“People who have given them political donations and also people who have persistently given donations to the Clinton Foundation, who did appear from these emails to have a sort of back channel, direct line in to Hillary Clinton when she was secretary of state”. She has reached out to independents and Republicans; he has insulted the family of a soldier killed in Iraq, along with people with disabilities, Latinos and women.
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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”.
According to the Times, Madeleine Albright hosted the dinner party with other former secretaries of state – including Powell and Rice and Henry Kissinger – to celebrate Clinton’s appointment to the top diplomatic post. Some are personal. Others show foreign officials sought favors in return for large Clinton Foundation donations.
After a year-long investigation, FBI Director James Comey said last month that Clinton should have recognized the sensitivity of the information and that she had been “extremely careless” with government secrets. The second disk is labeled as emails containing classified information.
Of course she had, and for own reasons. “When she got caught, Mrs Clinton cherry-picked the emails she’d turn over to State and tried to destroy the rest”. But there also have been self-inflicted wounds that accentuate her struggle to win voters’ trust: the continuing controversy over her use of private e-mail while Secretary of State and potential conflicts involving the Clinton Foundation. Now we’ve learned that Clinton told the Federal Bureau of Investigation that Powell advised her to use private email as secretary of state at a dinner in 2009.
No wonder that Colin Powell finds Hillary’s effort to enlist him as one of the justifications for her private server so galling.
What they say: Republicans want a special prosecutor to weigh corruption charges over the Clinton Foundation. Judicial Watch sues under public records law – there were by March of a year ago 10 active Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuits against the State Department related to Clinton’s emails, so no, there probably will not be an end to Judicial Watch’s pursuit of Clinton records. In the emails, foundation employee Doug Band asks government staff for help – for the crown prince of Bahrain who wants a meeting with Clinton; the worldwide soccer player who needs an expedited U.S.travel visa; the billionaire who wants to speak with the ambassador to Lebanon.
Of those 154 meetings, 85 were donors to the Clinton Foundation. However, this infuriated Lauren Burke, a Judicial Watch lawyer. This latest disclosure of more emails only emphasizes the degree to which that mission was not accomplished.
State Department employees are due to craft a timeline for the release at a meeting on September 23. However, the total amount of emails the FBI found in its investigation has not been made public. “I can tell you, though, that she has no recollection of that conversation either”.
“The evidence indicates to me that this should be fully investigated”, he said.
The new emails add nearly 50 percent to the total emails previously disclosed, though so far the State Department has not had time to evaluate what number of them are work-related, or whether they may be duplicates of previously released emails.
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Dismissively. Josh Schwerin, a campaign spokesman, characterised Judicial Watch as a “right-wing organization that has been going after the Clintons since the 1990s” and which is well known for “distorting facts to make utterly false attacks”.
