Trump also alleged that “Bill Clinton received $500,000 for a speech to a Kremlin-backed investment firm that was a beneficiary of the deal”.
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Judicial Watch suggested that granting Band’s request would have been a violation of federal regulations limiting diplomatic passports to members of the Foreign Service, their relatives and those working on US government contracts.
“The staff of former presidents are not included among those eligible to be issued a diplomatic passport”, according to the official.
This, as a new report form Politico accused Bill Clinton of using special GSA funds reserved for ex-presidents to support his wife’s private email server.
“Diplomatic passports are issued to foreign-service officers or a person having diplomatic or comparable status because he or she is traveling overseas to carry out diplomatic duties on behalf of the U.S. Government”, the official told the Hill.
However, only “members of Foreign Service, their family members, or those working on USA government contracts” can receive these types of passports.
From Whitewater to Monica Lewinsky, for much of his presidency Bill Clinton was either under investigation or seemingly on the brink of being impeached. Bill Clinton already had a diplomatic passport as a former president.
But when read alongside the book that her husband and Al Gore published in 1992, it offers a glimpse into the many ways that the Democratic Party has drifted to the left over the past quarter-century on everything from crime to trade, from Social Security and welfare to Israel and the Middle East.
“Apparently he is head of us china business council”.
Yeah, well, all vast right-wing conspiracy accusations aside … why did the State Department and Hillary have to grant personal access to Dow Chemical’s CEO to arrange this rescue trip? “Is he definitely going to be there?”
“The State Department was not responsible for monitoring or approving the organization and operation of the Clinton Foundation or its offshoots”, Elizabeth Trudeau, a department spokeswoman, said in a statement.
Abedin responded: “Yes pull aside on arrival”.
The arts group and the Clinton School also were recipients in 2014, as were several other beneficiaries on the latest list.
As for the Politico article, Clinton’s supporters note, just as Vogel does, that nothing about the use of tax dollars was illegal. In a civil deposition ordered by a federal judge, Mills frequently invoked the attorney-client privilege to avoid answering questions about Clinton’s email setup.
FBI Director James Comey said that while Clinton and her aides had been “extremely careless”, there was no evidence they intentionally mishandled classified information.
U.S. District Judge Richard Leon (Associated Press v. U.S. Department of State, No. 1:15-cv-00345) is overseeing the release of the Clinton daily schedules that the AP is using to connect the dots between foundation donors and government meetings.
Another email exchange occurred between billionaire businesswoman Lynn Forester de Rothschild to Hillary about an interview with Parade magazine for journalist Les Gelb.
The Clinton Foundation will close its overseas fundraising arms in Sweden and the United Kingdom if Hillary Clinton becomes president, ABC News has learned.
From the context of the emails quoted by Judicial Watch, it is obvious that Clinton was initially reluctant to meet with the crown prince on a particular day on short notice.
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The Department of Justice agreement to limit the scope of a criminal interview based on untested claims of attorney-client privilege is, at the very least, unusual.
