Emirates offering US foreign policy ‘for sale’
With Hillary Clinton as the US secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, the United Arab Emirates has managed to offer Washington’s foreign policy “for sale,” an analyst says.
E. Michael Jones made the comments in a Saturday interview with Press TV, while commenting on new revelations about special ties between Clinton and the Qatari royal family.
According to an email recently leaked from the Clinton campaign, the Clinton Foundation admitted that it took a $1 million gift from Qatar during Clinton’s tenure as the secretary of state, without informing the state department.
The money was pledged by the Arab monarchy in 2011 to mark the 65th birthday of Bill Clinton, former US president and Hillary’s husband, a foundation official wrote to the Clinton campaign chairman and top aide, John Podesta.
The new leak has “substantiated all of the suspicions we had about the corruption of the Clinton foundation,” in regard to ties with the Arab Sheikhs of the Persian Gulf, Jones said, adding that Clinton’s top aide, Huma Abedin, “who studied in Saudi Arabia and grew up there, was the crucial link, the bag man so to speak, in connecting the Emirates to the Clinton Foundation.”
“The depth of this leads us to understand the full extent of the corruption that’s been going on here,” he added, describing the UAE as “not just a government that is basically running its own foreign policy,” but one “that is now bidding out, offering for sale the foreign policy of the United States to the highest bidder.”
The South Bend-based analyst summed up his comments by saying, “It’s always been a battle between the oligarchs and the people here but now it’s coming down to a battle between sources of information; we have the WikiLeaks on the one side and mainstream media on the other, and the question is will the mainstream media prevail?”
Clinton, former New York senator and first lady, has been under pressure over the content of her own and her campaign staffers’ emails, exposing various scandals against the Democratic nominee.
She will face off GOP candidate Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election on November 8.
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