THIRD NAIL IN THE
COFFIN OF HILLARY CLINTON
New batch of Clinton emails
raises big questions
Newly
released emails from US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s time
as the former secretary of state have raised questions about possible links
between the department and the Clinton Foundation.
Clinton has come
under fire for using a private email account and server at her home in New York
state for official emails when she was America's top diplomat between 2009 and
2013.
On Wednesday, conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch
released 296 pages of those emails, including 44 pages that the former first
lady had not handed to the State Department.
The emails, many of which are heavily redacted, point to a special relationship between the State Department
and the Clinton Foundation, which appears to have directly influenced some of
the department’s decisions.
One of the emails shows top Clinton Foundation official Doug
Band telling Clinton’s then aides-- Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin—“to
take care of (redacted)” and give him/her a job at the department.
"Personnel has been sending him options," Abedin assures him
in response.
Abedin and Mills are told by Band in another
email to link a Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire and Clinton Foundation donor
named Gilbert Chagoury with the state department's “substance person” on
Lebanon.
Judicial Watch
obtained the emails through a 2015 Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against
the state department.
“No wonder Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin hid emails from the American
people, the courts and Congress," Judicial Watch
President Tom Filton said in a press release. “They show the Clinton
Foundation, Clinton donors, and operatives worked with Hillary Clinton in
potential violation of the law.”
Clinton’s campaign denied any connections between the emails
and Clinton’s work at the Clinton Foundation.
"They are communications between her aides and the President's
personal aide, and indeed the recommendation was for one of the Secretary's
former staffers who was not employed by the Foundation," Clinton campaign spokesman Josh Schwerin said in a statement.
Clinton’s critics, including her Republican rival Donald
Trump, say the email fiasco shows that she has endangered government secrets
and evaded transparency laws. .. Trump’s campaign attacked Clinton
following the new release and painted her as unfit for the top position.
"This is yet more evidence that Hillary Clinton lacks the
judgment, character, stability and temperament to be within 1,000 miles of
public power," Stephen Miller, the New York
businessman's national policy director, said.
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