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Daily Doc: Clinton's Charity Was Already Public
Tweet Share on Facebook March 1, 2007 CommentThis item comes from USNews.com editor Kent Allen:
Hillary Clinton, the on-the-political-rise half of the most powerful power couple, was in hot water this week for not being public enough. In fact, though, she was more public than she had to be.
As the Washington Post reported on the front page on Tuesday, Clinton hadn't disclosed on her Senate ethics form that she is an officer of the Clinton Family Foundation, which is funded and run by her, her husband, and daughter Chelsea. Under Senate ethics rules, all senators are supposed to disclose their affiliations with any institution, whether corporate or nonprofit.
In fact, the foundation's activities were already very public. Both the senator's position with the foundation and where the money is distributed are public knowledge, available -- as mandated by law -- to anyone with an internet connection. See the disclosure documents here (pdf).
Follow the jump for how Clinton could have kept the foundation's activities out of the spotlight if she had so desired.
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Aluminum Tube Defense Goes 0 for 2
Tweet Share on Facebook March 1, 2007 Comment (1)The New York Times leads today with news that U.S. intelligence officials, once confident in their claims that North Korea was secretly pursuing the technologies for a plutonium-based nuclear bomb, are retreating somewhat from those claims as they reexamine the intelligence.
As U.S. News Senior Writer Thomas Omestad reported in this week's magazine, diplomat Christopher Hill, the chief U.S. negotiator with North Korea, stated that the country had acquired aluminum tubes "entirely consistent" with those needed for a uranium-enrichment program. Sound familiar? It should: This is very similar to the claim that then-Secretary of State Colin Powell made before the United Nations in 2003--except that the perpetrator was Iraq. Later, it came out that those tubes were most likely intended for rockets.
Just last week, the Institute for Science and International Study's David Albright penned a report casting doubt on those claims, writing, "a large centrifuge plant likely does not exist; perhaps it never did."
Etc.: Can Iran and North Korea be Stopped? on USNews.com
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Today on the Campaign Trail
Tweet Share on Facebook March 1, 2007 CommentNews From the Campaign Trail:
Who's hitting the stump:
- John Edwards is in Denver today for a campus rally at the Metropolitan State College Of Denver.
- John McCain is fundraising today in Salt Lake City.
- Mitt Romney is the "special guest" at the Lincoln Day Dinner in New Hampshire, co-hosted by the Derry, Hampton, and Portsmouth Republican committees.
- A GOP straw poll is scheduled for tonight in Spartanburg County, S.C.
From the U.S. News Political Bulletin: Shocking no one, John McCain "preannounced" his candidacy for president on The Late Show With David Letterman last night. He says he'll make the official declaration in April.
Also from the Bulletin: After trailing McCain by four percentage points in a Time January poll, Rudy Giuliani now leads McCain by 14 points in a more recent survey.
A new Gallup poll found that 70 percent of Americans think Bill Clinton would be "mostly helpful" to Hillary Clinton's presidency, were she elected.
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Morning Buzz: March 1, 2007
Tweet Share on Facebook March 1, 2007 Comment (1)This morning's top stories:
- In its ongoing investigation of poor conditions at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the Washington Post reports today that top medical officials had been aware of complaints of substance abuse and other problems at the facility for several years.
- North Korea's second highest-ranking official has pledged his commitment to giving up the nation's nuclear program, the AP reports.
- Plans are moving ahead for a March 10 summit on Iraq among key Middle East and western countries, but it remains uncertain what role Iran will play in those talks.
- U.S. News reporter Alex Kingsbury sends us two items from Baghdad: what you can tell about the capital from what people are buying, and more details from the video we showed you yesterday on a visit to a new Iraqi school.
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