Huma on the hook? State Department subpoenaed Clinton Foundation for Hillary aide records as former Obama military intelligence chief says Hillary should drop out of the White House race
- State Department wants Clinton Foundation documents related to projects that Hillary may have had to green-light while she ran the federal agency
- Specifically asked in the fall for documents related to Huma Abedin, Hillary's 'body woman' and top campaign aide
- Abedin simultaneously worked for State, the foundation, Hillary's personal office and a consulting firm with Clinton ties – making for conflicts of interest
- Meanwhile President Obama's former military intelligence chief says Hillary should drop out of the presidential race 'for the good of the country'
- FBI is investigating classified information on her private email server and that probe may also include alleged abuses of power that benefited the foundation
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new round of headaches may be on its way for Hillary Clinton following
news that the State Department dropped a subpoena last fall on her
family foundation.
The
federal agency, which Clinton led from 2009 to 2013, demanded
information about Clinton Foundation projects during that period, which
State may have been required to approve before they could move forward.
News
of the subpoena came as retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn,
formerly the Obama administration's Defense Intelligence Agency
director, said Hillary should quit her campaign for the presidency
because of a federal criminal investigation into her conduct while in
office.
BODY WOMAN: Hillary Clinton is rarely
seen in public without Human Abedin (right) by her side, and the close
aide is now the target of a subpoena that the State Department sent to
the Clinton Foundation
FAST TRACK: Abedin started her career as a Hillary intern in the 1990s and is now her deputy campaign chairwoman
Gen. Flynn told The Daily Caller on Thursday that 'Hillary Clinton, for the good of the country, should step down and let this FBI investigation play out.'
The
subpoena from the State Department's inspector general demanded
documents related to Huma Abedin, who in 2012 simultaneously worked for
the foundation, Hillary's state department, her personal office in New
York, and Teneo Holdings, a corporate consultancy run by longtime Bill
Clinton adviser Doug Band.
Abedin's
overlapping gigs came after her husband, Anthony Weiner, resigned from
Congress in disgrace following a sexting scandal, losing his six-figure
federal government salary.
The
unusual employment arrangements, approved through a 'Special Government
Employee' status approved by Clinton's State Department, have raised
questions about potential conflicts of interest.
The
FBI probe into classified emails found on Hillary Clinton's private
email server – dating from years when she was secretary of state but
kept all her digital correspondence sequestered outside official
government channels – is thought to also now have a dual focus.
Its
second track, according to news reports, is the so far unsubstantiated
allegation that Clinton abused her authority by approving requests
lodged by foreign governments in exchange for contributions to the
foundation and lucrative speaking slots for former President Bill
Clinton.
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