RNC tried to hide payments for intel gathering on Hillary Clinton: report

[DonViejo]

FRIDAY, MAR 24, 2017 10:20 AM EDT

RNC tried to hide payments for intel gathering on Hillary Clinton: report

The committee paid a low-profile firm to make intelligence reports that sought to prove conflicts of interest

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The Republican National Committee paid a low-profile firm started by an ex-CIA officer for what it claimed was building security at the RNC’s Capitol Hill headquarters. Now the RNC acknowledges that most of its payments to the firm went to intelligence-style reports that tried to connect Hillary Clinton to any conflicts of interest from her days serving as Secretary of State, Politico reported Friday.

The RNC paid a Virginia-based firm, Hamilton Trading Group, $41,500 over the course of the campaign. The RNC is now reporting that most of the money, $34,100, went to opposition research on the Democratic presidential nominee and the Clinton Foundation.

Ben Wickham, an ex-CIA officer who started the firm, told Politico that his work was initially limited to building security. He said he could not discuss other work because he was subject to a non-disclosure agreement.

“I’m not denying that I wasn’t totally forthcoming, but I’m telling you why,” Wickham said. “The security stuff that we did, which is legitimate, was not covered by any kind of a confidentiality agreement, so I can discuss that.”

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http://www.salon.com/2017/03/24/rnc-tried-to-hide-payments-for-intel-gathering-on-hillary-clinton-report/

[DK504]

1. While investigating an opponent is normal

why did they even bother? They promulgated some of the worst ideas about a person that supremely qualified and they tunrned half of the country against why spend the money.