“Hillary Clinton continues her presidential announcement listening tour this week with stops in New Hampshire, site of her 2008 primary victory.
But staffers back at Brooklyn campaign headquarters will be looking to knock down claims in a new book alleging Clinton did favors while at the State Department for big donors to her family’s foundation and for entities that paid big speaking fees to former President Bill Clinton.
The book, “Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich,” by Peter Schweizer, might ordinarily be dismissed as another in a long line of supposed exposes aimed at the Clintons but based on thin sourcing and innuendo. Indeed, Clinton supporters are already looking to do exactly that.
But the book comes with at least the patina of seriousness and respectability because news organizations including The New York Times, The Washington Post and Fox News have agreements with the author for further reporting on revelations included in the book. This columnist has not seen the book and so cannot assess any claims of quid pro quo. An account of the book in The New York Times says the author suggests that a big free trade agreement with Colombia benefited a Clinton Foundation donor and reports on “more than $1 million in payments to Mr. Clinton by a Canadian bank and major shareholder in the Keystone XL oil pipeline around the time the project was being debated in the State Department.”
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