WASHINGTON — A top aide to Hillary Clinton at the State Department agreed to try to obtain a special diplomatic passport for an adviser to former President Bill Clinton
in 2009, according to emails released Thursday, raising new questions
about whether people tied to the Clinton Foundation received special
access at the department.
The
request by the adviser, Douglas J. Band, who started one arm of the
Clintons’ charitable foundation, was unusual, and the State Department
never issued the passport. Only department employees and others with
diplomatic status are eligible for the special passports, which help
envoys facilitate travel, officials said.
Mrs.
Clinton’s presidential campaign said that there was nothing untoward
about the request and that it related to an emergency trip that Mr.
Clinton took to North Korea in 2009 to negotiate the release of two
American journalists. Mrs. Clinton has long denied that donors had any
special influence at the State Department.
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Source: The New York Times
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