Word: clintone
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...Louisiana Republican Senator David Vitter chimed in with concerns about the Clinton Global Initiative, which he noted was not covered by the disclosure requirements of the memorandum of understanding, and could therefore become a place for anonymous fundraising. (Foundation spokesman Matt McKenna says the Global Initiative is, in fact, in the process of being incorporated separately from the charitable foundation.) Hillary Clinton pointed out that all sponsors of the initiative are publicly disclosed. When asked by Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey whether she had committed to continuing to disclose such sponsors in the future, Clinton said, "That's correct...
...Clinton answered by citing the lengthy memorandum of understanding negotiated between her staff and Obama's transition team last December as a condition for her being offered the job. That agreement specified that Bill Clinton would disclose all prior donors to the Clinton Foundation, provide an annual list of donors in the future and subject any proposed donations by foreign governments to a State Department ethics review...
...sure that he had made his point. In an afternoon session, he returned to the dangers of any impression of a conflict of interest. "The foundation exists as a temptation to any foreign entity or government that believes it can curry favor through a donation," he said, and urged Clinton to adopt three additional measures: first, to disclose all donations over $50,000 immediately rather than in one year's time; second, to disclose all pledges over $50,000 by foreign individuals or businesses immediately; and third, to submit to the State Department ethics review all foreign individual and business...
...Clinton's response was that she wouldn't even know who was pledging money to her husband's foundation, but Lugar stuck to his guns and issued one final, powerful warning. "I am hopeful that as we go through the history of this, that people will not say, well, Senator Lugar and Senator Kerry and others were prescient; they saw the problems. And we'll get full credit, but that will not be helpful to our foreign policy, to you, your husband and the foundation. And this is why I plea for you really to give even more consideration...
...Clinton's approval by the Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday morning is all but guaranteed. But Senator Lugar has laid down a marker over the potential for conflict-of-interest questions surrounding foreign donations to Bill Clinton's charitable endeavors. And if it turns out that Senator Lugar saw trouble before it arrived, it won't have been the first time...