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NWCorona

(8,541 posts)
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 09:37 AM Mar 2016

As Hillary Clinton bolstered Boeing, company returned the favor

As a senator and later secretary of state, Hillary Clinton closely followed the bidding for the U.S. Air Force’s massive $35?billion tanker-refueling contract — a contentious process that pitted Boeing against Airbus, as well as the state of Washington against Alabama.

In February 2011, a staffer at the State Department emailed Secretary Clinton’s private address with unexpected good news: “Boeing won the contract.”

“I’m pleased,” she replied.


Among recent secretaries of state, Hillary Clinton was perhaps the most aggressive booster for big American companies overseas, particularly for Boeing, Washington’s largest private employer.

So appreciative of her sales efforts, Boeing’s then-president and CEO Jim McNerney once turned to her on stage at a government-business conference and lauded her department for advocating like no other in the past two decades: “It’s like back to the late ’80s and early ’90s all over again.”


And then we have this.

"During the periods when Secretary Clinton was pushing governments to sign deals with Boeing, the aerospace company provided financial support to help her achieve a major foreign-policy goal. Boeing also donated more than $1 million to the Clinton family’s global foundation set up by her husband, former President Clinton, and sponsored speeches that paid him six-figure sums."

It's always the foundation.

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/times-watchdog/as-hillary-clinton-bolstered-boeing-company-returned-the-favor/

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DanTex

(20,709 posts)
1. Horrible, an American company doing well! The horror! We should elect Bernie, that way all those
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 09:40 AM
Mar 2016

companies will go bankrupt!

DanTex

(20,709 posts)
8. You mean that Boeing also contributed to Haiti relief?
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 09:53 AM
Mar 2016

Those evil corporations, I tell you. Bern them all!

DanTex

(20,709 posts)
10. You mean the Clinton Foundation that raised $30 million for Haiti relief? Yeah, that's evil too!
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 09:58 AM
Mar 2016

NWCorona

(8,541 posts)
11. You should look into how that money was spent
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 10:00 AM
Mar 2016

And stop while while you are only a little bit behind.

DanTex

(20,709 posts)
12. Maybe it was spent on something else evil like fighting HIV in Africa.
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 10:01 AM
Mar 2016

I don't even have to read through the mad ravings of furious Hillary bashers, I already know it's something EVIL!

Agschmid

(28,749 posts)
2. What did the 1 million fund?
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 09:44 AM
Mar 2016

Where did that money go? None of these articles seem to adress that issue.

RandySF

(57,661 posts)
5. Boeing employs a lot of people, many of them with well-paying blu collar-jobs.
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 09:48 AM
Mar 2016

Believe it or not most people appreciate that kind of help.

bahrbearian

(13,466 posts)
17. Boeing is in the business of shipping those jobs, to right to work states like South Carolina while
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 10:58 AM
Mar 2016

getting 9 billion in tax breaks from Washington, Not everyone here is happy with Boeing.

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
13. Wikileaks vs. the Empire: the Revolutionary Act of Telling the Truth (John Pilger)
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 10:03 AM
Mar 2016
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by JOHN PILGER
CounterPunch, Oct. 2, 2015

EXCERPT...

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CONTINUED...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/10/02/wikileaks-vs-the-empire-the-revolutionary-act-of-telling-the-truth/

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