2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: This email passed through HRC unsecured server twice. [View all]MisterP
(23,730 posts)for "intel" from Bush-bashing CIA agent Tyler Drumheller--a lot of gossip, but the gist was "France wants to seize Libya" and that seems to have awakened the spirit of Fashoda in Clinton; Drumheller was Blumenthal's business partner in Osprey Global Solutions, which stood to profit immensely from Qaddafi's fall: of course the very militias that Drumheller/Blumenthal warned about were exactly what'd make Osprey never get off the ground
https://news.vice.com/article/libyan-oil-gold-and-qaddafi-the-strange-email-sidney-blumenthal-sent-hillary-clinton-in-2011
WaPo rates it 4 Pinocchios--and promptly makes the story more damning than you could've thought
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/10/20/the-false-claim-that-clinton-relied-on-sid-blumenthal-for-most-of-her-intelligence-on-libya/