The curious case of Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin, the Muslim Brotherhood and all of their missing emails

By Investor's Business Daily

Scandal: The email plot thickens with news that Hillary Clinton's deputy chief of staff also used a private email account on the Clintons' server to conduct government business.

Watchdog group Judicial Watch, which doesn't like being lied to or jerked around any more than the House Benghazi Select Committee does, has filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Department of State seeking all communications, including emails, between Secretary of State Clinton and Huma Abedin with Nagla Mahmoud, wife of ousted Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi between Jan. 21, 2009, and Jan. 21, 2013.

The lawsuit — which also seeks a thorough search of Clinton's newly discovered private email accounts connected to a home-based server to exclusively conduct government business — comes alongside the issue of subpoenas by the Benghazi Select Committee. Both have long been curious about the scarcity of produced emails with Clinton's name on them.

Abedin, perhaps best remembered as the wife of disgraced former congressman Anthony Wiener, is a longtime Hillary friend and confidante. She served as Clinton's deputy chief of staff at the same time she worked as a consultant to the Clinton Foundation and a New York advisory firm tied to the Clintons, one that did business before the government.

Foreign contributions to the Clinton Foundation — including from governments and sources which might not have our best interests at heart, during and after Clinton's tenure as secretary of state — are raising questions about conflicts of interest and possible quid pro quos.

Abedin made $135,000 a year as Clinton's deputy, a period in which she is reported to have raked in as much as $355,000 from consulting contracts. Having a pipeline into the Clinton inner circle is invaluable to some. This reminds us of Johnny Chung's famous comparison of the Clinton White House to a subway turn style — you had to put money in to gain entry.

Abedin also has some interesting family connections. Her father is said to be close with the Saudi government's Muslim World League, and her mother is said to be a member of the Muslim Sisterhood. World Trade Center bombing prosecutor Andrew McCarthy wrote in National Review: "The ties of Ms. Abedin's father, mother and brother to the Muslim Brotherhood are both specific and substantiated."

The Muslim Brotherhood took power in Egypt with the Obama administration's approval after it had all but abandoned the government of Hosni Mubarak, a long-time ally and friend. It was while Abedin was advising Hillary that State dropped its long-standing policy of having no dealings with the Muslim Brotherhood.

The Benghazi terrorist attack also happened on the Obama-Clinton watch. It would be interesting to see what Benghazi-related emails went through Clinton's private server. Were there some discussing the Benghazi video lie or planning Clinton's political cover?

According to Gawker.com, among several email addresses linked to Abedin's name in records maintained by Lexis-Nexis is one for huma@clintonemail.com. Emails sent by Gawker to that to that email address went through without error.

In the hidden emails might be information pertaining to just who benefited both politically and financially from their relationship with Clinton and Abedin, whose relationship seems to mirror the one between Obama aide Valerie Jarrett and the president.

So who benefited, and how, from their connections with the two?

What is the relationship between donors to the Clinton Foundation and U.S. foreign policy?

And why won't Abedin disclose the complete list of her consulting contracts when she worked for Clinton?

Slick Willie, move over. Slick Hillary is taking your place in history.

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