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Monday, March 06, 2006

Hillary and Bill and FOBs

Was Bill Clinton registered as an Agent of a Foreign Principal? That is what Dept. of Justice lawyers are trying to determine, since federal statute requires anyone doing political or public affairs work to be registered as such.

What does seem clear is that Hillary knew perfectly well that Bill and Friends of Bill were advising Dubai on the ports deal:

"There were enough people in the Clintons' orbit who were potentially going to be part of the deal," says an employee of a firm that does work for both Clintons. "We were pursuing work on the ports deal, and we cleared our participation with Clinton's office. We didn't want there to be a conflict."

In fact, at least two senior outside advisers to Senator Clinton were attempting to get business out of the Port Deal, and President Clinton was the go-between. Associates with the Glover Park Group, which houses just about the entire shadow staff for Hillary's run-up to a Democratic presidential bid, were attempting to get a slice of the DPW deal before the deal was made public about three weeks ago. According to current and former President Clinton staff, Hillary Clinton's Senate office was aware that Glover Park was in the running to do work on the DPW deal.

Hillary lying about her lack of knowledge for political opportunism? Say it ain't so!!