Hillionaire's deepening Clinton Foundation / national security troubles

Here's a bombshell to kick off the weekend:

Emails recently released by the State Department give more information on how a securities trader and Clinton donor controversially ended up on the International Security Advisory Board (ISAB), a group that advises the Secretary of State on nuclear weapons and other security issues.

ABC News reached out to the State Department in 2011 to ask what qualified Rajiv K. Fernando for a seat on the board, since his background was in high-frequency trading, not nuclear policy.

The newly released emails (relayed to ABC News via the conservative political group Citizens United, which obtained them via a Freedom of Information Act request) appear to reveal that he was added to the panel by then Clinton chief of staff Cheryl Mills. ““Raj was not on the list sent to [the Secretary of State]; he was added at their insistence” reads one 2011 email from Wade Boese, Chief of Staff for the Office of the Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, to a press aide.

Fernando’s appointment even confused some staffers, the emails reveal. One press aide wrote internally, “it appears there is much more to this story that we’re unaware of,” and “it’s natural to ask how he got onto the board when compared to the rest of the esteemed list of members.”

Fernando declined to comment at the time, and promptly resigned from ISAB. He has donated heavily both to the Clinton Foundation and to Hillary Clinton’s two presidential campaigns.

He did not respond to ABC News’ requests for comment after they obtained the emails, and the Clinton campaign declined to comment, instead referring to the State Department, which put out a statement saying ISAB is meant to reflect “a balance of backgrounds and points of view.”

Then there's this:

Hillary famously claimed that her bootleg, unsecure email server contained "no classified material." This was comprehensively false. Thousands of classified emails passed through her improper server -- including more than 100 she personally sent herself, and dozens that contained information at secret, top secret, and 'beyond top secret' levels. Intelligence experts this week told the Associated Press that some of these messages could have compromised the identities of CIA assets, and now the Wall Street Journal reports that at least some of her emails pertained to planned US drone strikes in Pakistan:

At the center of a criminal probe involving Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified information is a series of emails between American diplomats in Islamabad and their superiors in Washington about whether to oppose specific drone strikes in Pakistan. The 2011 and 2012 emails were sent via the “low side’’—government slang for a computer system for unclassified matters—as part of a secret arrangement that gave the State Department more of a voice in whether a Central Intelligence Agency drone strike went ahead, according to congressional and law-enforcement officials briefed on the Federal Bureau of Investigation probe. Some of the emails were then forwarded by Mrs. Clinton’s aides to her personal email account, which routed them to a server she kept at her home in suburban New York when she was secretary of state, the officials said. Investigators have raised concerns that Mrs. Clinton’s personal server was less secure than State Department systems...The still-secret emails are a key part of the FBI investigation that has long dogged Mrs. Clinton’s campaign, these officials said...Law-enforcement and intelligence officials said State Department deliberations about the covert CIA drone program should have been conducted over a more secure government computer system designed to handle classified information.

Clinton knew that her emails involved discussions of Iranian nuclear negotiations, drone strikes in sensitive regions, and North Korea's nuclear weapons program, yet she asserted that nothing classified had ever passed through her unsecure, improper email system -- to which our enemies almost certainly had access. 

Can that old Clinton magic work on developments of this magnitude? In post-America, nothing should surprise us anymore.