Posted on 04/10/2015 12:41:07 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
The State Department’s inspector general has agreed to investigate the program that allowed former Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton to hire one of her key advisors, Huma Abedin, for government work even as she was also employed by a private firm, a senator revealed Friday.
Inspector General Steve A. Linick also said he wasn’t aware of Mrs. Clinton’s or Ms. Abedin’s use of a non-government email account to conduct official business, and said that’s generally been frowned upon at the department. He pointed to a 2012 report that instructed an embassy to stop using a commercial email system as evidence.
And Mr. Linick said he is looking into whether those employed as Special Government Employees — the designation Mrs. Clinton gave to Ms. Abedin — are following the law, and avoiding conflicts of interest.
“The OIG intends to examine the department’s SGE program to determine if it confirms to applicable legal and policy requirements,” Mr. Linick said in response to a request from Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley, Iowa Republican.
Mrs. Clinton approved hiring Ms. Abedin, her long-time assistant, as an SGE, which allowed her to collect a government salary while also continuing to work for Teneo, a private firm. Mr. Grassley said there the usual conflict-of-interest questions in an arrangement like this are only heightened by the report that Ms. Abedin used the same non-official email server Mrs. Clinton set up for herself.
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Mr. Grassley also questioned whether Ms. Abedin was qualified to be designated an SGE, saying that privilege is supposed to be used to entice someone in the private sector to split his or her time, in order for the government to tap someone’s “special knowledge and skills.” In Ms. Abedin’s case she was already working for Mrs. Clinton when she was converted to an SGE, allowing her to then also take an outside job, Mr. Grassley said.
I suspect Carlos Danger is eager for the day his spouse moves to DC for her WH job in 2017.
“investigated”? To what end? No one in washington dc holds any of these criminals responsible for anything. They crap on the law.
Shamelessly pimping my very prescient tag line?
DNA samples from Hitlery’ mouth would probably tell us what we need to know...
What kind of ‘job’ is Huma doing for Hitlery?
Isn’t she the one with the muslim brotherhood ties? Chris Kyle we need you.
Uh, the end results—————————nuttin’
Yes, indeedy!
I think her mom was some sort of head cheese in the islamic sisterhood or something. Kinda like the Texas castro brothers mommy was a cheese in la raza or mechA. Can’t remember which one.
Too many enemy islamists in this government to buck. Maybe...maybe if we ever get a conservative government again thing may change. But that’s a very big maybe.
Traitorous biatch hitlary. Let’s bring that out in the debates.
Shut UP! I can’t believe it!
I've heard that murder is generally frowned upon too.
Mr. Linick? Stay out of Fort Marcy Park!!
These cockroaches keep coming out of the woodwork
That's what I was thinking. He's getting very close to yet another “inconvenient truth” about Hillary.
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