At a heated hearing Monday, a federal judge pressed the State Department on when it would release the 15,000 documents uncovered by the FBI during its investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private email server.
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Also this week, The Associated Press reported that more than half of the people from outside government who met or spoke by telephone with Clinton in the first half of her term as secretary of state had given money – either personally or through companies or groups – to the foundation.
The order effectively pushes up the release of some of the 14,900 new documents that the Federal Bureau of Investigation turned over to the State Department. Lawyers for the department told U.S. District Court Judge James E. Boasberg on Monday that they anticipate processing and releasing the first batch of these new emails in mid-October, raising the prospect that new messages sent or received by Clinton could become public just before November’s election. She said she also deleted another 30,000 that she considered personal, The Hill noted. When reports broke a year ago that she’d set up a parallel email system at home, she said: “I responded right away and provided all my emails that could possibly be work-related, which totalled roughly 55,000 printed pages”. One day after the breakfast, according to Clinton emails, the State Department was working on a visa issue at Schwarzman’s request.
It started with a May 7, 2012, email exchange between Cheryl Mills, who then was Secretary Clinton’s chief of staff, and Amitabh Desai, a foreign policy worker for the Clinton Foundation. Keep in mind, by the way, that Clinton’s email issues are still bugging a lot of general election voters, even if core Democrats are rallying around their nominee. When it didn’t happen, Doug Band, a Clinton Foundation official (and later, Huma Abedin’s employer at Teneo) intervened.
Abraham is again mentioned in an email dated June 15, 2009, when Abdin writes Clinton, “Danny abraham wants to talk to you about israel, ideally before you see lieberman”.
We’d be thrilled if the mainstream media that hang on each and every verbal slip of Donald Trump would look into what seems like an egregious case of criminality at the highest levels of government. At this time, we have not confirmed that the documents are, in fact, responsive. Chief among her critics is Trump, the Republican nominee, who has characterized the Clinton Foundation as “the most corrupt enterprise in political history” and called for the non-profit organization to “be shut down immediately”.
Republican U.S. House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz told MSNBC on Monday the documents lawmakers received “are overly redacted” and that they are asking for another version with more of the missing information so they can be made public as soon as possible. However, to avoid the appearance of conflicts of interest, the Clintons say that, if she’s elected president, they’ll scale back its activities, divest charitable projects to other organizations, and end corporate and foreign donations.
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“As deputy head of state, the crown prince has and will continue to meet with US officials to address matters of mutual interest in the future”, the statement said.
