Bubba's Buddies, Hill's Headaches

The names of donors to Bill Clinton's private foundation were released yesterday and those who have searched through the entrails discover a string of potential conflicts for Secretary of State apparent Hillary Clinton when she comes before the Senate at her confirmation hearings. Take mining mogul Frank Giustra, who gave Clinton between $10 and $25 million. He flew Bill Clinton to Kazakhstan on his private jet, then won a lucrative uranium mining contract from the Central Asian nation. Hillary will face even more acute scrutiny over Bill’s links to Arab donors from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates. "People may say, well, even if they are not sharing the same bed at night, they still may talk to each other and it doesn't look right," Harvey Sicherman, president of the Foreign Policy Research Institute and a State Department adviser during the Reagan administration told the New York Post. More trouble: the Clinton Foundation received millions from Indian politico Amar Singh, who has advocated sharing nuclear technology with the United States. "Any appearance that a Secretary of State Clinton has a close relationship with India could add drama to tense negotiations with the Asian subcontinent's nuclear-armed rival Pakistan."