A lawyer for Huma Abedin, a longtime Clinton aide, blasted Sen. Charles Grassley Friday for accusations that he said “unfairly tarnished” Abedin’s reputation.

“No staffer — indeed, nobody at all — should be subject to such unfounded attacks based on ill-informed leaks, much less someone who has made countless personal sacrifices in distinguished service to the country she loves,” wrote Miguel Rodriguez, Abedin’s attorney, in a letter to the State Department Friday.