THE CLINTON - MUSHARRAF CONNECTION

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GREG PALAST - It all began with an unpaid electricity bill.  In 1998,
Pakistan wouldn't pay up millions, and they owed billions, to British
and American electricity companies.  And for good reason: the contracts
called for paying insanely high prices.  It smelled of payola - and
ultimately, the government of Pakistan filed charges against power
combine executives and canceled the contracts. That's the rule under
international law: companies can't collect on contracts they obtained by
pay-offs.

But these weren't just any companies. One was a Tony Blair favorite,
Britain's National Power. The other was Entergy International, a sudden
big-time player in the international power market based out of, oddly,
Little Rock, Arkansas. Despite the Clinton Administration's claim to
fight foreign corruption, this was an exception.  Clinton and Blair
voted to cut off Pakistan's funding from the IMF. Pay-up the power
pirates, they told Pakistan, or starve.

Why was President Clinton so determined to crush Pakistan because of an
unpaid bill to some Little Rock company.  This was not just any company.
But that wasn't much.  More important, Entergy and its partners, the
Riady Family of Indonesia had just paid about half a million dollars to
Hillary's old Rose Law Firm partner Webster Hubbell.  Odd that, hiring
Hubbell.  Why would Entergy pay big bucks to a Hubbell as a "consultant"
when he was on his way to jail for a felony.  Hubbell was doing time
because he refused to testify against Ms. Rodham.

Did President Clinton know about the payment to Hubbell? Clinton denied
it to the press, but under oath, to the FBI, Bill said he, "wouldn't be
surprised" if the Riadys told him about the payoff to Hubbell in one of
Bill's several private meetings with them in the Oval Office. . .

All right, maybe you can say that President Clinton's blessing of the
radioactive dictator can't be blamed on Hillary despite the smelly money
chain going from Arkansas to Karachi. But, be honest, the lady sure as
heck ain't running on her record as a Senator; her whole pitch is,
"Re-elect Clinton."

And I'd rather tell you this story before you hear it from President
Giuliani.

http://www.gregpalast.com/mrs-clintons-forgotten-fling-with-the-killer-of-karachi/


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