Saturday, March 04, 2006

Hillary not aware of Bill's advice to Dubai

It's a given that Slick was getting a commission (40% of profits) from a consulting company set up by the UAE. Bottom line is he's a PAID agent of a foreign power.

WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Clinton didn't know her husband was giving Dubai advice on the port deal she is fighting, and Bill Clinton says he didn't even get paid for it.

''These guys called him, and he took a phone call from them, and he told them he did not know the details of this specific proposal,'' said Bill Clinton's spokesman, Jay Carson.

The former president was traveling in Pakistan when he got the call two weeks ago, sources said, and Hillary Clinton didn't talk to him about it.

New York's junior senator was floating legislation at the time to stop Dubai Ports World from taking control of six major ports in the U.S. and demanding that the company undergo a tougher security probe.

Uh huh.

UPDATE: DUBAI DUETS

As I stated above: (Bottom line is he's a PAID agent of a foreign power).

Late Friday, Department of Justice lawyers in the Office of Legal Counsel were attempting to determine if former President Bill Clinton had registered as an "Agent of a Foreign Principal."

Federal statute requires that anyone -- even a former President -- doing political or public affairs work on behalf of a foreign country, agency or official must register with the Department, and essentially update his status every six months. It was not clear the Clinton had done so.

If his status is less clear, here is what we do know: If Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton did not know about her husband's standing with the United Arab Emirates and with Dubai World Ports, members of her Senate staff most assuredly did."

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.

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