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Here’s how cozy State Department was with Clinton Foundation

A senior executive at the Clinton Foundation left nearly 150 messages for one of Hillary Clinton’s top aides at the State Department over a two-year period, according to newly released call logs.

The Clinton Foundation’s chief operating officer, Laura Graham, kept in close touch with Cheryl Mills, one of Clinton’s closest aides when she was secretary of state, according to the logs analyzed by Fox News.

An August 2011 message the Clinton Foundation official left for the government worker references “our boss,” suggesting both women worked for the same person.

A January 2012 message shows the foundation worker wanting to talk with Mills before speaking to President Clinton. “Please call. WJC is looking for her [Graham] and she wants to talk to you before she talks to him.”

Laura Graham, executive director of the Clinton Foundation, sits next to former President Bill Clinton during a meeting of the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on Dec. 14, 2010.Getty Images

The State Department said the constant contacts were proper — even though Clinton herself signed an agreement to steer clear of the foundation as secretary of state.

“Secretary Clinton’s ethics agreement at the time [she assumed office] did not preclude other State Department officials from engaging with, or having contact with, the Clinton Foundation,” State Department spokesman Mark Toner told Fox News.

The call logs have been made public as the result of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the conservative group Citizens United.

“It’s an amazing thing that the State Department spokesperson would actually make an argument,” said Citizens United president David Bossie, “that Hillary Clinton would be obligated under an ethics agreement that the White House made her sign with the foundation but her top employees would not be under that same agreement. I find it’s just very Clintonesque.”