Dozens of lawsuits for the first time are allowing voters to learn the volume of potentially damaging emails that Hillary Clinton failed to hand over to the State Department – expect this to continue for at least two more years.
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Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, made sure of that Tuesday when he announced the discovery of some new emails.
‘Neither of these emails involve the secretary or relate to the Foundation’s work, ‘ said Clinton campaign spokesman Josh Schwerin in an emailed statement to the network.
The new documents reveal that in April 2009 controversial Clinton Foundation official Doug Band pushed for a job for an associate.
The emails make clear that Band wanted to connect Chagoury with either Huma Abedin, Clinton’s deputy chief of staff, or Jeffrey Feltman, then a senior State Department official, who had recently left a post as the ambassador to Lebanon. Abedin replied, “Personnel has been sending him options”.
Williams followed up, “So you don’t feel like this email – or you don’t feel like there was impropriety in the relationship between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department at the time?”
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.
Abedin responded that she would talk to the recent USA ambassador to Lebanon, Jeffrey Feltman, who was then serving as acting assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs.
New York City Mayor Giuliani called out Hillary Clinton as the most corrupt person to ever run for office on Fox News’s “America’s Newsroom” Thursday morning.
That’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Several of Clinton’s State Department aides, including Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, Deputy Chiefs of Staff Huma Abedin and Jacob Sullivan and Deputy Assistant Secretary Philippe Reines, turned over their emails a year ago at the department’s request.
Comey reiterated before a hearing in July that they “did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues meant to violate laws governing the handling of classified information”.
According the Clinton Foundation’s “Contributor and Grantor” list, Chagoury donated between $1 million and $5 million dollars to the organization.
State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau said she could not “speak to specific cases”, but said, “It’s not unusual for candidates to be recommended to the department through a variety of avenues”. Clinton served as secretary of state from January 2009 to February 2013.
The issue of Clinton’s use of personal computer server has dogged her campaign for months. Some also expressed concern the request seemed more political than substantive, especially given the timing of it coinciding with the investigation into the private email server and Clinton’s presidential campaign. They are communications between her aides and the President’s personal aide, and indeed the recommendation was for one of the Secretary’s former staffers who was not employed by the Foundation.
“The fact remains that Hillary Clinton never took action as Secretary of State because of donations to the Clinton Foundation”, NPR quotes a Clinton spokesperson as saying.
According to the Chicago Tribune, Donald Trump stated at a rally Wednesday that Clinton “Paid for Play”. There doesn’t appear to be anything so far suggesting that in the newly released, heavily redacted emails from Judicial Watch.
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The FBI has not acknowledged any additional open investigation into Hillary Clinton.
