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Newly released Clinton emails shed light on relationship between State Dept. and Clinton FoundationBy Daniella Diaz, Pamela Brown and Elise Labott, CNN Updated 8:18 PM ET, Wed August 10, 2016 Washington (CNN)Newly released emails from Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state raise questions about the nature of the department's relationship with the Clinton Foundation.
Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, released 296
pages of emails from the Democratic presidential nominee,
including 44 that Judicial Watch says were not previously
handed over to the State Department by Clinton. The emails,
many of which are heavily redacted, raise questions about
the Clinton Foundation's influence on the State Department
and its relations during her tenure.
In one instance, top Clinton Foundation official
Doug Band lobbied Clinton aides for a job for someone
else in the State Department. In the email, Band tells
Hillary Clinton's former aides at the 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."
The emails were obtained by the group through a Freedom
of Information Act lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch
against the State Department in 2015. The group did not
respond to a CNN request for comment.
The Trump campaign seized at the new batch of emails,
citing them as evidence of Clinton being corrupt. The
prolonged investigations into her use of a private email
server while at the State Department has fueled public
distrust of her and plagued her presidential bid. But
the Justice Department declined to press charges against
Clinton for her handling of classified information
related to the server earlier this year,
with FBI Director James Comey saying while she was
"extremely careless," it was his judgment that "no
reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case."
In a 2009 email, Band directs Abedin and Mills to
put Gilbert Chagoury, a Lebanese-Nigerian
billionaire and Clinton Foundation donor, in contact
with the State Department's "substance person" on
Lebanon.
"We need Gilbert Chagoury to speak to the substance
person re Lebanon," Band
wrote. "As you know, he's a key guy there and to
us and is loved in Lebanon. Very imp."
"It's jeff feltman," Abedin responded, referring to
Jeffrey Feltman, who was the US ambassador to
Lebanon at the time. "I'm sure he knows him. I'll
talk to jeff."
Feltman told CNN Wednesday that he never met with
Chagoury.
"I have never met nor spoken with Mr Chagoury. I was
not aware of the proposal that he speak to me until
this email exchange was released, but in any case we
never spoke," he said.
Judicial Watch President Tom Filton said in a press
release that Clinton "hid" the 44 emails on purpose.
"No wonder Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin hid
emails from the American people, the courts and
Congress," he said in a press release. "They show
the Clinton Foundation, Clinton donors, and
operatives worked with Hillary Clinton in potential
violation of the law."
Clinton defense
Clinton's campaign said the emails didn't relate to
her work at the Clinton Foundation.
"Neither of these emails involve the secretary or
relate to the Foundation's work," said an emailed
statement from Clinton campaign spokesman Josh
Schwerin. "They are communications between her aides
and the President's personal aide, and indeed the
recommendation was for one of the Secretary's former
staffers who was not employed by the Foundation."
The Clinton campaign said Wednesday that Chagoury
only wanted to offer insights on the then-upcoming
Lebanese election and was not looking for any
specific action from the State Department.
"The right-wing organization behind this lawsuit has
been attacking the Clintons since the 1990s and no
matter how this group tries to mischaracterize these
documents, the fact remains that Hillary Clinton
never took action as secretary of state because of
donations to the Clinton Foundation," Schwerin said
in a statement.
Trump response
GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump sought to use
the emails to paint Clinton as corrupt.
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