Boston Globe: The Clinton Health Access Initiative never reported foreign donor data

  The news is not getting any better for Hillary Clinton as the days wear on: today the liberal Boston Globe jumped into the fray with a story which says that The Clinton Health Access Initiative never reported foreign donations because it deemed it to be unnecessary.

  Here is more:

An unprecedented ethics promise that played a pivotal role in helping Hillary Rodham Clinton win confirmation as secretary of state, soothing senators’ concerns about conflicts of interests with Clinton family charities, was uniformly bypassed by the biggest of the philanthropies involved.

The Clinton Health Access Initiative never submitted information on any foreign donations to State Department lawyers for review during Clinton’s tenure from 2009 to 2013, Maura Daley, the organization’s spokeswoman, acknowledged to the Globe this week. She said the charity deemed it unnecessary, except in one case that she described as an “oversight.”

  And, in what I suppose is yet another remarkable coincidence, the donations to the foundation grew exponentially while she was at the head of the State Department:

During that time, grants from foreign governments increased by tens of millions of dollars to the Boston-based organization.

Daley’s acknowledgement was the first by the charity of the broad scope of its apparent failures to fulfill the spirit of a crucial political pledge made by the Clinton family and their charities. The health initiative has previously acknowledged failing only to disclose the identity of its contributors, another requirement under the agreement.

  Naturally the foundation is defending its action but this appears to be a blatant attempt to bypass the spirit of the agreement and you would think Barack Obama would be very upset by the embarrassment and, shall I say, undermining of the trust he placed in the former Secretary of State.

  But to date the White House’s response has been tepid at best and uncaring at worst. It makes you wonder what Barack Obama knew and when he knew it. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink…

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