JMHO Loc: Utah

Investigators with the State Department issued a subpoena to the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation last fall seeking documents about the charity’s projects that may have required approval from the federal government during Hillary Clinton’s term as secretary of state, according to people familiar with the subpoena and written correspondence about it.

The subpoena also asked for records related to Huma Abedin, a longtime Clinton aide who for six months in 2012 was employed simultaneously by the State Department, the foundation, Clinton’s personal office, and a private consulting firm with ties to the Clintons.

The full scope and status of the inquiry, conducted by the State Department’s inspector general, were not clear from the material correspondence reviewed by The Washington Post.

A foundation representative, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing inquiry, said the initial document request had been narrowed by investigators and that the foundation is not the focus of the probe.

A State IG spokesman declined to comment on that assessment or on the subpoena.

There is no indication that the watchdog is looking at Clinton. But as she runs for president in part by promoting her leadership of the State Department, an inquiry involving a top aide and the relationship between her agency and her family’s charity could further complicate her campaign.

For months, Clinton has wrangled with controversy over her use of a private email server, which has sparked a separate investigation by the same State Department inspector general’s office. There is also an FBI investigation into whether her system c*********d national security.

Clinton was asked about the FBI investigation at a debate last week and said she was “100 percent confident” nothing would come of it. Last month, Clinton denied a Fox News report that the FBI had expanded its probe to include ties between the foundation and the State Department. She called that report “an unsourced, irresponsible” claim with “no basis.”

During the years Clinton served as secretary of state, the foundation was led by her husband, former president Bill Clinton. She joined its board after leaving office in February 2013 and helped run it until launching her White House bid in April.

Abedin served as deputy chief of staff at State starting in 2009. For the second half of 2012, she participated in the “special government employee” program that enabled her to work simultaneously in the State Department, the foundation, Hillary Clinton’s personal office and Teneo, a private consultancy with close ties to the Clintons.

Abedin has been a visible part of Hillary Clinton’s world since she served as an intern in the 1990s for the then-first lady while attending George Washington University. On the campaign trail, Clinton is rarely seen in public without Abedin somewhere nearby.

Republican lawmakers have alleged that foreign officials and other powerful interests with business before the U.S. government gave large donations to the Clinton Foundation to curry favor with a sitting secretary of state and a potential future president.

Both Clintons have dismissed those accusations, saying donors contributed to the $2 billion foundation to support its core missions: improving health care, education and environmental work around the world.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.), Clinton’s opponent in the Democratic primary, has largely avoided raising either issue in his campaign. Last spring, Sanders expressed concerns about the Clinton Foundation being part of a political system “dominated by money.”

Sanders has batted away questions about the email scandal, famously saying at a debate last fall that, “The American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails.”

The potential consequences of the IG investigation are unclear. Unlike federal prosecutors, inspectors general have the authority to subpoena documents without seeking approval from a grand jury or a judge.

But their power is limited. They are able to obtain documents, but they cannot compel testimony. At times, IG inquiries result in criminal charges, but sometimes they lead to administrative review, civil penalties or reports that have no legal consequences.

The IG has investigated Abedin before. Last year, the watchdog concluded she was overpaid nearly $10,000 because of violations of sick leave and vacation policies, a finding that Abedin and her attorneys have contested.

Republican lawmakers, led by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), have alleged that Abedin’s role at the center of overlapping public and private Clinton worlds created the potential for conflicts of interest.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clinton-foundation-received-subpoena-from-state-department-investigators/2016/02/11/ca5125b2-cce4-11e5-88ff-e2d1b4289c2f_story.html

3jack

So what?

"Unlike federal prosecutors, inspectors general have the authority to subpoena documents without seeking approval from a grand jury or a judge. But their power is limited. They are able to obtain documents, but they cannot compel testimony."

JMHO Loc: Utah

Oh yeah, that's right...any criminal activity conducted by a liberal Democrat is just fine with you...nothing to see...move on. I guess that is why the vast majority of all crooks in prison are liberals, and Democrats? Hmmmmmm...must be some connection there. :wink:

3jack

Again, you're blowing smoke out of your own ass. Subpoenaing records by a non-prosecutorial entity constitutes a crime.......only in the mind of a moron. This an obvious connection between the lack of common sense and idiocy: wink, wink :)

JMHO Loc: Utah

Like I said, criminal activity is just fine, if you're a democrat...dumbass. You're still a f**king moron.

3jack

The only criminal activity associated with this post is that generated by your sheer ignorance. Post some additional wishful thinking bull s**t if it makes you feel better....effing imbecile.

Louie27 Loc: Peoria, AZ

Don't they have the power to request an investigation? I believe they do.

3jack

For federal issues, the IG reviews documents as they relate to alleged wrong doings in a complaint. I believe that if possible wrong doing is discovered during their audit, it is reported to the DOJ who then determines if an investigation is warranted. I don't think an IG can directly request an investigation.

Louie27 Loc: Peoria, AZ

But with this DOJ I do not believe that anything will be recommended as to Hillary's t***sgressions, which were more that what some people have done and been convicted.

3jack

This DOJ is a hell of lot more impartial than the one run by GW Bush. John Ashcroft was a good AG, but Gonzalez was a crooked Texican who was dumber than a box of rocks. If the possibility of wrong doing is discovered, they are required to investigate.....period. The right wing rhetoric, as it relates to Obama's entire cabinet is nothing but conservative b***hing due to false narratives created by right wing news outlets with nothing but ignorant listeners and watchers.

The Clinton Foundation does a lot to eliminate poverty and hunger in the world, and it does nothing to enhance the personal wealth of the family..... They don't need it. Approximately 89% of all funds donated to the foundation are distributed within their internal charities, and another 6% is given to different charities outside the foundation. These charitable acts go unnoticed.

This Clinton Foundation witch hunt was initiated by Senator Grassley with the help of one of his former employees, who just happens to be employed on the staff of the IG. Technically, she should be terminated for participating in partisan politics, which is prohibited for federal employees under the Hatch Act. This is nothing but more than another waste of funds and is more partisan bull s**t. I think the American public is tiring of these antics.

TroubleshooterTim Loc: People's Republic of Oregon

You must be one of those 47% who would support Hillary for President even if she's wearing orange prison jump suit, ain't ya?

TroubleshooterTim Loc: People's Republic of Oregon

http://thehill.com/video/in-the-news/269224-watch-abedin-rejects-clinton-supporters-hug-attempt

Awkward......

TroubleshooterTim Loc: People's Republic of Oregon

Here's what's coming . . .

77Reaganite Loc: Athens, GA, United States

3Jack is c****e through and through point blank he'll follow the death cult to it's demise just like the other mentally ill patients that v**e democrat these days.They've already drank the kool-aid we're just waiting for the cyanide to kick in since they've pretty much given the death cult all there freedoms.When that happens 3jack will no longer be with us.He'll be thrown into Labour/concentration camps/Fema camps with the rest of the kool-aid drinker eerily similar to Jonestown.Except his kool-aid order will come by way of police state just like he wants.But they won't be coming after you or me just him and people like him.Can't to rid this country of his cancer.

77Reaganite Loc: Athens, GA, United States

3Jack is c****e through and through point blank he'll follow the death cult to it's demise just like the other mentally ill patients that v**e democrat these days.They've already drank the kool-aid we're just waiting for the cyanide to kick in since they've pretty much given the death cult all there freedoms.When that happens 3jack will no longer be with us.He'll be thrown into Labour/concentration camps/Fema camps with the rest of the kool-aid drinker eerily similar to Jonestown.Except his kool-aid order will come by way of police state just like he wants.But they won't be coming after you or me just him and people like him.Can't wat to rid this country of his cancer.