Roughly 200 pages of emails sent between Hillary Clinton’s State Department staff and employees of the Clinton Foundation suggest the two teams worked closely on interests that blurred the lines between Clinton’s political and diplomatic pursuits.
Some of the emails, which were made public Wednesday after the State Department provided them to conservative-leaning Citizens United through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, were copies of those made public earlier this year through separate cases.
But others offered new insight into the connections between Clinton’s agency, her family’s foundation and a controversial consulting firm called Teneo Strategies that was founded by Clinton allies.
One Teneo founder, Doug Band, is also a foundation alum. Band appears frequently in the latest batch of records.
For example, when Janice Enright, a powerful lobbyist, sought a State Department audience for a client in March 2010, she went to Band with the request.
“Oh come on,” she wrote to Band when he expressed doubts that the meeting would happen. “[Y]ou can make this happen.”
Band said the problem was that Enright’s client, whose identity was unclear, was not properly vetted.
Other emails suggest Clinton’s team coordinated with foundation officials and a Democratic donor to create a new, Ireland-focused charity called “Friends of the Clinton Centre” at the behest of Clinton.
Some of those conversations had been made public previously, but the extent of coordination over the proposed group was not known.
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence levied a fresh round of attacks on the Clinton Foundation during the vice presidential debate Tuesday evening, arguing the Clintons created the charity to skirt laws banning foreign participation in American politics.
