Dig on early days of Bill Clintons bagman Doug Band, how he was instrumental in the Clinton Foundation. Ties together a lot of the bad actors. Dig worthy:
https://newrepublic.com/article/114790/how-doug-band-drove-wedge-through-clinton-dynasty
After the election, Band’s relationship with Clinton entered a hybrid phase. He still traveled with Bill when he was needed: In August 2009, he accompanied Clinton to North Korea to retrieve two American women who had been imprisoned there. In one of the more surreal official photos of all time, Clinton and Kim Jong-il sit stiffly in front of a kitschy tsunami backdrop. Standing directly behind the diminutive North Korean dictator is Band. In another picture, he is walking between the two women across the tarmac to a waiting jet (on loan from Steve Bing), hoisting their largest duffel. The two images captured Band’s role perfectly. He was in the innermost circle, and he was still carrying people’s bags. Sosnik told me: “As he grew in the job and the job became bigger, he still did the crap work. There was no discussion of it.”
Lots of pictures and good article on 2009 WJC visit to NK to free hostages. Slave garden Q drop pic plus many more to dig on.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2009/aug/04/north-korea-clinton?picture=351234306
Super interesting article on the tsunami / kim jon il painting / mural artists:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160305092947/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204908604574336383324209824
Keywords; frank guistra carolos slim huma abedein and relationship w/ doug band