The Strange Case of the Ex-President, the Mining Mogul, and the Dictator

This story from Thursday's New York Times is enough to make your gorge rise.

Can you say"crony capitalism"? I was sure that you could.

The short version:

Bill Clinton flies to Kazakhstan with a buddy who is angling for 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.

Comments

[arevolutionofone]

06:45 AM on 02/01/2008

I can't believe how little attention this is getting so far. Especially prior to Super Tuesday. It's not in the headlines anywhere. If it was, it would make a difference in the election.

[unitedstatesofamerica]

06:47 PM on 01/31/2008

Let's hope this comes up at the debate this evening; the American voters need to know that the Clinton corruption circus isn't tapped out--Lord knows how many other crooked deals these two have pulled off.

If the voters know about these deals and put her back in the White House, then we deserve what we get. But people need to hear the story; this ought to be headlining.

[timm0]

12:00 PM on 01/31/2008

Where are the HRC cultists?

Where is anybody?!?!

[MPeter]

08:35 AM on 01/31/2008

This is why Bill has been acting like a rabid pitbull. He wants his wife in the WH so he can continue his corrupt and crooked deals. If the DNC and the American people can't see this, it is a shame. I am amazed by some women who think this is just about having a female president. I am open to a woman president but she can't be a Clinton. They are too corrupt and too set in their ways to change this country.

[lynnn]

01:26 AM on 01/31/2008

Well duh, if people can't see that this election was (noticed past tense) fixed then we get what we have coming to us.