Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party presidential nominee, won’t go another week in between email-related controversies.
Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, made sure of that Tuesday when he announced the discovery of some new emails. The government watchdog organization released nearly 300 pages of new emails, which contain nearly four dozen email exchanges not previously turned over to the State Department.
According to Judicial Watch:
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 new documents reveal that in April 2009 controversial Clinton Foundation official Doug Band pushed for a job for an associate. In the email Band tells Hillary Clinton’s former aides at the State Department, Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin, that it is “important to take care of [Redacted].” Band is reassured by Abedin that “Personnel has been sending him options.” Band was co-founder of Teneo Strategy with Bill Clinton and a top official of the Clinton Foundation, including its Clinton Global Initiative.
Included in the new document production is a 2009 email in which Band directs 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 notes that Chagoury is “key guy there [Lebanon] and to us,” and insists that Abedin call Amb. Jeffrey Feltman to connect him to Chagoury.
“No wonder Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin hid emails from the American people, the courts and Congress,” Fitton said. “They show the Clinton Foundation, Clinton donors, and operatives worked with Hillary Clinton in potential violation of the law.”
That’s just the tip of the iceberg. For more information about the emails, click here to watch Fitton’s video, or click here to read the entire report.
