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Clinton Foundation Makes Donors Public
The Page by Mark Halperin —
Bill Clinton releases list that includes more than $10 million from Saudi Arabian government. Disclosure is part of agreement for Hillary Clinton to be nominated secretary of state.
Other major donors are international business leaders and foreign governments including Norway, Kuwait, Qatar, Brunei, Oman, Italy and ...
MIDDAY ROUNDUP
News —
MIDDAY ROUNDUP Sen. Joe Lieberman’s (I-Conn.) political troubles are cause for delight among liberal bloggers today, while conservatives eulogize conservative activist Paul Weyrich, who died this morning. Also, the donor list released by the Clinton Foundation raises eyebrows by bloggers of different stripes. Lieberman’s constituents are still peeved over his recent actions, opinion polls show, and will have a lot of ground to make up if he runs in 2012, Washington Monthly’s Steve Benen argues, while chastizing Connecticut state Senators’ sending Lieberman a stern letter as admonishment. Lieberman’s argument that the Democratic Party should ...
In Clinton List, a Veil Is Lifted on Foundation
The Page by Mark Halperin —
... NYT: "A list of donors offers a glimpse into the world in which Bill Clinton has traveled since leaving the White House." ...
War and Piece — NYT : "The governments of Saudi Arabia and Norway, the Dubai Foundation and the business moguls Bill Gates, Stephen Bing, Haim Saban and Robert L. Johnson are among the biggest financial backers of former President Bill Clintons foundation over the last decade, according to a ...
MORNING READ
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MORNING READ The latest projections by liberal bloggers of the Senate recount in Minnesota show Democrat Al Franken poised for a victory. But there's still absentee ballots to be counted, and no one can be sure which way they'll go, bloggers on both sides note. The death of Deep Throat, the source that helped bring down President Nixon, prompts bloggers to look back on what he meant to both politics and journalism. Franken is the likely winner since he's virtually tied with Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) and since most of the remaining ballots to be counted are frivolous challenges made by Coleman's team, according to TPM Election Central's Eric ...
The Early Word: Full Cabinet
The Caucus —
When President-elect Barack Obama officially names his secretary of transportation and secretary of labor at a press conference today he will have completed his selections for top cabinet positions. But a few key vacancies still remain, the Chicago Tribune notes ...
The Clinton Contributions
A Blog For All —
Who gave what to President Clinton's foundation? Well, it's not so easy to figure out. The Foundation has put together hundreds of pages of data, but there's no way to actually search through the information. You have to literally scan every page. It would take literally five minutes worth of work to write the search code so that you can figure out if anyone you're looking for gave money to the Clinton Foundation. The Washington Post is relying on transcribing the information ...
Hillary Absorbs $13.1 Million Campaign Loan
The Caucus —
First, it was the disclosure of the contributors to her husband’s charitable organizations, then a rollback in salary for her new job because of an obscure clause in the Constitution, and now Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has removed one more potentially thorny issue in her bid to become the next secretary of state: writing off a $13.1 million loan of her own money to her presidential campaign. According to fillings with the Federal Election Commission, Mrs. Clinton forgave a total of $13,175,000 in personal funds that she lent to her campaign during the Democratic primary. Even so, Mrs. Clinton still owes millions to vendors, including her ...
