Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation - Connecting the Dots

Updated December 2018

During the 2016 Presidential election cycle, there was significant discussion about the Clinton Foundation and whether it was truly independent of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, particularly during her time as Secretary of State.  Thanks to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by Judicial Watch, we now have yet another eye-opening glimpse inside the Clinton Family money-making and influence-peddling machine.

Here is an email dated February 8, 2010 from Huma Abedin's treasure trove showing an email from Lona Valmoro, Hillary Clinton's Department of State scheduler, that was forwarded to a number of Clinton Foundation employees including Terry Krinvic, former President Clinton's scheduler at the Clinton Foundation and John Zimmerebner, Director at the Clinton Foundation, showing Secretary Clinton's daily schedule for Tuesday, February 9th, 2010:

In case you thought that this might be a one-off breach of security and protocol, here's another email from Huma Abedin's collection showing how the Department of State was sharing Secretary Clinton's daily schedule with the family's business operation, this one showing her schedule for February 23, 2010:

Here we go again with Secretary Clinton's shared schedule for Monday, April 5, 2010, much which has been redacted under the FOIA request but which was all shared with the Clinton Foundation which was deemed worthy of the information:

And, last but not least, here is Secretary Clinton's shared schedule for Wednesday, May 19, 2010:

While the Clintons would have us believe that their family foundation operated completely independently of Hillary Clinton while she was Secretary of State and that it would have continued to do so while she was President, these emails would suggest that there was a strong link between the power in the office of Secretary of State and the Clinton's own family business/foundation.