigation didn't start up again... it never stopped. There's no hatred here.
Fri Jan 29, 2016, 01:30 PM
Jan 2016

There is a fact-finding mission underway. Sorry if that bothers you.

zeemike

(18,998 posts)
3. What it says to me is that Clinton has a lot of baggage.
Fri Jan 29, 2016, 01:26 PM
Jan 2016

And just because it is complex does not change the fact it is a liability to her and the party as a whole.
Corruption is complex and basically that is what we are talking about...and blaming it on a right wing conspiracy will only go so far.

blackspade

(10,056 posts)
5. I have never bought into the e-mail 'controversy'
Fri Jan 29, 2016, 01:37 PM
Jan 2016

And this report kind of clinches it for me as a hit job by GOP operatives.

There may be something else going on, but I would assume that anything illegal would be all over the news by now.
There are many things about Clinton I dislike, and I have little interest in her being president, but that is based on policy, not made up shit like this appears to be.

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