Posted on 08/10/2016 12:23:49 PM PDT by PROCON
Newly released emails have shown again the troublesome interconnections between the Clinton Foundation and the Hillary Clinton-led State Department.
The conservative accountability group Judicial Watch released Tuesday night a tranche of nearly 300 emails it obtained through a lawsuit, and they paint a picture of some of the conflicts of interest created by a situation in which Hillary Clinton ran U.S. foreign policy as her husband’s foundation acted around the globe. Many of the emails are redacted, and some are almost comically boring—“No new voice messages,” one reads in full—but others are not.
In one of the more piquant interactions, from April 2009, Doug Band, a close confidant of former President Clinton who was then in charge of the foundation’s Clinton Global Initiative, pressed top Clinton aides Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills for a connection at the State Department for Gilbert Chagoury, a Nigerian-Lebanese billionaire who was a major benefactor of the Clinton Foundation.
“It’s jeff feltman. I’m sure he knows him. I’ll talk to jeff,” Abedin replied, referring to the then-U.S. ambassador to Lebanon. Band responded, “Better if you call him. Now preferable. This is very important… He’s awake I’m sure.”
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Good for bookmarking.
For the most part The Atlantic,under “How Serious Is It?”,seems to conclude “not very”.
A relatively mild critique . . .but nevertheless remarkable because it comes from The Atlantic! Even they have doubts.
Good one!
No one of the Kennedys mouthed off last week.
BFLR
A crooked bitch. A crooked bitch. A crooked bitch. A crooked bitch. A crooked bitch. A crooked bitch. A crooked bitch. A crooked bitch.
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