HOW CAN ANYONE THINK THAT THIS WOMAN SHOULD BE PRESIDENT?

The Clinton Foundation "received as much as $26.4 million in previously undisclosed payments" in 2014, the Washington Post reported last week (5/21).

That’s in addition to "millions" in foreign donations for the years 2010-2013, but not reported until Reuters asked about them in April. Which were in addition to millions in foreign donations the Clinton Foundation acknowledged after the Washington Post asked about them in February.

Foreign contributions to the Clinton Foundation – and Bill’s speaking fees – jumped while Hillary was secretary of state, said Peter Schweizer in his book "Clinton Cash."

State approved arms sales to authoritarian regimes – some hostile to the U.S. – after big donations. After contributions were made, Hillary flip-flopped on human rights in Colombia and nuclear proliferation

While she was in Foggy Bottom, 6 of 8 winners, 22 of 37 nominees for the Secretary of State’s Award for Corporate Excellence were donors.

He gave the $75,000 he neglected to mention when he interviewed Mr. Schweizer to support the Clinton Foundation’s charitable work, said ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos.

The typical foundation spends about 75 percent of donations on prograMrs. In the years 2009-2012, the Clinton Foundation devoted just 15 percent of its budget to charitable grants, IRS filings indicate.

That fell to 10 percent in 2013. Forty five percent was spent on salaries, perks and travel for staff.  Senior staffers have more experience in politics than in charity work. Sidney Blumenthal was on the Clinton Foundation payroll while he was running a private intelligence service for Hillary.

Former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell is certain her server was hacked by foreign intelligence services.

The "intelligence" that Sid Vicious gave her was mostly the opinions of Libyans with whom Mr. Blumenthal was drumming up business. He didn’t disclose his dealings during his extensive correspondence with the secretary of state, an apparent violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

"Sid the human ferret" (as the late, great Michael Kelly dubbed him) had no security clearance, so he wasn’t authorized to receive "sensitive" information, some of which has since been classified.

"If I had discussed classified missions, on a compromised server, with someone who did not hold a security clearance, the consequences would be harsh and career ending," said soldier Chad Longell.

Hillary deserves credit for Libya, her deputy chief of staff said in April, 2012. His was among 296 emails in a State Department data dump before the Memorial Day weekend. In another, she referred to murdered Ambassador Chris Stevens as "Chris Smith."

The secretary of state can be excused for not knowing the names of her ambassadors to Botswana or Paraguay. But at the time, Libya was the focal point of administration policy. She should have been talking to Ambassador Stevens often enough to remember his name.

The emails Hillary turned over to State reflect so poorly on her that one wonders what was in the emails she deleted. People not named Clinton go to jail for destroying emails that might be subpoenaed.

ISIS dominates in Libya. Her ballyhooed "reset" of relations with Russia is a catastrophic failure too. Supporters couldn’t name a single policy success during her tenure at Foggy Bottom.

Hillary was an ineffective senator. Her stab at policymaking as First Lady – a Rube Goldberg-ish task force on health care reform – was a fiasco.

Mrs. Clinton supports the Export-Import Bank, exhibit A for corporate welfare. Clinton Foundation donors are prominent among companies that got loans. Hillary took no position on President Obama’s  trade bill, presumably to avoid offending either "progressives" whose votes she seeks, or crony capitalists who pay her exorbitant speaking fees.

In more than two decades in national politics, Hillary has succeeded only at orchestrating smear campaigns against women Bill molested – and peddling influence.

Mrs. Clinton is a pathologically greedy, corrupt liar with a reckless disregard for national security and a record barren of achievement, recent revelations make clear.

Mrs. Clinton is popular with her party despite all of this. What that says about Democrats isn’t flattering.

Jack Kelly is a former Marine and Green Beret, and was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force during the Reagan Administration.  He is the national security writer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

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