MORE TROUBLE FOR THE "FRONTRUNNER" – AT 11:44 A.M. ET:   Hillary Clinton's longtime aides are being sucked into her scandals.  From Fox: 

Huma Abedin -- a close aide to Hillary Clinton at the State Department and now a top campaign official -- is facing more questions about her activities at the agency, causing potential problems for Clinton’s presidential bid.

A federal judge ordered the State Department to have Clinton, Abedin and Cheryl Mills, another Clinton aide when she was secretary of state, confirm they have turned over all government records and describe how they used Clinton’s private server to conduct official business.

They had until Friday to turn over the information “under penalty of perjury.”

Clinton is already facing questions about using the server and private email accounts while she was the country’s top diplomat from 2009 to 2013.

The former secretary of state has turned over about 55,000 pages of private emails but deleted those she deemed personal, resulting in voters increasingly doubting her trustworthiness, according to recent polls.

Some emails show the extent to which Clinton's closest aides managed the details of her image. Abedin, for example, sent her an early-morning message in August 2009 advising Clinton to "wear a dark color today. Maybe the new dark green suit. Or blue."

COMMENT:  The potential for these problems to derail Clinton is substantial, especially if one accepts the idea that President Obama does not want her to succeed him.  Obama has great power, through his highly politicized Justice Department, to make life miserable for Hillary, which would probably delight him.

August 9, 2015