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Hillary Clinton's willful obstruction in the matter is easy to document:
* Members of Congress discovered in 2014 that the Clinton State Department intentionally lied and downplayed the threat from Boko Haram, and worked to kill bills in both the House and the Senate calling for their designation in 2012.
* As Reuters reported, the Justice Department's National Security Division strongly urged the State Department to designate Boko Haram, but then a group of 21 American academics rallied to the State Department's aid by sending a letter to Hillary Clinton strongly arguing against Boko Haram's designation.
* We also now know that the Obama administration was sitting on intelligence -- obtained as a result of the Bin Laden raid -- that revealed Boko Haram's direct connection to al-Qaeda and the international terror network in 2011 and 2012. In other words, Hillary's State Department was arguing that Boko Haram had no such connections, that it wasn't a transnational terror threat, even though the Obama administration -- and likely Clinton herself -- knew that was false.
Belz and Derrick discovered that Hillary Clinton's obstruction of the Boko Haram designation, and the continuing chaos in northern Nigeria -- Africa's largest economy and the 10th largest oil producer in the world -- directly benefited Clinton Global Initiative donors and a close Clinton confidante who bundled campaign cash for Hillary.
From the second article from Belz and Derrick:
Perhaps the most prominent Nigerian with ties to the Clintons is Houston-based Kase Lawal. The founder of CAMAC Energy, an oil exploration and energy consortium, Lawal had a long history with Bill Clinton before becoming a “bundler” for Hillary’s 2008 presidential bid, amassing $100,000 in contributions and hosting a fundraiser in his Houston home -- a 14-room, 15,264-square-foot mansion. Lawal maxed out donations to Hillary’s 2016 primary campaign, and his wife Eileen donated $50,000 -- the most allowed -- to President Obama’s 2009 inaugural committee.
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In Africa, Lawal has been at the center of multiple criminal proceedings, even operating as a fugitive. Over the last decade, he faced charges in South Africa over an illegal oil scheme along with charges in Nigeria of illegally pumping and exporting 10 million barrels of oil.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, Lawal arranged a 2011 plot to purchase 4 tons of gold from a rebel warlord, Bosco Ntaganda, linked to massacres and mass rapes. Ntaganda was on a U.S. sanctions list, meaning anyone doing business with him could face up to 20 years in prison. Lawal contacted Clinton’s State Department, and authorities in Congo released his plane and associates in the plot.
He never faced charges in the United States, and he remains a commissioner for the Port Authority of Houston.
US records show that between 2009 and 2012 Lawal made more than 20 personal donations totalling $152 400 (about R1.7-million) to political campaigns, including that of Barack Obama.
His continued connectivity on both sides of the Atlantic was confirmed in 2010 when Obama appointed him to a key trade policy committee and Nigeria’s Goodluck Jonathan made him a member of his advisory council.
They took Lawal at his word, it seems, when he said of the Hillraiser affair: “My company, my actions and everything that we have done have always been above board.”
What happened next must test this view.
Congolese general Bosco Ntaganda’s war crimes and crimes against humanity pre-trial proceedings started this week at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. The counts against him include using child soldiers, murdering civilians, rape and sexual slavery.
At the height of his power in February 2011, Ntaganda met Camac representatives in Goma, in the lawless eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Lawal’s half-brother and Camac Nigeria head Mukaila Lawal, accompanied by another Camac employee and a diamond dealer, handed a reported $6.8-million (about
R75-million now) to Ntaganda for almost half a tonne of gold.
Caught
Boxes supposedly containing the gold were loaded on to a Camac Gulfsteam jet. But immediately afterwards an apparently different security force faction arrested the three men, confiscating the boxes.
They were charged with money laundering and illegally transporting a banned material. They were released seven weeks later after Camac paid $3-million in “fines”.
Lawal and Camac tried to distance themselves, claiming the company had no interest in the deal and no charges were filed. But a United Nations report disagreed, presenting evidence that Lawal himself financed the deal with Camac money and was told Ntaganda was the seller.
The Group has investigated one particularly high-profile case in which Kase Lawal, Chair of the CAMAC Group, attempted to conduct a gold transaction that subsequently involved Ntaganda between December 2010 and February 2011. CAMAC is an oil company based in Houston, Texas, in the United States, with offices in Lagos and Abuja, Nigeria. Financing this deal with company funds, Lawal organized it in collaboration with Carlos St. Mary, director of the diamond trading company Axiom Trading, and Dikembe Mutombo of Mutombo International Group.
originally posted by: reldra
a reply to: jadedANDcynical
The opposition was just to keep Nigeria chaotic? I see no connection to Boko Haram nor any connection to Clinton in regard to this guy escaping/leaving Nigeria.
originally posted by: jhn7537
a reply to: jadedANDcynical
Already a thread on this earlier this week.
Thread
originally posted by: Ksihkehe
originally posted by: reldra
a reply to: jadedANDcynical
The opposition was just to keep Nigeria chaotic? I see no connection to Boko Haram nor any connection to Clinton in regard to this guy escaping/leaving Nigeria.
You do a lot better when you stick to trashing Trump. There's a lot of room to work there.
Defending Hillary, not so much room. The more we know the worse it looks. You have to walk on eggshells to defend her because she's done so much evil and been party to so much crap.