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New Abedin Emails Reveal Hillary Clinton State Department Gave Special Access to Top Clinton...
Judicial Watch ^ | August 22, 2016

Posted on 08/22/2016 9:26:38 AM PDT by jazusamo

Full title: New Abedin Emails Reveal Hillary Clinton State Department Gave Special Access to Top Clinton Foundation Donors

Crown Prince of Bahrain Forced to Go Through Foundation to See Clinton, after Pledging $32 Million to Clinton Global Initiative

Hollywood Executive Casey Wasserman, Slimfast Mogul Daniel Abraham, Controversial Appointee Rajiv Fernando also among Clinton Foundation Donors Granted Special Favors from Clinton State Department

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch today released 725 pages of new State Department documents, including previously unreleased email exchanges in which former Hillary Clinton’s top aide Huma Abedin provided influential Clinton Foundation donors special, expedited access to the secretary of state. In many instances, the preferential treatment provided to donors was at the specific request of Clinton Foundation executive Douglas Band.

The new documents included 20 Hillary Clinton email exchanges not previously turned over to the State Department, bringing the known total to date to 191 of new Clinton emails (not part of the 55,000 pages of emails that Clinton turned over to the State Department). These records further appear to contradict statements by Clinton that, “as far as she knew,” all of her government emails were turned over to the State Department.

The Abedin emails reveal that the longtime Clinton aide apparently served as a conduit between Clinton Foundation donors and Hillary Clinton while Clinton served as secretary of state. In more than a dozen email exchanges, Abedin provided expedited, direct access to Clinton for donors who had contributed from $25,000 to $10 million to the Clinton Foundation. In many instances, Clinton Foundation top executive Doug Band, who worked with the Foundation throughout Hillary Clinton’s tenure at State, coordinated closely with Abedin. In Abedin’s June deposition to Judicial Watch, she conceded that part of her job at the State Department was taking care of “ Clinton family matters .”

Included among the Abedin-Band emails is an exchange revealing that when Crown Prince Salman of Bahrain requested a meeting with Secretary of State Clinton, he was forced to go through the Clinton Foundation for an appointment. Abedin advised Band that when she went through “normal channels” at State, Clinton declined to meet. After Band intervened, however, the meeting was set up within forty-eight hours. According to the Clinton Foundation website , in 2005, Salman committed to establishing the Crown Prince’s International Scholarship Program (CPISP) for the Clinton Global Initiative. And by 2010, it had contributed $32 million to CGI. The Kingdom of Bahrain reportedly gave between $50,000 and $100,000 to the Clinton Foundation. And Bahrain Petroleum also gave an additional $25,000 to $50,000.

From: Doug Band

To : Huma Abedin

Sent : Tue Jun 23 1:29:42 2009

Subject :

Cp of Bahrain in tomorrow to Friday

Asking to see her

Good friend of ours

From : Huma Abedin

To : Doug Band

Sent : Tue Jun 23 4:12:46 2009

Subject : Re:

He asked to see hrc thurs and fri thru normal channels. I asked and she said she doesn’t want to commit to anything for thurs or fri until she knows how she will feel. Also she says that she may want to go to ny and doesn’t want to be committed to stuff in ny…

From : Huma Abedin [Huma@clintonemail.com]

Sent : Thursday, June 25, 2009 10:35:15 AM

To : Doug Band

Subject :

Offering Bahrain cp 10 tomorrow for meeting woith [sic] hrc

If u see him, let him know

We have reached out thru official channels

Also included among the Abedin-Band emails is an exchange in which Band urged Abedin to get the Clinton State Department to intervene in order to obtain a visa for members of the Wolverhampton (UK) Football Club, one of whose members was apparently having difficulty because of a “criminal charge.” Band was acting at the behest of millionaire Hollywood sports entertainment executive and President of the Wasserman Foundation Casey Wasserman. Wasserman has donated between $5 million and $10 million to the Clinton Foundation through the Wasserman Foundation.

From : Tim Hoy [VP Wasserman Media Group]

Date : Tue. 5 May 2009 10:45:55 – 0700

To : Casey Wasserman

Subject : [Redacted] Wolverhampton FC/visa matter

Casey: Paul Martin’s [popular English footballer] client [Redacted] needs to get an expedited appointment at the US Embassy in London this week and we have hit some road blocks. I am writing to ask for your help.

The Wolverhampton FC is coming to Las Vegas this Thursday for a “celebration break.” [Redacted] so he cannot get a visa to the US without first being “interviewed” in the visa section of the US Embassy in London …

I contacted Senator Boxer’s office in SF for help … They balked at the criminal charge and said they “couldn’t help.”

I’m now trying to get help from Sherrod Brown’s office but that’s not going well either. So do you have any ideas/contacts that could contact the US Embassy in London and ask that they see [Redacted] tomorrow?

From : Casey Wasserman

To : Doug Band; Trista Schroeder [Wasserman Media Group executive]

Sent : Tue May 05 2:23:50 2009 [PT]

Subject : FW [Redacted] Wolverhampton FC/visa matter

Can you help with the below [Hoy email], or maybe Huma??? I am copying trista as I am on the plane in case I lose connection … thx.

From : Doug Band

Sent : Tue May 05 7:08:21 2009 [ET]

To : Casey Wasserman; Trista Schroeder

Subject : Re: [Redacted] Wolverhampton FC/visa matter

Will email her.

From : Doug Band

To : Huma Abedin

Sent : Tue May 5 7:26:49 2009

Subject : Fw: [Redacted] Wolverhampton FC/visa matter

[As per subject line, Band apparently forwarded Abedin material sent to him by Casey.]

From : Huma Abedin [Huma@clintonemail.com]

Sent : Tuesday, May 05, 2009 7:39:38 PM

To : Doug Band

Subject : Re: [Redacted] Wolverhampton FC/visa matter

I doubt we can do anything but maybe we can help with an interview. I’ll ask.

From : Huma Abedin

To : Doug Band

Sent : Tue May 05 5:50:09 2009

Subject : Re: [Redacted] Wolverhampton FC/visa matter

I got this now, makes me nervous to get involved but I’ll ask.

From : Doug Band

To : Huma Abedin

Sent : Tuesday, May 05, 2009 7:43:30 PM

Subject : Re: [Redacted] Wolverhampton FC/visa matter

Then don’t

The Abedin emails also reveal that Slimfast tycoon S. Daniel Abraham was granted almost immediate access to then-Secretary of State Clinton, with Abedin serving as the facilitator. According to the Clinton Foundation website, Abraham, like the Wasserman Foundation, has given between $5 million and $10 million to the Clinton Foundation. The emails indicate that Abraham was granted almost immediate access to Clinton upon request:

From : Huma Abedin

To : H

Sent : Mon May 04 4:40:34 2009

Subject : Danny

Danny abraham called this morning. He is in dc today and tomorrow and asked for 15 min with you. Do u want me to try and fit him in tomorrow?

From : H

To Huma Abedin

Sent : Mon May 04 5:14:00 2009

Subject : Re: Danny

Will the plane wait if I can’t get there before 7-8?

From : Huma Abedin

Sent : Monday, May 04, 2009 5:15:30 PM

Subject : Re: Danny

Yes of course

Additional Abedin emails in which the top Clinton aide intervenes with the State Department on behalf of Clinton Foundation donors include the following:

The newly obtained Abedin emails also contain a memorandum sent to Cheryl Mills from State Department White House liaison Laura Pena revealing that Rajiv Fernando was proposed for his controversial appointment to the sensitive International Security Advisory Board as early as June 2009. Fernando was not actually appointed until 2011, and his appointment raised a firestorm because, according to an ABC News report, “he had no obvious experience in the field.” Fernando donated $1 million to the Clinton Foundation.

The Abedin emails reveal that even U2’s Bono got into the act when former Bill Clinton aide Ben Schwerin, who helped set up the Clinton Foundation, urged Abedin to help the aging rock star broadcast from the international space station. In a May 27, 2009, email with the subject line “Bono/NASA,” Schwerin wrote, “Bono wants to do linkup with the international space station on every show during the tour this year.… Any ideas? Thks.” Bono has been a donor to the Clinton Global Initiative. And in 2011, he gathered top entertainers for “A Decade of Difference: A Concert Celebrating 10 Years of the William J. Clinton Foundation.” According to USA Today, “Some tickets were sold to the public for $50 to $550, and premium seats went for $1,000 to $5,000 on the Foundation website.”

“These new emails confirm that Hillary Clinton abused her office by selling favors to Clinton Foundation donors,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “There needs to be a serious, independent investigation to determine whether Clinton and others broke the law.”

This is the tenth set of records produced for Judicial Watch by the State Department from the non-state.gov email accounts of Huma Abedin. The documents were produced under a court order in a May 5, 2015, Freedom of Information (FOIA) lawsuit against the State Department ( Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:15-cv-00684)) requiring the agency to produce “all emails of official State Department business received or sent by former Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin from January 1, 2009 through February 1, 2013, using a ‘non-state’.gov email address.”

In June, Judicial Watch uncovered two batches ( here and here ) of new Clinton email records through court-ordered discovery. Twice in May, Judicial Watch uncovered new Clinton emails, including emails that show Clinton knew about the security risk of her BlackBerry (see here and here ).

Recently , Judicial Watch released other State Department emails (one batch of103 pages, the second of 138 pages), with newly discovered Clinton emails also going back as far as January 2009.

In March, Judicial Watch released Clinton State Department emails dating from February 2009 that also call into question her statements about her emails. Those emails contained more evidence of the battle between security officials in the State Department, National Security Agency, Clinton and her staff over attempts to obtain secure BlackBerrys.

On August 9, Judicial Watch produced a 2009 email in which Band directed Abedin and Mills to put Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire and Clinton Foundation donor Gilbert Chagoury in touch with the State Department’s “substance person” on Lebanon. Band noted that Chagoury is “key guy there [Lebanon] and to us.” Chagoury has donated between $1 million to $5 million to the Foundation, according to foundationdocuments. He alsopledged $1 billion to the Clinton Global Initiative.

Hillary Clinton has repeatedly stated that she believes that the 55,000 pages of documents she turned over to the State Department in December 2014 included all of her work-related emails. In response to a court order in other Judicial Watch litigation, she declared under penalty of perjury that she had “directed that all my emails on clintonemail.com in my custody that were or are potentially federal records be provided to the Department of State, and on information and belief, this has been done.” This new email find is also at odds with her official campaign statement suggesting all “work or potentially work-related emails” were provided to the State Department.


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21 posted on 08/22/2016 9:43:05 AM PDT by Liz (SAFE PLACE? liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing penetrates it.)
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To: jazusamo

Lock ‘em up.


22 posted on 08/22/2016 9:43:21 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: ilovesarah2012
How the hell do the Clintons keep getting away with this crap?

1. A democrat/communist media/entertainment propaganda complex that is just as morally corrupt as Clinton.

2. A progressive general increase in moral corruption among the citizens, who really don't care. They gave her husband a pass politically when he was guilty of perjury. A generation later, the citizenry could care less whether his SINO (Spouse in Name Only) sells us all out.

23 posted on 08/22/2016 9:44:36 AM PDT by henkster
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To: dp0622

You’re probably right - let her stay in.

Of course, if she stumbled off of a stage in late October, and audibly/visibly shart herself in surprise at the fall on national TV, that’d be fine, too. Then Trump can very seriously say, “That was very sad. I feel sorry for Hillary that her drive for power has led her to neglecting her health. I hope that she gets her problems successfully addressed, and soon.”


25 posted on 08/22/2016 9:46:20 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: blueunicorn6

Their corruption stinks to high heaven, when is someone, anyone, going to do something about it?


26 posted on 08/22/2016 9:47:36 AM PDT by Rennes Templar (President Trump: It's all over but the counting)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Why do you let it get you sick. What they did is history.

All that matters is beating her.

And if this info helps, great.

I frankly dont care what either one of them AND their daughter do once she lose.

The much bigger picture is saving the country


27 posted on 08/22/2016 9:48:09 AM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Ancesthntr
Anyone with any shred of decency and/or shame would leave the race.

No need for Hillary to leave... the little effers at the New York Times don't give a damn about Democrat corruption... This story's too 'complicated' for them... or at least if they're shamed into covering it at all, that's how it'll be presented.

28 posted on 08/22/2016 9:48:20 AM PDT by GOPJ (Leftist agitators employe fascist tactics Kyle Olson FRAUD IS DONE BY VOTING THOSE WHO DON'T SHOW UP)
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To: jazusamo

In a world in which the rule-of-law still prevailed and in which the government and media were not utterly corrupt, these new emails would EASILY be enough to put Hillary Clinton in prison for a LONG time.

These emails reveal a magnitude of illegal and corrupt behavior by Secretary of State Clinton that hasn’t been seen until now since the Teapot Dome scandal under Harding.


29 posted on 08/22/2016 9:48:46 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Ancesthntr

That would be great! :)

Anyway, she probably has set it up so that even if she dies, she is still the nominee.


30 posted on 08/22/2016 9:49:47 AM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: jazusamo
I would be very careful if I were Bill as to what I ate...I agree with you...

This whole Huma thing is might suspicious especially where they are going to be looking into the foundation mafia money...

So she throws Huma under the bus, using the parents and she has to get rid of Huma for her husband and sexting...makes perfect sense to me...

31 posted on 08/22/2016 9:50:36 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence 100%)
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To: jazusamo

“Doesn’t want to commit to anything for Thursday or Friday until she knows how she will feel.” That rings true....


32 posted on 08/22/2016 9:51:29 AM PDT by Genoa (Tempus fugit)
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To: jazusamo

Holy crap, all this time I thought donors gave money to have access not that the Clinton Foundation was the only way they could! You wanna talk to Hillary about a State Department matter, you have to cough up $32M. I guess I’m a little behind!


33 posted on 08/22/2016 9:53:19 AM PDT by mancini
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To: catnipman

Absolutely right, and the racist criminal sitting in the WH and his administration are the enablers of this conduct.


34 posted on 08/22/2016 9:53:47 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: dp0622

I guess I just hate seeing criminals win. You’d think I would be used to it by now.


35 posted on 08/22/2016 9:54:40 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Genoa

Yep, I noticed that also.


36 posted on 08/22/2016 9:55:43 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: HarleyLady27

Hillary can blame Huma, saying she never knew what was going on. She could say Huma conspired with Bill. I would love seeing that mess.


37 posted on 08/22/2016 9:58:05 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: HarleyLady27
Is Hillary throwing Huma under the bus?

I don't think she has a choice in the matter; Wikileaks has exposed Huma and her lesbian lover Hillary of their entire treasonous sham and epic security violations.

How many private citizens/donors had carte blanche to classified information?? How many American servicemen died because Hillary's unsecured server was like an Open Bar?

Pour yourself a Top Secret Cocktail!! Drink as much as you want!! Pass that classified info around like a concert doobie!!

38 posted on 08/22/2016 10:01:39 AM PDT by HangUpNow
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To: jazusamo

So let me get this right... as Sec of state the sultan wanted to see her... but she was unavailable... but after he made a donation to the clinton foundation he was seen 48 hours later? I see....


39 posted on 08/22/2016 10:04:33 AM PDT by Walkingfeather
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To: dp0622

The point is: Trump will not win. Because if she uses the means of the Federal government to get away with this, she will use the means of the Federal government to corrupt the election.


40 posted on 08/22/2016 10:11:44 AM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
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