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   Conservative group Citizens United filed a Freedom of   
   Information Act lawsuit on Monday asking that a judge force the   
   State Department to release e-mails between top Hillary Clinton   
   aides, Clinton Foundation officials, and employees of the   
   Clinton-connected consulting firm Teneo.   
      
   Suspecting inappropriate coordination between State Department   
   officials and the Clintons’ byzantine network of charity and   
   business interests, Citizens United first sought the messages   
   through six separate public records requests in October and   
   November of last year. But months later, the State Department   
   still hasn’t responded, leading the watchdog group to seek legal   
   redress.   
      
   “What they do is they acknowledge receipt, and then it goes into   
   a black hole,” says Citizens United president David Bossie,   
   adding that litigation has proven the only successful avenue to   
   obtain the public records upon which their investigations rely.   
      
   Monday’s suit specifically seeks e-mails from four State   
   Department employees who Citizens United believes improperly   
   collaborated with Clinton Foundation officials and private   
   consultants at Teneo. It comes the same day as a bombshell Fox   
   News report claimed that the FBI is widening their probe into   
   Hillary Clinton’s private server to include potential public-   
   corruption charges. One anonymous official said the agency is   
   now investigating “the possible intersection of Clinton   
   Foundation donations, the dispensation of State Department   
   contracts, and whether regular processes were followed.”   
      
   That’s precisely the “intersection” Citizens United hopes to   
   illuminate with its lawsuit, which seeks e-mails from four close   
   Clinton aides. The first two, Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin   
   and Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, will be familiar to those who   
   have followed the scandal surrounding Clinton’s private server.   
   Citizens United’s lawsuit expands an earlier request covering   
   communications during Abedin’s time working simultaneously at   
   the State Department and Teneo as a “special government   
   employee” to include Mills and Abedin’s entire tenures at the   
   State Department. The other two officials, Melanne Verveer and   
   Michael Fuchs, have largely avoided the scrutiny of Citizens   
   United and other watchdog groups until now. Verveer was   
   Clinton’s chief of staff during her time as First Lady, before   
   the two co-founded a women’s leadership nonprofit in the early   
   2000s. She was appointed United States ambassador-at-large for   
   women’s issues in 2009, a title she held throughout Clinton’s   
   term as secretary of state.   
      
   In several e-mails released publicly from Clinton’s private e-   
   mail account, Verveer appeared to facilitate favors and meetings   
   with Secretary Clinton for those close to the Clinton   
   Foundation. In one e-mail from July 28, 2011, Verveer forwarded   
   a meeting request from Muhammad Yunus, a Bangladeshi banker and   
   Clinton Global Initiative participant. And in several messages   
   between 2010 and 2012, she seems to act as the liaison between   
   Clinton and Ukrainian billionaire Viktor Pinchuk, a top Clinton   
   Foundation donor. “We suspect Melanne Verveer was dabbling in   
   Foundation donor mayhem as a State Department employee,” says   
   one Citizens United analyst.   
      
   Fuchs, the other name included in the lawsuit, was a special   
   advisor to then-Secretary of State Clinton, and is copied on   
   several e-mails sent from Clinton Foundation employee and Bill   
   Clinton aide Amitabh Desai to Hillary Clinton’s top staff,   
   including Mills and Abedin. Those e-mails concerned Bill   
   Clinton’s request to give paid speeches to delegations in North   
   Korea and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It’s not clear   
   why Fuchs was involved in these deliberations — a question   
   Citizens United hopes to answer through their FOIA lawsuit. It’s   
   not the first time the group has sued the State Department in   
   the U.S. District Court for Washington, D.C. Last year, they   
   sought to compel the release of records related to Clinton’s   
   State Department schedule and the photos, videos, and hotel   
   bills from her international travels. Read the full text of   
   Monday’s lawsuit below:   
      
   https://www.scribd.com/embeds/295160292/content?start_page=1&vie   
   w_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=false   
      
   http://www.nationalreview.com/article/429580/state-department-   
   sued-clinton-aides-emails-conservative-group   
             
      
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