Watchdog group releases 44 new Hillary Clinton emails, highlighting Clinton Foundation ties


On Tuesday, the conservative group Judicial Watch released 165 pages of emails from Hillary Clinton's private server obtained from the State Department through a Freedom of Information Act request. The emails were from the inbox of Clinton aide Huma Abedin, who also had an account on Clinton's server, but 44 of the emails were to or from Clinton herself, and not included in the 30,000 work-related emails Clinton turned over to the State Department, as required by law.
Last August, Clinton wrote, under oath, that "I have directed that all my emails on clintonemail.com in my custody that were or potentially were federal records be provided to the Department of State, and on information and belief, this has been done." State Department spokesman Mark Tooner said that while the newly released emails were included in the records Abedin turned over to the department in March 2015, they weren't in Clinton's dossier. Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon said Abedin and Clinton had turned over "all potentially work-related emails in their possession," but "we understand Secretary Clinton had some emails with Huma that Huma did not have, and Huma had some emails with Secretary Clinton that Secretary Clinton did not have."
The new emails include several exchanges in which Douglas Band, the head of the Clinton Foundation's Clinton Global Initiative, badgered Abedin and another Clinton aide, Cheryl Mills, about securing a State Department job for somebody whose name is redacted and about putting Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire and top Clinton Foundation donor Gilbert Chagoury in touch with the State Department's "substance person" on Lebanon (Abedin said she would talk to Ambassador Jeffrey Feltman). The Clinton campaign said that Band was writing in his capacity as Bill Clinton's personal aide and that the Hillary Clinton "former staffer" he was writing on behalf of did not work for the Clinton Foundation. You can read the curated emails at Judicial Watch.
The Week
Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives.

Sign up for The Week's Free Newsletters
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
A free daily email with the biggest news stories of the day – and the best features from TheWeek.com
Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.
-
Could Democrats lose the New Jersey governor’s race?
Today’s Big Question Democrat Mikie Sherrill stumbles against Republican Jack Ciattarelli
-
‘Porsche’s luxury credentials are now hanging by a thread’
Instant Opinion Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
-
Choose your own wellness adventure in Greater Palm Springs
The Week Recommends Hit the spa, try a sound bath or take a hike
-
Trump DOJ indicts New York AG Letitia James
Speed Read New York Attorney General Letitia James was indicted as Trump’s Justice Department pursues charges against his political opponents
-
Judge blocks Trump’s Guard deployment in Chicago
Speed Read The president is temporarily blocked from federalizing the Illinois National Guard or deploying any Guard units in the state
-
Trump urges jail for Illinois, Chicago leaders
Speed Read The Texas National Guard begin operations in the Chicago area
-
Bondi stonewalls on Epstein, Comey in Senate face-off
Speed Read Attorney General Pam Bondi denied charges of using the Justice Department in service of Trump’s personal vendettas
-
Court allows Trump’s Texas troops to head to Chicago
Speed Read Trump is ‘using our service members as pawns in his illegal effort to militarize our nation’s cities,’ said Gov. J.B. Pritzker
-
Judge bars Trump’s National Guard moves in Oregon
Speed Read In an emergency hearing, a federal judge blocked President Donald Trump from sending National Guard troops into Portland
-
Museum head ousted after Trump sword gift denial
Speed Read Todd Arrington, who led the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, denied the Trump administration a sword from the collection as a gift for King Charles
-
Trump declares ‘armed conflict’ with drug cartels
speed read This provides a legal justification for recent lethal military strikes on three alleged drug trafficking boats