A leaked email chain allegedly from Hillary’s campaign highlights the former Secretary of State’s apparent conviction that American “allies” Saudi Arabia and Qatar are financing the Islamic State (ISIS).  The Daily Caller ran the story after trying to confirm the validity of the email, but neither the Clinton campaign nor those featured in the chain responded to confirm or deny that the emails were real.  However, they note that Clinton herself did not dispute the validity of the emails, nor did her campaign spokesman, during the recent debate.

“[W]e need to use our diplomatic and more traditional intelligence assets to bring pressure on the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, which are providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL and other radical Sunni groups in the region,” Clinton wrote.

The former secretary of state added: “This effort will be enhanced by the stepped up commitment in the [Kurdish Regional Government]. The Qataris and Saudis will be put in a position of balancing policy between their ongoing competition to dominate the Sunni world and the consequences of serious U.S. pressure.”…

Qatar has given between $1 million and $5 million to the Clinton Foundation and Saudi Arabia has donated upwards of $25 million dollars to the Foundation.

Those figures do not represent the only financial connection between the Clintons and those she apparently claims are funding ISIS.  Hillary’s campaign chairman’s lobbying firm — the Podesta Group — gets $140,000 a month from Saudis. As uncovered by CounterJihad’s Paul Sperry, John’s brother Tony Podesta is a registered foreign agent for the Saudis.

In addition, Clinton’s campaign may be receiving vast sums of illegal foreign contributions from Saudi Arabia if a news report citing a Saudi Prince is to be believed.  Jordan’s Petra News Agency quoted Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman claiming that the Saudi government was funding fully one-fifth of Hillary Clinton’s campaign for President.  Petra later deleted the quotes, and stopped responding to requests for comments on the article.  Saudi-owned Al Arabiya news later claimed that Petra was hacked, and the comments were false.  Foreign influence of US elections by financing candidates is illegal, but was quite commonly practiced in the 2008 Democratic primary to which Clinton was a party.  Her campaign was fined hundreds of thousands of dollars for her corrupt practices here.

Clinton certainly served the Saudis well as Secretary of State.  She pressed for the rubber-stamping of vastly increased visas for the Middle Eastern nation, in spite of terrorism concerns.  Another leaked document, this time a diplomatic cable, has her stating that “More needs to be done since Saudi Arabia remains a critical financial support base for al-Qaida.”  Nevertheless, she nearly doubled the number of visas issued to Saudi nationals during her tenure.  She apparently broached the subject on a trip to a radical mosque arranged by her aide, Huma Abedin.

Saudi Arabia was one of several Middle Eastern governments who obtained greatly increased access to US military weaponry under the Clinton State Department.  Their large-scale donations to her foundation show every sign of having been persuasive in her decisions to permit them to buy advanced weapons of war.  If they are indeed funding her campaign as well, that is all the more reason to think they will continue to receive preferential treatment under a prospective Clinton administration.

All of this occurs even though Clinton is not herself blind to the danger that the Saudi government represents.  At least some of these documents, such as the foreign agent registration, are public records or otherwise undisputed.  The others are plausible given what we know to be true.  Clinton knows what she is doing is wrong.  She does it anyway.  For her, it appears that the national interest of the United States comes in second to the personal interest of Hillary R. Clinton.