Fearing the worst, I read the article in its entirety (before seeing this diary). I'm relieved that there isn't much, if anything, there.

As far as I can tell, here's what the story boils down to:

Canadian mining executive Frank Giustra and Bill Clinton meet in June 2005 at a fundraiser for tsunami victims. Due to common interests, including philanthropy, they quickly become friends and travel the world together. Giustra is already worth hundreds of millions of dollars at the time.

A few months later, they go to Kazakhstan, where the Clinton Foundation has negotiated a deal allowing the Kazakh government to buy discounted AIDS drugs. Giustra, believing correctly that the price of uranium is about to soar, has been working on a deal to mine uranium there, and completes the deal a couple of days later.

There seems to be no evidence that Clinton helped facilitate the uranium deal in any way. The head of the Kazakh government agency, whose quotes appear to be the basis for the perception of fishiness, even says that the deal was nearly complete before Clinton's arrival and was done according to merit.

Over the next year, Giustra donates $31 million to the Clinton Foundation, and has pledged to give another $100 million or so.

The only thing that's amiss is that Bill Clinton apparently offers praise to the Kazakh leader, who is apparently autocratic in nature. The Kazakh leader appears not to have had any involvement in this either.

So let's see--what do we learn from this?

Bill Clinton is involved in shady deals that raise money for tsunami victims and help people get discounted AIDS medicines.

His friend Giustra likes to make money, and then give it to charity.

Can't trust these two, I say.