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<P align=left>Here you go Mr. Helbig, </P>
<P align=left>I have narrowed it down for you.</P>
<P align=left>I hope this helps.</P>
<P align=left>David Johnson</P>
<P align=left> </P>
<P align=left>Here’s USA and Canadian news media with sordid
details.</P></FONT><FONT color=#0000ff face=TimesNewRoman><FONT color=#0000ff
face=TimesNewRoman>
<P align=left>http://www.thenation.com/article/161908/shelters-clinton-built</P>
<P
align=left>http://www.thenation.com/slideshow/161887/slide-show-inside-clinton-foundationsshoddily-</P>
<P align=left>built-searingly-hot-and-toxic-haitihttp://</P>
<P align=left>canadiancentreinvestigates.org/haiti-shelters/</P>
<P
align=left>http://www.theinvestigativefund.org/investigations/international/1524/the_shelters_that_c</P>
<P align=left>linton_built/</P>
<P align=left>http://news.yahoo.com/shelters-clinton-built-152744334.html</P>
<P
align=left>http://www.democracynow.org/seo/2011/7/12/clinton_foundation_accused_of_sending_h</P>
<P>aiti</P></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=rwhelbig@gmail.com href="mailto:rwhelbig@gmail.com">Roger Helbig</A>
</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=dlj725@hughes.net href="mailto:dlj725@hughes.net">David
Johnson</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Cc:</B> <A title=Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net
href="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">Peace-discuss</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Friday, January 11, 2013 8:52 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: Reply about my so called " libel "</DIV></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Don't ever call me out in the subject line of another message - it is
damned rude!</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>You libeled the former President and his foundation. You have been
called out to present the evidence, not your speculation or something from a
conspiracist website, but actual evidence that you personally can attest to
since hearsay is not permitted to be introduced in a court of law. So, put
up or shut up.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Roger W Helbig</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Smedley Butler's piece has nothing to do with this - it certainly has no
bearing on your libel of current matters - it might have some bearing on the
period of time between WW-I and II. Your throwing it out shows that
you really have no actual facts to present and are just throwing up the usual
stuff that may make a good protest sign!<BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 6:33 AM, David Johnson <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:dlj725@hughes.net"
target=_blank>dlj725@hughes.net</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=5 face=TimesNewRoman,Bold><FONT size=5
face=TimesNewRoman,Bold>
<P align=left><FONT size=+0>Mr. Helbig,</FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT size=+0>I do NOT libel or slander !</FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT size=+0>I always speak and write the TRUTH to the best of
my ability via trying to confirm the validity and past track record of sources
for my information.</FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT size=+0>Below is a TON of info about Bill Clinton and the
Haiti FEMA trailers from a variety of GOOD RELIABLE sources.</FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT size=+0>BTW. You should read former Marine Corp
General Smedley Butler's Book " War is a Racket " as well as former Green
Beret Donald Duncan's book " The New Legions ".</FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT size=+0>Also I would highly recommend Howard Zinn's
classic book " A People's History of the United States ".</FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT size=+0>If you read these books, it would more than likely
help your analysis ability in being able to determine the truth from
bullshit.</FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT size=+0>Also, for daily news sources you should check-out
" Democracy Now " television program as well as LINK T.V. and FREE SPEECH T.V.
available on either DISH or DIRECT Sattelite T.V..</FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT size=+0>Sincerely</FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT size=+0>David Johnson </FONT> </P>
<P align=left> </P>
<P align=left><STRONG>Clinton (Bill)
Foundation</STRONG></P></FONT></FONT><FONT face=TimesNewRoman>
<P align=left>I posted summary of this situation at the first links
shown.</P></FONT><FONT color=#0000ff face=TimesNewRoman><FONT color=#0000ff
face=TimesNewRoman>
<P align=left><A
href="http://haitirewired.wired.com/group/newsonhaiti/forum/topics/clinton-foundation-scandal"
target=_blank>http://haitirewired.wired.com/group/newsonhaiti/forum/topics/clinton-foundation-scandal</A></P>
<P align=left><A
href="http://www.facebook.com/notes/alister-wm-macintyre/clinton-foundation-scandal-part-isummary-"
target=_blank>http://www.facebook.com/notes/alister-wm-macintyre/clinton-foundation-scandal-part-isummary-</A></P>
<P align=left>from-breaking-news/10150250639564267</P></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=TimesNewRoman>
<P align=left>Saying that these “trailers” are hurricane shelters, is some
kind of oxymoron or evidence</P>
<P align=left>of promoters not knowing what they are saying or doing, given
that in the USA, people</P>
<P align=left>are told to evacuate trailers when bad weather approaches.</P>
<P align=left>Here’s USA and Canadian news media with sordid
details.</P></FONT><FONT color=#0000ff face=TimesNewRoman><FONT color=#0000ff
face=TimesNewRoman>
<P align=left><A
href="http://www.thenation.com/article/161908/shelters-clinton-built"
target=_blank>http://www.thenation.com/article/161908/shelters-clinton-built</A></P>
<P align=left><A
href="http://www.thenation.com/slideshow/161887/slide-show-inside-clinton-foundationsshoddily-"
target=_blank>http://www.thenation.com/slideshow/161887/slide-show-inside-clinton-foundationsshoddily-</A></P>
<P align=left>built-searingly-hot-and-toxic-haitihttp://</P>
<P align=left><A href="http://canadiancentreinvestigates.org/haiti-shelters/"
target=_blank>canadiancentreinvestigates.org/haiti-shelters/</A></P>
<P align=left><A
href="http://www.theinvestigativefund.org/investigations/international/1524/the_shelters_that_c"
target=_blank>http://www.theinvestigativefund.org/investigations/international/1524/the_shelters_that_c</A></P>
<P align=left>linton_built/</P>
<P align=left><A
href="http://news.yahoo.com/shelters-clinton-built-152744334.html"
target=_blank>http://news.yahoo.com/shelters-clinton-built-152744334.html</A></P>
<P align=left><A
href="http://www.democracynow.org/seo/2011/7/12/clinton_foundation_accused_of_sending_h"
target=_blank>http://www.democracynow.org/seo/2011/7/12/clinton_foundation_accused_of_sending_h</A></P>
<P align=left>aiti</P></FONT></FONT><FONT face=TimesNewRoman>
<P align=left>Here is HAITI news media on the topic.</P></FONT><FONT
color=#0000ff face=TimesNewRoman><FONT color=#0000ff face=TimesNewRoman>
<P align=left><A
href="http://www.haitian-truth.org/another-crime-against-humanity-the-shelters-clinton-built/"
target=_blank>http://www.haitian-truth.org/another-crime-against-humanity-the-shelters-clinton-built/</A></P>
<P align=left><A
href="http://www.haitian-truth.org/push-to-send-fema-trailers-to-haiti-stirs-backlash-industrypush-"
target=_blank>http://www.haitian-truth.org/push-to-send-fema-trailers-to-haiti-stirs-backlash-industrypush-</A></P>
<P
align=left>to-send-leftover-fema-trailers-to-haiti-stirs-backlash-called-self-serving/</P></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=TimesNewRoman>
<P align=left>I think these are HAITI blogs:</P></FONT><FONT color=#0000ff
face=TimesNewRoman><FONT color=#0000ff face=TimesNewRoman>
<P align=left><A
href="http://brikourinouvelgaye.com/2011/07/11/the-shelters-that-clinton-built/"
target=_blank>http://brikourinouvelgaye.com/2011/07/11/the-shelters-that-clinton-built/</A></P></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=TimesNewRoman>
<P align=left>Here are blogs, most just copying the news
stories.</P></FONT><FONT color=#0000ff face=TimesNewRoman><FONT color=#0000ff
face=TimesNewRoman>
<P align=left><A
href="http://welcome-to-pottersville2.blogspot.com/2011/07/g-s-spends-bankster-winnings-onour"
target=_blank>http://welcome-to-pottersville2.blogspot.com/2011/07/g-s-spends-bankster-winnings-onour</A>.</P>
<P align=left>html</P>
<P align=left><A
href="http://drupal.canadahaitiaction.ca/content/shelters-clinton-built"
target=_blank>http://drupal.canadahaitiaction.ca/content/shelters-clinton-built</A></P>
<P align=left><A href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/07/11-12"
target=_blank>http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/07/11-12</A></P>
<P align=left><A href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/962#July12t4"
target=_blank>http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/962#July12t4</A></P>
<P align=left><A href="http://mangodhaiti.blogspot.com/"
target=_blank>http://mangodhaiti.blogspot.com/</A></P>
<P align=left><A
href="http://variation-urge.blogspot.com/2011/07/shelters-that-clinton-built-nation.html"
target=_blank>http://variation-urge.blogspot.com/2011/07/shelters-that-clinton-built-nation.html</A></P>
<P align=left><A
href="http://www.leftwingpost.com/the-shelters-that-clinton-built"
target=_blank>http://www.leftwingpost.com/the-shelters-that-clinton-built</A></P>
<P align=left><A
href="http://www.jusrhyme.com/2011/07/12/clinton-foundation-accused-of-sending-haitishoddy-"
target=_blank>http://www.jusrhyme.com/2011/07/12/clinton-foundation-accused-of-sending-haitishoddy-</A></P>
<P align=left>trailers-found-toxic-after-katrina/</P>
<P align=left><A
href="http://www.mynucleus.org/story/2011/07/12/_2011_7_12_clinton_foundation_accus"
target=_blank>http://www.mynucleus.org/story/2011/07/12/_2011_7_12_clinton_foundation_accus</A></P>
<P align=left><A
href="http://americanprogressivenews.com/2011/07/why-did-the-clinton-foundation-funddangerous-"
target=_blank>http://americanprogressivenews.com/2011/07/why-did-the-clinton-foundation-funddangerous-</A></P>
<P align=left>unhealthy-trailers-in-haiti/</P>
<P align=left><A
href="http://americanprogressivenews.com/2011/07/the-shelters-that-clinton-built/"
target=_blank>http://americanprogressivenews.com/2011/07/the-shelters-that-clinton-built/</A></P></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=TimesNewRoman>
<P align=left>Tweets – give the effort an “F” due to the
Formaldehyde</P></FONT><FONT color=#0000ff face=TimesNewRoman><FONT
color=#0000ff face=TimesNewRoman>
<P align=left><A
href="http://naturaldisaster.tweetmeme.com/story/5721313855/the-shelters-that-clinton-builtthe-"
target=_blank>http://naturaldisaster.tweetmeme.com/story/5721313855/the-shelters-that-clinton-builtthe-</A></P>
<P align=left>nation</P>
<P align=left><A
href="http://topsy.com/www.thenation.com/article/161908/shelters-clinton-built"
target=_blank>http://topsy.com/www.thenation.com/article/161908/shelters-clinton-built</A></P></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=TimesNewRoman>
<P align=left>Similar info in forums</P></FONT><FONT color=#0000ff
face=TimesNewRoman><FONT color=#0000ff face=TimesNewRoman>
<P align=left><A href="http://www.thebellforum.com/showthread.php?t=53905"
target=_blank>http://www.thebellforum.com/showthread.php?t=53905</A></P>
<P align=left><A
href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439"
target=_blank>http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439</A></P>
<P align=left>x1469193</P>
<P align=left><A
href="http://www.the-peoples-forum.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=24912"
target=_blank>http://www.the-peoples-forum.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=24912</A></P></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=TimesNewRoman>
<P align=left>Video Shows:</P></FONT><FONT color=#0000ff
face=TimesNewRoman><FONT color=#0000ff face=TimesNewRoman>
<P align=left><A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL6VjgC3uDg"
target=_blank>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL6VjgC3uDg</A></P>
<P align=left><A
href="http://www.thenation.com/signup/161887?destination=slideshow/161887/slide-showinside-"
target=_blank>http://www.thenation.com/signup/161887?destination=slideshow/161887/slide-showinside-</A></P>
<P
align=left>clinton-foundations-shoddily-built-searingly-hot-and-toxic-haiti-</P></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=TimesNewRoman>
<P align=left>Since so many do a good job of linking to the original, we can
search for Link: original</P></FONT><FONT color=#0000ff
face=TimesNewRoman><FONT color=#0000ff face=TimesNewRoman>
<P align=left><A
href="http://www.google.com/search?q=Link%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenation.com%2F"
target=_blank>http://www.google.com/search?q=Link%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenation.com%2F</A></P>
<P
align=left>article%2F161908%2Fshelters-clinton-built&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-</P>
<P
align=left>8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a</P></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=TimesNewRoman>
<P align=left>The project was announced by Clinton as his foundation's first
contribution to the Interim</P>
<P align=left>Haiti Recovery Commission, which the former president co-chairs.
The foundation</P>
<P align=left>described the project as "hurricane-proof...emergency shelters
that can also serve as</P>
<P align=left>schools...to ensure the safety of vulnerable populations in high
risk areas during the</P>
<P align=left>hurricane season," while also providing Haitian schoolchildren
"a decent place to learn"</P>
<P align=left>and creating local jobs. The facilities, according to the
foundation, would be equipped</P>
<P align=left>with power generators, restrooms, water and sanitary storage.
They became one of the</P>
<P align=left>IHRC's first projects.</P>
<P align=left>Here's what was promised thru the IHRC project.</P></FONT><FONT
color=#0000ff face=TimesNewRoman><FONT color=#0000ff face=TimesNewRoman>
<P align=left><A
href="http://www.theinvestigativefund.org/files/managed/IHRC%20proposal-haiti.pdf"
target=_blank>http://www.theinvestigativefund.org/files/managed/IHRC%20proposal-haiti.pdf</A></P></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=TimesNewRoman>
<P align=left>The facilities, according to the foundation, would be equipped
with power generators,</P>
<P align=left>restrooms, water and sanitary storage. So far they do not have
so much as a single latrine</P>
<P align=left>supplied.</P>
<P align=left>Some projects are more interested in profits for corporate
participants, than in value for</P>
<P align=left>money invested. It is sometimes called “exploitation via
disaster capitalism.”</P>
<P align=left>One million dollars for 20 double-wides, with no
A/C...toilets...water?</P>
<P align=left>Remember formaldehyde in Katrina trailers via FEMA? The same
company has been</P>
<P align=left>paid by the Clinton Foundation to build the same kind of
technology for Haiti school</P>
<P align=left>children, and to be hurricane shelters.</P>
<P align=left>The trailers have been tested. The same deadly levels of
formaldehyde found there.</P>
<P align=left>Here are the lab results:</P></FONT><FONT color=#0000ff
face=TimesNewRoman><FONT color=#0000ff face=TimesNewRoman>
<P align=left><A
href="http://www.theinvestigativefund.org/files/managed/Haiti%20lab%20results.pdf"
target=_blank>http://www.theinvestigativefund.org/files/managed/Haiti%20lab%20results.pdf</A></P></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=TimesNewRoman>
<P align=left>Children symptoms can be explained by the high levels of
formaldehyde.</P>
<P align=left>Apparently many USA homes have safe levels of the stuff, so it
is important to identify</P>
<P align=left>levels found in Haiti vs. know what levels are
safe.</P></FONT><FONT color=#0000ff face=TimesNewRoman><FONT color=#0000ff
face=TimesNewRoman>
<P align=left><A
href="http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/ehhe/trailerstudy/compendium.htm"
target=_blank>http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/ehhe/trailerstudy/compendium.htm</A></P></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=TimesNewRoman>
<P align=left>What does it say about the reconstruction efforts in Haiti if
the very first project approved</P>
<P align=left>by the commission that is supposed to ensure accountability and
transparency in Haiti’s</P>
<P align=left>rebuilding passes this kind of project and Bill Clinton himself
has his hands all over it?,”</P>
<P align=left>says Macdonald. “He is the co-chair of this commission that is
supposed to ensure Haiti</P>
<P align=left>is built back better.”</P>
<P align=left>Greg Higgins wrote on Haiti Rewired</P></FONT><FONT
color=#0000ff face=TimesNewRoman><FONT color=#0000ff face=TimesNewRoman>
<P align=left><A
href="http://haitirewired.wired.com/group/architectureforhaiti?commentId=4920407%3ACom"
target=_blank>http://haitirewired.wired.com/group/architectureforhaiti?commentId=4920407%3ACom</A></P>
<P align=left>ment%3A55619&xg_source=msg_com_group</P></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=TimesNewRoman>
<P align=left>The Clayton Homes + Clinton scandal was predictable. If former
President Clinton had</P>
<P align=left>surrounded himself with a dozen of the best architects and
engineers money could buy (as</P>
<P align=left>in experienced and independent), this would likely not have
happened. Shipping "offthe-</P>
<P align=left>shelf" prefab schools to Haiti, as it appears they were, has to
rank as one of the</P>
<P align=left>dumbest moves yet. FYI: here's a Clayton Homes press release
from last year about</P>
<P align=left>these school buildings:</P></FONT><FONT color=#0000ff
face=TimesNewRoman><FONT color=#0000ff face=TimesNewRoman>
<P align=left><A href="http://www.claytonhomes.com/cla"
target=_blank>http://www.claytonhomes.com/cla</A></P></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=TimesNewRoman>
<P align=left>When </P></FONT><I><FONT face=TimesNewRoman,Italic>Nation
</FONT></I></FONT><FONT face=TimesNewRoman>reporters visited the
"hurricane-proof" shelters in June, six to eight months
<P align=left>after they'd been installed, we found them to consist of twenty
imported prefab trailers</P>
<P align=left>beset by a host of problems, from mold to sweltering heat to
shoddy construction. Most</P>
<P align=left>disturbing, they were manufactured by the same company, Clayton
Homes, which is</P>
<P align=left>being sued in the United States for providing the Federal
Emergency Management</P>
<P align=left>Agency (FEMA) with formaldehyde-laced trailers in the wake of
Hurricane Katrina. Air</P>
<P align=left>samples collected from twelve Haiti trailers detected worrying
levels of this carcinogen in</P>
<P align=left>one, according to laboratory results obtained as part of a joint
investigation by </P></FONT><I><FONT face=TimesNewRoman,Italic>The
Nation</FONT></I><FONT face=TimesNewRoman>
<P align=left>and The Nation Institute's Investigative Fund.</P>
<P align=left>By mid-June, two of the four schools where the Clinton
Foundation classrooms were</P>
<P align=left>installed had prematurely ended classes for the summer because
the temperature in the</P>
<P align=left>trailers frequently exceeded 100 degrees, and one had yet to
open for lack of water and</P>
<P align=left>sanitation facilities.</P>
<P align=left>As Judith Seide, a student in Lubert's sixth-grade class,
explained to </P></FONT><I><FONT face=TimesNewRoman,Italic>The
Nation</FONT></I><FONT face=TimesNewRoman>, she and
<P align=left>her classmates regularly suffer from painful headaches in their
new Clinton Foundation</P>
<P align=left>classroom. Every day, she said, her "head hurts and I feel it
spinning and have to stop</P>
<P align=left>moving, otherwise I'd fall." Her vision goes dark, as is the
case with her classmate Judel,</P>
<P align=left>who sometimes can't open his eyes because, said Seide, "he's
allergic to the heat." Their</P>
<P align=left>teacher regularly relocates the class outside into the shade of
the trailer because the</P>
<P align=left>swelter inside is insufferable.</P>
<P align=left>But headaches were not the only health problems students, staff
and parents at the Institut</P>
<P align=left>Haitiano-Caribbean (INHAC) told us they've suffered from since
the inauguration of the</P>
<P align=left>classrooms. Innocent Sylvain, a shy janitor who looks much older
than his 41 years,</P>
<P align=left>spends more time than anyone in the new trailer classrooms, with
the inglorious task of</P>
<P align=left>mopping up the water that leaks through the doors and windows
each time it rains. He</P>
<P align=left>has felt a burning sensation in his eyes ever since he began
working long hours in the</P>
<P align=left>trailers. One of his eyes is completely bloodshot, and he said,
"They itch and burn." He'd</P>
<P align=left>previously been sensitive to eye irritation, but he says he's
had worse "problems since the</P>
<P align=left>month of January"—when the schoolrooms opened their doors.</P>
<P align=left>Any number of factors might be contributing to the headaches and
eye irritation reported</P>
<P align=left>by INHAC staff and students. However, similar symptoms were
experienced by those</P>
<P align=left>living in the FEMA trailers that were found by the Centers for
Disease Control and</P>
<P align=left>Prevention to have unsafe levels of formaldehyde. Lab tests
conducted as part of our</P>
<P align=left>investigation in Haiti discovered levels of the carcinogen in
the sixth-grade Clinton</P>
<P align=left>Foundation classroom in Léogâne at 250 parts per billion—two and
a half times the level</P>
<P align=left>at which the CDC warned FEMA trailer residents that sensitive
people, such as children,</P>
<P align=left>could face adverse health effects. Assay Technologies, the
accredited lab that analyzed</P>
<P align=left>the air tests, identifies 100 parts per billion and more as the
level at which "65–80 percent</P>
<P align=left>of the population will most likely exhibit some adverse health
symptoms...when exposed</P>
<P align=left>continually over extended periods of time."</P>
<P align=left>The </P></FONT><I><FONT face=TimesNewRoman,Italic>Knoxville News
Sentinel </FONT></I><FONT face=TimesNewRoman>reported that Clayton Homes had
been awarded a milliondollar
<P align=left>contract to ship twenty trailers to Haiti, for use as classrooms
for schoolchildren.</P>
<P align=left>The Clinton Foundation claims it went through a bidding process
before awarding the</P>
<P align=left>contract to Clayton Homes, which was already embroiled in the
FEMA trailer lawsuit.</P>
<P align=left>But despite repeated requests, the foundation has not provided
</P></FONT><I><FONT face=TimesNewRoman,Italic>The Nation </FONT></I><FONT
face=TimesNewRoman>with any
<P align=left>documentation of this process.</P>
<P align=left>Bradley Mellicker, IOM’s Port-au-Prince–based emergency
preparedness and response</P>
<P align=left>officer, said, “The Clinton Foundation paid for the containers
through a no-bid process.”</P>
<P align=left>Imogen Wall, former spokeswoman for OCHA in Haiti, responded by
e-mail that OCHA</P>
<P align=left>never deals with procurement or project management.</P>
<P align=left>The Clinton Foundation did not build so much as a latrine at the
school, or at any of the</P>
<P align=left>three other schools where its trailers were installed. (INHAC
and two of the other schools</P>
<P align=left>had a limited number of pre-existing outhouses, which the school
directors saw as</P>
<P align=left>inadequate, while the fourth did not have a single outhouse,
making it unusable,</P>
<P align=left>according to the school’s director.)</P>
<P align=left>Conille, Clinton’s chief of staff at his UN office, acknowledged
in a telephone interview</P>
<P align=left>that the trailer classrooms “would never meet the standards for
school building” under</P>
<P align=left>Haitian or international regulations.</P>
<P align=left>Larry Tanner, a wind science specialist at Texas Tech
University, was “suspicious” when</P>
<P align=left>he heard that trailers were to be used as hurricane shelters in
Haiti. Tanner thought it</P>
<P align=left>unlikely that Clayton Homes had developed a mobile home that
could safely be used as a</P>
<P align=left>hurricane shelter, saying in a telephone interview that he put
the odds at “slim to none.”</P>
<P align=left>Mobile homes are considered by FEMA to be so unsafe in
hurricanes that the agency</P>
<P align=left>unequivocally advises the public to evacuate them.</P>
<P align=left>In an interview with </P></FONT><I><FONT
face=TimesNewRoman,Italic>The Nation</FONT></I><FONT face=TimesNewRoman>,
Clayton Homes engineer Mark Izzo said the Léogâne
<P align=left>trailers could withstand winds of up to 140 miles per hour. The
company arrived at this</P>
<P align=left>figure through calculations, he said, rather than testing.</P>
<P align=left>But Tanner emphasizes that such structures must be rigorously
tested for resistance to</P>
<P align=left>high winds and projectiles. Clayton Homes’ failure to test the
trailers meant that they</P>
<P align=left>would not meet the international construction standard for
hurricane shelter. “It certainly</P>
<P align=left>would not be accepted by FEMA either,” Tanner added. Moreover,
the kind of anchoring</P>
<P align=left>systems used by the trailers in Léogâne—which rely on metal
straps to attach the shelter</P>
<P align=left>to the ground—“fail routinely,” according to Tanner.</P>
<P align=left>Two weeks into Haiti’s hurricane season, </P></FONT><I><FONT
face=TimesNewRoman,Italic>The Nation </FONT></I><FONT
face=TimesNewRoman>visited some of the Clinton shelters
<P align=left>with Kit Miyamoto, a California-based structural engineer
contracted by USAID and the</P>
<P align=left>Haitian government to assess the safety of buildings in
Port-au-Prince. Standing in front</P>
<P align=left>of one of the trailers, Miyamoto looked doubtful when asked
whether, in his professional</P>
<P align=left>view, these structures were, as the Clinton Foundation has
repeatedly claimed,</P>
<P align=left>“hurricane–proof.” In the world of engineering, buildings are
rarely considered to be truly</P>
<P align=left>hurricane-proof, explained Miyamoto, who said he had never heard
of a wooden trailer</P>
<P align=left>being used as a hurricane shelter, let alone being referred to
as a hurricane-proof building.</P>
<P align=left>“To be hurricane-proof you a need a heavier structure with
concrete or blocks,” he</P>
<P>explained.</P></FONT></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>