Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Clinton's Error of Omission?
Hillary Rodham Clinton may have forgotten to list her family's charitable organisation on the on annual Senate financial disclosure reports not one, not two but five times? According to an article published today by the Washington Post on their website, Bill and Hillary, alongside their daughter Chelsea, have operated a family charity since 2001, but Mrs. Hillary Clinton didn't disclose it in the Senate disclosure reports on five occasions. She only did so when prodded by the Washington Post staff, according to the paper.
The Ethics in Government Act requires members of Congress to disclose any outside positions they hold regardless of their nature of operation, source of income or their relationship to the IRS. That means the New York Senator was required by the ethics act to list her family organisation regardless of its non-profit clout.
She wasn't penalized today for her apparent omission failure. Other members of Congress have before found themselves in similar positions including the current House Speaker, Rep. Nancy Pelosi and the immediate former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist.
Yet Clinton's failure to list the Charitable Organisation FIVE times and dismiss it as an oversight leaves one suspicious. Do you think it was a sincere oversight or is there something fishy to it?
Link;
Clinton's Charity Not Listed On Senate Disclosure Forms