Clinton confirmation process starts with distribution of the Obama/Bill Clinton agreement

[karynnj]

Senator Kerry and Lugar have distributed the agreement to Senators on the SFRC. This MSNBC article has the agreement included as a link. The agreement describes all the Clinton organizations and their purposes and states the conditions that must be followed to avoid conflicts of interest or appearances of conflicts of interest. The MSNBC article also includes a link to the names of the Clinton donors.

NBC News has obtained a Memorandum of Understanding between the Clinton Foundation and the Obama transition on how Bill Clinton's Foundation will conduct its activities -- and disclose its donors -- for the duration of Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state, should she be confirmed.

The memo was signed on Dec. 12th by Bruce Lindsey, Bill Clinton's longtime lawyer and troubleshooter, and Valerie Jarrett on behalf of the President-elect.

It has been circulated by Sens. Kerry and Lugar, leaders of the Foreign Relations Committee, to all committee members in advance of Clinton's confirmation hearings in January.

Today, Bill Clinton's foundation, as promised in the agreement, released the names of all donors to the library and foundation.

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/12/18/1721141.aspx

[ProSense]

1. Interesting memo. n/t

[ProSense]

2. These confirmation hearings are going to be interesting, and

the reaction to them ought to be entertaining.