But it's fair to ask whether Clinton violated a promise to keep a wall between her official work and the family foundation. In one communication, Clinton Foundation executive Doug Band pushes State Department staffers, telling them it's "important to take care of" a favored applicant. That "substance person" was the US ambassador to Lebanon -- a connection promised by State Department officials, although the ambassador says no meeting took place. In another message, Band asked former Clinton aides Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills to connect Gilbert Chagoury, a Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire and donor to the Clinton Foundation, to officials in the State Department. It's not exactly smoking-gun proof of corruption; none of the emails are to or from Clinton herself.

Source: CNN August 11, 2016 23:15 UTC