Emails: Bill Clinton Asked State For Permission To Give Paid Speeches In North Korea And Congo

Matt Vespa / Townhall Tipsheet

 

Hey, Bill has to pay the bills, right? That’s why he asked the State Department if he had the green light to deliver some speeches to North Korea and the Democratic Republic of the Congo:

The emails -- which have come to light because of a public records request by the conservative group Citizens United, which sued the State Department to get the documents -- show just how far Bill Clinton was willing to go to earn those lucrative fees -- seeking approval for appearances with ties to two of the most brutal countries in the world. 

One email sent in June 2012 to Clinton State Department chief of staff Cheryl Mills from Amitabh Desai, a foreign policy director at the Clinton Foundation, passed on an invitation for a speaking engagement in Brazzaville, Congo.

The catch? The dictators of Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo would both be attending - and required photos with Bill Clinton. The speaking fee? A whopping $650,000.

The Harry Walker Agency, which worked with Clinton on coordinating his speeches, recommended declining the invite, noting the particularly grim human rights record of the Democratic Republic of Congo and its leader, Joseph Kabila.
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Hamas-linked CAIR demands apology from Scott Walker for “enabling ISIS” by referring to “radical Islamic terrorism”

By Robert Spencer / Jihad Watch

 

The Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), designated a terror organization by the United Arab Emirates, is in full outrage mode at Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker, trying to intimidate him into speaking less accurately about the nature of the jihad threat. It’s their usual tactic: charging anyone who dares to note the Islamic character […]
 
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Pentagon Not Targeting Islamic State Training Camps

Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs

The Pentagon has not conducted airstrikes against an estimated 60 Islamic State (IS) training camps that are supplying thousands of fighters each month to the terror group, according to defense and intelligence officials.

War strategy based on myths and lies is a recipe for crushing failure. Obama’s war strategy is to convince Americans that the Islamic State is not Islamic. That the quranic texts and teachings that jihadists invoke are not quranic.

My concern and those of my colleagues is what happens when American Muslims and other foreign fighters eventually return to their home countries in Europe and North America to carry out jihad terror attacks.

“If we know the location of these camps, and the president wants to destroy...

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