by Mish
The ultimate irony in this mess is Hillary herself was caught on tape in 2006 proposing the US rig elections in Palestine.
Please consider 2006 Audio Emerges of Hillary Clinton Proposing Rigging Palestine Election.
On September 5, 2006, Eli Chomsky was an editor and staff writer for the Jewish Press, and Hillary Clinton was running for a shoo-in re-election as a U.S. senator. Her trip making the rounds of editorial boards brought her to Brooklyn to meet the editorial board of the Jewish Press.
The tape was never released and has only been heard by the small handful of Jewish Press staffers in the room. According to Chomsky, his old-school audiocassette is the only existent copy and no one has heard it since 2006, until today when he played it for the Observer.
Speaking to the Jewish Press about the January 25, 2006, election for the second Palestinian Legislative Council (the legislature of the Palestinian National Authority), Clinton weighed in about the result, which was a resounding victory for Hamas (74 seats) over the U.S.-preferred Fatah (45 seats).
“I do not think we should have pushed for an election in the Palestinian territories. I think that was a big mistake,” said Sen. Clinton. “And if we were going to push for an election, then we should have made sure that we did something to determine who was going to win.”
Chomsky recalls being taken aback that “anyone could support the idea—offered by a national political leader, no less—that the U.S. should be in the business of fixing foreign elections.”
Another part of the tape highlights something that was relatively uncontroversial at the time but has taken on new meaning in light of the current campaign—speaking to leaders with whom our country is not on the best terms. Clinton has presented a very tough front in discussing Russia, for example, accusing Trump of unseemly ardor for strongman Vladimir Putin and mocking his oft-stated prediction that as president he’d “get along” with Putin.
Chomsky is heard on the tape asking Clinton what now seems like a prescient question about Syria, given the disaster unfolding there and its looming threat to drag the U.S., Iran and Russia into confrontation.
“Do you think it’s worth talking to Syria—both from the U.S. point [of view] and Israel’s point [of view]?”
Clinton replied, “You know, I’m pretty much of the mind that I don’t see what it hurts to talk to people. As long as you’re not stupid and giving things away. I mean, we talked to the Soviet Union for 40 years. They invaded Hungary, they invaded Czechoslovakia, they persecuted the Jews, they invaded Afghanistan, they destabilized governments, they put missiles 90 miles from our shores, we never stopped talking to them,” an answer that reflects her mastery of the facts but also reflects a willingness to talk to Russia that sounds more like Trump 2016 than Clinton 2016.
Hillary is a liar, a hypocrite, a warmonger, beholden to Wall Street, beholden to the Neocons, and a fool.
Did I leave anything out?
Wait a second, I did. She is a threat to national security, committed perjury, obstructed justice, and belongs in jail.
For more details, please see FBI Reopens Clinton Probe: Too Little Too Late? Surprising Krugman Tweet.
FBI Reopens Clinton Probe: Too Little Too Late? Surprising Krugman Tweethttps://t.co/zfvi3Lprwy@HillaryClinton Belongs …
— Mike “Mish” Shedlock (@MishGEA) October 28, 2016
When even Paul Krugman takes a pot shot at FBI partisan politics favoring Hillary, you know something is seriously wrong.
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
