Re:How China got a U.S. senator to do its political bidding
by Shivetya on Monday December 18, 2017 @05:49AM
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Algeria
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Re:How China got a U.S. senator to do its political bidding
by pjc50 on Monday December 18, 2017 @08:28AM
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Key sentence: "The problem with all of this isn’t the donation, or questions about a quid pro quo with Algeria. It’s the fact that Algeria wasn’t ever on the terror list. "
Re:How China got a U.S. senator to do its political bidding
by omarforgotpwd on Monday December 18, 2017 @08:56PM
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lol I was almost 100% sure this wasn't true. Thanks for confirming.
Re:How China got a U.S. senator to do its political bidding
by alasdair_ on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @11:12AM
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Read the whole thing.
The Politifact article states that it's false that Algeria was removed from the "terror watch list". That's not what the grandparent poster actually claimed - the GP is talking about human rights violations.
It IS true (the same politifact article even mentions this) that Algeria paid $500,000 to the Clinton Foundation and immediately got a lot more state department access to lobby on their human rights record.