Sirota: Clinton Foundation Donors Got Weapons Deals From Hillary Clinton's State Department

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41. Activities can occur without violating the letter of the law that still are questionable at best.

Dick Cheney is the poster boy for doing things that have not been declared as violating the law but still smack of irresponsible and unethical activity. (This is not a comparison but rather an extreme example of impropriety that was not declared as illegal.)

It is a fact that Hillary Clinton as secretary of state sold weapons to Qatar in vastly increased quantities after receiving large donations from that country and no one is disputing this fact including you:

The monarchy in Qatar had similarly been chastised by the State Department for a raft of human rights abuses. But that country donated to the Clinton Foundation while Hillary Clinton was running the State Department. During the three full budgetary years of her tenure, Qatar saw a 14-fold increase in State Department authorizations for direct commercial sales of military equipment and services, as compared to the same time period in Bush’s second term. The department also approved the Pentagon’s separate $750 million sale of multi-mission helicopters to Qatar. That deal would additionally employ as contractors three companies that have all supported the Clinton Foundation over the years: United Technologies, Lockheed Martin and General Electric.

Qatar is known to send weapons to extremists that the U.S. is actively fighting against. This is also a fact:

How Qatar is funding the rise of Islamist extremists

The fabulously wealthy Gulf state, which owns an array of London landmarks and claims to be one of our best friends in the Middle East, is a prime sponsor of violent Islamists

By David Blair and Richard Spencer 10:00PM BST 20 Sep 2014

Few outsiders have noticed, but radical Islamists now control Libya's capital. These militias stormed Tripoli last month, forcing the official government to flee and hastening the country's collapse into a failed state.

Moreover, the new overlords of Tripoli are allies of Ansar al-Sharia, a brutal jihadist movement suspected of killing America's then ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, and of trying to murder his British counterpart, Sir Dominic Asquith.

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Qatar, the owner of Harrods, has dispatched cargo planes laden with weapons to the victorious Islamist coalition, styling itself "Libya Dawn".

Western officials have tracked the Qatari arms flights as they land in the city of Misrata, about 100 miles east of Tripoli, where the Islamist militias have their stronghold. Even after the fall of the capital and the removal of Libya's government, Qatar is "still flying in weapons straight to Misrata airport", said a senior Western official...

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Last December, the US Treasury designated a Qatari academic and businessman, Abdul Rahman al-Nuaimi, as a "global terrorist". The US accused him of sending nearly £366,000 to "al-Qaeda's representative in Syria", named as Abu Khalid al-Suri.

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But critics question why Qatar has failed to act against him. "It's deeply concerning that these individuals, where sufficient evidence is in place to justify their inclusion on the US sanctions list, continue to be free to undertake their business dealings," said Stephen Barclay, the Conservative MP for North East Cambridgeshire...

Read more:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/qatar/11110931/How-Qatar-is-funding-the-rise-of-Islamist-extremists.html

That action of allowing a country known for funneling weapons to radical extremists to purchase substantially larger amounts of U.S. military weaponry after that country donated a large sum of money to Clinton's foundation is certainly circumspect. It may not have violated the law but it is indeed an action I consider counterproductive to U.S. long term interests in combatting extremism in the middle east.