It would appear he needs to register as one. From American Spectator:So what do former President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former EPA Administrator Carol Browner, and former Clinton Administration lawyers from the White House and the Department of Justice have in common besides their administration time together?
They all earned millions working for the United Arab Emirates weeks before their roles became public in the sale of American-based port operations to Dubai World Ports.
This shouldn't come a surprise to anyone; in fact, just about anyone who works with the UAE earns millions. But no one has earned more than former President Clinton.
To his credit, he has hit up the UAE for more charitable money than just about anyone. By some estimates, the UAE has donated through various means as much as $250 million to Southeast Asia tsunami relief, Hurricane Katrina relief, and other humanitarian aid programs. "Former President Bush had a hand in that too," says a former Clinton associate. "But it's former President Clinton who now has the very close ties to the UAE. He's the go-to guy now."
And Clinton himself has done well by this connection. According to knowledgeable sources, Clinton and his library have pocketed as much as $30 million from this relationship, including his consulting on the UAE/Dubai World Ports deal.
Given the brain power involved in mapping out strategy on the DPW deal, people are now trying to figure out how this deal went wrong, particularly since Clinton, Albright, and Browner all were advising the UAE and Dubai World Ports some time before the deal became public.
According to sources familiar with the DPW deal, Clinton put the UAE firm in touch with Albright and Browner, who is a principle in Albright's firm. Browner is said to have brought in several other outside consultants, perhaps some with ties to Republicans. She also brought in former Democrat Rep. Tom Downey, with whom she is said to have close ties. The two attempted to tag team Democrats on the ports deal once it became public.
"This deal was almost entirely a Democratic operation from the beginning," says another former Clinton staffer, who worked in the Clinton White House. "Folks like [former Republican Sen.] Bob Dole weren't brought in until after the *#&$ hit the fan."
To date, former President Clinton and others involved prior to the DPW deal becoming public, have not registered as Agents for a Foreign Power with the Department of Justice. And no accurate timeline of their involvement in the DPW deal has been released.
According to Rush Limbaugh:
don't know what the UAE thinks of these people now, but they were paid and they were hired to get this deal done, and they couldn't get it done with Democrats up on Capitol Hill. "To date, Clinton and others involved prior to the ports deal becoming public, as I said, "have not registered as agents of a foreign power with the Department of Justice. No accurate timeline of their involvement in the ports deal has been released." Something else I did know and made public at the time. Clinton is out there lobbying and now we know Albright and Carol Browner were lobbying, too, and they have not registered as agents representing a foreign government.
That is against regulations. It's against the law. But, you know, the Democrats get involved in so many scandals.
Here you have former heads of state and cabinet members actively lobbying for a foreign power, using influence, and not registering as such. Where are the calls for an investigation?
