Why Hillary's emails are still important

Why Hillary's emails are still important

By Scott Robbins

The FBI won't indict her, but that's petty compared to meddling with the global economy. Wikileaks may have revealed a new economic "global order", courtesy of Hillary and the Clinton Global Initiative.

I'm not sure whether people simply don't care about integrity, or have forgotten what it means. The presumptive nominee for the Democrats has been under investigation by the FBI for over a year. At first I didn't take the email "scandal" very seriously, but curiosity got the best of me and I poured over hundreds of these emails. What I saw is that since 2009 Hillary seems to have been using the Clinton Global Initiative as a diplomatic tool to establish trade relations and form policy with foreign nations.

Wikileaks published the enormous cache of 30,322 Hillary's emails. Wikileaks is not 100%  morally pure, but if technology allows individuals to reveal information that will affect the entire world isn't there a moral imperative to share this information?

Many of the emails I read were not interesting. However, I stumbled across a few abnormal exchanges between Abedin and Hillary, and upon further investigation these correspondences seemed to be the most interesting and cryptic. Naturally, I continued digging. Abedin, simultaneously worked within the State Department, the Clinton Foundation and for Teneo. This appears to be a direct conflict of interest and perhaps an example of collusion. Abedin's concern about the security of Hillary's server only helps to validate the potential power of what it contains.

Abedin and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at a campaign rally, 2008. By Charles Dharapak/A.P. Images.

This was the first one to catch my eye. It's a very detailed security brief, followed by bizarre dialogue between Hillary and Abedin that reads like a conversation between paranoid drug dealers. I've always loved a good puzzle, so after reading this email I decided it was worth investigating.

8/9/09: Hillary staffer suggests using the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) as a means of diplomacy, saying the "theme could be 'Implementing Peace'." She goes even further saying, "obviously a session could have wider application into say the Middle East peace and political process."

9/15/09: Abedin and Clinton's exchange appears to be pre-emptive preparation for defending the accountability of defense spending or development of some kind, but it's unclear what is going to be developed and where... On the same day, HRC plans to meet with Sheikha Mosa of Qatar, which is intriguing and will come up later.

9/20/09-9/24/09: Corporate money flowing into government (9/22), and it's unclear why. This email, from later that day, clarifies that Hillary and the CGI were preparing for the "Philanthropy Oscars" in Ireland, with the goal of proving that "The big win is in remaking government through innovative partnerships with the private sector. Mrs Clinton has been mulling over what to do with USAID for nearly a year. What better opportunity than the CGI to announce a bold new strategy for smart aid?"

The hair stood up on the back of my neck. Why are state department officials so closely linked with the CGI? How can Hillary blatantly use her own private organization to further the agenda of the nation she holds public office for? This would be a new form of diplomacy.

The next day in this 9/24/09 email, Abedin relays to HRC that Congress  "earmarked 2.5 mil dollars for democracy stuff in Libya" and that the money was intended to go to NGOs, but some of the money  "was going to an NGO with links to an NGO in Libya run by a Qadhafi."

6/7/10: Sheikha Mosa of Qatar apparently wants her son to "build a wider international profile" because he's " keen to talk more generally about US/Qatari cooperation ". (Qatar is one of the world's largest exporters of liquified gas, among other things...)

On 10/3/10 HRC met with FM Judeh again, and later held private meeting with retired General Jack Keane (now on the Board of Directors for General Dynamics, a multinational defense conglomerate that is also the world's 5th largest defense contractor). General Dynamics financial reports from 2010 and 2011 would indicate that the business of war was booming.

9/14/2011: Explicitly states that the Dept. of State will be attending a conference with CGI and Goldman Sachs. Is it not inappropriate for a State Dept. official (Hillary) to start getting the DoS, CGI, and Private banks in the same room to discuss world affairs?

11/10/11: Apparently the meetings between Qatari's and the US manifested as cooperative conflict in Libya.

6/22/12: Speech given by Hillary. I recommend you read the whole thing, but the last paragraph is truly shocking, for good or ill, saying "I am confident that we will continue to serve and defend a peaceful and prosperous global order for many years to come."

Last Paragraph of draft of HRC speech. From Wikileaks Email ID #: 20393

9/22/12: Schedule of Annual CGI meeting. The opening session remarks: "In a world of seven billion people, the demand on natural and man-made resources is greater than ever before. Yet we also have more human capital than ever before." It's hard to tell if this is a path to world peace or a new world order. With the events hosted by various CEO's (Walmart, Lego, Goldman Sachs...etc.), Presidents, and a representative of the World Bank Group. Call me cynical, but it's hard to imagine these entities being driven by magnanimity.

 

Wikileaks Email 7058. Clinton Global Initiative becomes diplomacy?

I have expressed my doubts about Hillary before. Hillary is unbelievably active, and communicates daily with half a dozen nations. She seems almost too good at facilitating communication between so many nations.

Her methods work because all leaders like money. Apparently, offering people a piece of a new globalized economic agenda is compelling.

With the TPP, TTIP, and TiSA (when combined, will isolate trade of 2/3 of the world's GDP) already being drafted, the foundation has been built, and the right people have been connected.

The Clinton Global Initiative appears to have become the most "successful" diplomatic strategy in history; quite the achievement for a non-profit with the namesake of a candidate for the Presidency.

So are you excited for the new "prosperous global order"?