The question now is if this is a lead or a dead end. I have't seen anything that proves to me that she was indeed investigating the Clinton Foundation. She's still on my list but I couldn't find any proof. Please link me to sources.
Seeing that WaPo jumps on this so fast makes me believe that it was planted. Be careful what you spread as 'confirmed' just because someone tells you so!
Edit: For the record: I would LIKE to believe this to be a real lead, I just can't with what I see right now...
Here is the same image but with a name. That person is here on fb, and has Petersen as a friend. She is a real person that works in prostitution protection in Providence, Rhode Island - here is her twitter for reference. Also it seems she was close enough to know about the funeral services taking place, so take that for what you will.
Edit: this thread is the most comprehensive I've seen. I agree with the skepticism involving this story, the "proof" is second hand information unless someone can contact Petersen's friend Bella and ask for corroborating proof that she wrote this message to her.
Hold up...Monica wrote that both coups against President Aristide were orchestrated by Bill Clinton's administration. This is blatantly incorrect.
The first coup was in 1991, during George Bush Sr's Presidency. It's widely believed to have been a CIA-backed coup.
Aristide was deposed again in 2004, when George W. Bush was President. The US and France are widely believed to have played a part in that one too.
So it was Bush Sr. and Bush Jr. who sponsored coups against Aristide, whereas Clinton actually sponsored the reinstatement of Aristide in 1994. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama appear to have opposed Aristide's return to Haiti in 2010, but popular pressure was too much. Aristide finally came back in 2011 but has been kept under close watch and hasn't re-entered politics.
How could Monica Petersen get the history of Haiti so fundamentally wrong? It doesn't add up with her elite post-grad foreign policy education and experience traveling there. To make things weirder, it's now confirmed that she was working as a History/Social sciences teacher at an elite US embassy-linked prep school in Port-Au-Prince before her death...
I agree - this is a strange thing to write, this blog raises similar questions as yourself. Interestingly, it's the same blog she links to at the bottom of her post.
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SsupGuys ago
The question now is if this is a lead or a dead end. I have't seen anything that proves to me that she was indeed investigating the Clinton Foundation. She's still on my list but I couldn't find any proof. Please link me to sources.
I'm sorry, but this (https://archive.is/XV5t0/042b013fa55b3d36ad29c586a7981cde7f959c48.png)) isn't a reliable source to me. No name, no date, no link - anybody can make something like that up :/
Seeing that WaPo jumps on this so fast makes me believe that it was planted. Be careful what you spread as 'confirmed' just because someone tells you so!
Edit: For the record: I would LIKE to believe this to be a real lead, I just can't with what I see right now...
softcell ago
Here is the same image but with a name. That person is here on fb, and has Petersen as a friend. She is a real person that works in prostitution protection in Providence, Rhode Island - here is her twitter for reference. Also it seems she was close enough to know about the funeral services taking place, so take that for what you will.
Edit: this thread is the most comprehensive I've seen. I agree with the skepticism involving this story, the "proof" is second hand information unless someone can contact Petersen's friend Bella and ask for corroborating proof that she wrote this message to her.
billcaseyABC ago
Hold up...Monica wrote that both coups against President Aristide were orchestrated by Bill Clinton's administration. This is blatantly incorrect.
The first coup was in 1991, during George Bush Sr's Presidency. It's widely believed to have been a CIA-backed coup.
Aristide was deposed again in 2004, when George W. Bush was President. The US and France are widely believed to have played a part in that one too.
So it was Bush Sr. and Bush Jr. who sponsored coups against Aristide, whereas Clinton actually sponsored the reinstatement of Aristide in 1994. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama appear to have opposed Aristide's return to Haiti in 2010, but popular pressure was too much. Aristide finally came back in 2011 but has been kept under close watch and hasn't re-entered politics.
How could Monica Petersen get the history of Haiti so fundamentally wrong? It doesn't add up with her elite post-grad foreign policy education and experience traveling there. To make things weirder, it's now confirmed that she was working as a History/Social sciences teacher at an elite US embassy-linked prep school in Port-Au-Prince before her death...
softcell ago
I agree - this is a strange thing to write, this blog raises similar questions as yourself. Interestingly, it's the same blog she links to at the bottom of her post.