Hacked e-mails: Push for charity meeting

washington» Hacked e-mails reveal internal disagreement among top aides to Hillary Clinton about her determination to hold a Clinton Foundation summit in Morocco that later drew attention over its reliance on large financial pledges from foreign governments.

Clinton aide Huma Abedin bluntly wrote in the January 2015 e-mail that “if HRC was not part of it, meeting was a non-starter” and then warned: “She created this mess and she knows it.”

It was an uncharacteristic remark from a confidant known for her abiding loyalty to Clinton over the years.

The hacked e-mail was among more than 4,000 messages posted Thursday on the website of the WikiLeaks organization. The e-mails were stolen from the accounts of John Podesta, Clinton’s campaign chairman.

Podesta has warned that some e-mails may have been edited or altered by the hackers prior to release, although the Clinton campaign has yet to publicly identify an instance of that happening.

In her e-mail, Abedin told Podesta and current Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook that the lavish May 2015 meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative was based on a $12 million pledge from Moroccan King Mohammed VI to host the event. “The King has personally committed approx. $12 million both for the endowment and to support the meeting,” Abedin wrote. The Associated Press