UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURES RELATED TO INVESTIGATIONS INTO

MS. HUMA ABEDIN’S TENURE AT THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE

When Ms. Abedin ended her full-time employment with the State Department, she received a
payment of approximately $33,000 to compensate her leave time that she had earned but not
used. In the late summer of 2013, the State Department’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG)
opened an inquiry into that payment to determine whether Ms. Abedin had been overpaid.

Ms. Abedin cooperated fully with OIG’s inquiry, including by providing a recorded interview on
October 10, 2014. On January 26, 2015, the OIG finalized a report in which it concluded that
Ms. Abedin was overpaid approximately $10,000.

Relying on the OIG’s report, the State Department’s Global Financial Services Center’s Office
of the Comptroller (the Comptroller) sent Ms. Abedin a letter on April 30, 2015, requesting
repayment of approximately $10,000 for alleged overpayments that she received. In response,
Mr. Rodriguez requested copies of all records relating to the alleged overpayment. At that point,
Mr. Rodriguez was provided a redacted copy of the OIG’s January 26, 2015 report for the first
time.

On May 29, 2015, Mr. Rodriguez, sent a letter to the Comptroller stating that Ms. Abedin would
exercise her right to appeal. (Exh. 1) Mr. Rodriguez’s letter detailed factual inaccuracies and
methodological deficiencies in the OIG’s report, including, for example OIG’s miscalculation of
the time Ms. Abedin spent working after giving birth to her son. Mr. Rodriguez also noted that
the OIG had refused to provide Ms. Abedin or Mr. Rodriguez an opportunity to inspect and copy
documents that formed the basis of the OIG’s report.

Ms. Abedin’s appeal is currently pending. In the interim, there have been at least three
unauthorized disclosures (or leaks) relating to OIG’s investigation and Senator Charles
Grassley’s parallel inquiries into Ms. Abedin’s tenure at the State Department. Information
about these leaks is provided below.

Note: {Brackets} are used to designate information that is not available from public sources. All
other information in this document and its attachments is now available through reporting,
leaks, non-private letters, or otherwise.

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The First Leak: A “confidential source” provides Senator Grassley with non-public
information about OIG’s investigation into Ms. Abedin’s payroll records at the State
Department. Senator Grassley uses that information as the basis for letters to the FBI, the
State Department, and Ms. Abedin.

July 30, 2015 Senator Grassley sends a letter to Ms. Abedin stating that “[i]t has come to
Exh. 2 this Committee’s attention that in 2013, the Office of Inspector General for
the Department of State (OIG) opened an investigation into [matters
relating to Ms. Abedin’s work arrangement at the State Department].”

July 30, 2015 Senator Grassley sends a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry stating:
Exh. 3 “The Judiciary Committee has learned that the Office of Inspector General
for the Department of State (OIG) opened an investigation involving
potential criminal conduct by Ms. Huma Abedin.”

July 30, 2015 Senator Grassley sends a letter to the OIG requesting “[a]ll documents and
Exh. 4 communications referring or relating to investigations of Ms. Abedin [and]
[t]he complete investigatory file, including, but not limited to, any exhibits,
Memoranda of Investigations or Reports of Investigation, related to your
review of potential misconduct by Ms. Abedin.”

Aug. 2, 2015 The New York Post reports: “An aide to Grassley told The Post on
Exh. 5 Saturday that the senator learned details of an internal State Department
investigation completed in May from a ‘confidential source.’”

Aug. 5, 2015 Senator Grassley sends a letter to FBI Director James Comey stating:
Exh. 6 “[T]he [Judiciary] Committee has learned that the State OIG transmitted a
letter, notice, or other similar communication (“letter”) to the FBI in
October 2013 placing it on notice that State OIG’s investigation was no
longer a preliminary matter but a full-fledged criminal investigation into
Ms. Abedin.”

Aug. 21, 2015 Mr. Rodriguez sends a letter to Mr. Richard Visek, the State Department’s
Exh. 7 Deputy Legal Advisor, rebutting the allegations contained in Senator
Grassley’s July 30 letters to Ms. Abedin and Secretary Kerry.

Aug. 24, 2015 The New York Times reports: “A former investigator on the Finance
Exh. 8 Committee who worked with Mr. Grassley there and was at one point
expected to work for him on the Judiciary Committee, Emilia DiSanto, is
now a Deputy Inspector General at the State Department.”

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The Second Leak: An unidentified source provides the Washington Times with copies of
highly confidential OIG materials, including the audio recording of an interview with
Ms. Abedin and documents containing Ms. Abedin’s personally identifiable information.
OIG disavows responsibility for the leak.

Sept. 9, 2015 {John Solomon, the editor of the Washington Times, leaves a voice
message for Mr. Rodriguez in which he says: “I have obtained some
{Exh. 18} information about your client, Huma Abedin, concerning what the State
Department investigation substantiated, what she told the State Department
investigators in her interview, and also some ongoing concerns about some
timesheets she filed[.]”}

Sept. 9, 2015 The Washington Times publishes a report by Mr. Solomon that relies on
Exh. 9 confidential information that previously had been in the OIG’s exclusive
possession, including excerpts of Ms. Abedin’s interview with the OIG’s
investigators.

Sept. 15, 2015 Mr. Rodriguez sends a letter to the OIG raising concerns about the leaks to
Exh. 10 the Washington Times and requesting that the OIG meet with Ms. Abedin’s
attorneys and conduct an investigation into the matter. Mr. Rodriguez’s
letter also described applicable legal provisions, including the Privacy Act.
The letter copies relevant senators, but it was not released to the press.

Sept. 25, 2015 OIG Acting General Counsel Harrison Ford responds to Mr. Rodriguez’s
Exh. 11 September 15 letter stating that OIG “is aware of no evidence that OIG was
the source of the September 9 report.” Mr. Ford’s letter concludes by
stating that “we see no reason to take any of the steps requested in your
letter,” including a meeting or an investigation. Mr. Ford’s letter copies the
same Senators that were included on Mr. Rodriguez’s September 15 letter,
but it is not released to the press.

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The Third Leak: On September 21, 2015, the State Department produced confidential
documents to Senator Grassley’s office. Those documents bore a watermark stating that
they were for Judiciary Committee use only and were not authorized for public release.
Nonetheless, the documents were leaked to Politico.

Sept. 22, 2015 POLITICO reporter Rachel Bade emails Mr. Rodriguez and Ms. Dunn and
Exh. 12 attaches a copy of a document that bears a watermark stating that the
document was provided by the State Department to the Senate Judiciary
Committee only and that the document was not authorized for public
release.

Sept. 23, 2015 Ms. Bade writes an article in POLITICO about the leaked email. The
Exh. 13 article acknowledges: “Abedin’s legal team maintains that the part-time
jobs were appropriate and approved by Abedin’s supervisors at State and
that she did nothing wrong. Indeed, in the email request obtained by
POLITICO, there is no evidence that Abedin interceded on behalf of Teneo
as it sought a new appointment for Judith Rodin, a Teneo client and the
president of The Rockefeller Foundation.” Mr. Merrill is quoted in the
article as saying: “This email — from before Huma Abedin was an SGE
— is yet another attempt to smear a hardworking public servant in the press
through ill-informed partisan leaks[.]”

Oct. 2, 2015 Mr. Rodriguez sends a letter to Mr. Visek at the State Department to bring
Exh. 12 the leak to his attention and to request information about steps that the
State Department will take to prevent further leaks. Mr. Rodriguez
includes a copy of Ms. Bade’s email and the leaked document with his
letter.