I just amazing how the Clintons get away with this stuff and no one asks the hard questions. I hope the FBI nails them once they finish interrogating HSU

Clinton won't vote the crook out. Fred Thompson

Sam - don't hold your breath. It is astonishing that these people get away with everything.

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Notice how the user comments are just about non-existent this far for this article, but every other article bashing the president and republicans are overflowing with idiotic nonsense. Just goes to show how liberal ABC is, I'm surprised there even bringing this up.

What do we expect? If citizens won't pay for people good people to run, corporations are more than happy to pay them off. This country is on a permanent down slope.

Heaven please help us.

"Being a week after 9/11, it appears unseemly and politically opportunistic," said Steve Ellis, a former Coast Guard officer who is now vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense, a Washington, D.C. good government group."

What?! Unseemly and politically opportunistic?! Are you surprised?! Hillary's a CLINTON! Being unseemly and politically opportunistic is their stock-in-trade.

It would seem not only the Lincoln bedroom is for sale with the Clintons.

9/11 has reaped 100's of millions of dollars that Sen. Clinton and Sen. Schumer have delivered for a select group of contractors and lobbyists. Mind you this is our taxpayer money. New Yorkers have seen nothing for their money. Prices increase, property tax, train, subway, bridges and now the $8 dollars to enter Manhattan and $4 dollars to get out. And ohhh the state continues to reap a fortune on gas tax whenever a price of oil goes up. With this success, in reaping 100's of millions for a select group, Schumer and Clinton have been given their recognition with sizable donations from these new constituents, national recognition by their party and become the secret proponents of Americas War economy. Meanwhile nothing is done to ease the tax burdens of New Yorkers (and I mean the whole state) or job creation and development between Albany and Buffalo. Yes, there is more to New York State than New York City. Clinton and Schumer live the game... with money you get YOUR message out. And money allows you to manipulate the message and therefore manipulate the masses. And thats why they get away with it.

why should this raise eyebrows? noone is shocked or suprised by anything the Clinton mafia does. It is all about power . Here are dems and some Repubs calling a 4 star general a liar and you have Hillarme returning 850,000

Just wondering - Has Hillary found those FBI / Travel Office files from 1993 and will she bring back all the dishes, paintings, and furniture that she and her disbarred lawyer husband stole from the White House.

This is utterly sickening, and proof that no matter how much every day republicans bash every day democrats and vice versa, both sides are wrong because the whole system is flawed. The wealthiest 2% of humans control 50% of the world's wealth, and this is how it will stay as long as we allow money to dictate policy. I don't see why middle-class citizens (who get screwed daily by both parties) can't get past their partisan bickering to the root of it all.

Gee, it's a shock that Hillary would be labeled "Unseemly and politically opportunistic". If it weren't for being unseemly and politically opportunistic, she would not have a political career.

So now we know where Norman was heading with his bundles. This is par for the current bribe-minded congress so no one should be surprised. The only surprise was not seeing Murtha's name, but maybe he is playing enforcer at this party.

As a die hard Republican, Clinton 2.0 makes me fume. With her vast experience in the Senate (her first elected office) the Hill lovers totally ignore any of her actions or lack of action. The Clinton’s seem to be the slickest people I have ever heard of, I would not doubt that they put a Neon sign in the front yard of the White House announcing the vacancies of the Lincoln bedroom. She can do not wrong in the eyes of her supporters and could have the fund raiser on the site of the World Trade center and her supporters would justify her actions.

DT...YOU ARE SO RIGHT....The Dan Rathers are running wild....where is Dan these days...?

I watch or read off of FOX NEWS 99% of the time, you will get more of what goes on....both sides

This is Clinton, are you really shocked or amazed at what they will do for money and power???

Oh and sex when he can get away with it.

And everyone is supposed to be surprised and shocked by this ?
Please....if the Clintons are nothing else, they are consistent.

I think we decided after Monica, that character didn't matter for the president. Honesty cannot exist without having character. The Clintons have no character and are therefor prone to dishonesty. We make jokes about all of Hillary's "little fibs", like being named after Sir Edmund Hillary, but it happens so often that its pathological. But hey, this is what America wants as their president because "character doesn't matter".

Hillary and the Democrats are playing with fire. American's aren't as dumb as the liberal base, and they will soundly reject Hillary in November 2008.

Why can't America see that this woman is not for us. She is nothing but poison for America and it citizens.

Please wake up America?

$850,000 dollars returned.
I don't care how rich you are,
unless you are running a major company,
anytime someone gives you almost
a MILLION dollars--YOU KNOW ABOUT IT.
Clinton returned the money for ONE
REASON-she got caught trying to keep it.
Of course "they had no idea who this guy was". Like I said, when that type
of money rolls in you at least see the name on a list....

"Being a week after 9/11, it appears unseemly and politically opportunistic," said Steve Ellis, a former Coast Guard officer who is now vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense, a Washington, D.C. good government group."

This is 6 years later - 9/18 does not have any significance.

I don't see anything wrong with law makers getting input from constituents. That's what they are paid to do. No one is saying whatever they discuss over dinners is going to be written into law. You don't think Dick Cheney discuss national security with his hunting buddies?

Your representatives are available to you via mail or face to face meeting if you want to make the time to contact them.

Wow, ABC is speaking against Hillary. I guess the World is about end.

Well, at least ABC can say that they "covered" this wonderful example of just how gross and despicable our politicians have become. How on earth can they claim to represent the American people when it is obvious that they only pander to an elite few? American voters need to smarten up and vote them out!
Another reason why I have nothing to do with network media "news" outlets.

Ahh! The Clintons! Ya gotta give it to them: style if not tate.

No way. Hillary and the democrats being opportunistic and unseemly! Shocking! Hillary is pond scum.

This doesnt raise eyebrows for me at all, criminal activities and the Clintons are commonplace now. The only thing that would raise my eyebrows is if the Clintons are actually brought to justice for once.

The first paragraph of this story is terribly biased, some people say.

The last paragraph is the most important part of this article, and the body of the article is junk.

Stupid LIE-berals. Republicans would NEVER exploit the victims of 9/11 for political gain!

Next thing you'll hear the DUMB-o-crats talking about how they'll catch Osama bin Laden! Duh! Of course they will! Because Bush will serve him up on a silver platter, before he leaves office!

Go America!

Oh, pahleeeeze. If HRC did the fundraiser TWO weeks or two MONTHS after 9/11, the same whiners would be complaining that THAT is "taking advantage" of the homeland security implication of 9/11. But guess what, folks? SHE'S THE JUNIOR SENATOR FROM *NEW YORK*, and she DID do a lot for NYC and the Nation immediately after 9/11. So pull in your claws. You're the same people who had absolutely NOTHING bad to say about Bush/Cheney/Rove politicizing 9/11 in the elections of 2002, 2004, and 2006. Being Republic Party spinners does not grant exclusive access to flag-draping around the national tragedy of 9/11...and most of you whiners were never even close to WTC, Pentagon, or Shanksville. Take your juvenile temper tantrums somewhere else.

Stupid Clinton - doesn't she know that only Giuliani is allowed to campaign during the weeks immediately following and preceding this week!

Go Republicans!

"I don't see anything wrong with law makers getting input from constituents. That's what they are paid to do."

Getting "input" from constituents? Aren't these "constituents" being required to pony up the big bucks to provide this input?

"That's what they are PAID to do."

Bingo!

The Clintons would steal White House furnishings if they thought they could get away with it.

Oh, wait...

Paying for access is lame, the system needs to be changed and I am not confident that Hillary Clinton will do that.

However, for all you Republicans to complain about exploiting 9/11...give me a break. All Bush has done is exploit 9/11, and Rudy Giuliani can't complete a sentence without trying to profiteer from that tragedy.

So save your crocodile tears hypocrites, and look in the mirror for once.

Why did Justin Reeds report omit name of the >powerful legal firmdowntown Washington, D.C. offices< are
scheduled to be mise en scene of Senator
Clintons badly timed fund raiser?

Please advise. Thanks.
s/ Noel

The Democratic Party is THE PARTY OF DIVISION!!! '

If Hillary (not Rodham) Clinton were a Republican ABC News would be hounding her to produce a complete paper trail for her 50 million dollar fortune and the millions for her run for the presidency. But ABC News turns a blind eye because she is a Liberal, and therefore above the law.

Now its clear what Mrs. Clinton and the Democrats are...the only question is the price.

Did you know that during the "Spanish" presidential debates, Hillary called Lou Dobbs a racist due to his stance against the illegals??? Being that Lou Dobbs has been married to a Mexican-American woman for 25 years, wouldn't that make it a little difficult for him to be a racist??

Influence peddling.

Nothing more.

Nothing less.

BUST THEM ALL.

I am an Independent. I can "guarantee" you that if Clinton is elected as president, we are in for more troubling times in this country. Hillary Clinton is just as bad as George Bush!!

Of course Democrats, and especially Hillary see nothing wrong. The Clintons, yes I mean plural have no shame and no concept of what is right.Why is it that when Hillary said she was going to take the profits from a publically owned companies(big oil) and seize them, no one questioned her. People stood up and claped. Amazing not one press person since asked how it could be done!
Maybe ABC News is will start asking some hard questions. The Clintons, same old crap, same dishonesty. Just smile and BS your way out of this. Why anyone would pay any candidate of either party a plug nickel to run for Head Cheeze is amazing. Meeting with contractors passing out more than company logo pens is legal, but is ethically challenged.

I think I'm going to puke! What should be every legal citizen's right to meet with their representative for FREE, has been turned into a for-profit extravaganza by these human-sized cancer cells. Truly, what the hell is out country coming to? These fatted pigs are selling themselves to the highest bidder and selling us out as a nation. They play while we pay. Sickening!

She's the PT Barnum of the democrat party sicko circus.

What a legacy.

A week after 9/11 is "unseemly"? Come on! A week after it happened, sure, but it's been 6 YEARS now. After somber 9/11 memorials today, it's time to get back to work. How long is she supposed to wait? And by the way, what are all the OTHER candidates doing the week after?

This Great Country will get what it deserves if we vote the Clintons back in office. Please wake-up America!

And Clinton is worse than the scumbags currently running our government down the toilet?

FRED THOMPSON.....FOLKS

Clinton would still be better than the scumbag republicans who are doing all they can to flush this country down the toilet.

Bush is bought everyday from the religious conservative right. Isn't this politics in America? It has nothing to do with Hillary Clinton. It's the American Way. I dont see the story here.

"She's the PT Barnum of the democrat party sicko circus."

Yep.

To paraphrase ol' PT... hopefully, there aren't several million suckers in November 2008.

What is Hillary trying to hide??

Judicial Watch Files Lawsuit to Obtain Hillary Clinton Documents from Clinton Presidential Library

...."Why are we interested in Hillary's calendar and other records from the 1990s? Here's how we put it in our complaint:

"Given Mrs. Clinton's current status as a presidential candidate, if not the front-runner for the Democratic Party's nomination, the public interest in her tenure as First Lady is undeniable. Because Mrs. Clinton seeks our nation's highest office and may well be the next President of the United States, the public interest weighs heavily in favor of enjoining the Library from continuing to withhold the records at issue.

.....On July 6, 2007, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia approved an agreement by the federal government to compensate Judicial Watch $842,500 in attorney's fees and costs from a lengthy and contentious Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit that sought access to records concerning an infamous Clinton Administration fundraising scandal. (An appellate court upheld the award on December 1, 2006, after a more-than twelve year court battle between Judicial Watch and the U.S. Department of Commerce.)

In short, our lawsuit involved a scheme by Clinton administration officials to sell seats on taxpayer-funded trade missions in exchange for campaign contributions to the 1996 Clinton-Gore campaign. When Judicial Watch began investigating the scandal, Clinton administration officials deliberately concealed and destroyed records regarding the trade missions to avoid releasing them to Judicial Watch.

Let's hope the media begin to ask the right questions."

This is no surprise..ex-Co-Prez Bill & Hillary continue to use their Arkansas Mafia tactics. If..if..they had taken action in 1993 The World Trade Towers would still be gracing NYC skyline. Sandy Berger and rest of their gang continue to violate our Nat'l Security. The 9/11 Committee actions are a bad bad joke. What are the Clinton's hiding? So Hillary is returning tainted $850k chinese money..returning it to WHOM??? The FBI should also investigate this fully and not coverup like TWA800 incident. Wake up fellow Americans
!!!!

Bren4824 I Disagree Bush has been a good President in 10 years from now you will see it, he doesn't have a paper trail of corruption like the Clinton...

The Bleeding Heart liberal have done nothing but voice their hate, because that's all their qualified to do is show hate, not figure out a way to fight terrorism but use their power and media to criticize and morons have been so brain washed to believing it. They have been bitter because they lost two presidential elections, now that that they are the majority, they are lame duck from the start, gas prices are still high, they will give Hilary a free pass on her contribution from criminals like Hsu...Lame Ducks....Bush is a crook because they said so. how about Jefferson the one with $90,000 of bribe money in his freezer....he still in... Dems are by far the worst hypocrites

Shirely Davis...Clinton are not what this country needs...very dishonest people.....

"Hillary Clinton is just as bad as George Bush!!"

No, she's a hell of a lot worse. She's not even a democrat, people. She's a communist dressed as a democrat. She will say and do whatever she has to in order to get the presidency, and once she's there, WILL turn this country into something we never imagined. Expect the unfairness doctrine. Expect waiting 9 months to see a physician. Expect your child to come home from kindergarten completely mindwarped. Expect to become a slave to the IRS. Total and utter control! She's a Nazi.

This money she's "giving back" will just be funneled back to her in sleazy, secretive ways. Everyone knows it.

I truly hope Americans are smart enough to not vote her in... but nothing she does surprises me anymore. I expect the voter fraud to be phenomenal in 08. Especially considering the numbers of illegals (and dead people) who will be voting. And especially considering Chavez is making most of the voting machines. Who do you think HE wants for president?

It's truly insane that we as a country have allowed her to reach the point where she could possibly be president.

Witness the Clintons and other Democrats...THE SCUM ALSO RISES.

Both parties have tons of baggage-now can we move on to change what is happening? I want to see solutions not finger pointing that get's us no where. I had two people I know die in terrorist attacks one in OKC and one in the Twin Towers. I think that putting my power in the present and faith in the future is much more of a tribute and memoriam to them. My friend jumped to his death from tower one to avoid being burned to death. The other was blown up by the bomb of the Murrah building in OKC. My friend in the towers- brother has become a congressman in Oklahoma and his sister is with the Obama campaign. They are not sitting around bitching about the democrats or republicans they are taking action...so start typing to your representatives and that they are out if they don't start voting a certain way. For every finger you point at someone there are four pointing back at yourself.

"And Clinton is worse than the scumbags currently running our government down the toilet?"

Yep!

Remember when the Clintons came to the White house it was to be the most ethical administration...It had a revolving door to the Chinese embassy. Talk about hipocracy.....

Unbelievable! It shouldn't surprise me though, the Clintons, if not all the Dems, have no conscience at all. How phony can you get...and the main stream media keeps on supporting these people.

This is the type person many people want to run our Country! NOT ME!

Frankly Hillary scares me. She is a globalist and wants the United States to be run like a communist state. Take from those who work their butts off and give it to those that sit on theirs and reap in the bennies.

Any 'peon' that believes she will do something for them needs to get a blinding glimpse. She only rewards those who can do something for her, and usually that involved a lot of money.

I hope Hsu sings like the proverbial canary. - hopefully he will make it to trial before he succumbs to some unfortunate accident that befalls all those that cross the Clintons.

Scary indeed.

Ok, now that this issue has seen an out-of-the-way ABC News blog, I'm sure it'll be all over the evening news for about two weeks just like they do for Republican money scandals.

Any minute now.

Still waiting.

And waiting. I'm not fooling myself thinking balanced reporting will actually happen am I?

Freddie:

I definitely disagree with you!! George Bush is the worst president that this country has ever put into office!!

I agree, that 10 years from now, we are going to find out things about Bush and his administration that will make our blood boil!!

It is going to take our country years to recover from the corrupt, lawless activities of Bush and his administration----and there are many areas where our country will never recover!!

Ask yourself----If he is so worried about US citizens and the security of our country, why do the borders still remain wide open?? Why has he allowed---and snuck through for that matter----Mexican trucks coming into our country?? Besides the illegals, gangbangers, and terrorists who are coming into our country through the pourous, open borders----now they will also be able to easily bring in their drugs, weapons, bombs etc. through the Mexican trucks!!

I do not think this shows any disrespect for 9/11, or takes advantage of 9/11 for political purposes. I think most of the politicians have done a decent job of staying away from that since it could easily blow up in their face. Dennis the Menace doesn't count because he is on another planet anyway. It has everything to do with influence peddling and "pay to play" politics. It is wrong if Repubs do it, and it is wrong when Dems do it.

This is not like a fundraiser where you buy a ticket and get to be part of party and mingle in the crowd. That happens with everyone. It is not even like a giving to your local politician, who then calls you and thanks you, and then hears your concerns. This is a "show me the money" or "show me your friend's money" or you don't get in the door to get face time with all of these powerful friends of mine. It's the Lincoln bedroom by the hour.

Most of these posts are utterly absurd. The whole reason that the military industrial complex has grown to what is has in the last half dozen years is the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld corporation feeding their cronies. Of course 9/11 woke us up, and we needed to rebuild our military and intelligence industries, but the root of the problem related to the feeding frenzy over our tax dollars lies with the current administration -- Hillary's fund faiser is as appropriate or inapproptiate as any other presidential fundraiser. Wake up knee-jerk, right-wing whacko's. We should have kicked a** in Afghanistan, and targeted terrorists elsewhere -- the Bush Administration siezed the opportunity to dupe the electorate and rush into Iraq. Now all of their friends in the military and oil industries are making record profits. As Bush said "Mission Accomplished". How anyone can twist this as a Hillary Clinton problem is beyond any rational comprehension...

The best bumper sticker I know:

I HATE HILLARY

Let's all try to remember that there is;

NOTHING beneath the Clinton's and their legions supporters of dirty politics. They and their staff are experts at slimball, opportunistic, and unethical conduct. The goal is for them to regain the POWER for the next 8 years. Hillary will stop at nothing to achieve her sewerlike goals.

Bren4824... look at what the Clinton left...terrorism...look at what Reagan left Democracy through out the world.

Bren4824 your democrats are the majority, what BILL have they written for our borders Nothing Lame Ducks. when they write one up and Bush Veto's it then you might have a point...all they can do is run their yaps off and criticize Bush but not attend to the will of the very people that elected them....Bush has stepped up to the plate, something the Clinton should have done year ago and didn't, why do you think Samuel Berger Stolen (and plead guilty to it) those document...what was in those...

Corruption, Clintons bread it..

I would think the DOJ and the Election Commission should be made aware of this. Brian did you make the call or was I suppose to? More important is ANY body doing anything about this?

History will not be kind to the Clinton's. They may not be around to read the books but the truth will come out.

Corruption in the Bush administration as compared to the Clinton's..mmm NOT. I don't think GW can stand up to Slick Willy when it comes to corruption. Ask the Ark Hwy Patrol office about that.

The Republicans have been thriving off the fear of 9/11. Nothing Clinton does will ever be good enough for the "haters". God could come down tell them all that Hillary is the one he wants for President and they'd still vote for someone else. I still think she has a lot of support.

I think people have had enough of the negative comments and press and want someone bright and competent....that would be Hillary.

The Clinton's have no shame and will let nothing stand in their way to political power and the cash they need to obtain it. However, the larger problem is the way both parties whore themselves out for political cash. The more power the federal government amasses, the more people will do to gain access to politicians. Until that chain is broken, this type of whoring will not stop.

Oh, and Rudy Guliani speaking a the 9/11 ceremony (against the wishes of many of the victims' families) isn't a politically motivated poor taste display? The fact is homeland security is an important issue and after all the 9/11 remembrances and the re-emergence of Bin Laden (whom the current president can't seem to get) there is no better time to discuss it. So what if people are paying to get their voices heard. The current administration has sold it's soul a thousand times over to corporate america (of course that was largely just to pad their own wallets).

Hillary is experienced of lying, fudging the truth, renting out the Lincoln
bedroom and credit grabbing. Those are valid issues and the fact that she
outsourced the reading of the Intelligence Estimate to others and voted for the war. Outsourcing the personal responsibility of a US senator is a prima facie case of negligent of duty, not deserving to be elected for public office. That should be repeatedly emphasized until the people understood her penchant for stardom and one who couldn't admit mistakes. When you see her all over the TVs after 9-11 as background to Rudy, you know she is up for scoring political points. Even after the airplane crash near JFK soon after 9-11, she has to be there, a typical politician. So what kind of change she will bring ? Back to the days of scandals/investigations for gridlock.

The Dems are playing with fire if they nominate this woman.

With Sheila Jackson Lee chairing a "work" session, it tells me the whole bit lacks seriousness and is only a Hillary "gimme Money" fundraiser. Jackson Lee couldn't chair a Middle School Group, much less something that deals with national security.

THIS IS JUST SHOCKING STUFF! I AM TRULY SHOCKED!

WOW!

Most of these posts are utterly absurd. The whole reason that the military industrial complex has grown to what is has in the last half dozen years is the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld corporation feeding their cronies. Of course 9/11 woke us up, and we needed to rebuild our military and intelligence industries, but the root of the problem related to the feeding frenzy over our tax dollars lies with the current administration -- Hillary's fund faiser is as appropriate or inapproptiate as any other presidential fundraiser. Wake up knee-jerk, right-wing whacko's. We should have kicked a** in Afghanistan, and targeted terrorists elsewhere -- the Bush Administration siezed the opportunity to dupe the electorate and rush into Iraq. Now all of their friends in the military and oil industries are making record profits. As Bush said "Mission Accomplished". How anyone can twist this as a Hillary Clinton problem is beyond any rational comprehension...

Having a fundraiser a week after 9/11. What is the big deal?

It is not as if she personally was profiting from a failure of policy that killed 3000 Americans. It is not as if she is tied to war profiteers like Haliburton or is well connected to oil companies.

It is not as if she is being intellectually dishonest by smearing someone without actually explaining anything that was done wrong, like the GOP who said "I just