THE WORLD IS TOO SMALL,
OUR WISDOM TOO LIMITED,
OUR TIME HERE TOO SHOR TO WASTE ANY MORE OF I IN WINNING FLEETING VICTORIES
AT OTHER PEOPLE'S EXPENSE.
THE CLINTON GLOBAL INITIATIVE,
WHICH BRINGS
PHILANTHROPISTS AND CEOS
TOGETHER WITH NON-PROFITS
TO MAKE CONCRETE COMMITMENTS
AIMED AT SOME OF THE WORLD'S
TOUGHEST PROBLEMS.
ALMOST 10 YEARS IN, THEY HAVE
LEVERAGED BILLIONS OF DOLLARS
IN ASSISTANCE
IN MORE THAN 180 COUNTRIES.
BILL: CGI WAS DESIGNED
TO TACKLE BIG GLOBAL CHALLENGES
IN BITE-SIZE PIECES
WITH THE CONVICTION THA REGARDLESS OF SIZE OR SCOPE,
OUR PROBLEMS WILL YIELD
TO CONCERTED ACTION
AND INNOVATIVE PARTNERSHIPS
OF INDIVIDUALS, NGOS,
BUSINESSES, AND GOVERNMENTS.
WE HAVE TO NOW FIND A WAY
TO TRIUMPH TOGETHER.
HILLARY: ALL THE PROBLEMS
THAT WE FACE,
FROM CLIMATE CHANGE
TO FINANCIAL CONTAGION
TO NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION, ARE
TOO COMPLEX AND CROSS-CUTTING
FOR ANY ONE GOVERNMENT OR INDEED
FOR GOVERNMENTS TO SOLVE ALONE.
AS WE BELIEVE THAT ENDING HUNGER
IS NOT ONLY POSSIBLE,
BUT IT IS BOTH A MORAL
AND STRATEGIC IMPERATIVE.
WOMAN: HILLARY CLINTON IS TRYING
TO SHIFT THE SPOTLIGH TO GLOBAL WARMING.
THE PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDER
UNVEILING HER PLANS
TO COMBAT CLIMATE CHANGE.
BILL: TOGETHER WITH
INNOVATIVE PARTNERS
FROM THE PUBLIC
AND PRIVATE SECTORS,
WE'RE WORKING TO MAKE HOMES,
UNIVERSITIES, AND CITIES
MORE ENERGY-EFFICIENT.
HILLARY: WE SHARE
A COMMON FUTURE
AND WE ARE HERE
TO FIND COMMON GROUND.
WOMEN MUST BE EMPOWERED.
MAN: IT'S CLASSIC BILL CLINTON.
BY USING HIS BIRTHDAY TO HELP
THE CAUSES HE CHAMPIONS,
FROM COMBATING CLIMATE CHANGE
TO OBESITY AND EVEN HIV/AIDS.
HELP BRING
NEW DIGNITY AND RESPEC TO WOMEN AND GIRLS
ALL OVER THE WORLD.
AND IN SO DOING, BRING
NEW STRENGTH AND STABILITY
TO FAMILIES AS WELL.
BILL: WE ARE TRYING
TO DO SOMETHING
NO ONE HAS EVER DONE BEFORE.
A NEW REPORT TODAY CLAIMS
THAT THE CLINTON FOUNDATION
GIVES ABOUT 10% OF
ITS MONEY THAT IT RAISES
TO ACTUAL CHARITIES AND THE
SERVICES THAT THEY OFFER.
WOMAN: IT HAS BEEN
REPORTED YOU'VE MADE
5 MILLION MAKING SPEECHES.
THE PRESIDENT'S MADE
MORE THAN $100 MILLION.
HILLARY: WELL,
IF, IF YOU,
YOU HAVE NO REASON
TO REMEMBER, BU WE CAME OUT OF
THE WHITE HOUSE
NOT ONLY DEAD BROKE
BUT IN DEBT.
MAN: 6 YEARS AGO,
HILLARY CLINTON WAS
ABOUT TO BECOME
SECRETARY OF STATE.
BARACK OBAMA HAD NOMINATED HER,
EVERYONE KNEW SHE WAS GONNA BE
CONFIRMED BY THE SENATE,
GONNA BE CONFIRMED EASILY.
BUT THERE WAS A THOUGHT,
THERE WAS A QUESTION,
THERE WAS A DOUBT OUT THERE
ABOUT A POTENTIAL
CONFLICT OF INTEREST.
MAN 2: THE CLINTON FOUNDATION
DROPPING ITS SELF-IMPOSED BAN
ON COLLECTING FUNDS FROM
FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS AND ENTITIES
AND NOW THE "WASHINGTON POST"
REPORTS TOTAL CONTRIBUTIONS
TO THAT FOUNDATION
AMOUNT TO $2 BILLION.
THERE'S A LOT OF MONEY
SLOSHING AROUND,
EVERYTHING IS BLURRED,
AND IT'S NOT GOOD.
WOMAN: THE QUESTIONS
SCREAM OUT AT ME.
WHAT IN THE WORLD
HAPPENED WITH THE FOUNDATION
AND THESE ULTERIOR MOTIVES AND
THIS MONEY AND THE EMAIL SERVER?
I'M SORRY.
THOSE SCREAM OUT AT ME.
MAN: THE AMOUNT OF SCHMOOZING
INVOLVED AND CROSSING LINES
AND ONE PERSON PUTTING
MONEY IN A FOUNDATION
AND THEN CLINTON
GETTING UNBELIEVABLE AMOUNTS
FOR HIS SPEECHES, CONTRACTS
GOING ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.
IT'S NOT GOOD.
HILLARY: I LOOK FORWARD
TO WORKING WITH ALL OF YOU,
PARTICULARLY THE APPROPRIATORS.
UH, WE HAVE A LOT OF WORK TO DO
AND IT IS SUCH IMPORTANT WORK
THAT LIES AHEAD.
BILL: WE DID THIS WITH
A VERY SIMPLE STRATEGY.
MAN: AFRICA IS
A CONTINENT THAT HAS BEEN
A CHAMBER OF HORRORS
FOR DECADES.
IT'S REALLY NOT THE FAUL OF THE AFRICAN PEOPLE.
IT'S LARGELY A RESUL OF THE KIND OF SYSTEM
THAT'S BEEN PERPETUATED THERE.
YOU HAVE THESE OLIGARCHS,
WHICH DOMINATE THESE COUNTRIES
THAT OFTENTIMES HAVE
NATURAL RESOURCES
THAT CAN BE VERY LUCRATIVE.
AND THESE OLIGARCHS
STRIKE DEALS
WITH FOREIGN CORPORATIONS
OR FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS,
WHO IN EFFECT PROP THEM UP
AND PUT THEM IN POWER,
AND IN EXCHANGE, THESE OLIGARCHS
GIVE THESE ENTITIES
ACCESS TO RICH
MINERAL DEPOSITS.
AND THE CLINTONS
YOU WOULD EXPECT TO BE
OPPOSED TO THIS SORT OF THING,
AND THAT'S AT LEAS WHAT THEIR LANGUAGE DOES.
OUR COUNTRIES HAVE DEEPENED
OUR COOPERATION ON MANY ISSUES
INCLUDING GOOD GOVERNANCE
AND TRANSPARENCY, ENERGY,
REGIONAL SECURITY,
AND ADVANCING
PEACE AND DEVELOPMEN IN THE NIGER DELTA.
PETER: THE PROBLEM
IS, THEIR WORDS
ARE DIFFEREN FROM THEIR ACTIONS.
MAN: RWANDA HAS REALLY TAKEN
AN IMPRESSIVE PROJECTOR
OF DEVELOPMEN AND THE PEOPLE HERE
STILL THINK KAGAME'S THE MAN
TO TAKE THEM TO ANOTHER LEVEL.
MAN 2: PRESIDENT PAUL KAGAME HAS
WALKED ALL AROUND THE CROWD,
THANKING THE PEOPLE FOR
ELECTING HIM UNOPPOSED
AS CHAIRMAN OF THE RPF,
THE PRESIDENT OF THE RPF,
FOR ANOTHER 7-YEAR TERM.
BUT HIS CRITICS
SAY THAT FAR FROM
ENTRENCHING DEMOCRACY
IN RWANDA,
HE'S ACTUALLY ERODING I BY SILENCING HIS OPPOSITION.
MAN: PAUL KAGAME
HAS BEEN PRAISED BY
BILL CLINTON AND THE
CLINTON FOUNDATION.
BUT THE FACT OF THE MATTER
IS PAUL KAGAME
HAS A TERRIBLE
HUMAN RIGHTS RECORD.
HE'S ACCUSED OF AIDING
MILITARY OPERATIONS
IN THE NEIGHBORING
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO--
AND THAT ACTUALLY FORCED THE
RECRUITMENT OF CHILD SOLDIERS.
THE U.N. HAS IDENTIFIED HIM
AS BEING INVOLVED IN ACTIVITIES
THAT ENTAILED MASSIVE
HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS.
WOMAN: NEWER OPPOSITION PARTIES
THAT HAVE BEEN FORMED
IN THE LAST YEAR OR TWO
HAVE, ONE,
BEEN SILENCED OR OTHERWISE
EXCLUDED FROM THE RACE,
AND INDIVIDUALS,
NOT ONLY POLITICIANS
BUT EVEN JOURNALISTS,
FOR EXAMPLE, AND OTHER RWANDANS
WHO MAY HAVE VIEWS DIFFEREN FROM THOSE OF THE GOVERNMENT,
HAVE FOUND THEMSELVES AT THE
RECEIVING END OF WHAT HAS BECOME
QUITE A VIOLEN CAMPAIGN OF INTIMIDATION.
PETER: WELL, PAUL KAGAME IS
A FRIEND OF BILL CLINTON'S.
BILL: I WANT TO SAY
A SPECIAL WORD OF APPRECIATION
FOR THE LEADERSHIP
OF PRESIDENT KAGAME.
I'M GREATLY HUMBLED TO RECEIVE
THIS CLINTON
GLOBAL CITIZEN AWARD.
PETER: HE'S ACTUALLY
GIVEN AWARDS BY BILL CLINTON
FOR HIS CONDUCT AS
THE LEADER OF THAT COUNTRY,
AND THEY REGALE HIM AS
A GREAT MILITARY LEADER.
THIS IS THE SOR OF LEGITIMIZATION
THAT WE DON'T WANT OF THESE
KINDS OF DICTATORS AND LEADERS.
THAT'S THE KIND OF
LEGITIMIZATION
THAT THE CLINTONS
HAVE ENGAGED IN.
AND THEY'VE DONE I IN A WAY THAT CREATES
COMMERCIAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR
DONORS AND FRIENDS AND ALLIES,
WHO WANT TO DO BUSINESS
IN AFRICA.
BUSINESS IN AFRICA MEANS YOU ARE
DEALING WITH DICTATORS WHO ARE
GONNA GIVE YOU ACCESS
TO, SAY, MINERAL RIGHTS,
OR OIL DRILLING RIGHTS,
BUT YOU'RE GOING TO
HAVE TO PAY THEM OFF.
THE CLINTONS PARTNER
WITH FOREIGN ENTITIES
WHO WANT ACCESS TO AFRICA, AND
SPECIFICALLY MINING COMPANIES
OR ENERGY COMPANIES WHO
NEED TO GET CONCESSIONS
FOR ACCESS TO OIL OR NATURAL GAS
OR THE RIGHTS TO MINE FOR GOLD.
THOSE TWO MAKE A POWERFUL
ALLIANCE BECAUSE THESE COMPANIES
WILL GIVE MONEY
TO THE CLINTONS,
EITHER IN THE FORM OF
SPEAKING FEES OR IN THE FORM OF
DONATIONS TO
THE CLINTON FOUNDATION.
AND THE CLINTONS
WILL THEN, IN EFFECT,
DO THEIR BIDDING
BEFORE THE HALLS OF POWER
AND CORRIDORS OF POWER
IN AFRICA,
AND THEY WILL GO TO FOREIGN
GOVERNMENTS AND ENCOURAGE THEM
TO DO BUSINESS WITH
INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE
PUTTING MONEY IN THEIR POCKET.
AND THIS LEADS TO SOME AMAZING
FITS OF BEHAVIOR THAT, IN A WAY,
ARE JUST REMINISCENT OF
19TH-CENTURY COLONIALISM.
A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THIS
IS AMBASSADOR JOE WILSON.
JOE WILSON IS A LONGTIME
FRIEND OF THE CLINTONS.
IN FACT, HE ENDORSED
HILLARY CLINTON
IN THE 2008
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
AND IT WAS ALSO THOUGHT THAT HE
MIGHT BECOME A SENIOR OFFICIAL
IN HILLARY CLINTON'S
STATE DEPARTMENT.
BUT THE FACT OF THE MATTER
IS JOE WILSON WAS UP TO
SOMETHING FAR MORE NEFARIOUS
DURING HILLARY CLINTON'S TENURE
AS SECRETARY OF STATE.
IN 2009, SHORTLY AFTER
SHE BECAME SECRETARY OF STATE,
WHEN WILSON WAS
THE VICE CHAIRMAN
OF A COMPANY CALLED
JARCH CAPITAL,
THEY TOOK OU A 50-YEAR LEASE ON
400,000 HECTARES
IN SOUTH SUDAN.
SOUTH SUDAN WAS IN
THE MIDDLE OF A CIVIL WAR
AND THIS LEASE WAS ACTUALLY
SIGNED WITH WARLORDS
WHO WERE INVOLVED
IN A CIVIL WAR.
THESE INDIVIDUALS
WHO ARE ENGAGED IN
MASSIVE HUMAN RIGHTS
VIOLATIONS,
INCLUDING THE MASSACRE
OF OPPONENT TRIBES.
AND BASICALLY, WHAT JOE WILSON
WAS ENGAGED IN
WAS SOMETHING CALLED INVESTING
IN SOVEREIGNTY CHANGES.
THEY WERE BASICALLY CUTTING
DEALS, LUCRATIVE DEALS,
WORTH POTENTIALLY HUNDREDS OF
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS
WITH THESE WARLORDS,
AND THE EXPECTATION WAS SIMPLE:
THESE WARLORDS
WOULD TAKE POWER,
THEN THEY WOULD GIVE THEM
ACCESS TO THESE LANDS
WHERE THEY COULD MAKE
HUGE AMOUNTS OF MONEY
EXPLORING FOR NATURAL GAS,
EXPLORING FOR OIL,
AND FOR MINERAL RIGHTS.
AMBASSADOR JOE WILSON
ISN'T THE ONLY
CLINTON FRIEND
AND FOUNDATION DONOR
WHO WAS WORKING IN
WAR-TORN COUNTRIES.
SWEDISH MINING INVESTOR
LUKAS LUNDIN HAS PLEDGED
$100 MILLION TO
THE CLINTON FOUNDATION.
HE DID THAT IN 2007.
AND HIS MOST LUCRATIVE
MINING OPERATIONS
ARE IN THE WAR-TORN COUNTRY OF
THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC
OF CONGO.
THIS IS A COUNTRY THAT PERHAPS
HAS THE MOST HORRIFIC
HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION
ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH.
BY THE TIME LUKAS LUNDIN MADE
HIS $100 MILLION PLEDGE
TO THE CLINTON FOUNDATION,
HIS CONGO OPERATION WAS MAKING,
QUOTE, STAGGERING PROFITS,
END QUOTE, ACCORDING TO
HIS OWN FINANCIAL STATEMENTS.
HIS OVERALL CAPITALIZATION
WAS $20 BILLION.
BUT FOR THOSE PROFITS
TO REMAIN STAGGERING,
U.S. POLICY UNDER HILLARY
CLINTON HAD TO REMAIN UNCHANGED.
THAT'S A PROBLEM.
HILLARY CLINTON AS
A SENATOR BACK IN 2006
SUPPORTED SOMETHING CALLED
THE CONGO RELIEF SECURITY
AND DEMOCRACY PROMOTION ACT.
AS THE LAW'S NAME IMPLIED,
THE GOAL WAS TO BRING
REFORM TO CONGO.
THAT'S NOT SOMETHING THA LUKAS LUNDIN WOULD WANT.
SO, IN 2009, WHEN HILLARY
BECAME SECRETARY OF STATE,
SHE REVERSED COURSE 180 DEGREES
AND WENT FROM SUPPORTING
REFORM IN CONGO
TO SUPPORTING THE STATUS QUO,
WHICH IS EXACTLY WHA LUKAS LUNDIN WOULD WANT,
WHO OF COURSE HAD
COMMITTED $100 MILLION
TO THE CLINTON FOUNDATION.
BUT CONGO ISN'T THE ONLY
SCANDAL-PLAGUED COUNTRY
WHERE CLINTON BENEFACTORS
HAVE MADE MILLIONS.
WOMAN: AFRICA'S MOS POPULOUS NATION,
NIGERIA, IS FULL OF PROMISE.
BUT FULFILLING THAT PROMISE
IS SOMETIMES A STRUGGLE.
PLAGUED BY CORRUPTION
AND MISMANAGEMENT,
THE RESOURCE-RICH COUNTRY HAS
A POVERTY RATE OF OVER 50%.
PETER: LOOK A A COUNTRY LIKE NIGERIA,
WHICH IS REALLY
A CESSPOOL OF CORRUPTION.
IN FACT, PEOPLE WILL
SAY IT IS PERHAPS
THE MOST CORRUPT COUNTRY
IN THE WORLD.
IT'S RICH IN NATURAL RESOURCES.
IT PRODUCES A LOT OF OIL.
BUT THAT MONEY NEVER
TRICKLES DOWN TO THE PEOPLE.
IT GOES TO THE OLIGARCHS
WHO RUN THE COUNTRY,
WHO OFTENTIMES TAKE THAT MONEY
AND PUT IT IN
SWISS BANK ACCOUNTS
IN A WAY THAT, OF COURSE,
THE PEOPLE OF NIGERIA
CAN NEVER BENEFIT FROM.
AND YOU SEE THERE'S A FEDERAL
LAW IN THE UNITED STATES
WHICH SAYS, IF FOREIGN
GOVERNMENTS THAT RECEIVE
U.S. ASSISTANCE
AREN'T TRANSPAREN IN HOW THEY SPEND THAT MONEY,
THAT THEY WILL NO BE ABLE TO GET U.S.
FOREIGN ASSISTANCE ANYMORE.
IT'S ABOUT TRANSPARENCY.
BUT THERE'S A WAY
AROUND THAT LAW,
AND YOU CAN GE A WAIVER FROM THAT LAW.
HOW? BY GETTING THE U.S.
SECRETARY OF STATE
TO GRANT YOU A WAIVER.
UH, WE INTEND
TO REMAIN VERY SUPPORTIVE
ON YOUR REFORM EFFORTS, UH,
THANK YOU FOR MENTIONING, UH,
THE WORK WE DID TOGETHER
ON THE ELECTIONS.
WE'RE ALSO VERY SUPPORTIVE OF,
UH, THE, UH, ANTI-CORRUPTION,
UH, REFORM EFFORTS,
MORE TRANSPARENCY,
AND THE WORK THAT YOU AND YOUR
TEAM IS ALSO CHAMPIONING.
UH, BECAUSE WE REALLY
BELIEVE THAT, UH,
THE FUTURE FOR, UH,
NIGERIA IS LIMITLESS.
SO, IN THE CASE
OF NIGERIA, THEY RECEIVE
HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS
IN U.S. FOREIGN ASSISTANCE.
THEY'VE NOT MADE PROGRESS
IN BEING MORE TRANSPARENT,
AND OF COURSE,
THEY'VE GOTTEN EXEMPTIONS
FROM HILLARY CLINTON WHILE
SHE WAS SECRETARY OF STATE.
WHAT'S SO CURIOUS ABOUT THIS IS
WHAT WAS HAPPENING COMMERCIALLY
TO THE CLINTONS
WHILE THIS WAS GOING ON.
BILL CLINTON, FOR
THE FIRST TIME EVER, GETS PAID
HIGHLY LUCRATIVE SPEECHES
IN NIGERIA,
WHICH HAD NEVER
HAPPENED BEFORE.
IN FACT, HE GETS PAID TO DO TWO
SPEECHES, FOR $700,000 APIECE,
BY A BUSINESSMAN IN NIGERIA WHO
JUST HAPPENS TO BE CLOSE WITH
THE PRESIDENT OF THAT COUNTRY.
KEEP IN MIND, BY THE WAY,
THAT HIS NORMAL SPEAKING FEE
IS LESS THAN $200,000 A SPEECH.
SO, THIS WAS AN ENORMOUS PAYDAY
FOR BILL CLINTON.
OK, NOW WE WILL
BEGIN THE PANEL.
PETER: ONE OF THE PINNACLES
OF POWER IN THAT COUNTRY
IS A GENTLEMAN NAMED
GILBERT CHAGOURY.
GILBERT CHAGOURY,
WHO HAS COMMITTED $1 BILLION
TO THE CLINTON
GLOBAL INITIATIVE,
IS CONNECTED TO ANOTHER
INDIVIDUAL IN THE CLINTON ORBIT;
THAT WOULD BE MARK RICH,
THE BILLIONAIRE WHO WAS ON
THE FBI'S 10 MOST WANTED LIS THAT WAS SUDDENLY
AND SURPRISINGLY PARDONED
BY BILL CLINTON IN 2001.
MARC RICH, YOU MIGHT RECALL,
IS SOMEBODY WHO WAS TRADING OIL
WITH THE AYATOLLAH KHOMEINI
OF IRAN
AT THE SAME TIME THA THE AYATOLLAH WAS HOLDING
50 AMERICANS HOSTAGE.
HE ALSO HAD A LONG HISTORY
OF BUSTING U.N. SANCTIONS
BY TRADING OIL WITH THE
APARTHEID REGIME IN SOUTH AFRICA
AND A WHOLE HOST OF OTHER
NEFARIOUS GOVERNMENTS.
WELL, GILBERT CHAGOURY,
THE HIGH CLINTON DONOR,
WAS BUSINESS PARTNERS
WITH MARC RICH.
TOGETHER, THEY SOPPED UP
OIL ASSETS IN NIGERIA
AND SOLD THEM ON THE OIL MARKE FOR THE BENEFIT OF
A CORRUPT INDIVIDUAL
WHO WAS LEADING NIGERIA A THE TIME, NAMED GENERAL ABACHA.
ABACHA SMUGGLED
BY SOME ESTIMATES
$4 BILLION TO $8 BILLION
OUT OF THE COUNTRY,
AND PUT THEM IN
EUROPEAN BANK ACCOUNTS.
GILBERT CHAGOURY WAS INDICTED
AND CONVICTED IN EUROPE
FOR HELPING HIM TO DO THAT.
HE WAS CHARGED FOR AIDING AND
ABETTING A CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE,
AND ON MONEY
LAUNDERING CHARGES.
AND THE SUFFERING THA ENDS UP BEING DONE HERE
IS BY THE PEOPLE OF NIGERIA,
WHO SEE THEIR LEADERSHIP
GETTING A PASS FROM
THE UNITED STATES.
THE ELITES IN THOSE COUNTRIES
ARE GETTING RICH.
THE CLINTONS ARE GETTING RICH,
AND THE MONEY SOMEHOW NEVER
TRICKLES DOWN TO
THE PEOPLE OF NIGERIA.
SADLY, THIS THEME OF RESOURCES
NOT TRICKLING DOWN
TO THOSE MOST IN NEED
IS A COMMON ONE
WHEN IT COMES TO THE CLINTONS.
MAN: AS WE TOLD YOU AT THE STAR OF TONIGHT'S PROGRAM,
A MAJOR-MAGNITUDE
EARTHQUAKE HAS HI THE ISLAND OF HAITI
IN THE CARIBBEAN.
THE QUAKE MEASURED AROUND
7 POINTS ON THE RICHTER SCALE
AND ITS EPICENTER FELL
JUST 10 MILES
FROM THE CAPITAL,
PORT-AU-PRINCE.
HAITI'S AMBASSADOR TO THE U.S.
HAS DESCRIBED THE EVEN AS A CATASTROPHE
OF MAJOR PROPORTIONS.
SO FAR, WE HAVE NO INFORMATION
REGARDING THE CAUSALITIES.
WOMAN: THE WORLD IS COMING TO
AN END...[HEAVY BREATHING]
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
WOMAN 2: IT WAS
A BIG EARTHQUAKE.
IT LAST LIKE
15 SECONDS, I THINK.
PETER: PROBABLY THE MOS DEVASTATING HUMANITARIAN CRISIS
THAT HILLARY CLINTON
FACED DURING
HER TENURE A THE STATE DEPARTMEN WAS THE TRAGIC
EARTHQUAKE IN HAITI.
IT HAPPENED IN JANUARY OF 2010,
AND LITERALLY IN
A MATTER OF SECONDS,
250,000 PEOPLE WERE
ESTIMATED TO HAVE DIED,
AND A LARGE PORTION OF
THE HAITIAN INFRASTRUCTURE
AND ECONOMY WAS JUST DECIMATED.
IT WAS A CRISIS
ON A MASSIVE SCALE.
HILLARY: UNITED STATES IS
OFFERING OUR FULL ASSISTANCE
TO HAITI AND TO OTHERS
IN THE REGION.
UH, WE WILL BE PROVIDING
BOTH CIVILIAN AND MILITARY
DISASTER RELIEF
AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE
AND OUR PRAYERS ARE WITH THE
PEOPLE WHO HAVE SUFFERED, UH,
THEIR FAMILIES, UH,
AND THEIR LOVED ONES.
PETER: IN THE DAYS AND WEEKS
THAT FOLLOWED THE EARTHQUAKE
IN JANUARY OF 2010,
HILLARY CLINTON MADE
VISITS TO HAITI.
WOMAN: AND HERE IS
THE LATEST ON HAITI:
U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE
HILLARY CLINTON
ARRIVED IN PORT-AU-PRINCE
JUST ABOUT AN HOUR AGO.
SHE IS THE HIGHEST-RANKING U.S.
OFFICIAL IN HAITI RIGHT NOW,
SINCE TUESDAY'S EARTHQUAKE.
SHE'S MEETING WITH
HAITIAN LEADERS
AND INTERNATIONAL OFFICIALS
TO DISCUSS THE RESCUE
AND RELIEF EFFORT.
PETER: IN FACT,
ON HER FIRST VISIT,
WHICH OCCURRED DAYS
AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE,
THEY LITERALLY HAD
TO STOP TRAFFIC
GOING INTO THE AIRPOR AT PORT-AU-PRINCE.
THERE, OF COURSE,
WERE RELIEF SUPPLIES
THAT WERE BEING FLOWN IN,
BUT THAT TRAFFIC WAS STOPPED
SO THE SECRETARY OF STATE COULD
COME AND ASSESS THE DAMAGE.
WOMAN: THERE IS
A PERCEPTION,
THERE HAVE BEEN COMPLAINTS
OR REPORTS OF BOTTLENECKS,
THAT THERE IS A LO OF AID COMING IN,
BUT IT'S VERY HARD
TO GET IT OU TO THE PEOPLE
WHO NEED IT.
THAT'S JUST NOT TRUE.
THE AID IS COMING IN.
WE'RE GETTING IT OUT.
THERE'S JUST NO ENOUGH OF IT YET.
PETER: SHE FLEW IN
WITH HER POLITICAL AIDES
ON A LARGE FEDERAL AIRPLANE.
SHE LANDED AT THE AIRPORT,
SHE MADE A LARGE
PRESS CONFERENCE,
MADE STATEMENTS
ABOUT HER COMMITMEN TO REBUILDING THIS COUNTRY,
AND THEN SHE WAS
SOON WHISKED AWAY,
HEADED BACK TO WASHINGTON, D.C.
MAN: THEIRS IS A CITY IN RUINS.
A COUNTRY WHICH CAN DO LITTLE
BUT WAIT FOR HELP TO ARRIVE.
[SIREN WAILING]
PETER: THE INTERNATIONAL
COMMUNITY RESPONDED IN THE WAY
THAT YOU WOULD EXPECT IT TO.
THAT IS, LARGE AMOUNTS
OF MONEY WERE COMMITTED,
UP TO $13 BILLION FROM
INTERNATIONAL RELIEF
ORGANIZATIONS, AND OF COURSE,
YOU HAD THE OFFICIAL ROLE
OF THE STATE DEPARTMENT,
WHICH WOULD BE POINT ON
U.S. TAXPAYER DOLLARS
GOING TO HAITI
FOR THE PURPOSES OF RELIEF.
HILLARY: I WANT TO ASSURE
THE PEOPLE OF HAITI
THAT THE UNITED STATES
IS A FRIEND,
A PARTNER, AND A SUPPORTER.
PETER: HILLARY CLINTON'S
STATE DEPARTMENT WOULD OVERSEE
THE RECONSTRUCTION EFFORT WITH
CHIEF OF STAFF CHERYL MILLS
RESPONSIBLE FOR
THE ALLOCATION OF
U.S. TAX DOLLARS THROUGH USAID,
AND BILL CLINTON,
ALREADY APPOINTED
SPECIAL ENVOY TO HAITI
FOR THE UNITED NATIONS,
WAS NAMED CO-CHAIR
OF THE INTERIM HAITI
RECOVERY COMMISSION
ALONG WITH THE FORMER
HAITIAN PRIME MINISTER.
I HOPE THAT IT WILL BE REBUIL IN A MUCH STRONGER
AND MORE SUSTAINABLE WAY,
AND I THINK
THE HAITIANS WANT THAT.
PETER: SO, THIS WAS CLEARLY
A CLINTON OPERATION
FROM THE BEGINNING.
NOW, THE HAITIANS
HAD THEIR OWN IDEAS
ABOUT HOW BES TO REBUILD THEIR COUNTRY.
THEY WANTED NEW ROADS.
THEY WANTED BUILDINGS REBUILT.
AND THAT'S WHA YOU WOULD EXPECT.
THIS IS HOW YOU RECOVER
FROM AN EARTHQUAKE.
THE PROBLEM IS THAT THE CLINTONS
HAD THEIR OWN AGENDA--
THE INTERESTS OF MAJOR DONORS,
WHO HAD A VESTED INTEREST IN
SPENDING THAT MONEY IN HAITI,
IN WAYS THA WOULD BENEFIT THEM.
AND SO, YOU IMMEDIATELY
HAD THIS CLASH
BETWEEN THE HAITIANS
AND THE CLINTONS.
AND HAITIANS COMPLAINED
ALMOST IMMEDIATELY
THAT THEY WERE SHUT OUT OF
THE DECISION MAKING PROCESS,
THAT IT WAS REALLY BILL CLINTON
AND A FEW OF HIS FRIENDS
THAT WERE CALLING THE SHOTS
IN THE IHRC.
AND THEY MADE SOME MONUMENTALLY
BAD DECISIONS THAT NOT ONLY
DIDN'T BENEFI THE HAITIAN PEOPLE,
BUT ENDED UP PUTTING
MONEY IN THE POCKETS OF
MAJOR CLINTON DONORS WHO HAD
ECONOMIC STAKES IN HAITI.
WE HAVE BEEN UNITED
BEHIND A SINGLE GOAL:
MAKING INVESTMENTS IN
THIS COUNTRY'S PEOPLE
AND YOUR INFRASTRUCTURE.
PETER: SO, IT'S A CLASSIC
EXAMPLE OF WHAT SOME PEOPLE CALL
DISASTER CAPITALISM.
DISASTER CAPITALISM IN THA A NATURAL DISASTER
CREATES OPPORTUNITIES FOR
REBUILDING TO TAKE PLACE,
BUT ALSO FOR SELF-ENRICHMEN TO TAKE PLACE.
AND IF YOU LOOK AT THE CLINTONS
AND THE PROMISES THAT WERE MADE,
AND THE RESULTS THA ACTUALLY FOLLOWED,
IT IS A TRAGIC STORY OF
CRONY CAPITALISM GONE AWRY.
THE SINGLE LARGES RELIEF PROJEC THAT THE UNITED STATES
COMMITTED TAXPAYER DOLLARS TO,
$124 MILLION TO BE EXACT,
WAS A PROJECT CALLED CARACOL,
A TEXTILE FACTORY
THAT WAS BUIL IN THE NORTHERN PAR OF THE COUNTRY,
THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO CREATE
SOME 60,000 JOBS
AND WAS SUPPOSED TO CREATE
TREMENDOUS ECONOMIC GROWTH.
THERE'S A PROBLEM HERE ALREADY.
YOU SEE, THE EARTHQUAKE AFFECTED
THE SOUTHERN PART OF HAITI.
THE NORTHERN PART OF THE COUNTRY
WAS ENTIRELY UNAFFECTED.
BUT WHO WERE
THE BENEFICIARIES OF THIS?
COMPANIES LIKE GAP, TARGET,
AND WALMART, TO NAME A FEW.
THE CARACOL FACTORY WAS BUILT.
IT DIDN'T CREATE 60,000 JOBS.
IT CREATED BARELY 5,000 JOBS,
BUT THE MAJOR AMERICAN COMPANIES
WHO GOT TEXTILES TARIFF-FREE,
MADE AT LOW WAGES,
BENEFITED ENORMOUSLY.
AND THE END EFFECT ON THE
HAITIANS WAS VERY, VERY MINIMAL.
IF YOU LOOK AT SOME OF
THE INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS
THAT WERE UNDERTAKEN,
THE CLINTONS HAD
VERY GRAND PLANS TO BUILD
LARGE TRACTS OF HOMES,
AND THERE WERE
CONTRACTORS THAT WERE
SELECTED FOR THOSE PROJECTS.
SOMETIMES THE CONTRACTORS
HAD EXPERIENCE,
SOMETIMES THEY DID NOT.
THERE'S ONE COMPANY IN FLORIDA
THAT SPENT A MILLION DOLLARS
GETTING EQUIPMENT INTO HAITI.
THEY HAD EXPERIENCE
IN DISASTER RELIEF,
BUT ACCORDING TO THE OWNERS
OF THAT COMPANY,
THEY ONLY MADE A SMALL DONATION
TO THE CLINTON FOUNDATION.
AND GUESS WHAT?
THEY DIDN'T GE ANY RELIEF CONTRACTS.
ON THE OTHER HAND,
THE CONTRACTORS WHO
DID WIN THE AWARDS
WERE GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY
TO BUILD HOMES,
AND IN SOME INSTANCES
WERE SUPPOSED TO BUILD
TENS OF THOUSANDS
OF HOMES FOR HAITIANS.
THEY ENDED UP BUILDING
A FRACTION OF THAT.
FOR INSTANCE, NEW SETTLEMENTS
PROGRAM WAS SUPPOSED TO BUILD
15,000 HOMES FOR $53 MILLION.
INSTEAD, IT BUILT 2,600 HOMES,
LESS THAN A QUARTER
OF THE ORIGINAL ESTIMATE,
FOR $90 MILLION, OR
$47 MILLION OVER BUDGET,
AND THEY GOT AWAY WITH IT.
SO, YOU HAD CONTRACTS GOING
TO THESE RELIEF ORGANIZATIONS
THAT WERE ALSO INVOLVED WITH
THE CLINTON GLOBAL INITIATIVE,
AND YOU HAD THIS ONE
ORGANIZATION, DALBERG,
THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO DO AN
ASSESSMENT FOR RELOCATING PEOPLE
THAT SUFFERED
FROM THE EARTHQUAKE.
THEY DETERMINED THAT PEOPLE
SHOULD BE MOVED TO A SITE
THAT HAPPENED TO BE ON A CLIFF
THAT WAS HIGHLY UNSTABLE.
USAID'S INSPECTOR GENERAL
REVIEWED DALBERG'S
RECOMMENDATIONS
AND FOUND THEM
BASICALLY UNUSABLE.
ONE MEMBER OF
THE USAID SHELTER TEAM
WAS QUOTED BY "ROLLING STONE"
MAGAZINE AS SAYING THA THE RECOMMENDATIONS WERE
SO BAD, IT LOOKED LIKE
THE TEAM NEVER EVEN
GOT OUT OF THEIR SUVS.
ANOTHER PERSON SAID THA ONLY ONE OF THE PEOPLE
THAT WAS SENT TO HAITI BY
DALBERG ACTUALLY SPOKE FRENCH.
WOMAN: TELECOM MOGUL
DENIS O'BRIEN
IS ONE OF THE WORLD'S
RICHEST PEOPLE,
AND HE'S FINDING OPPORTUNITIES
IN THE POOREST COUNTRY
IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE.
THE IRISH BILLIONAIRE
IS THE LARGES PRIVATE INVESTOR IN HAITI
THROUGH HIS COMPANY, DIGICEL.
AND HE IS NOW LEADING
THE CLINTON GLOBAL INITIATIVE
EFFORTS DOWN IN HAITI.
PETER: PROBABLY NO ONE
CAME OUT BETTER
IN THE HAITIAN
RECONSTRUCTION EFFOR THAN AN IRISH BILLIONAIRE
NAMED DENIS O'BRIEN.
HE WAS A CLINTON FOUNDATION
DONOR, GIVING THEM
BETWEEN $5 AND $10 MILLION.
HE HELPED ARRANGE SPEECHES
FOR BILL CLINTON, TOO.
THE INTERES OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION,
PARTICULARLY FORMER SECRETARY OF
STATE HILLARY CLINTON, YOU KNOW,
ALL THE DIFFEREN THINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED
TO HELP HAITI GET UP OFF THE
FLOOR HAVE BEEN LED BY THE U.S.
PETER: AND HE WAS THE OWNER
OF SOMETHING CALLED DIGICEL,
WHICH IS A CELL PHONE COMPANY,
AT THE TIME OF THE EARTHQUAKE.
AS PART OF THAT RELIEF EFFORT,
THE STATE DEPARTMEN RUN BY HILLARY CLINTON
WANTED TO FUND A MOBILE
MONEY TRANSFER SERVICE
THAT WOULD ALLOW HAITIAN
CITIZENS TO TRANSFER AND RECEIVE
MONEY ON THEIR PHONES.
WELL, DIGICEL APPLIED TO BE THE
RECIPIENT OF THAT GRANT MONEY.
4 WEEKS AFTER
THEIR APPLICATION,
DIGICEL ACTUALLY SPONSORED
A SPEECH FOR BILL CLINTON
IN JAMAICA
AND THEY PAID HIM $225,000.
AND AS IT TURNS OUT, WITHIN
4 MONTHS OF THAT SPEECH,
DIGICEL WOULD RECEIVE THE FIRS INSTALLMENT OF THAT GRANT MONEY.
THE EARTHQUAKE ACTUALLY
HAS BEEN GREA FOR DIGICEL AND DENIS O'BRIEN.
MAN: MORE THAN 4 YEARS SINCE
A MAGNITUDE 7.0 EARTHQUAKE
DEVASTATED HAITI,
AND OUTRAGE THERE IS GROWING
OVER THE LARGELY FAILED
RECONSTRUCTION EFFOR DESPITE THE HUNDREDS OF
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN AID
THAT HAS BEEN COLLECTED,
AND SPENT, BY THE IHRC--
THE INTERIM HAITI
RECOVERY COMMISSION.
PETER: SO, WHETHER
YOU'RE TALKING ABOU HOUSING OR CELL PHONES,
YOU SEE THA THE PEOPLE THAT ARE
CLOSEST TO THE CLINTONS
HAVE MADE OU VERY WELL FROM
THE HAITIAN EARTHQUAKE.
THE REST OF THE COUNTRY,
THE ORDINARY PEOPLE
OF HAITI, NOT SO MUCH.
HAITIAN ACTIVISTS
STAGE A PROTEST OUTSIDE
HILLARY CLINTON'S
MANHATTAN OFFICE.
THE DEMONSTRATORS CLAIM BILLIONS
OF DOLLARS WERE STOLEN THROUGH
THE HAITI
RECONSTRUCTION COMMISSION,
HEADED BY BILL CLINTON.
THEY ALSO SAY HAITI WAS USED AS
A COVER FOR FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS
TO FUNNEL KICKBACKS OF POSSIBLY
HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS
THROUGH THE CLINTON FOUNDATION.
THEY SAY IT WAS DONE
IN EXCHANGE FOR FAVORS
THAT HILLARY WAS DOING FOR THEM
AS SECRETARY OF STATE.
PETER: THE TRAGEDY IS, WE HAD AN
OPPORTUNITY TO REBUILD IN A WAY
THAT WOULD GIVE THE PEOPLE
OF THAT COUNTRY HOPE.
SADLY, THAT OPPORTUNITY WAS
SQUANDERED AND WHAT TOOK PLACE,
RATHER THAN REBUILDING HAITI,
WAS THE SELF-ENRICHMEN BY FRIENDS OF THE CLINTONS.
FOR ALL OF BILL CLINTON'S
TALK ABOU "BUILDING HAITI BACK BETTER,"
THE FACT REMAINS THA THE MOST VISIBLE EVIDENCE OF
CLINTON'S ROLE IN THE RECOVERY
ISN'T THE IMPROVEMENT OF DAILY
LIFE FOR EVERYDAY HAITIANS
BUT THE CONSTRUCTION
OF NEW LUXURY HOTELS
JUST MILES FROM THE FOLKS
WHO HAVE BEEN LIVING IN TARPS
USAID HANDED OUT IMMEDIATELY
AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE.
MAN: WE ARE TELLING
THE WORLD OF THE CRIMES THA BILL AND HILLARY CLINTON
ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR IN HAITI.
PETER: BUT WHILE
THE WORLD EVENTUALLY
LOST INTEREST IN
HAITI'S RECOVERY,
THE INFLUENCE AND CONNECTIONS
AFFORDED TO
DONORS FROM
THE CLINTON FOUNDATION
APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN LESSONS
LEARNED BY OTHERS.
SO, HOW MUCH DID
CONNECTIONS TO THE CLINTONS
MATTER WHEN YOU'RE
TALKING ABOUT HAITI?
CONSIDER THE CASE
OF GOLD MINING.
THE GOVERNMENT OF HAITI
HAD NOT GRANTED
A GOLD MINING CONCESSION
IN 50 YEARS.
THEY DECIDED TO DO SO DURING THE
RECONSTRUCTION OF THEIR COUNTRY,
WHICH WAS BEING OVERSEEN
BY BILL AND HILLARY CLINTON.
WHAT COMPANY DID THEY SELEC TO GET THIS GOLD MINING PERMIT?
A COMPANY CALLED VCS MINING.
VCS MINING HAD VERY LITTLE
EXPERIENCE IN GOLD MINING.
BUT WHAT DID THEY HAVE?
THEY HAD CONNECTIONS.
SHORTLY AFTER THEY
GOT THAT CONCESSION,
SOMEONE JOINED THEIR
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
IT JUST HAPPENED
TO BE TONY RODHAM,
BROTHER OF
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON.
IT WAS A TRUE DISASTER.
A TRUE DISASTER THA FOLLOWED THE EARTHQUAKE
WHICH WAS THE NATURAL DISASTER.
THIS WAS THE MAN-MADE,
CLINTON-CAUSED
DISASTER IN RELIEF THA LED TO THE WASTING OF
ENORMOUS SUMS OF MONEY,
THE ENRICHMENT OF ELITES
THAT WERE FRIENDS
WITH THE CLINTONS,
AND THE HAITIANS WERE LEFT IN
A SITUATION WHERE THEIR LIFE
WAS REALLY NOT MUCH
BETTER THAN IT WAS
THE DAY AFTER
THE EARTHQUAKE HAPPENED.
WOMAN: AN AMBITIOUS PIPELINE IS
FIRING OFF A WAR OF OPINIONS.
MAN: ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS
MARCHED IN WASHINGTON TODAY
TO PROTEST PLANS FOR
THE KEYSTONE XL OIL PIPELINE.
WOMAN: A $7 BILLION PROJEC TO TRANSPOR 800,000 BARRELS OF
TAR SANDS OIL A DAY
FROM CANADA DOWN
TO THE GULF COAST.
WOMAN 2: IN WASHINGTON,
A SHOWDOWN
ON THE SENATE FLOOR TODAY
OVER THE KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE.
THE VOTE TO APPROVE
THE CONTROVERSIAL PIPE PROJEC HAS BIG POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS.
MAN: THE PIPELINE WOULD CREATE
20,000 JOBS, BUT OPPONENTS SAY
THE ENVIRONMENTAL RISK
IS TOO GREAT.
PETER: ONE OF THE TOUCHSTONES
OF THE CLIMATE CHANGE DEBATE
HAS BEEN THE KEYSTONE
XL PIPELINE.
IT'S DESIGNED TO CARRY OIL FROM
CANADA THROUGH THE UNITED STATES
TO REFINERIES IN LOUISIANA
AND IN TEXAS.
THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMEN HAS WHOLEHEARTEDLY REJECTED
THIS DEAL FROM THE BEGINNING
BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE THA IT'S GONNA FURTHER CONTRIBUTE
TO THE PROBLEMS OF
CLIMATE CHANGE.
ONE--
PEOPLE: WE ARE THE PEOPLE;
TWO--
YOU CAN'T IGNORE US;
THREE...
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PETER: NOW, YOU WOULD THINK THA THE CLINTONS WOULD BE OPPOSED TO
THE KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE DEAL
BECAUSE OF THOSE CONCERNS.
AND PERHAPS THEY MIGHT BE,
EXCEPT FOR ONE OR TWO PROBLEMS,
OR SHOULD I SAY ONE OR TWO
MILLION PROBLEMS.
YOU SEE, WHEN HILLARY CLINTON
BECAME SECRETARY OF STATE
IN LATE 2008, THERE WAS
ALREADY AN ISSUE RELATED TO
THE KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE
SITTING ON HER DESK.
SHE WAS GOING TO HAVE TO SIGN
AN ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC
IMPACT STATEMENT,
AND DECIDE WHETHER THE KEYSTONE
XL PIPELINE SHOULD GO FORWARD.
AT THAT PRECISE TIME,
BILL CLINTON GETS
A LUCRATIVE OFFER
OF NEARLY $2 MILLION TO GIVE
10 SPEECHES IN CANADA,
FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER,
FROM A COMPANY CALLED
TD BANK INVESTMENT GROUP.
HE GAVE THE LAST SPEECH
IN MAY OF 2011.
3 MONTHS LATER, HILLARY'S
STATE DEPARTMENT RELEASES
AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPAC STATEMENT THAT WAS SEEN AS
LARGELY SUPPORTIVE OF
THE KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE,
IN A WAY THAT WAS
MASSIVELY CONTROVERSIAL.
HILLARY CLINTON,
IN EFFECT, WAS BETRAYING
THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMEN BY GREEN-LIGHTING THIS DEAL,
WHEN SHE HAD IN HER HANDS
THE POWER TO KILL THIS DEAL
IN ITS CRIB.
IT WAS SHOCKING.
ORGANIZATIONS LIKE GREENPEACE
AND FRIENDS OF THE EARTH
WERE STUNNED.
THEY WANTED AN INVESTIGATION.
BUT EVERYBODY WAS MYSTIFIED.
NOBODY COULD UNDERSTAND
WHY HILLARY CLINTON
WOULD SIGN OFF ON THIS DEAL,
PARTICULARLY WHEN SHE
HAD BEEN IN FAVOR OF
DEALING WITH CLIMATE CHANGE,
AND HER BOSS BARACK OBAMA,
BY ALL INDICATIONS, SEEMED TO BE
OPPOSED TO THIS DEAL AS WELL.
HILLARY: IT'S ALSO A TIME FOR
A NEW APPROACH
TO CLIMATE CHANGE.
WE KNOW WE'VE GOT TO
DEAL WITH GLOBAL WARMING.
WE'RE SEEING THE EFFECTS OF IT.
WE NEED TO INVEST IN CLEAN
ENERGY TECHNOLOGY TODAY SO THA WE CAN CREATE NEW HIGH-PAYING
JOBS TO PROTECT OUR ENVIRONMENT,
TO GROW OUR ECONOMY,
AND TO FINALLY BREAK
OUR ADDICTION TO FOREIGN OIL.
PETER: HOW DID WE GO FROM
THE CLINTONS BEING IN FAVOR OF
FIGHTING CLIMATE CHANGE,
AND DEALING WITH
FOSSIL FUEL DEPENDENCE,
TO HILLARY CLINTON SIGNING OFF
ON THE KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE?
THE EVIDENCE THAT WE FOUND WAS
THAT IT WAS ABOUT THE MONEY.
THIS WAS NO A PHILOSOPHICAL CHANGE.
THIS WAS NOT A NEW WAY OF
THINKING ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING.
THIS WAS A WAY OF TAKING
$2 MILLION IN CASH,
TO ESSENTIALLY BUY A DECISION
BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
WHY IS THE TD BANK INVESTMEN GROUP SO INTERESTING?
BECAUSE THEY JUST HAPPEN TO BE
ONE OF THE LARGEST SHAREHOLDERS
IN THE KEYSTONE XL
PIPELINE ITSELF.
WHEN WE LOOKED AT BILL CLINTON'S
PATTERN OF GIVING SPEECHES,
WE LOOKED AT WHO WAS PAYING HIM,
WHEN THEY WERE PAYING HIM,
AND IF THEY HAVE EVER
PAID FOR A SPEECH BEFORE.
WHAT'S SO STUNNING
IS THAT TD BANK
HAD NEVER SPONSORED A SPEECH
BY BILL CLINTON BEFORE
AND THEN SUDDENLY IN LATE 2008,
WHEN HILLARY CLINTON
HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED
TO BE THE SECRETARY OF STATE,
AND WHEN SITTING ON HER DESK
IS THE MATTER OF
THE KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE,
THEY SUDDENLY DECIDE
TO SPONSOR THESE SPEECHES.
AND WHEN PEOPLE REALIZE THA THE CLINTONS HAD POCKETED
ABOUT $2 MILLION
AT THE PRECISE TIME
HILLARY CLINTON WAS
MAKING THIS DECISION,
IT ALL NOW SUDDENLY MADE SENSE.
BECAUSE AS WE'VE SEEN REPEATED
OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN,
WHEN IT COMES TO THE CLINTONS,
YOU HAVE TO FOLLOW THE MONEY.
AND IN THE CASE OF
THE KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE,
THEY SEEM TO HAVE
ABANDONED THEIR PRINCIPLES,
THEIR COMMITMENT AS IT WAS
TO COMBATING GLOBAL WARMING,
AND DEALING WITH OUR
DEPENDENCE ON FOSSIL FUELS.
THEY JETTISONED THA WHEN $2 MILLION SHOWED UP
AND SUDDENLY CAME OUT IN FAVOR
OF THE KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE.
WHEN YOU SEE THIS SORT OF
PATTERN OF BEHAVIOR,
YOU CAN'T COME TO
ANY OTHER CONCLUSION,
THAT IT'S A SYSTEM
OF PAY-TO-PLAY.
AND AGAIN--OTHER ENTITIES
APPEAR TO HAVE
PICKED UP ON THIS
BUSINESS MODEL, TOO.
WELL, BILL CLINTON HAS BEEN
PAID ENORMOUS SUMS OF MONEY
OVER THE YEARS
TO GIVE SPEECHES.
ON AVERAGE, HE GETS A LITTLE
LESS THAN $200,000 PER SPEECH.
BUT SOMETHING HAPPENED
IN LATE 2008.
HIS SPEAKING FEES SKYROCKETED
AFTER BEING OUT OF
OFFICE FOR YEARS.
THE REASON WAS HIS WIFE
HAD BECOME SECRETARY OF STATE.
IN FACT, 11 OF THE 13 SPEECHES
FOR WHICH BILL CLINTON
HAS BEEN PAID
HALF A MILLION DOLLARS OR MORE
OCCURRED PRECISELY WHEN
HILLARY WAS THE MOST POWERFUL
DIPLOMAT IN THE WORLD.
BILL: YOU WILL NEVER CONTRIBUTE
TO AN ORGANIZATION
THAT WILL GIVE YOU A HIGHER
PROBABILITY OF HAVING
YOUR GOOD INTENTIONS TURN INTO
REAL, POSITIVE CHANGES
IN OTHER PEOPLE'S LIVES.
THAT WILL GIVE YOU
A BETTER CHANCE
THAN WHAT YOU'VE
DONE HERE TONIGHT.
PETER: HIS SINGLE
BIGGEST SPEECH PAYDAY
CAME FROM THE SWEDISH
TELECOM COMPANY ERICSSON,
AND IT'S A VERY, VERY UNUSUAL
AND TROUBLING STORY.
NOW, ERICSSON IS
A SWEDISH TELECOM COMPANY
THAT IN 2009 AND 2010
WAS IN TROUBLE
WITH HILLARY CLINTON'S
STATE DEPARTMENT.
BECAUSE ERICSSON WAS SELLING
A LOT OF TELECOM EQUIPMEN TO IRAN, TO BELARUS, AND TO
OTHER OPPRESSIVE GOVERNMENTS,
ABOUT WHICH THE STATE DEPARTMEN WAS CONCERNED.
ERICSSON RISKED BEING PUT ON A
LIST BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMEN IN THE UNITED STATES FOR
TRADING WITH AN ENEMY STATE.
THERE WAS ACTUALLY AN EFFOR BEING PUT FORWARD IN WASHINGTON
TO BROADEN IRANIAN SANCTIONS TO
INCLUDE THE VERY TECHNOLOGIES
THAT ERICSSON WAS SELLING
TO THE IRANIAN GOVERNMENT.
SO, IT'S AGAINST THIS BACKGROUND
THAT ERICSSON DECIDED
NOW MIGHT BE A GOOD TIME TO HIRE
BILL CLINTON TO GIVE A SPEECH.
THEY HAD NEVER PAID FOR
A SPEECH BY HIM BEFORE
AND THEY DECIDED TO GO IN BIG:
$750,000 FOR A SINGLE SPEECH.
7 DAYS AFTER
HE GAVE THAT SPEECH,
HILLARY'S STATE DEPARTMENT CAME
OUT WITH A STATEMENT WHICH SAID,
"WE ARE NOT GOING TO BROADEN
SANCTIONS ON IRAN
"TO INCLUDE TECHNOLOGIES
LIKE TELECOM.
"WE ARE GOING TO RELY AND EXPEC COMPANIES LIKE ERICSSON
TO POLICE THEMSELVES."
IT WAS A MASSIVE
WIN FOR ERICSSON.
ERICSSON WAS ABLE TO AVOID
HAVING TO DEAL WITH
A REGULATORY BATTLE
IN WASHINGTON,
GIVING UP CONTRACTS THAT WERE
HIGHLY LUCRATIVE
IN THESE COUNTRIES,
AND BEING PUT ON
A LIST THAT WOULD CREATE
ENORMOUS DIPLOMATIC
PROBLEMS FOR THEM,
ALL BECAUSE ESSENTIALLY,
THEY PAID BILL CLINTON
TO GIVE A SPEECH FOR $750,000.
WOMAN: WILL YOU CONTINUE
TO GIVE SPEECHES?
OH, YEAH.
I GOTTA PAY OUR BILLS.
PETER: SO, THE QUESTION IS, WHY
DO WE SEE THE CLINTONS REVERSING
DECADES OF POLICY POSITIONS
THAT THEY'VE HELD SO CLOSELY
ON ISSUES LIKE HUMAN RIGHTS
AND ENVIRONMENT?
AND A BIG CLUE COMES
FROM FOLKS THAT ARE
GIVING THE CLINTON
FOUNDATION LITERALLY
TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
AND ONE, IF NOT THE BIGGES DONOR TO THE FOUNDATION,
IS A CANADIAN NAMED
FRANK GIUSTRA.
GIUSTRA IS IN
THE MINING BUSINESS--
HARDLY SOMETHING YOU'D CALL
ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY--
AND HE HAS INTERESTS
ALL OVER THE WORLD.
AND HE USES HIS RELATIONSHIP
WITH THE CLINTONS
TO BENEFIT THOSE INTERESTS
REGARDLESS OF
THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS.
A GREAT EXAMPLE OF THIS IS
WHAT HAPPENED IN COLOMBIA.
WHAT'S SO INTERESTING
ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP THA THE CLINTONS HAVE
WITH FRANK GIUSTRA
IS THEY TEND TO SHOW UP IN
THESE FOREIGN COUNTRIES TOGETHER
AT THE SAME TIME.
FRANK GIUSTRA'S MADE BILLIONS
OF DOLLARS OVER THE YEARS
IN THE SO-CALLED PENNY
STOCK MARKET IN CANADA,
WHICH IS HIGHLY OPEN
TO MANIPULATION.
HE'S BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL
IN THIS AREA.
NOW, THE VANCOUVER STOCK
EXCHANGE IS NOT LIKE
THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
IN THE UNITED STATES.
THIS IS A STOCK MARKE OR AN EXCHANGE
THAT IS DOMINATED
BY PENNY STOCKS.
MADE UP OF A LOT OF
NATURAL RESOURCES STOCKS,
IT'S SORT OF THE WILD,
WILD WEST OF INVESTING.
IT'S CALLED DODGE CITY
SOMETIMES, AND THE REASON IS
BECAUSE THERE'S
A LOT OF SPECULATORS,
THERE'S A LOT OF MISINFORMATION
THAT'S PUT AROUND,
AND THERE ARE A LO OF MINING COMPANIES
THAT DON'T REALLY
HAVE ANY ASSETS,
BUT WILL PROCLAIM TO HAVE
GOTTEN THE RIGHTS
TO SOME LUCRATIVE GOLD MINE,
LET'S SAY,
AND THEN THEY SEND THAT NEWS OU TO THE PUBLIC IN THE HOPE THA IT WILL LEAD TO A FLOOD OF
PEOPLE BUYING THE PENNY STOCK,
SO THE SHAREHOLDERS
CAN SELL THEIR ASSETS.
SO, IN JUNE OF 2010,
BILL CLINTON AND FRANK GIUSTRA
FLY TO BOGOTA, COLOMBIA.
AND WHO ARRIVES THERE
AT ROUGHLY THE SAME TIME?
SECRETARY OF STATE
HILLARY CLINTON.
THE BIG THING FROM
THE NEWS CONFERENCE WAS,
WHERE BILL AND HILLARY
WERE DINING
THE OTHER NIGHT IN BOGOTA.
UH, I HAD A CHANCE TO TALK TO
HER ABOUT HER DINNER EXPERIENCE
IN THE ZONA ROSA AND HERE'S
WHAT SHE HAD TO SAY.
DINNER WAS GOOD?
IT WAS EXCELLEN IN EVERY WAY.
SO, IT WAS LIKE
EATING IN THE STATES
BUT EATING IN BOGOTA?
[LAUGHS] WELL, UH...IT WAS
A REAL TREAT TO BE IN BOGOTA
AND, UH, TO BE WITH PEOPLE
WHO LOVE THIS CITY SO MUCH,
INCLUDING MY HUSBAND.
NOW, IN HER MEMOIRS,
HILLARY CLINTON SAYS THA THIS IS JUS A HAPPY COINCIDENCE,
BUT WHEN YOU SEE WHAT FOLLOWS,
YOU REALIZE THA THIS IS NO COINCIDENCE.
THE FOLLOWING MORNING, BILL
CLINTON HAS A BREAKFAST MEETING
WITH THE OUTGOING PRESIDEN OF COLOMBIA, PRESIDENT URIBE.
THEN, LIKE A TAG TEAM, SECRETARY
OF STATE HILLARY CLINTON
HAS A NOON
LUNCH MEETING WITH HIM,
AND SHE GRANTS HIM
SEVERAL FAVORS,
INCLUDING TECHNICAL AGREEMENTS
THAT THE COLOMBIAN
GOVERNMENT WANTS.
IN THE DAYS THAT FOLLOW,
SOMETHING DRAMATIC HAPPENS.
FRANK GIUSTRA HAS 3 COMPANIES
THAT GET MAJOR CONCESSIONS
FROM THE COLOMBIAN GOVERNMENT.
PACIFIC RUBIALES, PETROAMERICA,
AND PRIMA COLOMBIA PROPERTIES.
ONE OF THOSE,
PRIMA COLOMBIA PROPERTIES,
GETS A CONCESSION TO CUT TIMBER
IN A RAINFOREST IN COLOMBIA
ALONG THE PACIFIC COAST.
AND THAT TIMBER IS NOT INTENDED
TO EXPORT TO THE UNITED STATES,
BUT IS INTENDED
FOR EXPORT TO CHINA.
THERE IS AN OUTRAGE
AND UPSET ENVIRONMENTALISTS
WHO REALIZE WHAT'S GOING ON,
AND EVENTUALLY
THAT PERMIT IS YANKED
BY A FUTURE PRESIDEN OF COLOMBIA,
BUT NOT BEFORE FRANK GIUSTRA'S
COMPANY IS ABLE TO PROFI FROM CUTTING DOWN
THESE RAIN FORESTS.
WHICH AGAIN IS A BEHAVIOR
THAT RUNS SO CONTRARY
TO WHAT THE CLINTONS
PROFESS TO BE IN FAVOR OF.
WE ALL KNOW THA IN ORDER TO BUILD
LOW-CARBON ECONOMIES
FOR THE FUTURE,
WE NEED SUSTAINABLE FORESTS.
I ALSO KNOW
THE FUTURE OF OUR PLANE DEPENDS ON HEALTHY,
STANDING FORESTS.
PETER: THEY HAVE TALKED ABOU THE PROBLEMS OF DEFORESTATION.
THEY'VE TALKED ABOU THE PROBLEMS OF--
THE NEED FOR SUCCESSFUL
GROWING FORESTS
TO MITIGATE CARBON DIOXIDE
IN THE AIR.
AND YET WHEN THIS COMMERCIAL
OPPORTUNITY WAS PRESENTED
TO A MAJOR DONOR OF THEIRS,
THEY SEEMED TO BE VERY MUCH
SUPPORTIVE OF THAT,
AND IN FACT HELPED TO GET HIM
THOSE CONCESSIONS.
BILL: HE DESERVES
THE CREDIT FOR THIS.
THIS WAS HIS IDEA,
NOT MINE,
AND HE RAISED
THE MONEY.
AND IT'S AN ASTONISHING
ACHIEVEMENT.
MY JOB IS TO MAKE SURE
THAT IT'S NOT IN VAIN.
THAT HE GETS THE RETURN
ON HIS INVESTMENT,
AND HIS COMPASSION,
AND HIS COMMITMENT.
PETER: THE CLINTONS
APPEAR TO HAVE
CHANGED THEIR STANCE ON ISSUES
EVEN MORE SIGNIFICAN THAN THE ENVIRONMEN IN WAYS THAT BENEFIT THOSE
WHO HAVE PUT MONEY
IN THEIR POCKETS.
HILLARY: I REPRESEN A PRESIDENT AND A COUNTRY
COMMITTED TO A VISION OF
A WORLD WITHOUT NUCLEAR WEAPONS,
AND TO TAKING THE CONCRETE
STEPS NECESSARY
THAT WILL HELP US GET THERE.
PETER: THE INDIAN NUCLEAR DEAL,
I THINK, IS SO TROUBLING BECAUSE
THIS IS A CORE
NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUE.
ONE OF THE SIGNATURE
ACHIEVEMENTS IN FOREIGN POLICY
FOR BILL CLINTON WAS
PUSHING THE TEST BAN TREATY
AND THE NON-PROLIFERATION
TREATY.
BILL: TODAY IN NEW YORK,
THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL
ASSEMBLY VOTED OVERWHELMINGLY
TO ADOPT A COMPREHENSIVE
NUCLEAR TEST-BAN TREATY
AND OPEN IT FOR SIGNATURE
LATER THIS MONTH.
PETER: THE N.P.T. HAS BEEN
SORT OF THE HOLY GRAIL
WHEN IT COMES TO
NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT.
SOMETHING THAT THE CLINTONS
HAD BEEN SUPPORTIVE OF,
NOT JUST FOR YEARS
BUT FOR DECADES.
THAT WAS ALL
THROWN ASUNDER IN 1998,
WHEN THE INDIAN
GOVERNMENT TESTED
NUCLEAR WEAPONS UNDERGROUND.
BILL: INDIA'S ACTION THREATENS
THE STABILITY OF ASIA
AND CHALLENGES THE FIRM
INTERNATIONAL CONSENSUS
TO STOP ALL NUCLEAR TESTING.
PETER: THESE WERE TESTS
THAT TRULY SHOCKED THE WORLD.
EVEN THE CIA WAS NOT AWARE THA THESE TESTS WERE
ABOUT TO TAKE PLACE.
CLINTON'S REACTION
WAS VOLCANIC.
HE FELT BETRAYED BY
THE INDIAN GOVERNMENT.
AND AS A RESULT, HE IMPOSED
SANCTIONS ON INDIA,
ESSENTIALLY SAYING,
YOU'RE NOT GOING TO GET ACCESS
TO U.S. NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY
UNTIL YOU SIGN THE N.P.T.,
THE NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY.
IN 2005, THE INDIAN GOVERNMEN WANTED TO GET THESE
SANCTIONS LIFTED.
NOT ONLY DO THEY
HAVE AN INTERES IN EXPANDING THEIR
CIVILIAN NUCLEAR BASE,
THEY LIVE IN
A NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE
SOME PRETTY TOUGH
CUSTOMERS AND RIVALS
HAVE NUCLEAR
WEAPONS THEMSELVES.
FIRST OF ALL,
YOU'VE GOT PAKISTAN,
WHICH IS RIGHT NEXT DOOR,
WHICH IS WIDELY BELIEVED
TO HAVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS,
AND THEN YOU HAVE CHINA,
A LONGTIME RIVAL OF INDIA,
WHICH HAS A NUCLEAR ARSENAL.
THE CLINTONS SAID THA THEY WERE IN FAVOR OF
GIVING THE INDIAN GOVERNMEN SOME ACCESS,
BUT THE PROBLEM IS IT DIDN'T GO
NEARLY AS FAR AS
THE INDIAN GOVERNMENT WANTED.
SO, IN 2005,
THEY STARTED MAKING
DONATIONS TO
THE CLINTON FOUNDATION.
MAN: THIS MORNING,
YET ANOTHER SHADY DONATION
TO THE CLINTON FOUNDATION
HAS SURFACED,
THIS TIME TIED TO
A DONOR FROM INDIA,
APPARENTLY A FRIEND
OF BILL CLINTON.
PETER: WE'RE TALKING ABOU TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS
FROM INDIAN INTERESTS FLOWING
INTO THE CLINTON FOUNDATION,
AND WE'RE TALKING ABOU AT LEAST HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS
IF NOT MILLIONS OF DOLLARS
IN SPEECHES
THAT BILL CLINTON WAS PAID,
BY INTERESTED PARTIES
IN THE INDIAN NUCLEAR DEAL.
AMAR SINGH, ACCORDING TO CLINTON
DISCLOSURES, HAS GIVEN BETWEEN
$1 MILLION AND $5 MILLION
TO THE CLINTON FOUNDATION
IN THE PUSH
TO GET THEM TO SUPPOR INDIAN ACCESS
TO NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY.
HE'S A MEMBER OF PARLIAMEN WHO HAS GOTTEN IN
FISTFIGHTS ON THE FLOOR
OF THE PARLIAMENT,
WHO'S BEEN CHARGED WITH
BRIBING MEMBERS OF PARLIAMEN TO GET CERTAIN PIECES
OF LEGISLATION PASSED.
YOU SEE, THE PROBLEM IS,
WHEN YOU ASK AMAR SINGH,
HE SAYS, IT WASN'T MY MONEY.
I DON'T HAVE
THAT KIND OF MONEY.
I COULDN'T HAVE GIVEN HIM
THAT AMOUNT OF MONEY.
AND IN FACT, WHEN YOU LOOK
AT INDIAN PUBLIC RECORDS,
YOU SEE THAT AMAR SINGH DOESN' HAVE A NET WORTH ANYTHING CLOSE
TO BEING ABLE TO GIVE
THAT AMOUNT OF MONEY.
SO, WHERE DID
THE MONEY COME FROM?
WELL, SOMETIMES THE MOST OBVIOUS
ANSWER IS THE CORRECT ONE.
SANT CHATWAL IS
AN INDIAN BUSINESSMAN
WHO HAS BEEN CLOSE TO
THE CLINTONS FOR YEARS.
HE PLEDGED TO RAISE $5 MILLION
FOR HER 2008
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN
AND BILL CLINTON WAS
AT HIS SON'S WEDDING.
THEY ACTUALLY NAMED HIM
AS A TRUSTEE
OF THE CLINTON FOUNDATION.
WHEN HILLARY CLINTON WAS FIRS RUNNING FOR THE SENATE IN 2000,
SANT CHATWAL WAS IN TROUBLE
WITH A FEDERAL AGENCY
CALLED THE FEDERAL
DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION.
HE BASICALLY OWED THEM MILLIONS
OF DOLLARS FROM UNPAID LOANS.
WELL, IN 2000, CHATWAL THROWS
A FUNDRAISER
FOR HILLARY CLINTON
AND HE BRINGS IN
HALF A MILLION DOLLARS.
A FEW MONTHS LATER,
WITH BILL CLINTON
STILL PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES,
SANT CHATWAL'S CASE
WITH THE FDIC
WAS ABRUPTLY SETTLED
FOR A MERE $125,000.
SO, BASICALLY,
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMEN GOT PENNIES ON THE DOLLAR.
HE WOULD ACTUALLY
GO ON TO PLEAD GUILTY
FOR FUNNELING $180,000 IN
ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS
TO HILLARY CLINTON,
AMONG OTHERS,
AND NO ONE SEEMS TO HAVE
MADE THE CONNECTION.
WELL, MAYBE ONE REASON NO ONE
MADE THE CONNECTION IS BECAUSE
THE CLINTON FOUNDATION
MYSTERIOUSLY ERASED ANY MENTION
OF SANT CHATWAL
FROM THE WEB SITE
ONCE HE HAD ADMITTED
TO HIS ILLEGAL ACTIVITY.
SO, HERE WE ARE, YEARS LATER,
AND WE'VE GOT THIS DONATION
AND A GUY'S NAME
WHO SWEARS HE DIDN'T ACTUALLY
MAKE THE DONATION.
AND YOU'VE GOT THIS LONGTIME
CLINTON BENEFACTOR WHO ACTUALLY
GETS THE HIGHES CIVILIAN AWARD IN INDIA
BECAUSE OF HIS ROLE IN
CHANGING HILLARY CLINTON'S MIND
ON THIS NUKE DEAL.
WOMAN: SANT CHATWAL SAYS
HE'S WORKED WITH EVERYBODY.
AND EVEN LAID THE FOUNDATION
OF THE INDO-U.S. NUCLEAR DEAL.
WOMAN: SO, THE INDIAN
GOVERNMENT SAYS THA THEY HAVE GIVEN YOU
THIS AWARD FOR YOUR ROLE
IN PUSHING THE INDO-U.S.
NUCLEAR DEAL FORWARD.
HOW EXACTLY
WOULD YOU DESCRIBE
THE ROLE YOU PLAYED
IN THIS?
WELL, I CAN TELL YOU,
THE INDO NUCLEAR POWER DEAL,
IF YOU LOOK AT IT,
I AM THE FIRST ONE
THAT LAID THE FOUNDATION.
PETER: ON THE EVE
OF THE VOTE IN 2008
TO APPROVE INDIAN ACCESS TO U.S.
CIVILIAN NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY,
AMAR SINGH, WHO BARELY KNOWS
HILLARY CLINTON,
HAD A TWO-HOUR MEETING WITH HER
WHERE THEY DISCUSSED
THE INDIAN NUCLEAR DEAL.
AMAR SINGH SAYS
THAT THE DINNER MEETING
RESULTED IN HER TELLING HIM THA SHE WAS SUPPORTIVE OF THE DEAL,
AND THAT SHE WAS MAKING EFFORTS
TO MAKE SURE
THAT THE DEAL DID GET THROUGH.
AND LO AND BEHOLD, BY 2008,
HILLARY CLINTON WAS
FULLY IN SUPPOR AND IN FAVOR OF THIS POLICY,
IN A WAY THAT WAS
A COMPLETE REVERSAL
OF THE POSITION
THAT SHE HAD TAKEN BEFORE.
IN OTHER WORDS, THE FLOW OF
MONEY HAD LED THE CLINTONS
TO CHANGE THEIR POSITIONS
ON THE NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY,
AND SPECIFICALLY,
INDIA GETTING ACCESS
TO U.S. NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY.
THIS WAS A DECISION
THAT WAS WHOLLY OUT OF STEP,
WHOLLY INCONSISTENT WITH
THE PROGRESSIVE LIBERAL AGENDA.
HILLARY CLINTON
MADE THE DECISION OF
REVERSING HER
PREVIOUS POSITION
AFTER THE FLOW OF FUNDS
TO THE CLINTON FOUNDATION,
AND HER HUSBAND GAVE
SOME SPEECHES IN INDIA.
BUT THIS WOULDN'T BE THE LAS TIME HILLARY REVERSED HERSELF
REGARDING NUCLEAR
WEAPONS TECHNOLOGY.
SHOCKINGLY, BILL AND HILLARY
WOULD END UP RECEIVING MONEY
FROM FOLKS THAT WERE LOOKING
TO MAKE SOMETHING HAPPEN
A LOT CLOSER TO HOME.
I THINK THE RUSSIAN
URANIUM STORY
IS PERHAPS THE MOST SHOCKING
AND MOST BLATANT EXAMPLE
OF HOW THE CLINTONS OPERATE.
THIS IS A STORY ABOU THE RUSSIAN STATE
NUCLEAR AGENCY,
AMERICAN URANIUM, $145 MILLION
IN CASH, AND THE CLINTONS.
AT THE END OF THE DAY,
THIS IS A STORY
ABOUT BUYING INFLUENCE
AND SELLING INFLUENCE.
THE CLINTONS ARE
THE SELLERS OF INFLUENCE.
THE CANADIAN INVESTORS
AND THE RUSSIANS ARE THE BUYERS.
BILL CLINTON HAD GONE
TO THE CENTRAL ASIAN
COUNTRY OF KAZAKHSTAN,
IN 2005, WITH FRANK GIUSTRA.
KAZAKHSTAN IS A COUNTRY
THAT HAS BEEN RUN,
SINCE THE COLLAPSE OF
THE SOVIET UNION,
BY A DICTATOR NAMED NAZARBAYEV,
WHO SHUTS DOWN
POLITICAL OPPOSITION
AND TORTURES
POLITICAL OPPONENTS.
THE OSTENSIBLE PURPOSE
OF THE VISIT TO KAZAKHSTAN
BY BILL CLINTON WAS TO TALK
WITH NAZARBAYEV ABOUT AIDS/HIV.
THE PROBLEM IS,
KAZAKHSTAN REALLY DOES NOT HAVE
AN AIDS/HIV PROBLEM,
SO, THAT EXPLANATION
REALLY DOESN'T MAKE SENSE.
WHAT MAKES FAR MORE SENSE IS
THAT FRANK GIUSTRA WANTED ACCESS
TO VERY LUCRATIVE
KAZAKH URANIUM MINES.
KAZAKHSTAN IS ONE OF
THE LARGEST PRODUCERS
OF URANIUM IN THE WORLD.
BILL CLINTON ARRIVES THERE
WITH FRANK GIUSTRA,
AND THEY HAVE A SERIES OF
MEETINGS WITH KAZAKH OFFICIALS.
THERE'S A PRESS CONFERENCE
WHERE BILL CLINTON STANDS
WITH THE DICTATOR
OF KAZAKHSTAN
AND HE PRAISES
THE HUMAN RIGHTS RECORD.
HE PRAISES THAT ELECTIONS THA ARE BEING HELD IN THE COUNTRY,
AND HE EVEN SAYS THA KAZAKHSTAN SHOULD HEAD UP
SOMETHING CALLED
THE OSCE, WHICH IS
THE ORGANIZATION FOR SECURITY
AND COOPERATION IN EUROPE.
THINK ABOUT THAT FOR A SECOND.
BILL CLINTON IS SAYING THA A KNOWN HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATOR,
WHO'S BEEN CONDEMNED BY
HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS
AROUND THE WORLD, SHOULD HEAD UP
A HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATION.
THEY GO FROM A PRESS
CONFERENCE TO A DINNER WHERE
FRANK GIUSTRA; NAZARBAYEV,
THE DICTATOR OF KAZAKHSTAN;
AND BILL CLINTON MEET AND TALK.
WELL, TWO DAYS
AFTER THAT MEETING,
FRANK GIUSTRA FINALLY
GETS HIS URANIUM CONCESSIONS,
WORTH HUNDREDS OF
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
A COUPLE OF WEEKS AFTER THAT,
BILL CLINTON GETS HIS
$30 MILLION FROM FRANK GIUSTRA,
THE FIRST PAYMEN IN WHAT WILL BECOME
MORE THAN $100 MILLION
IN PLEDGES AND COMMITMENTS
AND DONATIONS,
MADE BY FRANK GIUSTRA.
SO, IT'S REALLY IN A WAY
A SIMPLE STORY,
IN THAT THEY ALL ARE
WALKING AWAY FROM THE TABLE
WITH SOMETHING THAT THEY WANT.
NAZARBAYEV IS GETTING THE
LEGITIMACY OF AN EX-PRESIDEN SAYING WHAT A NICE
AND KIND LEADER HE IS,
FRANK GIUSTRA GETS HIS
URANIUM CONCESSION,
AND BILL CLINTON AND HIS
FOUNDATION GET COLD, HARD CASH.
NOW LET'S MOVE TO
CHAPTER TWO OF THIS STORY,
WHICH IS EVEN MORE SINISTER.
YOU SEE, THE INTERNATIONAL
URANIUM MARKE IS VERY COMPETITIVE.
THE KREMLIN SEES
DOMINANCE AND CONTROL
OF THE URANIUM MARKE AS A SOURCE OF NATIONAL POWER.
FRANK GIUSTRA TAKES THAT URANIUM
CONCESSION HE GOT IN KAZAKHSTAN
AND PUTS IT INTO A COMPANY
IN A SO-CALLED REVERSE MERGER,
WHICH IS ONE WAY FOR
A PRIVATE COMPANY TO GO PUBLIC,
TO FORM SOMETHING CALLED
URANIUM ONE.
IT'S A COMPANY TRADED ON
THE STOCK MARKET IN CANADA.
AND THEY START ACQUIRING
URANIUM CONCESSIONS
IN PLACES LIKE WYOMING, TEXAS,
NEW MEXICO, AND UTAH.
AND BY 2009, THEY HAVE
WHAT IS EXPECTED TO BE
50% OF FUTURE URANIUM PRODUCTION
IN THE UNITED STATES.
THIS GETS THE INTERES OF VLADIMIR PUTIN
AND THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT,
AND IN FACT THERE ARE
STATE DEPARTMENT CABLES,
THAT WERE LEAKED
THROUGH WIKILEAKS,
WHICH SHOW THAT HILLARY
WAS AWARE OF THE FAC THAT THE RUSSIANS TOOK
GREAT CARE TO TRY TO DOMINATE
THE INTERNATIONAL
URANIUM MARKET.
WELL, THE RUSSIANS
WANNA BUY THIS ASSET,
AND THEY OFFER A 40% OVERPRICE
ON THE SHARE OF THE STOCK,
AND FOR THIS TRANSACTION
TO GO THROUGH,
IT HAS TO BE APPROVED
BY THE U.S. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
WHY? BECAUSE URANIUM
IS REGARDED
AS A CRITICAL INDUSTRY
IN THE UNITED STATES.
AFTER ALL, THIS IS USED FOR
OUR CIVILIAN NUCLEAR REACTORS,
AND GOES INTO NUCLEAR WEAPONS.
SO, IT GOES BEFORE
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT,
WHERE IT NEEDS TO BE SIGNED OFF
BY A SERIES OF FEDERAL AGENCIES,
INCLUDING THE SECRETARY
OF STATE, HILLARY CLINTON.
AS HILLARY CLINTON
IS CONTEMPLATING THIS,
SHAREHOLDERS IN URANIUM ONE,
INCLUDING FRANK GIUSTRA,
HAVE SENT MORE THAN $145 MILLION
TO THE CLINTON FOUNDATION.
THE CHAIRMAN OF THAT COMPANY
AT THE PRECISE TIME
IS A GUY NAMED IAN TELFER,
WHO IS ALSO MAKING DONATIONS
TO THE CLINTON FOUNDATION.
AS IS FRANK HOLMES,
WHO WAS ANOTHER MAJOR
URANIUM ONE SHAREHOLDER.
AND HILLARY CLINTON, WHO
HAS A RECORD OF OPPOSING
PRECISELY THESE KINDS OF DEALS,
COMES OUT AND SAYS,
YOU KNOW WHAT?
I THINK THIS IS A GOOD DEAL.
LET'S LET VLADIMIR PUTIN
TAKE CONTROL
OF WHAT IS NOW 20% OF
U.S. URANIUM PRODUCTION.
BILL CLINTON
AND HILLARY CLINTON
ARE THE ONLY FIGURES
IN AMERICAN POLITICS
WHO ARE WILLING
TO DO THIS DEAL,
AND WHO COULD
ACTUALLY PULL IT OFF,
BECAUSE THEY HAD A REPUTATION
THAT RUNS SO CONTRARY
TO WHAT THEY'RE DOING.
I MEAN, THIS IS WHAT THE
CLINTON FOUNDATION DOES, RIGHT?
THIS IS WHAT THEY
TALK ABOUT POLITICALLY,
THEIR SUPPORT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS,
THEIR CONCERNS
ABOUT PROLIFERATION,
THEIR CONCERNS ABOUT ISSUES
RELATED TO RUSSIAN AGGRESSION.
THERE'S DOUBT THAT WHEN PUTIN
CAME BACK IN AND SAID
HE WAS GOING TO
BE PRESIDENT, UH,
THAT DID CHANGE
THE RELATIONSHIP.
WE HAVE TO STAND UP
TO HIS BULLYING AND--
PETER: WHAT'S SO INTERESTING
WHEN YOU CONSIDER
THIS URANIUM DEAL
ARE THE ACTIONS OF A SMALL
CANADIAN INVESTMENT FIRM
CALLED SALIDA CAPITAL.
SALIDA CAPITAL, IN 2010,
AS THIS DEAL WAS GOING DOWN,
COMMITTED TO GIVE
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS
TO THE CLINTON FOUNDATION
AND THEY ALSO SPONSORED A SPEECH
BY BILL CLINTON IN CANADA.
SALIDA CAPITAL
IS ALSO THE NAME OF
A WHOLLY OWNED
SUBSIDIARY OF ROSATOM.
WHO IS ROSATOM?
WELL, THIS IS THE GOVERNMEN AGENCY IN RUSSIA
THAT CONTROLS THEIR
NUCLEAR ARSENAL,
THAT BUILT NUCLEAR REACTORS
IN IRAN,
AND ENGAGES IN
NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY EXCHANGES
WITH ROGUE COUNTRIES
LIKE NORTH KOREA.
WHAT THIS MEANS IN ESSENCE
IS THAT THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT,
SPECIFICALLY ROSATOM,
WAS FUNNELING MONEY
THROUGH A SUBSIDIARY DIRECTLY
TO THE CLINTON FOUNDATION.
BUT THE PAYDAY
DIDN'T END THERE.
4 MONTHS BEFORE HILLARY
CLINTON'S STATE DEPARTMEN WOULD SIGN OFF ON THE RUSSIAN
PURCHASE OF URANIUM ONE,
BILL CLINTON GOT PAID $500,000
TO GIVE A SINGLE SPEECH
IN MOSCOW.
HE WAS BEING PAID BY A FIRM
CALLED RENAISSANCE CAPITAL,
WHICH HAS A LONG HISTORY
OF ASSOCIATION WITH
RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE SERVICES.
WHAT MAKES THIS SPEECH
STAND OU IS NOT ONLY THE TIMING
OF WHEN HE'S BEING PAID,
BUT THE AMOUNT THA HE'S BEING PAID.
YOU SEE, THE LAST TIME BILL
CLINTON GAVE A SPEECH IN RUSSIA
WAS 5 YEARS EARLIER.
AT THAT TIME, HE WAS PAID ABOU 1/3 OF WHAT HE WAS
BEING PAID THIS TIME.
WHY IS RUSSIAN CONTROL OF 20%
OF U.S. URANIUM SO TROUBLING?
IF YOU'RE IN AN ERA WHERE
NUCLEAR WEAPONS ARE A REALITY,
WHERE NUCLEAR ENERGY IS
AN IMPORTANT COMPONEN OF ENERGY PRODUCTION
IN THE UNITED STATES,
AND INCREASINGLY
AROUND THE WORLD,
CONTROL OF URANIUM
IS ABSOLUTELY CRUCIAL.
AND UNLIKE OIL OR NATURAL GAS
CAN BE FOUND SO MANY PLACES
AROUND THE WORLD,
THERE ARE PRECIOUS FEW PLACES
WHERE YOU CAN FIND
SIGNIFICANT AND LARGE
AMOUNTS OF URANIUM
THAT YOU CAN PRODUCE
ON A COMMERCIAL SCALE.
WHAT WE'VE ESSENTIALLY DONE
IS HANDED THIS
PRECIOUS RESOURCE
TO VLADIMIR PUTIN
AND THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT.
THEY'RE NOT ONLY
ENGAGED IN AGGRESSION
IN PLACES LIKE UKRAINE,
BUT THEY'VE BEEN VERY
AGGRESSIVE IN FIGHTING
AMERICAN INTERESTS
AROUND THE GLOBE.
RUSSIA'S NOT AN ALLY.
RUSSIA'S NOT A FRIEND.
VLADIMIR PUTIN'S RUSSIA IS
A RIVAL OF THE UNITED STATES,
AND YET WE'VE GIVEN THEM CONTROL
OVER THIS PRECIOUS RESOURCE.
THIS IS WHAT'S
GONNA POWER AMERICA.
PETER: I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE
IN MIDDLE AMERICA
WOULD BE SURPRISED TO KNOW
THAT THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMEN IS DOING BUSINESS IN PLACES LIKE
COLORADO OR WYOMING OR UTAH.
THESE ARE SMALL MINING TOWNS.
THESE ARE OPERATIONS THA HAVE EXISTED FOR A WHILE,
THAT HAVE BEEN UNDER THE CONTROL
OF AMERICAN COMPANIES,
OR FOR A WHILE
CANADIAN COMPANIES,
BUT IT'S NOW RUSSIAN COMPANIES
THAT CONTROL THIS,
AND THOSE COMPANIES
ARE CONTROLLED
BY THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT.
HAVING READ THROUGH
THE ARCHIVES OF THE KGB,
THE FILES THA HAVE BEEN RELEASED,
I CAN TELL YOU THAT THEY
LOOK AT THE UNITED STATES
AS WEAK AND INEFFECTUAL.
THIS IS A THUGGISH GOVERNMEN THAT IS ENGAGED IN MASSIVE
HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS.
THERE ARE OPPONENTS
OF THIS REGIME
THAT HAVE BEEN KILLED
OR HAVE DISAPPEARED.
THERE'S BEEN PERSECUTION OF
HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATION.
THERE'S BEEN PERSECUTION
OF HOMOSEXUALS.
AND IT'S SHOCKING AND STUNNING
TO ME THAT THERE HAS NOT BEEN
MORE ATTENTION FOCUSED
TO THIS FACT,
THAT WE HAVE GIVEN
THIS CRITICAL RESOURCE
TO SOMEBODY WHO IS ENGAGED
IN SO MUCH NEFARIOUS BEHAVIOR.
GREETINGS FROM WASHINGTON.
I WANT TO THANK ALL OF YOU FOR
YOUR WORK TO ROOT OUT CORRUPTION
THAT WEAKENS
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT,
FEEDS BLACK MARKETS
AND ORGANIZED CRIME,
AND UNDERMINES THE PROMISE
OF DEMOCRACY.
AS WE WORK TOGETHER TO ERADICATE
CORRUPTION IN OUR OWN COUNTRY,
WE SHOULD ALSO MAINTAIN
THE HIGHEST STANDARDS OF
TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY
IN OUR DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS
AROUND THE WORLD.
CORRUPTION IN EMERGING MARKETS
AND FRAGILE DEMOCRACIES
UNDERMINES THE CONFIDENCE OF
CITIZENS AND INVESTORS ALIKE,
WHILE RESPONSIBLE GOVERNANCE
HELPS TO FOSTER
SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMEN AND POLITICAL STABILITY.
PETER: I BELIEVE IN THE OLDES ADAGE IN AMERICAN POLITICS,
WHICH IS FOLLOW THE MONEY.
ENORMOUS AMOUNTS OF MONEY
HAVE FLOWED TO THE CLINTONS,
FROM FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS,
FOREIGN FINANCIERS,
AND BUSINESSES.
SOME OF THAT MONEY
LANDS IN THEIR POCKET,
SOME OF IT LANDS
IN THEIR FOUNDATION.
IT'S A PATTERN WE'VE SEEN
REPEATED OVER AND OVER
AND OVER AGAIN
ALL AROUND THE WORLD.
IT'S NOT A COINCIDENCE.
MONEY EXCHANGES HANDS
AND FAVORS ARE DONE.
NOW, CLINTON
FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS
WILL SAY THERE'S
NO SMOKING GUN.
BUT LOOK AT AMERICAN
POLITICAL HISTORY.
PEOPLE ARE CONVICTED ALL THE
TIME FOR A PATTERN OF BEHAVIOR,
WHERE, FOR EXAMPLE,
THEY'RE ENGAGED IN
INSIDER TRADING
ON THE STOCK MARKET.
SO, FOR EXAMPLE, YOU HAVE
A FOREIGN CORPORATION
OR A FOREIGN GOVERNMEN THAT WANTS SOMETHING
FROM THE STATE DEPARTMEN WHILE HILLARY CLINTON
IS SECRETARY OF STATE.
THEY WILL MAKE A LARGE PAYMEN TO THE CLINTON FOUNDATION.
THAT WILL BE FOLLOWED BY
FAVORABLE ACTION
ON THEIR BEHALF.
IF THAT HAPPENS ONE OR
TWO TIMES, YOU MIGHT SAY,
LOOK, IT'S JUST A COINCIDENCE.
BUT WHEN YOU SEE
THE PATTERN RECREATED
OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN,
YOU HAVE TO RECOGNIZE THA THESE EVENTS ARE CONNECTED.
THEY'VE CREATED A MODEL
FOR MASSIVE SELF-ENRICHMENT,
THAT ALLOWS YOU TO GO INTO
SO-CALLED PUBLIC SERVICE,
BUT GET EXTREMELY RICH
AT THE SAME TIME.
AND WHEN FRIENDS AND ALLIES
SAY THAT THE CLINTONS
AREN'T REALLY
THAT INTERESTED IN MONEY,
THEIR ACTIONS SHOW OTHERWISE.
WHAT'S SO SHOCKING
TO A LOT OF PEOPLE
IS THAT MAKING OF THAT MONEY
REQUIRES THEM
TO BETRAY THEIR
PROGRESSIVE VALUES.
THE ENVIRONMENT, LABOR UNIONS,
WOMEN'S RIGHTS, HUMAN RIGHTS.
THE CLINTONS ARE DOING BUSINESS
AND GROWING RICH,
WITH THE FAVOR OF
THE VERY INDIVIDUALS
WHO YOU WOULD EXPECT TO BE
THEIR POLITICAL OPPOSITES.
FOR A VERY LONG TIME
IN AMERICAN HISTORY
AND PROBABLY STILL TO THIS DAY,
ONE OF THE WORST THINGS
THAT COULD BE SAID
ABOUT YOU AS A POLITICIAN
IS THAT YOU ARE
ON THE TAKE FROM
FOREIGN INTERESTS.
WHAT THE CLINTONS
HAVE ESSENTIALLY DONE
IS BUSTED DOWN THE DOOR
AND ROBBED THE BANK
OF THAT CONCEPT.
SO, WHEN PEOPLE THINK OF THE
CLINTONS TAKING FOREIGN MONEY,
THEY THINK IT'S MAYBE
AN INSURANCE COMPANY
FROM GREAT BRITAIN,
OR THEY THINK IT'S FROM
A SUPERMARKET CHAIN IN CANADA.
THE FACT OF THE MATTER
IS A LOT OF THAT MONEY
COMES FROM THE DARKEST,
WORST CORNERS OF THE WORLD.
ARE COUNTRIES LIKE
NIGERIA AND RUSSIA
IN THE HABIT OF GIVING MONEY
TO POLITICIANS
AND NOT WANTING SOMETHING BACK?
THE CLINTONS ARE GLAD
TO TAKE THIS MONEY.
IT'S MADE THEM
FABULOUSLY WEALTHY.
BUT WHAT HAS IT DONE FOR US?
BEFORE WE HAD TO WORRY ABOU MONEY FROM WALL STREE AND BIG LABOR,
NOW WE HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT I COMING FROM AROUND THE WORLD
AND INFECTING OUR POLITICS,
AND DAMAGING OUR POLITICS.
EVERYTHING FROM
OUR URANIUM POLICY
TO OUR HUMAN RIGHTS POLICY.
NOTHING SEEMS TO BE
SAFE ANYMORE.
THIS IS A CORRUPTION.
THIS IS A CRIME.
WITH THE CLINTONS,
NOTHING IS SACRED.
EVERYTHING IS FOR SALE.
BUT WE ARE THE ONES
WHO ARE PAYING THE PRICE.
MAYBE, JUST MAYBE,
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
ARE TIRED OF BEING SOLD OUT.