Hillary\'s Mystery Money MenBy Russ Baker and Adam Federman, The Nation. Posted October 22, 2007.\n\n\n\nThe man who helped make Bush\'s first fortune now wants to claim the Clinton campaign. Is someone cooking the books at Hillary Inc.? \n\nIn the Clintons\' pursuit of power, there is no such thing as a strange bedfellow. One recently exposed inamorata was Norman Hsu, the mysterious businessman from Hong Kong who brought in $850,000 to Hillary Clinton\'s campaign before being unmasked as a fugitive. Her campaign dismissed Hsu as someone who\'d slipped through the cracks of an otherwise unimpeachable system for vetting donors, and perhaps he was. The same cannot be said for the notorious financier Alan Quasha, whose involvement with Clinton is at least as substantial -- and still under wraps.\n\nPolitical junkies will recall Quasha as the controversial figure who bailed out George W. Bush\'s failing oil company in 1986, folding Bush into his company, Harken Energy, thus setting him on the path to a lucrative and high-profile position as an owner of the Texas Rangers baseball team, and the presidency. The persistently unprofitable Harken -- many of whose board members, connected to powerful foreign interests and the intelligence community, nevertheless profited enormously -- faced intense scrutiny in the early 1990s and again during Bush\'s first term.\n\nNow Quasha is back -- on the other side of the aisle. Operating below the radar, he entered Hillary Clinton\'s circle even before she declared her candidacy by quietly hiring Clinton confidant and longtime Democratic Party money man Terry McAuliffe at one of his companies. During the interregnum between McAuliffe\'s chairmanship of the Democratic Party and the time he officially joined Clinton\'s campaign, Quasha set McAuliffe up with a salary and opened a Washington office for him.\n\nhttp://alternet.org/story/65596/-------------------\nWhy Senator Clinton?\nWe ask Clinton why she voted for an amendment that could be used as support for attacking Iran\n\n2007-10-22\n\nOn September 26th, Senator Clinton voted for the Kyl-Lieberman Amendment, which designates the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization. She was the only Democratic Presidential candidate who voted for the resolution. \n\n\"This isn\'t our present policy of keeping the military option on the table. It is, for all practical purposes, mandating the military option.\"\n\n-Senator Jim Webb\n\nhttp://www.therealnews.com/web/index.php?thisdataswitch=0&thisid=485&thisview=item bush, CLinton, democracy, H., iran, iraq, lies, war