(Via Daily Caller) Emails released Friday show former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton and other State Department officials discussing how to go about helping a powerful Democratic senator who was asking for a job for his daughter in the agency in summer 2009.

The pressure paid off for the now-retired Iowa senator, Tom Harkin, as his daughter Jennifer was hired on as the assistant to the ambassador-at-large at the State Department’s Office of Global Criminal Justice. The gig was in a small office that had a “limited number of slots,” another Clinton aide wrote in a separate email chain published Friday.

“Remind me to discuss with you how I want to play this out,” Mills wrote to Clinton on Sept. 5, 2009 after receiving an update from Patrick Kennedy, the under secretary for management at State.

Clinton responded the next day: “We have to discuss soon so I can close the loop on this.” (read more)

Oh yeah, and she got the job – read more