{"id":1005,"date":"2009-01-14T11:10:10","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T15:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godandculture.wordpress.com\/?p=1005"},"modified":"2009-01-14T11:10:10","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T15:10:10","slug":"media-and-senate-judiciary-committee-ignoring-hillarys-pay-for-play-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/media-and-senate-judiciary-committee-ignoring-hillarys-pay-for-play-scandal","title":{"rendered":"Media and Senate Judiciary Committee ignoring Hillary&#8217;s &#8216;pay for play&#8217; scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20090113\/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe\/clinton_letters___dollars\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Secretary of State nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton intervened at least six times in government issues directly affecting companies and others that later contributed to her husband\u2019s foundation, an Associated Press review of her official correspondence found.<\/p>\n<p>The overlap of names on former President Bill Clinton\u2019s foundation donor list and business interests whose issues she championed raise new questions about potential ethics conflicts between her official actions and her husband\u2019s fundraising. The AP obtained three of the senator\u2019s government letters under the Freedom of Information Act.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/culture11.com\/blogs\/notabennett\/2009\/01\/14\/morning-report-114\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Bennett&#8217;s Morning Report<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;no Clinton Foundation entity should be able to take foreign contributions during Mrs. Clinton\u2019s tenure\u2013that ought to be airtight, especially when you see the Foundation donor list of countries that include Kuwait, Qatar, Brunei, Oman, Saudi Arabia.\u00a0 One gets concerned about such things\u2013especially when the recipient is named Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>Do I think there could be an appearance of purchasing political favor from abroad?\u00a0 Heck, can I give two words: Rod Blagojovech.\u00a0 We just went through two weeks of Democrats not wanting to seat a Senator based on allegations of selling favors for a Senate seat\u2013and that didn\u2019t involve foreign contributions.\u00a0 Might the same concern be relevant with a Secretary of State?\u00a0 Might the same concern be relevant with a Secretary of State who\u2019s husban has raised a lot of money from foreign entitites?\u00a0 Yes, the appearance and reality here matter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Associated Press: Secretary of State nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton intervened at least six times in government issues directly affecting companies and others that later contributed to her husband\u2019s foundation, an Associated Press review of her official correspondence found. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/media-and-senate-judiciary-committee-ignoring-hillarys-pay-for-play-scandal\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[335,120,447],"class_list":["post-1005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bill-bennett","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-pay-for-play"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}