Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York, USA; Sydney, Australia; Toronto, Canada; Auckland, New Zealand; London, UK
Language: eng
Format: ebook
ISBN-13: 9780062369307
Description: From Chapter 1...

The law dictates how much politicians can collect in campaign contributions, limits their ability to make money on the side, and requires the disclosure of those contributors. Hopefully, politicians are also limited to some extent by their conscience. A sense of decency and good judgment ought to prevent politicians on both sides of the aisle from engaging in certain transactions--even if they think they can get away with it.

But while there is ample debate about which transactions should be limited and how, there is near-universal agreement that the game, however muddy, should be exclusively played by Americans. For this reason, it has long been illegal for foreigners to contribute to US political campaigns. In 2012 two foreign nationals challenged the constitutionality of that law. The US Supreme Court decided 9–0 declaring the law not only constitutional, but eminently reasonable.

The Clintons, however, often take money from foreign entities. And that money, donated to the Clinton Foundation or paid in speaking fees, comes in amounts much larger than any campaign contribution. Indeed, the scope and extent of these payments are without precedent in American politics. As a result, the Clintons have become exceedingly wealthy.

The big question is whether taking such money constitutes a transaction. The Clintons would undoubtedly argue that it does not. The evidence presented in this book suggests otherwise.
Table of contents: label: Dedication; label: Chapter 1
title: The Lincoln Bedroom Goes Global; label: Chapter 2
title: The Transfer: Bill's Excellent Kazakh Adventure; label: Chapter 3
title: Hillary's Reset: The Russian Uranium Deal; label: Chapter 4
title: Indian Nukes: How to Win a Medal by Changing Hillary's Mind; label: Chapter 5
title: The Clinton Blur (I): Bill and Hillary's Global Nexus of Philanthropy, Power, and Profit; label: Chapter 6
title: The Clinton Blur (II): The View from Foggy Bottom; label: Chapter 7
title: Podium Economics: What Was Bill Being Paid For?; label: Chapter 8
title: Warlord Economics: The Clintons Do Africa; label: Chapter 9
title: Rainforest Riches: Hillary, Bill, and Colombian Timber and Oil Deals; label: Chapter 10
title: Disaster Capitalism Clinton-Style: The 2010 Haitian Relief Effort; label: Chapter 11
title: Quid pro Quo?; label: Acknowledgments; label: Notes; label: About the Author; label: Also by Peter Schweizer; label: Credits; label: Copyright; label: About the Publisher