Obama's administration seems to be corrupt from top to bottom and side to side. What is wrong with these people with no moral character? ---- Graft: The relationship between the Clintons and the wife of embattled Anthony Weiner grows curiouser and curiouser. Forget sexting; this may be the real scandal. And one senator sees a possible criminal element to it. Republican Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is demanding documents from the State Department shedding more light on the private consulting work that Huma Abedin, aka Mrs. Weiner, performed while working for the government, where she had access to top secret information. Abedin served as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's deputy chief of staff, where she earned $135,000 a year. But it turns out she at the same time worked as a consultant to the Clinton Foundation and a New York advisory firm closely tied to the Clintons, one that happens to do business before the government. Abedin reportedly hauled in as much as $355,000 in consulting contracts while on the government payroll. What she did for that dough is unclear. "The State Department and Ms. Abedin haven't provided a single document that I requested," Grassley said. "Putting up a stone wall raises a lot more questions." While Hillary's old department stonewalls Grassley's document requests, her close aide Abedin is suddenly taking leave from her current job as head of her transition office, where by all accounts Hillary is preparing a 2016 run at the White House. Their sudden separation likely has more to do with Grassley's inquiry than Weiner's perversions. Grassley suspects Abedin was trafficking in political intelligence while employed at State. He says it appears the Clinton consulting shop â Teneo Holdings â was "compensating Ms. Abedin for gathering information from government sources for purpose of informing investment decisions," a potentially serious conflict. Teneo's Wall Street clients have included MF Global, as it was collapsing. It also represents foreign governments. Teneo, which maintains offices in Dubai and Beijing, was founded in 2011 by former State Department official and Hillary 2008 fundraiser Declan Kelly, as well as former Clinton aide Douglas Band and Paul Keary, former senior managing director of FTI Consulting, a global consulting firm specializing in China. FTI's man in Washington, Jackson Dunn, served as an aide to both Bill and Hillary Clinton, as well as to former Sen. John Kerry, who succeeded Hillary at State. Teneo's "intelligence CEO" is James Shinn, a former Pentagon official focused on China. Band worked in the White House for Bill Clinton, who happens to be a well-paid adviser to Teneo. Band, who now also works in Clinton's Harlem office and for the Clinton Foundation, is the former president's right-hand man. Grassley wants to know what, if any, business Teneo was doing before State while it was paying Abedin. He's asked for a record of communications between Teneo and its clients and the department. He also wants to know if Hillary signed off on her outside consulting. So far, he's been stiffed. He'd also like to know why Abedin suddenly changed her employment status to "special government employee" in June 2012, which allowed her to leave Washington and work from New York. That same month, Abedin made headlines when several members of Congress sent a letter to State demanding more information about her family connections to the radical Muslim Brotherhood. While Abedin was advising Clinton, State abandoned its prior policy against official dealings with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and elsewhere. What other consulting contracts and contacts did Abedin maintain while at State, before June 2012? Grassley has asked for all the private contracts she signed while taxpayers thought they were paying her for full-time government work. But Abedin won't turn over any of them. If there was nothing improper going on, why all the stonewalling? http://news.investors.com/ibd-edito...abedin-teneo-conflicts-of-interest.htm?p=full
the the stench of corruption seems to envelop everyone around Obama and Clinton. (not that bush was any better with Cheney and the no bid contracts) That teeno situation and the multiple salaries (divided loyalty) should be not just a violation of law it should be criminal for the person gathering the intel and the people paying for it. What she is not a spy and a traitor just because she works for the Clintons and someone who works for Tenno worked for Kerry.
Clintons involved in seedy deals? What else is new? Can you imagine the nonstop media circus if this were a Bush official? What I want to know is, if Huma can get a security clearnace, why are we even wasting money conducting them? Lifelong muslim brotherhood connections and she has a clearance? Of course, we have a president who was mentored and sponsored by terrorist bomber Bill Ayers, so may be the standards have slipped a little.
Huma Mahmood Abedin (born July 28, 1976) Abedin was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan. When she was two years old, her family moved to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Her father, Syed Zainul Abedin, born in India in 1928, was an alumnus of Aligarh Muslim University, and later received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Her Pakistani mother, Saleha Mahmood Abedin, also received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, and is currently an associate professor of sociology at Dar Al-Hekma College in Jeddah. Abedin is a practicing Muslim. She speaks English, Urdu, and Arabic.
The that she married that human being should be enough to pull her security clearances. That is not normal. That is spy behavior.
I've read that she has some tight relations with the Muslim Brotherhood. Who knows what motives might be in the back of her head.