Response from State: “No clue”. Clinton vowed this week to change donor restrictions if she wins. Too bad, she shrugged.
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The trigger was an email sent to Clinton by an unnamed Department of State appointee she had sponsored for a security position. And when her lawyers in 2014 went through her emails to mark those considered personal and thus able to be deleted, they did not read each one but rather relied on the header information or search terms, Comey said.
The order came after the Federal Bureau of Investigation gave the department a disc earlier this month containing 14,900 emails to and from Ms Clinton and other documents it said it had recovered that she did not return to the government.
So better to just not.
But she also dodged a question about why she did not cut her ties with the Foundation while she was secretary of state but has chose to do so now that she is running for president, saying only that if she wins the November election “there will be some unique circumstances” that will require her to change its operating procedure and distance herself from it.
Extraordinary indeed. There is no light which can paint this nicely; no spin which can portray this as anything other than what it was – a “pay-to-play” attitude on the part of Clinton, who allowed top Foundation donors to reap the benefits of the near-limitless power of America’s State Department.
The foundation has said it will no longer accept foreign or corporate funding for at least some of its work if Clinton is elected. As per this, Cooper asked a pretty logical question: Wouldn’t any conflicts of interest that would exist when she’s president also have existed when she was Secretary of State?
Charity Watch gives the Clinton Foundation an “A” for its operations and says that 88 percent of its money goes to programs. Neither my husband nor I have ever drawn a salary from it. I think it’s quite remarkable.
Someone out there, Julian Assange, Russia, or the rogue websites doing all this hacking, are believed to have many more explosive emails they are preparing to drop before Election Day.
“Don’t get me started”, stated Abedin.
CLINTON: … concerning. Even the recent news that his business are hundreds of millions of dollars in debt to big banks, including the state-owned Bank of China and business groups who are tied to the Kremlin.
The Justice Department cleared Clinton of allegations that she mishandled classified information while she was Secretary of State but still criticised her use of the private email server. Now, obviously, if I am president, there will be some unique circumstances and that’s why the foundation has laid out additional … SCIF refers to the secretary of state’s secured office.
In a statement, AP spokesperson Paul Colford said his organization had been “transparent in how it has reported this story”, and that it would continue to examine Clinton’s schedules as they became available.
COOPER: Didn’t those unique circumstances exist …
Her defenders: They’re outraged over the AP story.
Donna Brazile, the interim head of the Democratic National Committee, said it’s not unusual for supporters and activists to seek out private meetings and that there’s no evidence Clinton did any favors on behalf of foundation donors. Clinton dodged the question: “Well again, this is an agreement that has been worked out between all of the parties”, she blathered, noting the concerns “were thoroughly discussed”.
What is alarming is that none of these revelations appear to seriously damage Clinton’s bid for the presidency. But the thing is, she’s not going to keep getting handed opportunities to shift the narrative like that.
She seems not to recognize that while a good lawyer focuses on what the law allows, a good politician focuses on what the people want.
The really lesson here is that there’s no winning when you’re Clinton. Finally, when the worker is retiring, the guard asks, “I know you’ve been stealing something – can you tell me what it is?”
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COOPER: We appreciate you talking to us tonight. He received assistance from Clinton’s aides after three meetings with the secretary and a string of pleas to help him with his relationship with the Bangladeshi government.
