NY Times editorial board urges Clinton to ban foundation's foreign donations

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[quote]The New York Times Editorial Board called on Hillary Clinton to ban all foreign donations to her family's charity in a editorial published Friday.

The call comes after a string of reports noting that the Clinton Foundation had begun to accept foreign donations after banning them for the four years Clinton served as secretary of state. The foundation has since defended donations from countries like Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Oman as philanthropy, not influence peddling, but Democrats and Republicans have questioned the practice.

"All of which underlines the need for Hillary Rodham Clinton, in her all but certified role as a Democratic presidential candidate, to reinstate the foundation's ban against foreign contributors, who might have matters of concern to bring before a future Clinton administration," the editorial board wrote. "This was a restriction Mrs. Clinton worked out with the Obama administration to allay concerns of potential conflict of interest when she became secretary of state in 2009."[/quote]

[url]http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/20/politics/clinton-foundation-donors-nyt-times-editorial/index.html[/url]