Hillary Clinton’s email practices are back in the spotlight after the Federal Bureau of Investigation uncovered almost 15,000 new emails that she failed to hand over to the US State Department previous year.
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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.
Judge William Dimitrouleas of the US District Court in southern Florida made his order in response to a request by the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, which is suing the State Department for Clinton-era records under freedom of information laws. Or they could be documents that should have been released to the public, but we should find out in a matter of weeks.
She said it was “extremely ambitious” for the agency to complete its review and begin releasing the first batches of emails to Judicial Watch by October 14, given the volume of messages.
The surest way for a person with private interests to get a meeting with Secretary of State Clinton, or a phone call returned by her, it seems, was to dump a bundle of cash into the Clinton Foundation.
Hillary Clinton has not answered why her current campaign chairman, John Podesta, sat on the board of a company alongside Russian officials that received $35 million from Rusnano, Vladimir Putin’s funding apparatus. “Combined, the 85 donors contributed as much as $156 million”.
“It could be snazzier”, Chelsea wrote. Here are some of the weirdest things the Clinton Foundation asked for from Hillary Clinton’s State Department staff.
Clinton’s press secretary Brian Fallon responded vigorously to the claims, saying in a statement that “the data does not account for more than half of her tenure as secretary”.
“Abedin forwarded the message to other State Department aides with the message ‘For her book tomorrow”. But Clinton has bigger worries as more emails continue to trickle out, revealing who knows what.
In her June deposition to JW, Abedin said part of her job at State was taking care of “Clinton family matters”.
“The fundamental thing is you can not be secretary of state of the United States of America and use that position to extort or to seek contributions to your private foundation”, Sessions said.
And why is Clinton is keeping her State Department calendar secret from the AP, if it does not contain meetings or calls she does not want to defend?
The film’s producer, of course, is former Breitbart News Executive Chairman and current Donald Trump campaign CEO Stephen K. Bannon.
If you feel that you are hopelessly behind on the news regarding Hillary Clinton’s many breaches of security through her home-brew server as well as the Clinton Cash pay-to-play scandal, in which Hillary more or less auctioned off the State Department, Glenn Reynolds’ latest USA Today column is a good way to catch up.
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The exchanges disclosed by Judicial Watch show an uncomfortable coziness between the State Department and the Clinton Foundation.
