OCTOBER 4, 2015

     Hillary and Bill Clinton are experts in bleeding taxpayers.  The Waashington Times reported that Hillary Rodham Clinton personally signed off on the controversial deal in 2012 that let her top aide Huma Abedin simultaneously work for the State Department and a private New York firm with deep ties to the Clinton family.

     The State Department emails released to select congressional committees and the watchdog group Judicial Watch also show that almost immediately after Ms. Abedin got permission to work in New York for the Teneo Group, she tried to get the federal government to pay the cost of her commuting back and forth to Washington to serve as a senior adviser to Mrs. Clinton, who was then the secretary of state.

     Just four days earlier, Mrs. Clinton personally signed a title change form that approved Ms. Abedin, one of her most trusted aides, transitioning from being her deputy chief staff and a formal federal employee, to an SGE, the equivalent of a contractor with special privileges. The change freed Ms. Abedin also to work simultaneously in the private sector for the Teneo Group, a consulting firm in New York run by top Clinton confidant Doug Band, where Bill Clinton also collected a salary as a paid adviser.