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Emails Show Major Clinton Foundation Donors Lobbied Huma Abedin for Diplomatic Passports

by Jerome Hudson Newly released emails show that major Clinton Foundation donors lobbied senior Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin for diplomatic passports. The emails, published by government watch dog group Judicial Watch, show how longtime Clinton confidant Doug Band asked then-deputy chief of staff at the U.S. Department of State Abedin to assist former aid to President Clinton Justin Cooper in obtaining diplomatic passports for himself and another unnamed party. “We had them years ago but they lapsed and we didn’t bother getting them,” Band wrote in an email from 2009. The email was published as part of the Washington D.C.-based transparency… View Article