Huma Abedin and Hillary Clinton
When is someone taking steps to avoid a conflict of interest news story about the danger of conflict of interest? When the
New York Times is looking for Hillary Clinton scandal.
Check it out:
In November 2012, Kris Balderston, then in charge of the Global Partnership Initiative in Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s office, sent an email about a potential joint initiative involving the State Department and the Rockefeller Foundation.
The email was sent to a group of people, including Huma Abedin, the deputy chief of staff to Mrs. Clinton, and to Thomas Shea, who at the time was one of the managing directors of Teneo, the firm where Ms. Abedin had a contract as a consultant, and which represented the Rockefeller Foundation.
Ms. Abedin quickly replied that she needed to be removed from the discussion because she was concerned about a conflict of interest.
But the exchange demonstrated the potential for such issues to have arisen as part of her status as a special government employee, a designation that allowed her to work for Teneo, the State Department, the Clinton Foundation and the Clintons personally.
Huma Abedin immediately removes herself from a discussion where she might have a conflict of interest, doing exactly what she is supposed to do ... and it's a story about what a close call it was. Mind-blowing.