Comments by "" (@jmitterii2) on "Clinton Connected Firm Implicated In Russian Scandal" video.

  1. Personally, as ex military and government employee I have filled out lots of government paperwork. On forms they demand lots of personal information going back a decade or more. And current information. Among them of high importance is always foreign potential influence. On a secret security form it asked if I had any bank accounts or stocks or other properties in foreign countries. A water works for profit company I was working for is owned by a Paris based French company traded on the French Stock Exchange the CAC. I own some shares as an employee stock purchase program. It was an obvious need to disclose which required an interviewer with security clearance Federal investigator. She asked me point blank questions about the foreign stock ownership. She asked if it was just stocks traded in a portfolio that was traded on an American stock exchange, the form clearly states if the stock isn't traded on an America stock exchange, it's foreign stock. So I told it's my current (at the time) employer's shares of their company, its traded on the CAC French stock Exchange, I get paid dividends initially in Euros that get exchanged into dollars, I get annual updates and proxy votes on the company that are in French. It's a French company that does our water in the US, so my affiliation is I'm an employee in the US that provides city drinking water that is owned by a publicly traded French company on the French stock exchange. When I bought stocks my USD had to be converted to Euros, the value of the shares are in Euros. She initially thought the stocks were in some index fund like the Euro-Pacific fund in a 401K. No, these are individual shares I own direct, not part of some retirement index fund managed by an American firm. It's all foreign, specifically French. Then she understood, she takes the info and passes it to other people who determined later the disclosure was okay enough to get the security clearance. Anyway, something like that a non-lawyer individual can figure out how to fill out a form that at the end of the pages clearly state if any information knowingly or accidentally is omitted or falsified under perjury of law I may face civil and criminal prosecution to the full extent under the law. It goes on to explain nothing can be changed at time of submitting the information, if after review of your information you provide you find inaccurate to make those known to any investigator that may interview you, or contact the appropriate office as soon as possible to avoid civil and criminal prosecution, and being denied the clearance. The forms aren't that difficult to understand. There's lots to it. And minor mistakes like not including an apartment number or forgetting a phone number of someone or being off on a date by a few days is one thing. But something that big (foreign interests) is obscene. And these assholes are supposed to be lawyers.
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