But CNN’s own reporting debunks these claims, explaining that Mills was not a paid employee at the Clinton Foundation and the State Department permitted employees to engage in outside volunteer activities while on personal time.
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After newly released emails from Hillary Clinton raised questions about connections between the State Department and the Clinton Foundation during her tenure as secretary of State, the State Department came to her aide.
But the senior Texas Republican senator points out in his letter that Lynch did follow FBI Director James Comey’s recommendation in July not to press charges on Hillary Clinton over her use of a private email server.
Still, that doesn’t mean these emails should be dismissed, nor should the general concern about overlap between the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton-run State Department.
The conservative legal group Judicial Watch obtained the emails as part of its lawsuit against the State Department.
Records show an official from the Clinton Foundation, Doug Band, pushing for a job for an associate by asking Clinton’s aides at the State Department to help.
“Important to take care of (redacted)”, Band reportedly emailed Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin.
But Fernandez hasn’t just donated money to the Clinton Foundation.
As it turned out, Feltman said he never connected with the billionaire.
“Make a false statement that overreaches and hope it changes the conversation from his comments yesterday casually inciting violence”, he said in a statement.
In another email, Mills informed her that National Security Agency and State Department officials discussed an attempt to develop a modified blackberry for Clinton that might be used when she worked in a restricted State Department office that did not allow private phones.
A fresh report that federal prosecutors are probing the Clinton Foundation revived speculation Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton may not be past her email problems, but the Justice Department on Friday declined to confirm the account. We do know Abedin wrote back, “We all have him on our radar”. According to the official, Band was recommending a young person who had done some advance work for Clinton during her 2008 presidential campaign.
The former United States president said Mrs Clinton should have known that there would be a different set of rules applied to her if she ran for the White House.
Mills left the board of the Clinton Foundation when Clinton became secretary of state to serve as her chief of staff.
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Clinton campaign communications director Jennifer Palmieri said: “Donald Trump is hiding behind fake excuses and backtracking on his previous promises to release his tax returns”. “It violates the commitment Secretary Clinton made to Congress and the executive branch following her nomination to be secretary of state”.
