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THE UNITED STATES.

THE ELITES IN THOSE COUNTRIES

ARE GETTING RICH.

THE CLINTONS ARE GETTING RICH,

AND THE MONEY SOMEHOW NEVER

TRICKLES DOWN TO

THE PEOPLE OF NIGERIA.

SADLY, THIS THEME OF RESOURCES

NOT TRICKLING DOWN

TO THOSE MOST IN NEED

IS A COMMON ONE:

WHEN IT COMES TO THE CLINTONS.

MAN:
AS WE TOLD YOU AT THE STAR OF TONIGHT'S PROGRAM,

A MAJOR-MAGNITUDE

EARTHQUAKE HAS HI THE ISLAND OF HAITI

IN THE CARIBBEAN.

THE QUAKE MEASURED AROUND

7 POINTS ON THE RICHTER SCALE

AND ITS EPICENTER FELL

JUST 10 MILES

FROM THE CAPITAL,

PORT-AU-PRINCE.

HAITI'S AMBASSADOR TO THE U.S.

HAS DESCRIBED THE EVEN AS A CATASTROPHE

OF MAJOR PROPORTIONS.

SO FAR, WE HAVE NO INFORMATION

REGARDING THE CAUSALITIES.

WOMAN:
THE WORLD IS COMING TO

AN END...[HEAVY BREATHING]

[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]

WOMAN 2:
IT WAS

A BIG EARTHQUAKE.

IT LAST LIKE:

15 SECONDS, I THINK.

PETER:
PROBABLY THE MOS DEVASTATING HUMANITARIAN CRISIS

THAT HILLARY CLINTON

FACED DURING:

HER TENURE A THE STATE DEPARTMEN WAS THE TRAGIC

EARTHQUAKE IN HAITI.

IT HAPPENED IN JANUARY OF 2010,

AND LITERALLY IN

A MATTER OF SECONDS,

250,000 PEOPLE WERE

ESTIMATED TO HAVE DIED,

AND A LARGE PORTION OF

THE HAITIAN INFRASTRUCTURE

AND ECONOMY WAS JUST DECIMATED.

IT WAS A CRISIS:

ON A MASSIVE SCALE.

HILLARY:
UNITED STATES IS

OFFERING OUR FULL ASSISTANCE

TO HAITI AND TO OTHERS

IN THE REGION.

UH, WE WILL BE PROVIDING

BOTH CIVILIAN AND MILITARY

DISASTER RELIEF:

AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE

AND OUR PRAYERS ARE WITH THE

PEOPLE WHO HAVE SUFFERED, UH,

THEIR FAMILIES, UH,

AND THEIR LOVED ONES.

PETER:
IN THE DAYS AND WEEKS

THAT FOLLOWED THE EARTHQUAKE

IN JANUARY OF 2010,

HILLARY CLINTON MADE

VISITS TO HAITI.

WOMAN:
AND HERE IS

THE LATEST ON HAITI:

U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE

HILLARY CLINTON:

ARRIVED IN PORT-AU-PRINCE

JUST ABOUT AN HOUR AGO.

SHE IS THE HIGHEST-RANKING U.S.

OFFICIAL IN HAITI RIGHT NOW,

SINCE TUESDAY'S EARTHQUAKE.

SHE'S MEETING WITH

HAITIAN LEADERS:

AND INTERNATIONAL OFFICIALS

TO DISCUSS THE RESCUE

AND RELIEF EFFORT.

PETER:
IN FACT,

ON HER FIRST VISIT,

WHICH OCCURRED DAYS

AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE,

THEY LITERALLY HAD

TO STOP TRAFFIC:

GOING INTO THE AIRPOR AT PORT-AU-PRINCE.

THERE, OF COURSE,

WERE RELIEF SUPPLIES

THAT WERE BEING FLOWN IN,

BUT THAT TRAFFIC WAS STOPPED

SO THE SECRETARY OF STATE COULD

COME AND ASSESS THE DAMAGE.

WOMAN:
THERE IS

A PERCEPTION,

THERE HAVE BEEN COMPLAINTS

OR REPORTS OF BOTTLENECKS,

THAT THERE IS A LO OF AID COMING IN,

BUT IT'S VERY HARD

TO GET IT OU TO THE PEOPLE

WHO NEED IT.

THAT'S JUST NOT TRUE.

THE AID IS COMING IN.

WE'RE GETTING IT OUT.

THERE'S JUST NO ENOUGH OF IT YET.

PETER:
SHE FLEW IN

WITH HER POLITICAL AIDES

ON A LARGE FEDERAL AIRPLANE.

SHE LANDED AT THE AIRPORT,

SHE MADE A LARGE

PRESS CONFERENCE,

MADE STATEMENTS:

ABOUT HER COMMITMEN TO REBUILDING THIS COUNTRY,

AND THEN SHE WAS

SOON WHISKED AWAY,

HEADED BACK TO WASHINGTON, D.C.

MAN:
THEIRS IS A CITY IN RUINS.

A COUNTRY WHICH CAN DO LITTLE

BUT WAIT FOR HELP TO ARRIVE.

[SIREN WAILING]

PETER:
THE INTERNATIONAL

COMMUNITY RESPONDED IN THE WAY

THAT YOU WOULD EXPECT IT TO.

THAT IS, LARGE AMOUNTS

OF MONEY WERE COMMITTED,

UP TO $13 BILLION FROM

INTERNATIONAL RELIEF

ORGANIZATIONS, AND OF COURSE,

YOU HAD THE OFFICIAL ROLE

OF THE STATE DEPARTMENT,

WHICH WOULD BE POINT ON

U.S. TAXPAYER DOLLARS

GOING TO HAITI:

FOR THE PURPOSES OF RELIEF.

HILLARY:
I WANT TO ASSURE

THE PEOPLE OF HAITI

THAT THE UNITED STATES

IS A FRIEND,

A PARTNER, AND A SUPPORTER.

PETER:
HILLARY CLINTON'S

STATE DEPARTMENT WOULD OVERSEE

THE RECONSTRUCTION EFFORT WITH

CHIEF OF STAFF CHERYL MILLS

RESPONSIBLE FOR:

THE ALLOCATION OF

U.S. TAX DOLLARS THROUGH USAID,

AND BILL CLINTON,

ALREADY APPOINTED

SPECIAL ENVOY TO HAITI

FOR THE UNITED NATIONS,

WAS NAMED CO-CHAIR

OF THE INTERIM HAITI

RECOVERY COMMISSION

ALONG WITH THE FORMER

HAITIAN PRIME MINISTER.

I HOPE THAT IT WILL BE REBUIL IN A MUCH STRONGER

AND MORE SUSTAINABLE WAY,

AND I THINK:

THE HAITIANS WANT THAT.

PETER:
SO, THIS WAS CLEARLY

A CLINTON OPERATION

FROM THE BEGINNING.

NOW, THE HAITIANS

HAD THEIR OWN IDEAS

ABOUT HOW BES TO REBUILD THEIR COUNTRY.

THEY WANTED NEW ROADS.

THEY WANTED BUILDINGS REBUILT.

AND THAT'S WHA YOU WOULD EXPECT.

THIS IS HOW YOU RECOVER

FROM AN EARTHQUAKE.

THE PROBLEM IS THAT THE CLINTONS

HAD THEIR OWN AGENDA--

THE INTERESTS OF MAJOR DONORS,

WHO HAD A VESTED INTEREST IN

SPENDING THAT MONEY IN HAITI,

IN WAYS THA WOULD BENEFIT THEM.

AND SO, YOU IMMEDIATELY

HAD THIS CLASH:

BETWEEN THE HAITIANS

AND THE CLINTONS.

AND HAITIANS COMPLAINED

ALMOST IMMEDIATELY

THAT THEY WERE SHUT OUT OF

THE DECISION MAKING PROCESS,

THAT IT WAS REALLY BILL CLINTON

AND A FEW OF HIS FRIENDS

THAT WERE CALLING THE SHOTS

IN THE IHRC.

AND THEY MADE SOME MONUMENTALLY

BAD DECISIONS THAT NOT ONLY

DIDN'T BENEFI THE HAITIAN PEOPLE,

BUT ENDED UP PUTTING

MONEY IN THE POCKETS OF

MAJOR CLINTON DONORS WHO HAD

ECONOMIC STAKES IN HAITI.

WE HAVE BEEN UNITED

BEHIND A SINGLE GOAL:

MAKING INVESTMENTS IN

THIS COUNTRY'S PEOPLE

AND YOUR INFRASTRUCTURE.

PETER:
SO, IT'S A CLASSIC

EXAMPLE OF WHAT SOME PEOPLE CALL

DISASTER CAPITALISM.

DISASTER CAPITALISM IN THA A NATURAL DISASTER

CREATES OPPORTUNITIES FOR

REBUILDING TO TAKE PLACE,

BUT ALSO FOR SELF-ENRICHMEN TO TAKE PLACE.

AND IF YOU LOOK AT THE CLINTONS

AND THE PROMISES THAT WERE MADE,

AND THE RESULTS THA ACTUALLY FOLLOWED,

IT IS A TRAGIC STORY OF

CRONY CAPITALISM GONE AWRY.

THE SINGLE LARGES RELIEF PROJEC THAT THE UNITED STATES

COMMITTED TAXPAYER DOLLARS TO,

$124 MILLION TO BE EXACT,

WAS A PROJECT CALLED CARACOL,

A TEXTILE FACTORY

THAT WAS BUIL IN THE NORTHERN PAR OF THE COUNTRY,

THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO CREATE

SOME 60,000 JOBS

AND WAS SUPPOSED TO CREATE

TREMENDOUS ECONOMIC GROWTH.

THERE'S A PROBLEM HERE ALREADY.

YOU SEE, THE EARTHQUAKE AFFECTED

THE SOUTHERN PART OF HAITI.

THE NORTHERN PART OF THE COUNTRY

WAS ENTIRELY UNAFFECTED.

BUT WHO WERE:

THE BENEFICIARIES OF THIS?

COMPANIES LIKE GAP, TARGET,

AND WALMART, TO NAME A FEW.

THE CARACOL FACTORY WAS BUILT.

IT DIDN'T CREATE 60,000 JOBS.

IT CREATED BARELY 5,000 JOBS,

BUT THE MAJOR AMERICAN COMPANIES

WHO GOT TEXTILES TARIFF-FREE,

MADE AT LOW WAGES,

BENEFITED ENORMOUSLY.

AND THE END EFFECT ON THE

HAITIANS WAS VERY, VERY MINIMAL.

IF YOU LOOK AT SOME OF

THE INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS

THAT WERE UNDERTAKEN,

THE CLINTONS HAD

VERY GRAND PLANS TO BUILD

LARGE TRACTS OF HOMES,

AND THERE WERE:

CONTRACTORS THAT WERE

SELECTED FOR THOSE PROJECTS.

SOMETIMES THE CONTRACTORS

HAD EXPERIENCE,

SOMETIMES THEY DID NOT.

THERE'S ONE COMPANY IN FLORIDA

THAT SPENT A MILLION DOLLARS

GETTING EQUIPMENT INTO HAITI.

THEY HAD EXPERIENCE

IN DISASTER RELIEF,

BUT ACCORDING TO THE OWNERS

OF THAT COMPANY,

THEY ONLY MADE A SMALL DONATION

TO THE CLINTON FOUNDATION.

AND GUESS WHAT?

THEY DIDN'T GE ANY RELIEF CONTRACTS.

ON THE OTHER HAND,

THE CONTRACTORS WHO

DID WIN THE AWARDS

WERE GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY

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