article_snippet.sent: Abedin has known Clinton since 1996, when Clinton scored a White House internship working for the then-first lady.
article_snippet.sent: When Clinton became secretary of state a year later, Abedin became Abedin deputy chief of staff.
article_snippet.sent: Daily Mail Online confirmed in March that Abedin had a personal email address on Clinton's home-brew server, the same piece of hardware that stored Clinton's communications from Clinton tenure at State until Clinton deleted more than 32,000 of the records.
article_snippet.sent: Abedin (left), shown with then-Secretary of State Clinton during a 2010 diplomatic meeting in Vietnam, was then-Secretary of State Clinton .
article_snippet.sent: Abedin had an email address on the former secretary of state's private server, judging from records maintained by Lexis-Nexis .
highlights_snippet.sent: Abedin was Clinton's deputy chief of staff at the State Department and was Abedin 'body woman' during the 2008 presidential campaign .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Abedin also used a private email address on Hillary's infamous home-brew private email server while Abedin worked at State .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Abedin is a Muslim whose mother teaches in Saudi Arabia, a country that donated millions to the Clinton Foundation while Hillary ran the State Dept. 