The Clinton Contributions

Who gave what to President Clinton's foundation? Well, it's not so easy to figure out. The Foundation has put together hundreds of pages of data, but there's no way to actually search through the information. You have to literally scan every page.

It would take literally five minutes worth of work to write the search code so that you can figure out if anyone you're looking for gave money to the Clinton Foundation.

The Washington Post is relying on transcribing the information and adding it to its own database. The New York Times did the same. You're able to search through the newspaper sources, but the Foundation's own site doesn't permit searches.

Among those names that have been culled include Denise Rich ($250-$500k), Richard Mellon Scaife ($250-$500k), Tom Golisano ($10-$25 million), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation ($10-25 million), and quite a few others that should raise eyebrows:

Saudi Arabia alone gave to the foundation $10 million to $25 million, as did government aid agencies in Australia and the Dominican Republic. Brunei, Kuwait, Norway, Oman, Qatar and Taiwan each gave more than $1 million. So did the ruling family of Abu Dhabi and the Dubai Foundation, both based in the United Arab Emirates, and the Friends of Saudi Arabia, founded by a Saudi prince.

Also among the largest donors were a businessman who was close to the onetime military ruler of Nigeria, a Ukrainian tycoon who was son-in-law of that former Soviet republic’s authoritarian president and a Canadian mining executive who took Mr. Clinton to Kazakhstan while trying to win lucrative uranium contracts.

In addition, the foundation accepted sizable contributions from several prominent figures from India, like a billionaire steel magnate and a politician who lobbied Mrs. Clinton this year on behalf of a civilian nuclear cooperation agreement between India and the United States, a deal that has rankled Pakistan, a key foreign policy focus of the incoming administration.

Such contributions could provoke suspicion at home and abroad among those wondering about any effect on administration policy.

Matthew Levitt, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said donations from “countries where we have particularly sensitive issues and relations” would invariably raise concerns about whether Mrs. Clinton had conflicts of interest.

“The real question,” Mr. Levitt said, “is to what extent you can really separate the activities and influence of any husband and wife, and certainly a husband and wife team that is such a powerhouse.”

There are others, including Stephen L. Bing, Rupert Murdoch, Barbra Streisand, and Bloomberg L.P.

Freddie Mac also contributed ($50-$100k), but there's no way to know when they gave the money (whether it was during Bill's presidency or during Hillary's senate or presidential campaigns) and whether they had pledged additional funds since Clinton's disclosure doesn't go beyond listing the names and ranges of money provided.