http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-25/clinton-silsby-trafficking-scandal-and-how-media-attempted-ignorecover-it
Hillary and Bill Clinton took an extraordinary interest in Silsby’s case from the moment she was arrested and almost immediately stepped in on her behalf. The Harvard Human Rights Journal stated that one of Bill Clinton's first acts as special envoy for the United Nations in Haiti "was to put out the fire of a child abduction scandal involving American citizens."
On February 7th, 2010, The Sunday Times reported that Bill Clinton had intervened to strike a deal with the Haitian government, securing the release of all co-conspirators except for Silsby. Prosecutors ultimately sought a six-month sentence in Silsby's case, reducing charges for conspiracy and child abduction to mere "arranging irregular travel." A shockingly light penalty given the circumstances of her arrest, which would likely not have been possible but for the intervention of the Clintons in Silsby's case
On February 9th, 2010 Hillary Clinton consulted with Counselor Cheryl Mills and other attorneys in an email discussing the U.S. Government's "options" regarding the arrested Americans. The heavily redacted memo attached to that email does not reveal what these "options" consisted of. However, the State Department's American Citizens Services is only authorized to offer lists of local, English speaking attorneys to Americans arrested or detained abroad. To go beyond that authorization is a severe violation of protocol and is illegal. Additional emails reveal that the State Department was involved with making statements on the Silsby scandal and preparing to assist Silsby's co-conspirators with their return to the United States, although this is consistent with State Department protocol in these situations.
On February 11th, the New York Times reported that Silsby's original lawyer, Jorge Puello, was suspected of leading an international human trafficking ring involving women and minors. According the the Harvard Human Rights Journal Puello was ultimately arrested in an investigation being lead by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in connection with the ring. He was wanted in the United States, El Salvador and Costa Rica for his involvement with a network trafficking Central Americans and Haitians.
At the time of his arrest, his wife was already imprisoned in El Salvador and “faced charges of presumed sexual exploitation of minors and women.” Puello was ultimately sentenced to three years in federal prison for "alien smuggling." Another surprisingly light sentence given the original charges he was sought for. It it not known at this time whether or not Laura Silsby was associated with Puello's criminal enterprise.
On November 4th, 2016 The Daily Beast wrote a non-factual and intentionally misleading article covering the Clinton-Silsby scandal. They accused Wikileaks of publicizing a "Reddit conspiracy theory" which was "riddled with incorrect information." The author, Ben Collins neglected to do basic research on the totality of the links presented in the post as evidence. Mr. Collins attacked the policies of r/the_donald towards freedom of speech and accused the forum of being racist without citing extensive or definitive proof. At no point did The Daily Beast provide proof that the allegations were not true, and did not disprove any of the evidence submitted. A link to an extensive study of the case by the Harvard Human Rights Journal which clearly linked Bill Clinton to the scandal was totally ignored. They similarly failed to acknowledge or address emails published by Wikileaks between Hillary Clinton and her legal counsel which may potentially indicate that she violated State Department policy for the treatment of U.S. citizens arrested or detained abroad.
The Daily Beast is a holding of American media conglomerate InterActiveCorp. Chelsea Clinton, Vice President of the Clinton Foundation and daughter of Hillary and Bill Clinton, sits on InterActiveCorp's Board of Directors. The proximity of the Clinton family to the organization responsible for oversight and direction of The Daily Beast raises questions about the publication's journalistic independence and their commitment to factual and ethical reporting on current events and topics of public interest. Given their slanderous and incorrect reporting on the Clinton-Silsby scandal, it seems clear that they do not hold these values in high regard
And how many more media outlets are doing cover ups? I think we know which ones
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Are_we__sure ago
This is a complete misread of what happened. Bill Clinton DID NOT INTERVENE see below.
The State Department got involved because that is what they do. Assisting Americans arrested overseas is a high priority of the State Department. They got involved with 10 AMCITS as the emails called them--American Citizens-- because they had no idea who Silsby and her crew were. It went to the top of the State Department because it was an international incident. This is the key email on this and pizzagaters NEVER discuss this https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/3765
Instead they love to talk about "an email from 2001" that is NOT an email and is NOT from 2001.
There was zero personal connection between Hillary Clinton and Laura Silsby before she was arrested. There's no media coverup whatsoever because it never happened.
The author of this Zero Hedge article consciously lied about that. He wrote the original piece on Reddit with this claim:
This story is completely debunked here https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/2122876
The document he claims in an email from 2001 is quite clearly not an email and also quite clearly was written in 2010 AFTER the Haitian Earthquake. This is why I say he's a liar. Most pizzagate people are not even aware of this email https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/3765
It shows exactly how that Word doc from 2010 got in Clinton's inbox. It was an attachment to that email. That email quite clearly shows the first time that Clinton even became aware of Silsby's group. It absolutely proves that Clinton nor anyone else at the State Department knew who Silsby was before she was arrested in Haiti.
This law article states this but it is false. It was reported in one media outlet that Bill Clinton intervened in this case, The UK Times, but it's highly dubious that was true. No other media reported it at the time or in the seven and a half years since it happened, even as H. Clinton's record was thoroughly examined for two years during a presidential run. No Haitian media reported this. And it was never even mentioned again by UK Times. It was explicitly denied by the State Department two days after that original report ](http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/02/09/haiti.clinton.arrests/index.html)) It would have been a very big story for the media to catch the State Department lying about this and they did not. That is because the UK Times reported on a rumor that turned out to be false. Bill Clinton was back in NY while all 10 Baptists were still in Jail. The Harvard journal article by the law professor relies on the false UK Times report. It's not a second source. And the law professor says Clinton was in Haiti for 30 days working on this deal, that is false. https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/2255382/11157188
umpteenth ago
There are pictures of slisby and clinton together ffs!
Are_we__sure ago
You can't honestly believe that can you? Please tell me you're just trying to troll and you don't actually believe that.
umpteenth ago
fuck off hilary
Are_we__sure ago
It seems like you're dumb enough to believe there are pictures of Silsby and Clinton.
Well prove me wrong.
Here's your chance.
Show me the evidence of these photos.