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The benefits of friendship with Hillary Clinton

Foundation donor S. Daniel Abraham (above, welcoming then Senator Clinton to a talk at Princeton in 2006) met with her when she was Secretary of State

THE CROWN PRINCE OF BAHRAIN IS not Hillary Clinton’s friend, at least not in the way most people use that word. Nor is he particularly friendly with Huma Abedin, a top Clinton deputy, or the co-founder of the Clinton Global Initiative Doug Band.

And yet for some reason, in June 2009, Band wrote an email to Abedin asking for a meeting between the Secretary of State and Salman bin Hamad bin

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