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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
(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.
Is Hillary throwing Huma under the bus? Remember just a few weeks ago, Anthony Weiner was caught sexting again, could this be the way to blame Huma for Hillary knowing what Huma was doing and approving of it???
Anyone with any shred of decency and/or shame would leave the race.
Of course, anyone with any shred of decency and/or shame would never have done these things in the first place.
Oh, yeah, its Illary...nevermind!
Off the Wall Ping!
Contact to be added.
OK, there should be no doubt in anyone’s mind that she was selling access to the Secretary of State to the highest bidders. This is so beyond Watergate, it’s not even funny anymore. This issue is now in the hands of the voters. If they can’t be bothered to stop this kind of overt cronyism, then we get everything we deserve. She’s not even trying to hide how crooked she is. She seems to know that it won’t matter for the sheep who support her.
I don’t believe anyone is immune to going under the bus with the Clinton Crime Family, I’d bet Hill would throw Bill under if it would benefit her.
I’m sure Hillary is shocked to hear of this now for the first time!
Huma needs to be in the cell next to Hillary.
Hill and her sidekick corrupt? what a surprise!
“Lock her up” should become the primary campaign theme...
Well, the facts are that with a zillion terrible leaks about her, it’s a tight race.
If she dropped out, and any semblance of a statesmanlike senator or governor stepped in, I believe we would be in big trouble, because people are idiots.
I would BEG her to stay in the race. The satisfaction of her being indicted/going to jail/dropping out does not NEARLY equal the fate of 350 million people!!
This makes me furiously sick. How the hell do the Clintons keep getting away with this crap? I hope Trump is paying attention.
Anyone with a shred of decency and/or shame would not support this woman for the highest publicly elected office of the land...
It’s renting out the Lincoln Bedroom on steroids...
It is way past cronyism - it is criminal.
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I agree. She is very damaged, and the left hates her more than Bill (far left never liked Bill).
Hillary Clinton is a lying, thieving, bullying, cheating, insane, dirty little snot who flunked her bar exam.
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