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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One of the emails released by the group is from Doug Band, who was a top official at the New York-based Clinton Foundation.
“We need to speak to the substance person re Lebanon”.
Abedin responded: “It’s jeff feltman”, referring to Jeffrey Feltman, who was the US ambassador to Lebanon at the time. ‘I’m sure he know him. “Ill [sic] talk to jeff”.
In a separate exchange several days earlier, Band asked for something his subject line described as “a favor”. “Important to take care of [redacted]”, Band wrote. Unfortunately, the department blocked out this man’s name and whether or not he got the job. Abedin responded, “We have all had him on our radar” and that “Personnel has been sending him options”.
At a Washington hearing last month that occurred as the FBI closed its investigation into the email server without recommending charges, agency director James Comey declined to say whether the Clinton Foundation was under investigation.
Previously disclosed Clinton e-mails showed the secretary interacting with donors to her campaign and foundation, particularly if they seemed to have expertise on some matter of worldwide relations or diplomacy.
The documents included 44 emails that were not among some 55,000 pages of emails that Mrs. Clinton had previously given to the State Department, which she said represented all her “work-related” emails.
These records further appear to contradict statements by Clinton that, “as far as she knew”, all of her government emails were turned over to the State Department.
As for Clinton’s presidential campaign, they insist that there’s nothing to see here, folks.
Clinton’s campaign denied any connections between the emails and Clinton’s work at the Clinton Foundation.
The Clinton Foundation was not part of the investigation into her private server.
Hillary Clinton has been the target of the right for a long time.
The executive – Douglas J. Band, also a personal assistant to former President Bill Clinton – asked Abedin to call the businessman, Gilbert Chagoury. And The New York Times reported that some of those emails indicated a possible “pay for play” scenario. Clinton had signed a pledge promising that Clinton Foundation activities would not “create conflicts or the appearance of conflicts for Senator Clinton as secretary of state”, and CNN suggest Mills’ quiet trip may have violated the spirit of that pledge.
More than two years later, the fact that Clinton had been using a private account during her tenure finally came to light.
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The Trump campaign immediately seized on the newly released e-mails to cast Clinton as corrupt, unreliable, and a risk to national security.
