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The Clinton Foundation has confirmed it accepted a $1 million gift from Qatar while Hillary Clinton was US secretary of state without informing the State Department, even though she had promised to let the agency review new or significantly increased support from foreign governments.
Qatari officials pledged the money in 2011 to mark the 65th birthday of Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton’s husband, and sought to meet the former US president in person the following year to present him the check, according to an email from a foundation official to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign chairman, John Podesta. The email, among thousands hacked from Podesta’s account, was published last month by WikiLeaks.
Clinton signed an ethics agreement governing her family’s globe-straddling foundation in order to become secretary of state in 2009. The agreement was designed to increase transparency to avoid appearances that US foreign policy could be swayed by wealthy donors.
If a new foreign government wished to donate or if an existing foreign-government donor, such as Qatar, wanted to “increase materially” its support of ongoing programs, Clinton promised that the State Department’s ethics official would be notified and given a chance to raise any concerns.
Clinton Foundation officials last month declined to confirm the Qatar donation. In response to additional questions, a foundation spokesperson, Brian Cookstra, this week said that it accepted the $1 million gift from Qatar, but this did not amount to a “material increase” in the Gulf country’s support for the charity. Cookstra declined to say whether Qatari officials received their requested meeting with Bill Clinton.
Officials at Qatar’s embassy in Washington and in its council of ministers in the capital, Doha, declined to discuss the donation.
The State Department has said it has no record of the foundation submitting the Qatar gift for review, and that it was incumbent on the foundation to notify the department about donations that needed attention. A department spokesperson did not respond to additional questions about the donation.
According to the foundation’s website, which lists donors in broad categories by cumulative amounts donated, Qatar’s government has directly given a total of between $1 million and $5 million over the years.
The Clinton Foundation has said it would no longer accept money from foreign governments if Clinton is elected president and would spin off those programs that are dependent on foreign governments.
‘Material’ increase
Foundation officials told Reuters last year that they did not always comply with central provisions of the agreement with President Barack Obama’s administration, blaming oversights in some cases.
At least eight other countries besides Qatar gave new or increased funding to the foundation, in most cases to fund its health project, without the State Department being informed, according to foundation and agency records. They include Algeria, which gave for the first time in 2010, and the United Kingdom, which nearly tripled its support for the foundation’s health project to $11.2 million between 2009 and 2012.
Foundation officials have said some of those donations, including Algeria, were oversights and should have been flagged, while others, such as the UK increase, did not qualify as material increases.
The foundation has declined to describe what sort of increase in funding by a foreign government would have triggered notification of the State Department for review. Cookstra said the agreement was designed to “allow foreign funding for critical Clinton Foundation programs” to continue without disruption.
The State Department said it has no record of being asked by the foundation to review any increases in support by a foreign government.
Asked whether Qatar was funding a specific programme at the foundation, Cookstra said the country supported the organisation’s “overall humanitarian work”.
“Qatar continued supporting Clinton Foundation at equal or lower levels” compared with the country’s pre-2009 support, he said. He declined to say if Qatar gave any money during the first three years of Clinton’s four-year term at the State Department, or what its support before 2009 amounted to.
In another email released by WikiLeaks, a former Clinton Foundation fundraiser said he raised more than $21 million in connection with Bill Clinton’s 65th birthday in 2011.
Spokesperson for Hillary Clinton’s campaign and Bill Clinton did not respond to emailed questions about the donation.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has said that major donors to the Clinton Foundation may have obtained favoured access to Clinton’s State Department, but has provided little evidence to that effect. Clinton and her staff have dismissed this accusation as a political smear.
Last month, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman ordered the Donald J Trump Foundation to stop fundraising in the state, saying it had not registered to solicit donations.
《【ワシントン4日＝古森義久】米議会の共和党は、韓国軍の軍事能力強化の計画が日本を潜在的脅威と見立てた空、海軍の増強に傾きすぎている─として1月の次期議会で公聴会などを開き、本格的な調査を開始することになった。米議会側では、「韓国は在韓米軍と共同で北朝鮮（朝鮮民主主義人民共和国）の脅威に備えるため、地上防衛軍の強化に最重点を置くべきだ」と主張しており、ウィリアム・ペリー国防長官も韓国が日本を仮想敵として中長期の防衛計画を立てている実態を認め、韓国側に抗議したことまで明らかにしている。
共和党筋が3日までに明らかにしたところによると、議会共和党は上院外交委員会などを中心に第104議会で、韓国軍の兵器調達計画などの調査を開始する方針を決めた。特に在韓米軍の任務に関連して、韓国の中長期の軍事計画が日本を潜在的脅威とみての増強に比重を置きすぎているとの認識に立ち、米国の防衛予算の使途という見地から下院予算委員会なども加わって公聴会を開くことも予定しているという。
米議会では、韓国軍の軍事計画の現状を「米韓共同防衛態勢のゆがみ」ととらえ、下院が今年（1994年）6月、「米韓共同防衛では北朝鮮の現実の脅威に対し、原則として韓国軍が地上防衛、米軍が空、海の防衛と責任分担が決まっている。だが、韓国軍は地上防衛能力になお欠陥があるにもかかわらず、その改善計画では費用の顕著な部分を地上防衛以外の分野に向けている」と指摘。その是正を目指すために、米国防総省に調査と報告を求める決議案を可決した。
この決議は「他の分野」として、（1）潜水艦（2）駆逐艦（3）高性能の航空機─をあげ、「これらの兵器は地上軍事能力の改善に役立たず、その分、米軍への負担が増す」としている。
この決議には、韓国がなぜ北朝鮮からの攻撃への対処に直接、有用ではない潜水艦などの増強に力をそそぐのかは明記されなかったが、その理由が主として中長期の日本の潜在的軍事脅威に備えるため─とされることは、米側の議会筋や朝鮮問題専門家が明らかにしている。
事実、今年5月にペリー国防長官がワシントンで朝鮮半島の安全保障について演説した際、議会調査局のアジア安保問題の専門家ラリー・ニクシュ氏から「議会では最近、韓国軍が日本からの仮想脅威に対処するため、空、海の軍事能力強化を優先させていることに批判がある。韓国側にその是正を要請したか」という質問が出た。
これに対し同長官は「確かにここ数年、国防総省も韓国軍のそうした（日本を仮想脅威としての）目的の兵器システム開発計画の不適切な優先順位に懸念を抱いている」と述べた。さらに同長官は、4月の韓国訪問では韓国側にその現状を抗議し、是正を正式に求めたことを明らかにした。
共和党議員には、米韓軍による「北朝鮮からの総攻撃に対しては北の中枢への通常戦力での大量報復」という抑止戦略が実効を失いつつあるとの認識がある。》
1994年当時、米国側はビル・クリントン政権、韓国は金泳三政権だった
