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| Hillary Clinton lobbied by Cherie Blair to meet Qatari royal, emails reveal | |
| 2015-07-02 | |
| [The Guardian] Lobbying activities of Clintons and Blairs under scrutiny after emails show wife of former British PM sought 'women to women' meeting for US secretary of state. Cherie Blair repeatedly pressured Hillary Clinton to meet a leading Qatari royal when Clinton was US secretary of state, according to newly released emails that raise fresh questions about the lobbying activities of all three political families.
"Sheika Moser [sic] has approached me privately saying they are keen to get their relationship with the USA onto a more positive footing and she was hoping for a 'women to women' one to one private meeting with you," Blair wrote in the first of a series of emails addressed to Hilary [sic] and released by the US State Department after a legal battle to recover correspondence Clinton had stored on a private server. After initially suggesting they shared a philanthropic interest in disability charities, Blair added: "I am sure the conversation would not be confined to these issues but would be about the US/Qatar relationship generally." A protracted series of follow-up emails then detail Blair's attempts to seek a mutually convenient date in both women's diaries, some cryptically only referring to "my friend from Q". "Great," Blair replied to Clinton when the meeting was confirmed in principle. "When I see what a difference you are making it reminds me why politics is too important to be left to the bad people." | |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #5 can't anybody at General Motors read The lyrics aren't played in the commercial. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-07-02 16:31 |
| #4 Stedda The Four Seasons, maybe The Who (currently being flogged in a moronic GMC ad -- can't anybody at General Motors read?): The sun shines And people forget They spray flies as the speedboat glides And people forget Forget they're hiding The girls smile And people forget The snow packs as the skier tracks And people forget Forget they're hiding. Behind an eminence front Eminence front - It's a put on. |
| Posted by: JHH 2015-07-02 15:50 |
| #3 When the urging to meet includes the reference to:" ...shared a philanthropic interest in disability charities, Blair added: "I am sure the conversation would not be confined to these issues but would be about the US/Qatar relationship generally."", I can almost read the code for a willingness to pay the Clinton Foundation serious "donations" for access. The whole Clinton Charity scam has been a revelation for how to take graft and hide in plain sight the access to power you sell. And 1/2 of America believes it, utterly astonishing! |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2015-07-02 14:23 |
| #2 "When I see what a difference you are making it reminds me why politics is too important to be left to the bad people." Oh, you mean those pesky voters? |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-07-02 12:28 |
| #1 ZenobiaF, Four Seasons, that's all ima saying. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-07-02 07:23 |