“I’m not going to speak anymore”, replied a State Department spokeswoman, reaching a point of exasperation repelling reporters’ hounding over a new batch of Hillary Clinton’s emails that exposed cozy relationships between the former secretary’s team and wealthy donors of her husband’s foundation.
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They also raise questions about the nature of Chagoury’s relationship with the Clinton Foundation.
The government watchdog organization released almost 300 pages of new emails, which contain almost four dozen email exchanges not previously turned over to the State Department.
“Personnel has been sending him options”, assured Clinton confidant Huma Abedin. The group did not respond to a CNN request for comment.
The Clinton Foundation referred questions to the campaign. Band notes that Chagoury is “key guy there [Lebanon] and to us”, and insists that Abedin call Amb.
“We may not get everything, and the American people know why”, Bossie said.
Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin offered Jeffrey Feltman, at that time the USA ambassador to Lebanon. “I’m sure he knows him. I’ll talk to jeff”, she promised the apparent shadow-boss of the State Department.
Feltman, in an email exchange with The New York Times on Wednesday, confirmed that he never met with Chagoury or spoke to him.
He later stated in public testimony that he wouldn’t “comment on the existence or nonexistence of other investigations”.
“You know, the almost 55,000 pages of former Secretary Clinton’s emails released by the department over the past year give a sense of the wide range of individuals both inside and outside of government that State Department officials are in contact with on a range of subjects”.
E-mails released Tuesday showed how wealthy foundation contributors could fork over piles of cash to get access to Clinton’s inner circle, including Mills and another top aide, Huma Abedin. She has said that some 55,000 pages of emails she previously gave to the State Department represented all her “work-related” emails. Her aides indicated that the department was working on the request.
“Every single one of these incidents shows us that Donald Trump simply does not have the temperament to be president and commander in chief”, she said.
“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.
All this comes after Clinton once again insisted, “T$3 here is absolutely no connection between anything that I did as secretary of state and the Clinton Foundation”. Band long served as a personal aide to former President Bill Clinton.
Earlier this week, Judicial Watch published 300 new documents from the State Department, including some never-before-seen emails. He said it’s “really, really bad” and compared Clinton to disgraced former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was imprisoned for corruption.
Mills also said she recalls speaking to the same staffer – Bryan Pagliano – about the company overseeing the server set up. Now!’ the email said.
In one email he pushed to put one of the charity’s billionaire donors into contact with a State Department official in Lebanon. The Justice Department had looked into whether it should open a case on the foundation a year prior and found it didn’t have sufficient evidence to do so. Comey said Clinton was extremely careless in the way she handled classified information.
To establish a criminal conflict of interest, authorities would have to prove that a government employee received something of value, like a job, or money, in exchange for the favor. However, subsequent inquiries by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Judicial Watch turned up additional official communications that apparently were not turned over previously.
At the NABJ-NAHJ conference on August 5 in Washington, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton reiterated her stance that she didn’t send or receive classified emails while serving as secretary of state.
One would expect a person who is asking the country to entrust her with the presidency to be able to keep conflicting interests separate (as all ethical persons do).
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The FBI has not acknowledged any additional open investigation into Hillary Clinton. “It’s clear that he continues to falsely attack Hillary Clinton as a method of distracting from his campaign’s latest meltdown”.
