New Docs Show Clinton Foundation Donors Sought Access to State Department

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Government email traffic and internal call logs made public by conservative groups this week offer more evidence that donors to the Clinton Foundation sought and at times received special favors and access to the State Department.

“[Hillary] Clinton and her staff treated the State Department as an arm of the Clinton Foundation,” said Tom Fitton, the president of Judicial Watch, which released 725 pages of State Department emails between top Clinton aides as part of a lawsuit the group filed seeking government records. “Some of these emails should have been turned over to us years ago.”

The documents are the latest to show how a top official with the Clinton Foundation — Doug Band, a longtime aide to former President Bill Clinton — served as a conduit on behalf of foundation donors seeking access to the State Department.

The most pointed example made public Monday involves a request by Crown Prince Salman of Bahrain, after first trying normal channels, to meet with the secretary of state. The emails suggest the meeting was confirmed only after intervention by the Clinton Foundation, to which his government had given $50,000 to $100,000.

On June 23, 2009, Band wrote top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin to alert her that the prince would be in town and was “asking to see her [Clinton].”

“Good friend of ours,” Band wrote.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/docs-show-clinton-foundation-donors-sought-access-state/story?id=41582158

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