Hillary Clinton’s Emails: Secret Negotiations With NY Times, Trade Bill Lobbying Revealed In Latest State Department Release Jackie Salo & David Sirota
Some timely reporting by Salo and Sirota in IB Times. Draw your own conclusions.
The latest batch of emails dating back to Hillary Clinton’s tenure as U.S. secretary of state shows her appearing to lobby members of the Senate on controversial trade bills and her office communicating with the New York Times about holding a sensitive article. The State Department release of documents on her private email server Friday came the day before the Democratic presidential candidate heads into the Nevada caucuses.
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Other emails show Clinton seeming to personally lobby her former Democratic colleagues in the Senate to support free trade agreements (FTAs) with Colombia, Panama and South Korea. She had previously told voters she would work to block the Colombian and South Korean pacts.
An email Oct. 8, 2011, to Clinton from her aide Huma Abedin gave notes about the state of play in Congress on the proposed trade pacts. The notes provided Clinton “some background before you make the calls” to legislators.
Many things are said on the campaign trail. I feel we as Democrats MUST pick the right candidate that is electable. Please read this article. We as a party need to make sure. I feel truth is the essential in what people say they will strive to do. We must ask, will they? Can we trust them. Matters very important to our unions and their members are being discussed in these speeches. Unions are a large part of our Democratic coalition. Our union brothers and sisters are depending on our candidate to go to the wall for them as promised. Which candidate can we count on to do that?
Just as the transcripts of Mrs. Clinton’s high priced speech’s to Wall Street are not being released it strikes to what our possible candidate does and does not want us to know about her word. It will not fly, I believe, in the general election, and it should not fly in the primary. She will be asked ad infinitum about these emails. At some point they may even come out from another source. Can we afford to wait for that moment as a party?
Do I care that Katie Perry was possibly paid $70,000 to perform for Hillary. No. If they want to spend precious funds that way, so be it. My question is what do we believe? The illusion of a “youthful endorsement” or just an employee with a big payday? What about Demi Lovato? What about Morgan Freeman? On and on. Are they highly paid endorsements or real endorsements?
What is real and what is illusion?
Below is an interview with CBS news.
I have included the entire clip for context to be fair. The question of telling the truth as a president is asked at the 2:13 mark.
x YouTube VideoDo I think being as straight forward as one can be with one’s word as President or as an elected official is important? I think it is essential. That is why I took the time to make this Diary. That is why in the five decades I have been a Democrat I feel I have found a candidate that is, I believe, as sincere as they come in Bernie Sanders. I believe he will work hard, with us, to make as much of what we are striving for together come to pass.
Our own vote is of course our own vote. I, as your Democratic partner, just respectfully ask you to weigh it.
Peace