To: tejek who wrote (857949 ) 5/17/2015 7:59:41 PM From: joseffy Respond to of 1574649 How the Clintons Worked the Angles in Haiti ................................................................................................. Wall Street Journal ^ | 10 May 2015 | Mary Anastasia O’Grady Within two weeks of Haiti’s January 2010 earthquake, the word had already gone out from the State Department that Bill Clinton would be in charge of U.S. reconstruction efforts. “That means,” one individual told me and I reported in a Jan. 25, 2010 column, “if you don’t have Clinton connections, you won’t be in the game.” The “game,” as my source called it, meant securing hundreds of millions of dollars in no-bid contracts from the State Department’s U.S. Agency for International Development and grants from multilateral institutions like the InterAmerican Development Bank, which gets the bulk of its funding from the U.S. The Clintons deny that Bill’s power over State’s purse was used to secure donations to the Clinton Foundation. But at least two contributors who gave more than $1 million as I described in a March 9 column, including the InterAmerican Development Bank, benefited from U.S. earthquake aid. There’s a lot that didn’t get done. In the north of the country, the Clinton-proposed Caracol Industrial Park was supposed to feature some 40 buildings for apparel assembly supporting up to 65,000 jobs. It remains a mystery why there are still only three buildings in full operation and only 5,000 jobs, despite plenty of tenant interest. Yet Congress was so scandalized by the dismal findings of a 2013 Government Accountability Office report on reconstruction spending in Haiti that it finally passed an “Assessing Progress” act requiring periodic reports on where tax money goes. Congress is well aware of the Clintons’ runaway abuses. Its “sense” that foreign aid, “including” to Haiti, ought to be tied to the rule of law is an admission that under the Clintons established protocols to protect against corruption were tossed aside. (Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...