Posted on 08/26/2015 2:42:47 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Hillary Clinton’s long time confidant, Huma Abedin, is sick and tired of you nasty Republicans dragging her good name through the mud and she’s not going to take it anymore. In response to the mean spirited nature of a Senate Committee asking the State Department to produce certain documents related to her time working for the agency, Abedin’s lawyer has sent a letter to Chuck Grassley telling him he needs to knock off his offensive behavior. (New York Times)
A lawyer for Huma Abedin, a top adviser to Hillary Rodham Clinton, has accused Charles E. Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, of damaging Ms. Abedin’s reputation through “unfounded allegations” about her time at the State Department.
The lawyer, Miguel Rodriguez, sent a letter to the State Department on Friday responding forcefully to two sets of questions posed by Mr. Grassley, Republican of Iowa: whether Ms. Abedin, while a department official, had been overpaid during her maternity leave and a vacation, and whether she had demonstrated a conflict of interest by aiding one of her part-time employers through her work at the State Department.
Ms. Abedin was granted permission by the State Department to work as a “special government employee” while also performing work for certain outside clients.
The Gray Lady does an admirable job of sticking up for Huma here and highlighting the various excuses which have been offered on her behalf, but it’s hard to see how she’s going to gain a lot of sympathy outside liberal enclaves. The committee is asking about two separate subjects, both of which deserve at least some level of scrutiny. She may have received permission from the State Department to work two jobs at once, one of which was for a company with ties to her boss and business before the State Department, but given the time period when it took place that’s precisely the same thing as saying she received permission from Hillary Clinton. There’s a shock, your honor.
But the second item under consideration is the truly jaw dropping one in terms of her indignant protests. We covered this story when it first came out and it beggared belief from the outset. During her entire time at State with Hillary, Huma never once took so much as an hour of vacation or sick time. Not once. She was receiving full pay on the taxpayer dime while having a baby and during at least one vacation to Italy. And it was a vacation by definition because she paid for it herself.
“Chairman Grassley also has asked about Ms. Abedin’s 2011 trip to France and Italy,” the letter said. “That trip was intended to be a vacation, and Ms. Abedin personally paid for it.” But, he added, Ms. Abedin — who is married to former Representative Anthony D. Weiner, who resigned from Congress in June 2011 — worked during that trip as well.
So she was “working” during the trip? If you’re drawing full pay, one assumes that you were working your full, normal hours. That doesn’t leave much time for vacation activities, does it? And if that’s the case, how stupid would you have to be to pay for the trip yourself? That would make it a business trip… though we’ve yet to hear what sort of State Department business was being conducted in both France and Italy during that period and why it was being conducted in fancy hotels and vacation resorts.
This is some first class gall on display. If someone collected ten grand in pay for times when they were obviously not working, the vast majority of us would simply be fired and probably hit up for repayment of the fraudulently obtained funds. (And that’s at a minimum. A truly testy employer might take them to court on criminal charges.) But now, just for asking the question and requesting the documents, Abedin has the nerve to send her lawyer out to attack the Senate Judiciary Committee? No wonder she’s such a good fit for the Clinton team. That sort of bravado is rare indeed.
Irony, your name is Humma Weiner and you never did
some reputations you could throw in a full septic tank full of sh*t
and it would only improve them
(treason against America does not maketh for a particularly good rep)
Loved that book and the movie.
reputation damaged when she allow Anthony Weiner to inseminate her......Sucks to be you Abiden or whatever they call you!!.
Which of you 3 is the fall gal....I say YOU.
The Obama Administration’s Agents
Given that these organizations function in a coordinated ideological manner, indeed they derive from the same root, it follows naturally that an individual associated with one organization would likely be associated with many, if not most of the others – not to mention the proxies of Georgetown and Brookings.
An experiment: Let’s choose seven Obama administration appointees with suspected ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. Where to pluck these seven from?
In December 2013, the Egyptian political magazine Rose El-Youssef, in an article titled Not Huma Abedin Alone, named six additional Obama appointees it claimed were operatives of the Muslim Brotherhood.
You can read an English translation of the article here. Let’s see if their claims stack up, based on the information above.
Here are the six named operatives (plus Human Abedin) and their titles in the Obama administration:
Arif Alikhan – Assistant Secretary for Homeland Security for Policy Development. 2009-2010.
Eboo Patel – Member of the President’s Advisory Council to the Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. 2009-Present.
Huma Abedin – Personal Aide/Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. 2009-2013.
Mohamed Magid – DHS Countering Violence and Extremism Working Group. 2011-Present.
Mohammed Elibiary – Senior Member of DHS’s Homeland Security Advisory Council. 2010-2014.
Rashad Hussain – U.S. Special Envoy to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). 2010-Present. Deputy Associate Counsel to Barack Obama. 2009-2010.
Salam Al-Marayati – Administration representative to UNESCO and United Nations. 2010.
(Dates in administration are best efforts based on publicly available information.)
It makes me wonder if this whole email thing was about Hitlery selling classified info to the Islamo-Nazis with Huma acting as the go-between. Did you see this article a few weeks ago about all the real estate Hitlery and Bill own? 5 mansions...Just where did they get all this money? Do they make THAT much from books and speeches? And didn’t her last book fail? I know she got an $8 million buck advance for one book but that was, what ten years ago for “Living history”? And these speeches they make around $200 - 300K per speech which after taxes should come to $150k. Just how many are they giving? It seems to me they do it very rarely. Something fishy is definitely going on here. Just WHY did she need a separate server in the first place? And lately, don’t the two of them seem like deer caught in the headlights like they are freaking out? Nervous laughing and wide eyed looks? This Huma is a Muslim raised in Saudi Arabia and she is constantly by Hitlerys side.
FUHA
She must tell Hillary everything to say and do. She is Hillary’s muslim handler. What other credentials does she have? When did she show up? Who introduced her to Hillary?
Huma Rodham more like it.
EEEWWWW!
I wouldn’t be surprised if someone leaks it out that Hillary is a lesbian and she’ll blame it on the republicans then go for sympathy. Plus, you can NEVER say anything bad about a gay person.
It won't be metaphorical.
She’s married to a wiener for sacks sake ....... And she’s a clintonista nut buffer to boot..... “What reputation ?”
Doom on her and may she get skunky sue as a cell mate at club fed.....
These guys, Huma herself included, won’t back off and will take every inch the nice guys give in and demand more and more kowtow to them.
What reputation?
LOLOL... I LOVE IT!!! looks they all had to take a bite of the same sh!t sandwich
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