In this kind of contest, hidden information are disinterred, used as weapon of defeat. He has appeared near the top of the Foundation’s donor list as a $1 million to $5 million contributor, according to foundation documents.
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The top-level executives Mills would interview for the big job at the Clinton Foundation worked at Pfizer and WalMart – companies that have been huge donors to Foundation, and have worked with the Clinton Global Initiative. At that time, three field offices had agreed that an investigation should be launched. He also acknowledged that she sent or received more than 100 emails that were determined to contain classified information at the time the emails were originated.
There doesn’t appear to be anything so far suggesting that in the newly released heavily redacted emails from Judicial Watch, but those emails do raise questions about whether the relationship between the State Department and Clinton Foundation was too cozy, particularly after Clinton pledged she would not be involved with the foundation when she became secretary of state in an effort to prevent an inappropriate relationship.
In one instance, top Clinton Foundation official Doug Band lobbied Clinton aides for a job for someone else in the State Department. Abedin told him, “Personnel has been sending him options”. It notes that the emails are aide to aide, not involving Clinton.
The campaign said yesterday in a statement that Clinton never “took action” as secretary of state because of donations to her family’s foundation.
“The new emails made public just in the last week seem to make a direct connection between favors done by State Department officials and major foreign donors to the Clinton Foundation”, Pence said. In the email Band says Chagoury is a “key guy there [Lebanon] and to us”. “And the government should be turning that information over, when you have a breakdown in that system, we have a breakdown in our democracy”.
“It’s jeff feltman”, Abedin responded, referring to Jeffrey Feltman, who was the USA ambassador to Lebanon at the time. “Everybody I know. helps their friends”, he said. Abedin responded saying she’d “talk to jeff”.
“I think the simplest way to say it is look, there’s a long-running dispute between the State Department and the intelligence agencies”.
Donald Trump’s campaign said the emails are evidence that Clinton is corrupt. Then it should be easy to find the simple truth by following a paper trail that should exist as these Clinton Foundation transactions and speeches evolved. The DOJ said it would allow that probe to continue, but would not open a case against the Clinton Foundation.
Clinton’s White House challenger, GOP nominee Donald Trump, has said since the close of the Justice Department case that rival nations potentially have US secrets as a result of Clinton using a private server, which should disqualifies her from running for president.
Because the DOJ was unable to find sufficient evidence, it pushed back against opening a case when meeting with the Federal Bureau of Investigation earlier in the year. However, the investigation found that the claims presented in the book were unsubstantiated and that there was not sufficient evidence to open a formal case against the organization.
Mr Clinton also said the email server should not be a cause for distrust and that people in the national security community would not endorse his wife’s candidacy if it was.
Mills told the attorneys she spoke with a Clinton IT staffer in 2013, after learning the email account of a close Clinton confidante, Sidney Blumenthal, had been compromised by a hacker. “This is the biggest load of bull I’ve ever heard”.
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While McCaskill had defended her party’s nominee for president up until that point in the interview, she didn’t even attempt to make the case for Fernando’s appointment.
