Long-time Clinton aide to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin, at a campaign stop in Fresno, California.
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The State Department is reviewing nearly 15,000 “previously undisclosed” emails recovered during the FBI’s investigation into Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server during her time as secretary of state, according to the Associated Press.
Clinton, who faces Republican Donald Trump in the November 8 US presidential election, has been dogged for more than a year about questions over her use of private email account and a personal computer server while she was secretary of state from 2009-2013, during President Barack Obama’s first term.
Emails released Monday provide new examples of a Clinton Foundation official seeking access to the State Department on behalf of donors at a time when Hillary Clinton led the department.
“As we have always said, Hillary Clinton provided the State Department with all the work-related emails she hand in her possession in 2014”.
Smith is demanding documents from the companies as two congressional committees from the House and Senate investigate the Democratic presidential nominee’s use of a private email server while she was secretary of state.
The documents are part of a cache that the Federal Bureau of Investigation turned over to the State Department at the end of its probe into Clinton’s use of her private email server.
Judicial Watch, the conservative legal group at the forefront of the lawsuit that has led to Clinton’s emails being made public, tepidly praised the decision to expedite the process to make the emails public. Republicans charge that donors to the foundation, including foreign governments and corporations, got preferential treatment from the State Department while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state. According to the Clinton Foundation website, in 2005, Salman committed to establishing the Crown Prince’s International Scholarship Program (CPISP) for the Clinton Global Initiative.
Abedin responded, writing that the crown prince asked to see Clinton through “normal channels”. “This is just another lawsuit meant to try to hurt Hillary Clinton’s campaign, and so we are glad that the judge has accepted our offer to answer these questions in writing rather than grant Judicial Watch’s request”.
State Department spokesman Matt Toner said Monday there was nothing improper or unusual about the messages with Clinton Foundation staff.
Powell and aides to his successor as secretary of state in the Bush administration, Condoleezza Rice, received some classified information via personal email accounts, Reuters has reported.
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The Clinton campaign blasted Judicial Watch’s claims as a mischaracterization of what’s in the documents and accused the group of continuing to make “utterly false claims” against the Clintons. We need this meeting with Secretary Clinton, who has been there now for almost six months. Mostly likely this will mean an initial release of the new emails starting in October.
