Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch released a new batch of Clinton’s emails on Tuesday that exposed the questionable exchanges Clinton and her aides had while she was serving as secretary of state.
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Judicial Watch president Tom Filton accused Ms Clinton of hiding 44 emails.
“The disconnect between these new revelations and her sworn testimony suggests Mills gave a misleading account under oath to hide an attempted cover up of Clinton’s reckless email arrangement”, Short said in an email to ABC News. In one email, Band requested a meeting between a wealthy donor and an ambassador, and in another he asked Clinton’s aides to find a job for an associated, whose name was redacted from the email.
Indeed, Clinton Foundation executive Doug Band writes to State Department aides and Clinton’s close confidantes, Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills, that the Lebanese billionaire foundation donor is a “key guy there [in Lebanon] and to us” and, as such, he needs to be put in touch with a “substance person” in the USA government. Abedin replied, “Personnel has been sending him options”. Clinton Global Initiative’s Douglas J. Band said he wanted to connect Chagoury to Jeffrey Feltman, the ambassador.
According to the Daily Caller, the emails indicate that the Clinton Foundation was shuffling around a series of donations from a corrupt Bangladeshi banker at the same time Clinton was defending him publicly in her capacity as Secretary of State during a visit to Bangladesh. Band notes that Chagoury is “key guy there [Lebanon] and to us”, and insists that Abedin call Amb.
Bernie Sanders goofed by dismissing Clinton’s possible ethics issues: “the American people are sick and exhausted of hearing about your damn e-mails”, Sanders famously said at the first Democratic debate. “[They] show the Clinton Foundation, Clinton donors, and operatives worked with Hillary Clinton in potential violation of the law”.
That’s just the tip of the iceberg. The email exchange occurred between Cheryl Mills, then Hillary Clinton’s chief of staff, and Amitabh Desai, the Clinton Foundation’s director of foreign policy.
“To have her travel to New York City for the purposes of basically interviewing two would-be leaders for the Clinton Foundation, and then to have [Clinton campaign spokesman] Brian Fallon say it was clear this had nothing to do with her official responsibilities is totally and completely preposterous on its face”, he said. “And I am determined that we are going to build more and we are going to be able to create more businesses and more jobs by doing so”.
Darren Hayes, an expert in computer forensics who’s a cybersecurity professor at Pace University’s Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems, said that to see all of Clinton’s emails would require access to her personal server and all other devices that were used to store her emails.
The Clinton campaign was quick to push back on the insinuations drawn from the cozy conversations contained in the emails.
The FBI reportedly asked the Justice Department earlier this year about possibly having its public integrity unit investigate the Clinton Foundation, but the agency declined to do so, according to a report.
A Clinton campaign aide denied that Chougary was seeking influence at the State Department.
Browne, who did not provide any details about the Clinton Foundation donor, reported that three DOJ field offices agreed with the FBI’s suggestion.
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump pointed Wednesday to the document release, saying the emails reveal Clinton’s “pay to play” approach to governance. The Justice Department declined to press charges against Clinton for her use of the private server earlier this year.
