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by Abdullah Omar Naseef, a notorious financier of Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda.
    Huma’s Pakistani mother, Saleha Mahmood Abedin, served as a representative of the Muslim World League, a fundamentalist group, and became the editor in chief of the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs. Some Islamist-watchers, like Frank J. Gaffney Jr., president of the Center for Security Policy, have written about Huma’s“extensive ties to the Muslim Brotherhood . . . whose self-declared mission is ‘destroying Western civilization from within.’”
    As “Hillary’s shadow,” Huma kept tabs on Hillary’s personal needs—lodging, transportation, meals, and snacks. She made sure Hillary was dressed appropriately for the weather. And shecarried Hillary’s BlackBerry, which would become a major prop in Hillary’s e-mail drama.
    Over the years, the two women developed a strong personal bond, and Huma rose in the ranks to become Hillary’s deputy chief of staff. More than an aide, Huma was, with the exception of Bill and Chelsea, the closest person to Hillary. Hillary never went anywhere without Huma.
    Despite Huma’s twenty-year relationship with Hillary, she had managed to remain largely under the public radar until the spring of 2011, when her husband, Democratic congressman Anthony Weiner, was unmasked as a serial pervert who sent lewd photos of himself via Twitter.
    During the ensuing scandal, which forced Weiner to resign from Congress, Hillary counseled the now-pregnant Huma on how to deal with her wayward husband—a subject on which Hillary was of course a world-class expert. Not surprisingly, she urged Huma to follow her example and save her marriage.
    Huma listened to Hillary and stuck by the disgraced Weiner.
    People said that Hillary treated Huma as an adopted daughter. But she went much further than that. Following Huma’s maternity leave, Hillary allowed her to continue drawing a State Department salary of $135,000 as a “special government employee” while at the same time she sat on the board of the Clinton Foundation and worked as a $355,000-a-year outside adviser to Teneo, a strategic consulting firm founded by Doug Band, himself a former adviser to President Bill Clinton.
    Huma’s double dipping was certainly unethical if not downright illegal. Some people speculated that Huma needed themoney because Anthony Weiner was out of a job and broke. Others said she needed the dough to support her pricey lifestyle, which included designer frocks by Oscar de la Renta, Catherine Malandrino, and Prada, and handbags by Yves Saint Laurent. And some people said that Huma had simply caught the money bug from Hillary.
    Huma’s years of loyal service were richly rewarded when Hillary announced that she was running for president and anointed Huma as one of her chief surrogates.
    â€œFor all intents and purposes,” a Clinton campaign aide told Politico , “[Huma is] No. 3 on the campaign, after [campaign chairman John] Podesta and [campaign manager Robby] Mook.”

CHAPTER 11 CHAPTER 11
    â€œI LOVE YOU, BILLY” “I LOVE YOU, BILLY”
    Those of us who follow politics seriously rather than view it as a game show do not look at Hillary Clinton and simply think “first woman president.” We think—for example—“first ex-co-president” or “first wife of a disbarred lawyer and impeached former incumbent” or “first person to use her daughter as photo-op protection during her husband’s perjury rap.”
    â€”Christopher Hitchens
    F rom the window of her Air Force C-32, a military version of the Boeing 757, Hillary could see the towering snow-covered mountain peaks of the Karakoram Range.
    She picked up a phone and asked to be connected to her husband, who was thousands of miles away on a flight of his own in a G650 private jet.Their conversation took place on a speakerphone in the presence of Huma and