In response, the Clinton campaign said, “Neither of these emails involve the secretary or relate to the foundation’s work”.
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The messages, turned over by State to Judicial Watch as part of a freedom-of-information suit brought by the advocacy group, renew questions about whether the charity headed by former President Bill Clinton sought to give donors access to his wife’s office when she led US diplomacy from 2009 to 2013.
Records show an official from the Clinton Foundation, Doug Band, pushing for a job for an associate by asking Clinton’s aides at the State Department to help.
Band said in his email that it was “important to take care of [redacted]”, and Abedin responded “We have all had him on our radar” and that “Personnel has been sending him options”.
Emails released yesterday from Judicial Watch reveal several instances where Hillary Clinton and her aides were asked for favors from Clinton Foundation donors. In one of those exchanges, an executive at the Clinton Foundation asked for the State Department to put a billionaire donor in touch with the American ambassador to Lebanon.
Allegations that the Clinton Foundation, a global charitable organization created by former President Bill Clinton, worked to compensate donors by providing access at the State Department has cast a shadow over the current Democratic presidential nominee for years. “As you know, he’s key guy there and to us and is beloved in lebanon.
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Browne also reported that sources said that there was disagreement among DOJ officials at the meeting about whether to open the probe, which would have occurred alongside an investigation into whether Clinton mishandled classified information on her private email server.
The e-mails once again, raising questions about Clinton’s decision-making and trustworthiness, while Clinton continues to stumble over the issue on the campaign trail, “I may have short-circuited it and for that I will try to clarify”.
[C] oordinating her activities and President Clinton’s activities and Chelsea’s activities in the Clinton Foundation, they’re probably going to have to leave that until after the election.
Much of the correspondence has been redacted by the State Department.
The exchange of emails emerged this week as a result of a lawsuit over emails sent on the Clinton family’s private server. The foundation has the Clinton name on it.
The FBI spent more than a year examining Clinton’s use of a private email account, but it is not clear how the work of the Clinton Foundation figured into that investigation.
“That the Clinton Foundation was calling in favors barely 3 months into Hillary Clinton’s tenure at the State Department is deeply troubling and it is yet another reminder of the conflicts of interest and unethical wheeling and dealing she’d bring to the White House”, spokesman Michael Short said in a statement.
A campaign official said it was a young person who was neither a donor nor a foundation employee.
Many critics interpreted those comments as a threat of violence against Clinton, and a Secret Service official told CNN Wednesday that the agency has spoken with the Trump campaign about the remarks. But Cuomo wasn’t buying the notion that Clinton wouldn’t know about what some of her closest aides were up to – particularly if they were doing something Clinton told the public she wouldn’t do.
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And Judicial Watch does indeed have a right-wing bent, but voters deserve answers that address the substance of the emails.
