Barb’s Blog

Hillary Clinton while U.S. Senator and while running for president, didn’t disclose the list of donors to her husband’s library, around 500 million dollars worth of donations.

Now that she has been asked by Obama to be Secretary of State, was asked for a full disclosure. For the life of me, I can’t see that she has performed unbiased as Senator, and I think it also raises questions as to how Obama thought her to be an unbiased Secretary of State:

The royal family of Saudi Arabia gave the Clinton facility in Little Rock about $10 to 25 million.

Several foreign governments gave at least $1 million, including the Middle Eastern nations of Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, as well as the governments of Taiwan and Brunei.

A handful of Middle Eastern business executives and officials also gave at least $1 million each, according to the interviews. They include Saudi businessmen Abdullah al-Dabbagh, Nasser al-Rashid and Walid Juffali, as well as Issam Fares, a U.S. citizen who previously served as deputy prime minister of Lebanon.

The Dutch national lottery gave $5 million to $10 million.

Clinton got $1 million to $5 million from Lakshmi Mittal, the fourth-wealthiest person on the Forbes billionaire list and a member of the Foreign Investment Council in Kazakhstan.

Amar Singh, a donor in the $1 million to $5 million category, is an Indian politician who played host to Bill Clinton on a visit to India in 2005 and met Hillary Clinton in New York in September to discuss an India-U.S. civil nuclear agreement.

AUSAID, the Australian government’s overseas aid program, and COPRESIDA-Secretariado Tecnico, a Dominican Republic government agency formed to fight AIDS, each gave $10 million to $25 million.

Norway gave $5 million to $10 million.

Kuwait, Qatar, Brunei and Oman gave $1 million to $5 million each.

The Swedish Postcode Lottery gave $500,000 to $1 million.

TV producer Haim Saban and his family foundation, who donated between $5 million and $10 million, splits his time between homes in Israel and California. “I’m a one-issue guy and my issue is Israel,” he told The New York Times in 2004.

China Overseas Real Estate Development and the U.S. Islamic World Conference gave $250,000 to $500,000 apiece.

Clinton started raising money for his library before leaving the White House. Over the years, the Clintons repeatedly refused to identify all the foundation donors, and continued to do so during Hillary Clinton’s 2007-08 presidential campaign.

Names surfaced nonetheless. Several news organizations unearthed foreign-government donors, and in 2001, Bill Clinton turned over a list of 150 top foundation donors to a House committee investigating his pardon of fugitive businessman Marc Rich, whose ex-wife, Denise Rich, gave the library foundation at least $450,000. Oh, that’s why he got the pardon.

More reading at DickMorris.com
On a side note, It’s hard to believe that the world is in economic crisis, when there are so many millions from all over the earth going into one presidential library. Seems to me, politicians alone could solve the “crisis” and never touch taxpayers money.