Clintons' wealth secrets revealed

The Hellery 2016 campaign is less than two weeks old, but Her Highness's supporters are already getting nervous. The proximate cause of their latest anxiety attack is the imminent (May 5th) release by Harper Collins of Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich. [Doesn't anyone know how to write a short and pithy book title any more? Ed.]

The author of Clinton Cash is Peter Schweizer, a former "speechwriting consultant" [Not the same as a speechwriter? Ed.] for President George Bush I, a fellow of the Hoover Institution (a California-based think tank), president of the Government Accountability Institute, and a senior editor-at-large for the news and opinion website Breitbart.com. (Click here to see the Breitbart promo, with a Fox News video.)

Mr. Schweizer's argument is made clear by the book's title. He alleges that while Ms Clinton was Secretary of State during the first Obama maladministration, her family's non-profit organization, the Clinton Foundation, was accepting donations from foreign interests. And her husband -- Clinton I, as he will be known if she wins in 2016 -- laughed as he banked six-figure fees for speeches overseas, all this in exchange for special considerations and favours.

One example of mutually advantageous dealings between the Clinton Foundation, foreign donors and the US government was given by the International Business Times earlier this month in "As Colombian Oil Money Flowed To Clintons, State Department Took No Action To Prevent Labor Violations". The article sheds some harsh light on the sheds into the Clintons' relations with Colombian petroleum company Pacific Rubiales and its founder, Canadian-born billionaire Frank Giustra, who just happens to sit on the board of... wait for it... the Clinton Foundation.

Conservative/Republican pols have been talking about Clinton Cash for some time. Senator Rand Paul alluded to the "big news" when he began his presidential campaign a couple of weeks ago. And the liberal chattering classes are soiling their shorts in advance. In New Book, ‘Clinton Cash,’ Questions Foreign Donations to Foundation, Amy Chozick of the New York Times calls Mr. Schweizer's work the "most anticipated and feared book" of the presidential cycle so far.

Walt has already rushed down to the Fort Mudge library to reserved his copy of Clinton Cash, and suggests you do likewise.