The batch of emails also included 20 exchanges with Clinton that were not among those submitted to the State Department, according to Judicial Watch – raising the possibility that there were indeed work-related emails that were deleted instead of being handed over for public release.
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Judge James Boasberg, in an order, set a deadline for the department to complete the email review by September 22 to determine which ones contain sensitive government information and which are strictly personal conversations. That could pave the way for the emails to be released as early as mid-October.
The State Department is now reviewing almost 15,000 previously undisclosed emails recovered as part of the FBI investigation.
The FBI concluded she was “extremely careless” but declined to pursue charges against the one-time first lady of the US and former NY senator.
Boasberg is supervising the case as part of a federal public-records lawsuit lodged by the conservative legal advocacy group Judicial Watch.
“Offering bahrain cp 10 tomorrow for mtg [with ] hrc [.] If u see him, let him know”, Abedin wrote Band on July 25.
Among these emails were one from a sports executive asking Abedin for help getting a visa for a British soccer player with a criminal past, but that Clinton’s close aide balked. For example, Datto provided an online backup system that eventually began storing Clinton’s emails off site.
Clinton, who is now leading Trump in opinion polls ahead of the election, has said she did not compromise classified information and used a private server for convenience, and later apologized, saying “I take responsibility”.
Clinton Foundation development officer Linda Andich raised the question of the TAQA donation after reading a report of Hillary Clinton’s advocacy for Yunus, who had been charged in Bangladesh with financial mismanagement of the bank, which was supposed to be giving micro-loans to people to encourage economic development. “It is now clear that the Clinton Foundation is the most corrupt enterprise in political history”.
Monday’s hearing comes seven weeks after the Justice Department had closed the investigation over Clinton’s emails without any charges.
Judicial Watch said the emails showed donors to the Clinton family’s charitable foundation seeking access to her during the period she was secretary of state. The Kingdom of Bahrain reportedly gave between $50,000 and $100,000 to the Clinton Foundation. The crown prince in 2005 launched a scholarship program through the Clinton Global Initiative, a wing of the foundation that coordinates charitable projects, that was meant to “educate select Bahraini students to take leadership roles in the private and public sectors”, according to the CGI website. And by 2010, it had contributed $32 million to CGI.
This too is a fair account of the email exchange, which you can read here.
“I hope we can make something work… we have to work through the beauracracy [sic]”, Abedin replied.
Mr. Band responded: “Then don’t”. Allegedly, Powell didn’t advise Clinton (channeling Winston Churchill) that “diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions”, or (channeling Will Durant) that “to say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy”, or even to avoid a land war in Asia. Her husband Bill and daughter Chelsea are still on the board. O’Keefe who met Clinton when she lived in Park Ridge and Conlon are Clinton’s top IL organizers and have helped raise money for the Clinton’s for years. According to Abedin, Clinton never said she wouldn’t meet the guy; she just wanted to put off the decision. The Obama White House had invited Fernando to be a guest at state dinner honoring Cameron that evening.
Judicial Watch has been seeking all emails sent or received by Clinton at the State Department in a request made under the federal Freedom of Information Act.
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“There was no impropriety”, said State Department deputy spokesman Mark Toner. In addition, no observers from Clinton’s privately hired staff were allowed to be involved in process of determining work-related emails.
