Is There Already A Conflict Of Interest In The Reopened Email Investigation ?

Good News: The Department of Justice is getting involved in the reopened investigation of Hillary’s email.

Bad News: The Assistant Attorney General, Peter Kadzik apparently overseeing and definitely coordinating is John Podesta’s (Hillary’s Campaing Chair) lawyer and long time friend.

 The day after Hillary Clinton testified in front of the House Select Committee on Benghazi last October, John Podesta, Hillary’s campaign chairman met for dinner with a small group of well-connected friends, including Peter Kadzik, who is currently a top official at the US Justice Department serving as Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs.

The post-Benghazi dinner was attended by Podesta, Kadzik, superlobbyist Vincent Roberti and other well-placed Beltway fixtures. The first mention of personal contact between Podesta and Kadzik in the Wikileaks dump is in an Oct. 23, 2015 email sent out by Vincent Roberti, a lobbyist who is close to Podesta and his superlobbyist brother, Tony Podesta. In it, Roberti refers to a dinner reservation at Posto, a Washington D.C. restaurant.  The dinner was set for 7:30 that evening, just one day after Clinton gave 11 hours of testimony to the Benghazi Committee.

Podesta and Kadzik met several months later for dinner at Podesta’s home, another email shows. Another email sent on May 5, 2015, Kadzik’s son asked Podesta for a job on the Clinton campaign.

—Zero Hedge

What’s more Podesta describes him as “Fantastic lawyer. Kept me out of jail”.

Kadzik represented Podesta during the Monica Lewinsky investigation. And in the waning days of the Bill Clinton administration, Kadzik lobbied Podesta on behalf of Marc Rich, the fugitive who Bill Clinton controversially pardoned on his last day in office. That history is cited by Podesta in another email hacked from his Gmail account. In a Sept. 2008 email, which the Washington Free Beacon flagged last week, Podesta emailed an Obama campaign official to recommend Kadzik for a supportive role in the campaign. Podesta, who would later head up the Obama White House transition effort, wrote that Kadzik was a “fantastic lawyer” who “kept me out of jail.”

—Zero Hedge

So now instead of just having an Attorney General who parks their plane on the tarmac to talk with Bill Clinton, we have her campaign chair’s lawyer, who  ran interference during the Clinton impeachment, and whose kid is interning with the Hillary campaign. No close ties there.

No wonder Hillary thinks this is a non story.

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