THREE MARTINI LUNCH: MAY 4, 2015

National Review's Jim Geraghty and Radio America's Greg Corombos discuss current events. Today's Martinis: Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina join the race for the White House, Bill Clinton plays word games defending the Clinton Foundation, and the media blames a cartoon contest instead of two terrorists.



The Clinton Cash List of Bill Clinton's Shady, Foreign-Financed Speeches

Schweizer then turns his attention to Ericsson, a Swedish telecom company that was providing services to the Iranian government, despite its sponsorship of terrorism, at a time when the State Department was cracking down on such deals.

"Ericsson decided to sponsor a speech by Bill Clinton and paid him more than he had ever been paid for a single speech: $750,000," Schweizer writes. "According to Clinton financial disclosures, in the previous ten years Ericsson had never sponsored a Clinton speech. But now it apparently thought would be a good time to do so."

Clinton gave the speech on November 12, 2011. "One week later, on November 19, the State Department unveiled its new sanctions list for Iran," the book continues. "Telecom was not on the list." Even when Obama imposed sanctions on telecom sales by executive order in 2012, "those sanctions did not cover Ericsson's work in Iran."

If Schweizer's theory is correct, Obama's rapprochement with Iran paid dividends for the Clintons more than once...

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