If the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been investigating the Clinton Foundation since they have been working on the other email scandal, then we might here something before the election. A new batch of State Department emails released Tuesday showed the close and sometimes overlapping interests between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department when Clinton served as secretary of state.
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Reporters also wanted Trudeau to address the ethics of her Department and Clinton Foundation after one of the emails exposed a special request from the former president’s team.
“Important to take care of (redacted)”, Band reportedly emailed Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin.
In a 2009 email, Band directs Abedin and Mills to put Chagoury, a Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire and Clinton Foundation donor, in contact with the State Department’s “substance person” on Lebanon. Abedin responded by letting Bend know that she would talk to Jeff Feltman, the U.S. Ambassador in Lebanon, and try to setup a meeting. He also pledged $1 billion to the Clinton Global Initiative.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party presidential nominee, won’t go another week in between email-related controversies.
Thus, in turn, raised questions about both CNN as well as the DOJ.
Earlier this week, Judicial Watch published 300 new documents from the State Department, including some never-before-seen emails.
“They show the Clinton Foundation, Clinton donors, and operatives worked with Hillary Clinton in potential violation of the law”, he added.
During Wednesday’s State Department press briefing, Associated Press Diplomatic Writer Matt Lee asked State Department Press Office Director Elizabeth Trudeau “am I not speaking English?”
John Cornyn, R-Texas, sent a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch asking questions about a report that says the Justice Department turned down new requests to investigation the Clinton Foundation for possible wrongdoing.
While some of the emails appear damning on the surface, Hillary Clinton’s campaign tells CNN that there was nothing illegal done and that Clinton is being attacked by the right-wing Judicial Watch.
GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump sought to use the emails to paint Clinton as corrupt. Clinton signed a classified information non-disclosure agreement when she took office in January 2009 in which she acknowledged that classified information should be considered classified whether it is marked or unmarked. And it slammed Judicial Watch as a right-wing advocacy group.
“I’m not going to answer that”, Comey replied, according to The New York Times.
Clinton set off a political firestorm recently when she insisted that Comey had said her answers to the American public regarding the emails were truthful.
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“I call it life”, the Somerville Democrat said in a feisty conversation with Boston Herald Radio’s Hillary Chabot.
