“As you know, he’s key guy there and to us and is loved in Lebanon”, Band wrote. “When you have a breakdown in that system, we have a breakdown in our democracy”, Scott Arney, Project on Government Oversight, said. “I’m sure he knows him”.
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“I’m also not going to speak to specific redactions”, she replied, stressing that she can’t “speak to specific cases”.
The donor mentioned in that April 2009 email was billionaire Gilbert Chagoury. Mr.
Feltman, in an email exchange with The New York Times on Wednesday, confirmed that he never met with Chagoury or spoke to him.
“Correct”, she said. “The Privacy Act limits our ability to comment on the hiring process”.
“No wonder Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin hid emails from the American people, the courts and Congress”, Fitton said. Earlier this year the DOJ denied a request from the FBI to investigate her pay-to-play, corrupt Clinton Foundation, ‘ team Trump wrote in an email to supporters this afternoon, asking for donations.
Additionally, the Clinton campaign said Chagoury had wanted to offer insights to the Lebanon point person at the State Department about the country’s forthcoming election and wasn’t looking for any kind of favors. The report raises further questions about interactions between people who worked for the two organizations while Clinton was secretary of State.
Polls show Clinton leading Trump in all-important Virginia.
“This is yet more evidence that Hillary Clinton lacks the judgment, character, stability and temperament to be within 1,000 miles of public power”, said Stephen Miller, Trump’s national policy director.
Clinton called the development “good news”, but she continued using a private Blackberry tied to her private server.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a rally at Osceola Heritage Park, in Kissimmee, Fla.
“We will appropriately and with due diligence process any additional material we receive from the Federal Bureau of Investigation to identify work-related agency records and make them available to the public consistent with our legal obligations”, said Elizabeth Trudeau, director of press relations at the State Department. The Republican Party has said that Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, sought to help contributors to the foundation in a “pay-for-play” scheme. The FBI went to Justice Department earlier this year asking for it to open a case into the foundation, but the public integrity unit declined.
The investigation, based on CNN’s reporting, was shot down because the Department of Justice could not find sufficient evidence to open such an investigation into Hillary and Bill Clinton’s charitable organization.
Conservative Watchdog just released 300 new e-mails that it told Fox News Tuesday was not among the original 30,000 that was released previously a couple weeks ago.
Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testifies before the House Select Committee on Benghazi as Jake Sullivan, left, Clinton’s top foreign policy campaign adviser and her deputy chief of staff at the State Department, and Cheryl Mills, right, Clinton’s chief of staff at the State Department, look on October 22, 2015. “The idea that this poses a conflict of interest is absurd”. “We feel confident that all the rules were followed”, State Department spokesman Elizabeth Trudeau said today.
That decision to forego a Clinton Foundation investigation was not the DOJ’s first.
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This email, and the response to it, emerged this week as a result of a lawsuit over emails sent on the Clinton family’s private server.
