A newly released State Department email features Clinton Foundation-related requests, raising potential ethical issues about the Clinton Foundation during Hillary Clinton’s four years as Secretary of State. And it slammed Judicial Watch as a right-wing advocacy group.
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Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin offered Jeffrey Feltman, at that time the US ambassador to Lebanon.
The Clinton Foundation has been a tempting target for watchdogs and conservatives. If there’s nothing to see, why didn’t Clinton and the State Department release the emails with all the others?
The investigation was not opened because the Department of Justice said it had looked into allegations surrounding the Clinton Foundation a year earlier and established at that time that there wasn’t enough of a case to open a formal probe, CNN reported.
And on Thursday, the Trump campaign sent an email to supporters saying the emails “exposed a concerning link between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department!”
Former U.S. Secretary of State and first lady Hillary Clinton speaks at a press conference announcing a new initiative between the Clinton Foundation, United Nations Foundation and Bloomberg Philanthropies on December 15, 2014, in New York City.
At nearly the same time the emails were released, Trump made a comment about gun owners that dominated cable news.
Clinton has been criticized for months for exclusively using personal email routed through a private server for government business. The FBI launched an inquiry into the handling of sensitive data after classified information was found in some emails, but the Department of Justice declined to prosecute. So what the Federal Bureau of Investigation wanted to do, earlier this year, is open up a case and investigate whether there was a conflict of interest at the time that that donor was making contributions to the Clinton Foundation during Clinton’s tenure at the State Department. That means the State Department will have to release them, and it says it will, though it hasn’t said when that will happen.
Donald Trump’s campaign released a statement last night calling the emails from Doug Band “more evidence that Hillary Clinton lacks the judgment, character, stability and temperament to be within 1,000 miles of public power”.
Mills traveled to New York City in June 2012 and interviewed two high-level business executives for a prominent position at the Clinton Foundation, CNN reported.
The problem with this is that the Foundation, the personal assistants, and Clinton’s political work are incestuous.
Neither Clinton nor the foundation appears to have done anything wrong, Capuano said today, noting the State Department does not appear to have acted on the requests from the foundation.
If what Chagoury wanted to discuss with the senior State Department official was no big deal, why did Brandt seem to be urgently pulling every string he could to set up the meeting?
In early 2009, a donor to Clinton’s 2008 campaign, Lana Moresky, asked Clinton directly for help finding an associate a job at the State Department.
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The Clinton campaign denied the emails showed any wrongdoing.
