Hillary Clinton's Emails: Secret Negotiations With NYT, Trade Bill Lobbying Revealed

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Hillary Clintons Secret Negotiations With NY Times - Salo & Sirota
By greenmoutainboy
Friday Feb 19, 2016 · 11:07 PM EST



Hillary Clinton’s Emails: Secret Negotiations With NY Times, Trade Bill Lobbying Revealed In Latest State Department Release Jackie Salo & David Sirota

Some timely reporting by Salo and Sirota in IB Times. Draw your own conclusions.

The latest batch of emails dating back to Hillary Clinton’s tenure as U.S. secretary of state shows her appearing to lobby members of the Senate on controversial trade bills and her office communicating with the New York Times about holding a sensitive article. The State Department release of documents on her private email server Friday came the day before the Democratic presidential candidate heads into the Nevada caucuses.

and (my bold)…….

Other emails show Clinton seeming to personally lobby her former Democratic colleagues in the Senate to support free trade agreements (FTAs) with Colombia, Panama and South Korea. She had previously told voters she would work to block the Colombian and South Korean pacts.

An email Oct. 8, 2011, to Clinton from her aide Huma Abedin gave notes about the state of play in Congress on the proposed trade pacts. The notes provided Clinton “some background before you make the calls” to legislators.

Many things are said on the campaign trail. I feel we as Democrats MUST pick the right candidate that is electable. Please read this article. We as a party need to make sure. I feel truth is the essential in what people say they will strive to do. We must ask, will they? Can we trust them. Matters very important to our unions and their members are being discussed in these speeches. Unions are a large part of our Democratic coalition. Our union brothers and sisters are depending on our candidate to go to the wall for them as promised. Which candidate can we count on to do that?

Just as the transcripts of Mrs. Clinton’s high priced speech’s to Wall Street are not being released it strikes to what our possible candidate does and does not want us to know about her word. It will not fly, I believe, in the general election, and it should not fly in the primary. She will be asked ad infinitum about these emails. At some point they may even come out from another source. Can we afford to wait for that moment as a party?

Do I care that Katie Perry was possibly paid $70,000 to perform for Hillary. No. If they want to spend precious funds that way, so be it. My question is what do we believe? The illusion of a “youthful endorsement” or just an employee with a big payday? What about Demi Lovato? What about Morgan Freeman? On and on. Are they highly paid endorsements or real endorsements?

What is real and what is illusion?

Below is an interview with CBS news.

I have included the entire clip for context to be fair. The question of telling the truth as a president is asked at the 2:13 mark.

Do I think being as straight forward as one can be with one’s word as President or as an elected official is important? I think it is essential. That is why I took the time to make this Diary. That is why in the five decades I have been a Democrat I feel I have found a candidate that is, I believe, as sincere as they come in Bernie Sanders. I believe he will work hard, with us, to make as much of what we are striving for together come to pass.

Our own vote is of course our own vote. I, as your Democratic partner, just respectfully ask you to weigh it.

Peace

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/19/1488086/-Truth-and-Consequences-Tonights-Friday-Night-Email-Dump

[hollysmom]

1. the TPP is the gold standard trade deal

[DisgustipatedinCA]

7. What does that imply, suggest, or otherwise mean?

[delrem]

8. That she's in the pocket of investment capital to the exclusion of all else?

That implication is consistent with the implication to be drawn from her opposition to a single-payer health care system guaranteeing a basic universal level of service. She opposes this tried and true plan in favor of depending on private insurance exclusively, and accompanies this opposition with some cockamamie promise that 100% subordination to the private insurance market will lead "incrementally" to universal health care (whew! But that's the argument being made, folks!).

It's beyond ludicrous.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

10. But you've got to admit, gold standard sounds very good.

I'd still love to know what the poster means by that--maybe it was tongue-in-cheek.

[delrem]

12. The poster was quoting Hillary Rodham Clinton. That's all. n/t

[hollysmom]

15. indeed, just a quote.

[Perogie]

2. The more we get to know about Hillary....

The more we see she is a

[Dragonfli]

5. Not just a liar, but a pathological liar

Pathological lying (also called pseudologia fantastica and mythomania), is a behavior of habitual or compulsive lying.[1][2] It was first described in the medical literature in 1891 by Anton Delbrueck.[2] Although it is a controversial topic,[2] pathological lying has been defined as "falsification entirely disproportionate to any discernible end in view, may be extensive and very complicated, and may manifest over a period of years or even a lifetime".[1] The individual may be aware they are lying, or may believe they are telling the truth.

[delrem]

11. Over $150 million in graft and payola is in fact a discernible end. In full view of us all.

I think this is, in fact, the best guide to her motivation, since it obviously represents a long term dedicated effort that leaves little time for much else, and it suggests that she's lying to a purpose.

[CharlotteVale]

3. K&R

[frylock]

4. I am shocked.

:|

[quantumjunkie]

6. Unelectable

[w4rma]

9. Put a fork in her. This is irrefutable, concrete proof of her corruption and dishonesty. (nt)

[7wo7rees]

13. Precious.

[delrem]

14. Thank you. An off topic question

I'm Canadian so log in from Canada, and the above link was like a lot of links on DU where I get "The uploader has not made this video available in your country", in this case because the uploader is CBS Evening News. Yes, the US MSM (this isn't only CBS) has built a wall around the USA - and it didn't need Trump to build it. Yes, the US bubble gets thicker at the border.

Have you ever heard of any way to get around this?
Remember, it isn't a matter of cost. The uploader is putting this restriction on for political reasons, not cost reasons, and most uploaders of worthwhile and interesting content want a world-wide audience, in a lot of cases for no other reason than that it pays better.

[DAMANgoldberg]

16. VPN (Virtual Private Network)

When IP address-based geo-blocking is employed, virtual private network (VPN) and anonymizer services are often used to evade geo-blocks, e.g., erected by online video services (“Geo-blocking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia,” n.d.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geo-blocking&oldid=703289262

[delrem]

17. Yah, I knew that you could pay for services, or go to extraordinary lengths of hacking.

That's not about my real question.

I just made an OP of this in GD.

My OPs always sink like stones thrown in a pond.

[FourScore]

18. "My OPs always sink like stones thrown in a pond."

I know the feeling.

[DAMANgoldberg]

20. We both know it shouldn't be that way.

I can kinda understand movie distributor's position on Geo-fencing and distribution rights, but the CBS Evening News, public airways on "free" unencrypted clear TV boggles the mind. I guess the same situation if I wanted to watch CBC News, CTV, or GlobalTV down here in NC.

[FourScore]

19. Wow. That's really disturbing. n/t