希拉里“電郵門”引出新麻煩

During an appearance on comedian Jimmy Kimmell’s late-night show in Los Angeles on Monday night, Hillary Clinton tried to laugh off the hubbub over her latest email woes.

周一晚上，在洛杉磯出席喜劇明星吉米•金梅爾(Jimmy Kimmell)的深夜秀時，希拉里•克林頓(Hillary Clinton)試圖對圍繞她最新的電子郵件麻煩的雜音一笑置之。

“Jimmy, my emails are so boring,” she deadpanned, “and I am embarrassed about that. They are so boring. So we’ve already released, I don’t know, 30,000- plus. So what is a few more?”

她故作嚴肅地說：“吉米，我的電郵太無聊了。我對此感到很不好意思。它們太無聊了。我們已經(jīng)公開了大概3萬多份電郵，大概是這個數(shù)。再公開一些電郵又能怎樣呢?”

But the news that the state department will have to release nearly 15,000 further Clinton emails, most probably on the eve of the November election, is a serious matter for the Democratic candidate. It comes as she faces scrutiny not just of her emails but of her relationship with the charitable Clinton Foundation during her tenure as secretary of state.

不過，美國國務院將不得不再公布近1.5萬份希拉里的電郵(最有可能是在11月份的大選前夕公布)的消息，對這位民主黨候選人是一個嚴重的問題。這個消息傳出之際，不僅是她的電子郵件正面臨審視，她在國務卿任上與慈善組織克林頓基金會(Clinton Foundation)之間的關(guān)系也正面臨審視。

In emails released by the conservative group Judicial Watch on Monday, Clinton Foundation donors attempted to secure access to Mrs Clinton with Huma Abedin, her deputy chief of staff, serving as the go-between.

保守派組織“司法觀察”(Judicial Watch)周一新公布的電子郵件顯示，克林頓基金會的捐助者曾試圖通過希拉里的副幕僚長胡瑪•阿貝丁(Huma Abedin)與希拉里接觸。阿貝丁在這一過程中扮演的是中間人的角色。

Last week Mrs Clinton tried to pre-empt further criticism of the foundation by announcing that it would accept donations only from US citizens, permanent residents and US-based independent foundations.

上周，希拉里曾試圖通過宣布克林頓基金會只會接受來自美國公民、永久居民和總部駐美國的獨立基金會的捐贈，預先阻止對該基金會的進一步批評。

Yet even people sympathetic to Mrs Clinton said the new emails raised questions about what sort of access donors had enjoyed while she was secretary of state, and what sort of benefits even US donors to the foundation might receive were Mrs Clinton elected president.

然而，即使是支持希拉里的人們也表示，新公布的電子郵件引發(fā)了這樣的質(zhì)疑：希拉里任國務卿期間，捐贈者曾享有什么樣的聯(lián)絡便利;如果希拉里當選總統(tǒng)，該基金會的捐贈者(哪怕是那些美國捐贈者)又能獲得什么樣的好處?

One Democratic supporter of Mrs Clinton, who did not want to be named, said the emails shone light on the relationship between politicians and their financial backers who want access to the official they helped elect. “Often there is one person designated to serve as the buffer with the outside forces,” the operative said. “And by all accounts that was [Ms Abedin’s] job.” He continued: “I hate to parrot the lines of Republicans, but if it was OK for her to accept money from foreign donors as secretary of state, why wouldn’t it be OK for her to do so as president of the United States?”

一位支持希拉里的不愿具名的民主黨工作人員表示，這些電子郵件令人們了解到政客與他們的金主之間的關(guān)系，這些金主希望能夠接觸到在他們的幫助下當選的官員。這名工作人員表示：“往往會有一個專門的人，負責充當外部力量與官員之間的緩沖。從一切可知信息來看，這正是(阿貝丁)的工作。我討厭附和共和黨人的觀點，但如果她認為以國務卿身份接受外國捐贈者的資金沒問題的話，她為什么不會覺得以美國總統(tǒng)身份這么做沒問題呢?”

Other political observers raised the question of why the Clinton Foundation had now decided to stop accepting donations from foreign individuals and entities, while continuing to accept large donations from US individuals and organisations that might be looking for the same type of political influence.

其他政治觀察人士則質(zhì)疑，為何克林頓基金會如今已決定停止接受來自外國個人或?qū)嶓w的捐贈，卻繼續(xù)接受可能在尋求同樣的政治影響力的美國個人和組織的大筆捐贈。

In more than a dozen emails between Ms Abedin and Clinton Foundation staff members and donors released by Judicial Watch, there is no direct evidence that Mrs Clinton agreed to make concessions or give preferential treatment to donors. In all her emails, Ms Abedin repeatedly emphasised that all requests for meetings with Clinton Foundation donors should go through the official state department channels. But at the very least there is evidence that Clinton Foundation donors and executives exerted pressure to orchestrate meetings with Mrs Clinton.

在“司法觀察”公布的阿貝丁和克林頓基金會工作人員及捐贈者之間的十多封電子郵件中，并沒有直接證據(jù)顯示希拉里同意向捐贈者作出讓步、或給他們優(yōu)待。阿貝丁曾在她的所有郵件中反復強調(diào)，所有克林頓基金會捐贈者的會晤要求，都應該走美國國務院的官方渠道。然而，至少有證據(jù)表明，克林頓基金會的捐贈者和高管為撮合與希拉里的會晤施加了壓力。

Joyce Aboussie, a Democratic donor who gave at least $100,000 to the foundation, wrote repeatedly to Ms Abedin asking her to set up a meeting with coal group Peabody Energy, which had hired Ms Aboussie as a consultant and former Democratic congressman Dick Gephardt as a lobbyist.

曾向克林頓基金會捐贈至少10萬美元的民主黨人喬伊絲•阿布西(Joyce Aboussie)曾多次給阿貝丁發(fā)電子郵件，要求她為煤炭集團博地能源(Peabody Energy)安排會晤。后者曾聘阿布西為顧問，并曾將民主黨前眾議員迪克•格普哈特(Dick Gephardt)聘為游說者。

“Huma, I need your help now to intervene please. We need this meeting with Secretary Clinton, who has been there now for nearly six months. This is, by the way, my first request. I really appreciate your help on this. It should go without saying that the Peabody folks came to Dick [Gephardt] and I because of our relationship with the Clintons,” Ms Aboussie wrote on June 8 2009.

2009年6月8日，阿布西寫道：“胡瑪，我現(xiàn)在需要你幫忙介入。我們需要與國務卿希拉里見面，如今她上任已接近6個月。順便說一下，這是我首次提要求。如能幫忙，感激不盡。這應該不用明說，博地方面的人找到迪克(格普哈特)和我，是由于我們與克林頓夫婦的關(guān)系。”

After Ms Aboussie wrote a follow-up email one week later, Ms Abedin responded: “We are working on it and I hope we can make something work . . . she hasn’t taken any meetings at this level from members of the administration so we have to work through the beauracracy [sic] here.”

一周后，阿布西又發(fā)來一封跟進此事的電子郵件，阿貝丁回復道：“我們正在想辦法，我希望我們能找到某種途徑……我們得走通這其中的官聊(原文如此)程序。”

Meanwhile call logs, obtained by Judicial Watch through a Freedom of Information Act request, show that Cheryl Mills, Mrs Clinton’s chief of staff at the state department, received at least 148 messages from the foundation’s chief operating officer between 2010 and 2012. The review of the call logs was first published by Fox News.

與此同時，“司法觀察”通過按照《信息自由法》(Freedom of Information Act)提交的請求獲得的通話記錄顯示，2010年到2012年期間，希拉里擔任國務卿時的幕僚長謝里爾•米爾斯(Cheryl Mills)收到了克林頓基金會首席運營官發(fā)來的至少148條信息。對這些通話記錄的審查是?？怂剐侣?Fox News)最先報道的。

Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, has pounced on the latest emails to claim the foundation’s donors received pay-to-play benefits from the state department, and called for the foundation to be disbanded.

共和黨總統(tǒng)提名人唐納德•特朗普(Donald Trump)抓住最新這批電子郵件大做文章，聲稱克林頓基金會的捐贈者通過權(quán)錢交易從美國國務院得到了好處，并呼吁解散該基金會。