The original post is good;
When all the facts about Hsu came to light recently they shocked, positively shocked, the fundraisers for Hillary Clinton, who never suspected anything might be amiss. As the NYT article went on to say,. “The fund-raiser also said Mr. Hsu was seen as a point of access to Asian supporters and money and that many in Democratic fund-raising circles are surprised by his legal problems.”
Despite Hsu’s remarkably light footprint on the visible world he was nevertheless able to embark upon a fashion, garment or high-technology business, whichever it is, or maybe it was the latex glove trade; able to make a fortune in Hong Kong after he was a fugitive and return to California to invest in Silicon Valley while he was a wanted man. He was able to maintain himself as a ” point of access to Asian supporters” of the Democratic party; able to appear at public functions and have his picture taken with national political figures with approximately the same ease you or I could have ourselves photographed with a clown at the local shopping mall.
…but this comment is better;
I do think you’re onto something, but for a bit more fun, who do you think actually broke the story?
I seriously DOUBT the WSJ reporters diligently pored over the lists of FEC reports looking for “spot the bagman” in the Hillary campaign.
THAT’s WORK. Reporters avoid that like the plague. They might actually have to do something that’s different from rewriting press releases and work up a sweat. THAT would never do.
I also seriously doubt that their Psychic Friend rang them up with the news. Dionne Warwick gave that up long ago.
My guess is that a campaign, a seriously run, well organized, disciplined to the point of having people pore over FEC lists to find embarrassing donors, and well-funded enough to assign what would appear to be several staffers to this task, is responsible.
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If I had to put a finger on someone, I’d put it on the Goreacle. He’s got money coming out of his ears, has half the WSJ on speed-dial, and has nothing to do with his life but live down his defeat. Unless … a “crusader in shining armor comes … to rescue the party from the evil sleaze of Hillary, and save the planet!” Of course the danger of that play is that he was enmeshed in the Clinton era sleaze but he might be gambling that the tide of sewage won’t touch HIM.
h/t Maz2, in the comments.
From this morning’s WSJ:
“In 2004, [Hsu] began circulating among Democratic donors at fundraisers, and became a huge “bundler” –somebody who collects myriad checks from networks of friends, family and business aquaintances for political campaigns.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118858052960914805.html?mod=hpp_us_pageone
Campaign fundraising, post McCain-Feingold. As the cliche goes, this story has legs, and not only for Hsu and the Democrats.
Chinese donors. How come nobody will come out and say it? Bill Clinton was once busted for taking donation traced backed to the chinese government.
And don’t sell the WSJ short. Very short on entertainment value, they have credibility and haven’t sold their journalistic integrity. In fact they have done one of the best jobs of retaining circulation and profitability. That is why Rupert Murdoch just payed a bundle for it. The rest of the newspapers in the US would get sold for a pittance to their former value.
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This isn’t the Clinton’s first foray into sleazeballs as donors, fugitive arms dealer Marc Rich was a pay-for-pardon. There have been plenty of others. Clinton’s library was practically built with Rich’s donations. Al Gore was caught up in a messy Chinese donor scandal of his own.
I don’t see Gore having any clout with the WSJ folks. Who knows who leaked this, if it was even leaked, what counts is that the WSJ exposed Hsu. They are collectively the best journalists in the newspaper business. The WSJ are the same people that in meticulous installments did a masterful job in exposing the UN Oil for Food scandal and the travesty of hysteria and injustice of the Amirault conviction.
Anyone sniffing around the Clintons will get covered in fleas. Their political lives have been lived from scandal to scandal. The liberal MSM isn’t going to create any unpleasantness for them if they can avoid it.
So true reporters hate to work for a story.
I concur that this not only fell in the media’s lap but also was apparent from a pattern… the Klintonista funding machine has long established ties with Chinese sources for campaign funding.
When Slick was in his second term, private constitutional republicans, who dug up evidence that Slick had taken Chinese campaign funding “donations” and was now engaging in his payoff to them by leaking defense technology to them via Hong Kong and allowing China to purchase deep water ports in Panama and California to further their agenda of global commercial hegemony…. they were called “tinfoil hat conspiracy nuts” by the Klitonistas and left media….history shows “the tinfoilers” were correct:
>In 2003 a FOI request reveled deals which compromised national security made with China covertly between the Clintons and China. The documents show that in 1996 Clinton approved the export of radiation hardened chip sets to China. The specialized chips are necessary for fighting a nuclear war.
> U.S. intelligence sources stated that the newly released documents illustrate the extent to which the Clinton White House placed trade – and trade with China specifically – above national security.
> Hutchinson Ports,(currently operating a monopoly on 3 US deep water ports by Clinton decree) is a wholly owned subsidiary of China’s giant Hutchinson Whampoa Limited (HWL). “Hutchinson, Whampoa, Ltd. is the holding company of billionaire Li Ka-shing.
According to a declassified U.S. government intelligence report “Li is directly connected to Beijing and is willing to use his business influence to further the aims of the Chinese Government.” Nationalists in the alternate media objected that Li Ka-shing’s agency relationship to the Communist Chinese should disqualify him from owning Global Crossing’s network, which controls a significant percent of all the fiber optics currently leaving the United States.
Global Crossing was a Clinton Administration darling, noted for turning former Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe’s $100,000 investment into an $18 million personal fortune.
Hutchinson Ports was forced to drop the bid to purchase Global Crossing when the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States (CFIUS) refused to approve the transaction on national security grounds.
The WSJ reporters usually work harder than most, from my experience. Whether they did or didn’t pore over the list of DNC donors as you mentioned, they have shown an tendency to be less biased than the rest of them, and I can cut them some slack here.
By the way, FWIW, Hsu is from Hong Kong. (Most people with that surname are typically from Hong Kong or, more often than not, Taiwan.)
Hillary On Tape, And Under Oath?
According to a source, on September 7, 2007 a 3-judge panel of the California Appellate Court will hear oral arguments in the case of Paul v Clinton, a historic civil case involving a former president, Bill Clinton, and sitting senator, Hillary Clinton, accused of committing business fraud and collapsing a public company, Stan Lee Media (SLM). Yes that Stan Lee, the creator of “Spiderman”�.
Clinton counsel David Kendall of the powerful Washington DC law firm, Williams and Connolly, will endeavor to convince the three justices that his client, Hillary Clinton, is not a felon and should remain protected by California’s anti-SLAPP law, and should not join her husband and others as defendants.
The California Supreme Court has already said Bill Clinton stays in the case. This appellate hearing will determine whether Hillary is brought in to join him as a defendant.
If she is not brought into the case as a defendant, the trial judge made it clear to her counsel, David Kendall, that Hillary will be under oath testifying….-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1890687/posts
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