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Showing Original Post only (View all)Hillary Clinton Emails: Secret Negotiations With New York Times, Trade Bill Lobbying Revealed [View all]
cross posted from GDHillary Clinton Emails: Secret Negotiations With New York Times, Trade Bill Lobbying Revealed In Latest State Department Release
The latest batch of emails dating back to Hillary Clintons 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.
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.
Two days later in an email titled FTA calls, Clinton wrote to aides indicating she had spoken to Sens. Jack Reed of Rhode Island and Jim Webb of Virginia, both Democrats. She told the aides she had talked with Webb who is strong in favor of all 3 trade agreements, and then asked, So why did I call him? indicating she was otherwise phoning to try to convince wavering lawmakers to support the deals.
Only three years earlier, Clinton wooed organized labor during her presidential campaign with promises to oppose those same deals. She called the South Korea agreement inherently unfair. She also said, I will do everything I can to urge the Congress to reject the Colombia Free Trade Agreement. Clinton has lately courted organized labors support for her current presidential bid by pledging to oppose the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, a deal she repeatedly touted while secretary of state.
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.
Two days later in an email titled FTA calls, Clinton wrote to aides indicating she had spoken to Sens. Jack Reed of Rhode Island and Jim Webb of Virginia, both Democrats. She told the aides she had talked with Webb who is strong in favor of all 3 trade agreements, and then asked, So why did I call him? indicating she was otherwise phoning to try to convince wavering lawmakers to support the deals.
Only three years earlier, Clinton wooed organized labor during her presidential campaign with promises to oppose those same deals. She called the South Korea agreement inherently unfair. She also said, I will do everything I can to urge the Congress to reject the Colombia Free Trade Agreement. Clinton has lately courted organized labors support for her current presidential bid by pledging to oppose the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, a deal she repeatedly touted while secretary of state.
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Hillary Clinton Emails: Secret Negotiations With New York Times, Trade Bill Lobbying Revealed [View all]
TubbersUK
Feb 2016
OP
Rachel has had a certain an obvious change of some kind. Separate and apart from
silvershadow
Feb 2016
#57
Exactly.. The reason Cenk chose to leave is he wouldn't play along with the establishment Dems......
raindaddy
Feb 2016
#98
MSNBC won't let her touch it. Guarantee you or she'll get the ax like Ed Shultz.
YOHABLO
Feb 2016
#180
they "ask" why lefties believe that free trade agrements cost jobs, because it brings in
MisterP
Feb 2016
#5
I'm 40, and I remember the late 90s being much better than the 80s and early 90s
Recursion
Feb 2016
#83
I'm a hell of a lot older than you, and we lost a shit ton of jobs thanks to NAFTA
Lorien
Feb 2016
#88
And if manufacturing were the only sector of the economy, the late 90s would have been awful
Recursion
Feb 2016
#116
Read the article. It caused a loss in jobs, especially in jobs that require no college degree.
JDPriestly
Feb 2016
#125
I strongly object to the trade courts, the arbitration courts, otherwise known as the kangaroo
JDPriestly
Feb 2016
#111
Peripherally; I worked for a fisheries lobby during that damned catfish case with Vietnam
Recursion
Feb 2016
#131
And he was obviously wrong: 23 million net jobs were created after NAFTA (nt)
Recursion
Feb 2016
#182
Which is precisely *normal* trade relations; they aren't specifically sanctioned
Recursion
Feb 2016
#101
She does have Nixonitis! Her Goldman Sachs speeches = 18 minutes of missing tape recording!
in_cog_ni_to
Feb 2016
#51
You'd count your fingers? I'd need hand sanitizer for whatever stumps are left.
VulgarPoet
Feb 2016
#48
Now you see how stupid it was to have her own server. All her secrets are getting exposed.
Live and Learn
Feb 2016
#16
What else are we going to find out? And why is the DNC so strongly supporting her?
Duval
Feb 2016
#23
and she didn't quit. That says it all. "Just following orders" is NOT an excuse. nt
antigop
Feb 2016
#156
Umm - she bucked the other guy when it suited her "stature & long-term impact" (ie running again).
ebayfool
Feb 2016
#95
imo it would be a fair point only if she put up a real fight with Obama. If however she
snagglepuss
Feb 2016
#59
Agreed, as per the same batch of e-mails she pushed back hard & successfully on Foreign Policy
TubbersUK
Feb 2016
#80
Well there you go, very persuasive when she cares to be. Should we hold our breath
snagglepuss
Feb 2016
#134
why don't we send this article to Scott Pelley, to whom she lied yesterday. nt
grasswire
Feb 2016
#55
Yup! They've been dealing with her long enough to know she's lying during those speeches.
ebayfool
Feb 2016
#70
It's the duplicity. Saying one thing to one crowd, but having a different face as a politician
Armstead
Feb 2016
#93
I would add, "breaking: Clinton overstates own role in policy decisionmaking" (nt)
Recursion
Feb 2016
#102
A position that she did not have to accept if the position went against her core principles...
xocet
Feb 2016
#106
IDK. TPP strikes me as marginally better than our current bilateral agreements
Recursion
Feb 2016
#109
OMG what. I sometimes forget this is not just politics, the opponent here is
Cheese Sandwich
Feb 2016
#75
Clinton! She's for herself and she wants us to be for her too! #Imwithher
PoliticalMalcontent
Feb 2016
#103
What's the word for when you promise something but then secretly do something else? Evolving?
DisgustipatedinCA
Feb 2016
#107
Some of the posts in this thread should be studied for further evidence of the God Particle.
Juicy_Bellows
Feb 2016
#110
I withdraw my unprovoked criticism (my apologies) and replace it with your civility.
xocet
Feb 2016
#164
Nary A Word That HRC Says Can Be Trusted - HRC Is Owned By The Oligarchs, Corporations And Banks
cantbeserious
Feb 2016
#152
Trust me the TPP will be re-addressed if she becomes Pres. Wake up H supporters.
YOHABLO
Feb 2016
#181