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   From: investigate.pelosi@cnn.com   
      
   Election 2016: At the recent Democratic National Convention, the   
   party of the donkey worked overtime at remaking Hillary   
   Clinton's image from one of an ethically challenged political   
   operator to one of a caring champion of children and families.   
   But as new revelations about her shady dealings with Russia   
   emerge, it may all be for nought.   
      
   New revelations from Peter Schweizer, the author of the   
   meticulously documented book "Clinton Cash," and Stephen K.   
   Bannon, executive chairman of Breitbart, show that Hillary's   
   campaign Chairman John Podesta "sat on the board of a small   
   energy company alongside Russian officials that received $35   
   million from a Putin-connected Russian government fund."   
      
   Making things worse, Podesta never fully disclosed the   
   relationship, as the law requires. But of greater concern than   
   Podesta is what it says about Clinton's strange and mutually   
   beneficial relationship with Russia that led to Clinton lending   
   a hand in helping Vladimir Putin build Skolkovo, a high-tech   
   community meant to be "the Russian equivalent of America's   
   Silicon Valley."   
      
   This is not some sort of free-enterprise experiment. As the   
   authors detail in a study published by the Government   
   Accountability Institute, some 30,000 workers toiled in the   
   state-of-the-art tech hub "under strict governmental control."   
   While Clinton was in charge at the State Department, the U.S.   
   recruited a bunch of U.S. high-tech powerhouses -- including   
   Google, Cisco and Intel -- to take part in the project. Of the   
   28 companies from the U.S., Europe and Russia that took part, 17   
   were donors to the Clinton Foundation or paid for Bill Clinton   
   to give speeches.   
      
   It's yet another stunning example of the Clinton Foundation's   
   growing list of conflicts of interest, suggesting that Hillary   
   used the State Department's offices to line her family's pockets   
   through the Clinton Foundation. Don't forget that, with her   
   email carelessness on her home-brew server during her tenure as   
   secretary of state, Hillary has already exposed the United   
   States' most secret information to the Russian government. As   
   radio talk show host and law professor Hugh Hewitt noted Monday:   
   "Hillary is already a Putin pawn."   
      
   This was no accident. Nor was it innocent. FBI Assistant Special   
   Agent Lucia Ziobro in 2014 sent a letter to several U.S.   
   corporate participants in the project warning: "The (Skolkovo)   
   foundation may be a means for the Russian government to access   
   our nation's sensitive or classified research development   
   facilities and dual-use technologies with military and   
   commercial application."   
      
   Ziobro continued, "The FBI believes the true motives of the   
   Russian partners, who are often funded by the government, is to   
   gain access to classified, sensitive, and emerging technology   
   from the companies."   
      
   Which brings us back to Podesta. He sat on the board of a tiny   
   energy company named Joule Unlimited, write Bannon and   
   Schweizer. A mere two months after he joined the board, Rusnano,   
   founded by Vladimir Putin in 2007, invested $35 million in the   
   company. Podesta sat on three separate boards of Joule-   
   affiliated corporate entities, but only reported two.   
      
   Moreover, Podesta's own leftist think tank, the Center for   
   American Progress, got $5.25 million from a group called the Sea   
   Change Foundation in the four years ending in 2013. Sea Change,   
   in return, had received what the authors call "a large infusion   
   of funds from a mysterious Bermuda-based entity called 'Klein   
   Ltd.,' " which appears to have Russian ties.   
      
   This puts Clinton's actions while in office under deep suspicion   
   -- including her enabling a "reset" with Russia that seems to   
   have led to a resurgent Russia expanding its military,   
   diplomatic and economic power in Eastern Europe and the Mideast.   
      
   In a wide-ranging interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News   
   Sunday, Hillary suggested that Donald Trump "has shown a very   
   troubling willingness to back up Putin, to support Putin,   
   whether it's saying that NATO wouldn't come to the rescue of   
   allies if they were invaded, talking about removing sanctions   
   from Russian officials after they were imposed by the United   
   States and Europe together, because of Russia's aggressiveness   
   in Crimea and Ukraine, his praise for Putin which is I think   
   quite remarkable."   
      
   Extraordinary chutzpah.   
      
   Last May, Clinton told MSNBC's Closing Bell that she had been   
   the "most transparent public official in modern times." If you   
   simply replaced "most" with "least" that statement would be   
   true. What's sad is the mainstream media will once again do   
   their best to cover up and ignore this latest scandal, which   
   reeks of illicit payola. In other words, just another day in the   
   ethically challenged campaign of Hillary Rodham Clinton.   
      
   http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/hillarys-biggest-   
   scandal-russia-and-her-reset-pal-vladimir-putin/   
                       
      
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