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amborin

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18. plus, she was caught on record blatantly lying about her correspondance w/ Blumenthal:
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 11:34 AM
Apr 2016

although the Obama White House believed Blumenthal had spread false rumors about Obama during the 2008 campaign, and although Obama had banned Blumenthal from any State Dept business, SOS Clinton kept up a steady and solicited correspondence with Blumenthal behind Obama's back:



And despite ample evidence on the public record for months that Clinton repeatedly asked Blumenthal to keep sending her updates on Libya and other matters, she repeated previous assertions that his advice was unsolicited.

"I did not ask him to send me the information that he sent me," Clinton said.


"You wrote to him, 'Another keeper, thanks' and 'Please keep them coming
....Greetings from Kabul and thanks for keeping this stuff coming,'" Gowdy shot back.

Clinton then shifted slightly, conceding that she urged Blumenthal to keep up the flow
. "They started out unsolicited and, as I said, some were of interest," she said.

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.....You said they were -- you said they were unsolicited," the chairman said.

While Clinton minimized the significance of what Blumenthal sent along, she did not dismiss it entirely, and she defended forwarding the information to aides who sometimes scrambled to respond to the unusual dispatches.

"Some of it I found interesting....

snip

....Allegations relating to Blumenthal's role in that campaign are what kept him from joining the State Department in 2009. Obama aides were convinced that Blumenthal spread false personal and policy rumors about Obama during the battle between Clinton and Obama for the Democratic nomination. While Clinton had more authority to name State Department personnel than any other Obama Cabinet member, Blumenthal was blacklisted--effectively banished by the White House.

When Gowdy asked about Blumenthal's rejection, Clinton didn't dispute it, but said she couldn't remember or didn't know who at the White House put the kibosh on her regular correspondent.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/hillary-clinton-sidney-blumenthal-emails-benghazi-hearings-215083#ixzz42cF2UM5y

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/hillary-clinton-sidney-blumenthal-emails-benghazi-hearings-215083#ixzz42cEb3aOA
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Hillary was taking State Dept Advice from Blumenthal and others with Business interests in Libya:


Plus, all the while, Blumenthal was working for the Clinton Foundation:




International New York Times May 20, 2015 Wednesday

Clinton friend's memos on Libya draw scrutiny to politics and business

NICHOLAS CONFESSORE and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT
Clintons last occupied the White House, Sidney Blumenthal cast himself in varied roles:

speechwriter, in-house intellectual and press corps whisperer. …..Now, as Hillary Rodham Clinton embarks on her second presidential bid, Mr. Blumenthal's service to the Clintons is again under the spotlight. ……

….. a series of memos that Mr. Blumenthal - who was not an employee of the State Department - wrote to Mrs. Clinton about events unfolding in Libya before and after the death of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.

According to emails obtained by The New York Times, Mrs. Clinton, who was secretary of state at the time, took Mr. Blumenthal's advice seriously, forwarding his memos to senior diplomatic officials in Libya and Washington and at times asking them to respond. Mrs. Clinton continued to pass around his memos even after other senior diplomats concluded that Mr. Blumenthal's assessments were often unreliable.

But an examination by The Times suggests that Mr. Blumenthal's involvement was more wide-ranging and more complicated than previously known, embodying the blurry lines between business, politics and philanthropy that have enriched and vexed the Clintons.

While advising Mrs. Clinton on Libya, Mr. Blumenthal, who had been barred from a State Department job by aides to President Obama, was also employed by her family's philanthropy, the Clinton Foundation, to help with research, ''message guidance'' and the planning of commemorative events, according to foundation officials. During the same period, he also worked for organizations that helped lay the groundwork for Mrs. Clinton's 2016 campaign.

Much of the Libya intelligence that Mr. Blumenthal passed on to Mrs. Clinton appears to have come from a group of business associates he was advising as they sought to win contracts from the Libyan transitional government.

The venture, which was ultimately unsuccessful, involved other Clinton friends, a private military contractor and one former C.I.A. spy seeking to get in on the ground floor of the new Libyan economy.

The projects …..would have required State Department permits, but foundered before the business partners could seek official approval.


The Libya venture came together in 2011 when David L. Grange, a retired Army general, joined with a new New York firm, Constellations Group, to pursue business leads in Libya. Constellations Group, led by a professional fund-raiser and philanthropist named Bill White, was to provide the leads……

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I reposted PantonFire's post here, it's put together so well, anyone can ViseGrip Apr 2016 #1
I don't understand how President Obama can tolerate her. Punkingal Apr 2016 #5
This is a dupe thread---but with a flame headline. trumad Apr 2016 #2
I doubt you read it. Clearly, 'Sid' was not an employee of the Land of Enchantment Apr 2016 #7
"dupe thread" = = = and here you are. Just sayin' pdsimdars Apr 2016 #21
The words have been spoken...thus he is summoned...so be it...the Indictment Fairy Tarc Apr 2016 #3
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Obama has made it clear he's not going to do anything about this. BillZBubb Apr 2016 #4
It is not his place to do anything on this as a legal issue -- not for and not against HRC karynnj Apr 2016 #8
I see it differently NWCorona Apr 2016 #13
When did intelligence *sources* start needing clearances? Recursion Apr 2016 #6
For PRIMARY sources I get your point, but if he is getting clearly classified information karynnj Apr 2016 #10
A Great OP, But SDJay Apr 2016 #9
I agree with everything you've said except one thing. BillZBubb Apr 2016 #11
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He knows she will lose, and that'll be her payback for 2008. They have not forgotten. ViseGrip Apr 2016 #27
"Blumenthal prepared, from public and other sources, about 25 memos". probably chat about that video Sunlei Apr 2016 #15
Obama made Hillary promise 'no advice from Sid' for MY administration. ViseGrip Apr 2016 #28
Bookmarking for potential Hillary crimes. n/t Admiral Loinpresser Apr 2016 #17
plus, she was caught on record blatantly lying about her correspondance w/ Blumenthal: amborin Apr 2016 #18
Exactly, she lied about all of this. That's why this is put together with her public statements at ViseGrip Apr 2016 #30
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Kick this post! This is exactly why Hillary cannot be the nominee. ViseGrip Apr 2016 #26
Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Apr 2016 #29
HRC lied to PO ReRe Apr 2016 #31
^ Wilms Apr 2016 #32
Exactly, do you think if you were under investigation by the FBI you would be taken seriously as a ViseGrip Apr 2016 #33
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