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I find it very, very strange that the New York Times would endorse Hillary and turn right around and slam Bill. Unusual timing to say the least.
Here's the deal...
Cited for its poor human rights record by no less than Hillary Clinton herself, the leaders of Khazakhstan welcomed Bill and a buddy of his who wanted a share of the country's uranium mining. The buddy was a relative newcomer in the mining industry and wouldn't have gotten through the door if he wasn't pals with Bill.
So, Bill's buddy got the deal and Bill got a $31 million donation to his charitable foundation after the deal was sealed to vault his buddy from being a mining industry nobody to being one of the largest uranium miners in the world.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
An ex-president, a mining deal and a big donor
Huge Kazakh deal follows financier’s trip with Clinton, precedes donation
By Jo Becker and Don Van Natta Jr.
updated 1:11 a.m. CT, Thurs., Jan. 31, 2008
Late on Sept. 6, 2005, a private plane carrying the Canadian mining financier Frank Giustra touched down in Almaty, a ruggedly picturesque city in southeast Kazakhstan. Several hundred miles to the west a fortune awaited: highly coveted deposits of uranium that could fuel nuclear reactors around the world. And Mr. Giustra was in hot pursuit of an exclusive deal to tap them.
Unlike more established competitors, Mr. Giustra was a newcomer to uranium mining in Kazakhstan, a former Soviet republic. But what his fledgling company lacked in experience, it made up for in connections. Accompanying Mr. Giustra on his luxuriously appointed MD-87 jet that day was a former president of the United States, Bill Clinton.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22926743/
Here's the deal...
Cited for its poor human rights record by no less than Hillary Clinton herself, the leaders of Khazakhstan welcomed Bill and a buddy of his who wanted a share of the country's uranium mining. The buddy was a relative newcomer in the mining industry and wouldn't have gotten through the door if he wasn't pals with Bill.
So, Bill's buddy got the deal and Bill got a $31 million donation to his charitable foundation after the deal was sealed to vault his buddy from being a mining industry nobody to being one of the largest uranium miners in the world.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
An ex-president, a mining deal and a big donor
Huge Kazakh deal follows financier’s trip with Clinton, precedes donation
By Jo Becker and Don Van Natta Jr.
updated 1:11 a.m. CT, Thurs., Jan. 31, 2008
Late on Sept. 6, 2005, a private plane carrying the Canadian mining financier Frank Giustra touched down in Almaty, a ruggedly picturesque city in southeast Kazakhstan. Several hundred miles to the west a fortune awaited: highly coveted deposits of uranium that could fuel nuclear reactors around the world. And Mr. Giustra was in hot pursuit of an exclusive deal to tap them.
Unlike more established competitors, Mr. Giustra was a newcomer to uranium mining in Kazakhstan, a former Soviet republic. But what his fledgling company lacked in experience, it made up for in connections. Accompanying Mr. Giustra on his luxuriously appointed MD-87 jet that day was a former president of the United States, Bill Clinton.
READ MORE
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22926743/