January 30, 2008
Quid pro quo
Four more years of Republican control of the White House would mean four more years of crony capitalism and the continued sacrifice of human rights to the commercial interests of major donors. For example, we could expect to find people close to the administration cozying up to thugs such as Nursultan Nazarbayev of Khazakhstan in order to secure mining concessions for major donors.
The short version:
Bill Clinton flies to Kazakhstan with a buddy who wants a huge uranium-mining deal.
Clinton says nice things about the local dictator, endorsing his bid to head the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe: the same outfit that denounced the most recent Kazakh elections as a sham.
The buddy gets the mining deal.
The buddy gives $131 million to the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation.
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