On a 2008 Presidential Candidate Questionnaire, candidate Hillary was asked:
Will you work to operationalize the “Responsibility to Protect,” in response to global humanitarian crises?
HILLARY'S ANSWER WAS EXTRAORDINARILY SPECIFIC:
Yes. In adopting the principle of the responsibility to protect, the United Nations accepted the principle that mass atrocities that take place in one state are the concern of all states. It is essential that the new UN Secy General of begin to bridge the gap between these words and the institution’s deeds through a series of reforms intended to operationalize this concept. I am also committed to seeing that the US and other economic and militarily capable states and organization take steps to bolster UN action. As President I will:
<><>(A) adopt a policy that recognizes the prevention of mass atrocities as an important national security interest of the US, not just a humanitarian goal.
<><>(B) develop a govt-wide strategy to support this policy, including a strategy for working with other leading democracies, the UN, and regional organizations.
<><>(C) authorize my Secy of State to institutionalize atrocity prevention into the work of the State Dept, and,
<><> (D) direct my Secy of State to strongly support the mission and activities of the Office of Reconstruction and Stabilization, which plays an increasingly critical role.
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AFTERMATH--As a candidate, two-faced Hillary said one thing.......
but as Obama's hand-picked Secy of State, Hillary's actions on Libya were decidedly different
and were driven by a longine Clinton crony being paid by business interests in Libya-----Sid Blumenthal.
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One of the sleaziest of the Clinton cronies is Sid Blumenthal, who had his greedy hands deep inside Secy Hillary's the State Dept cookie jar. Sid crawled out of nowhere in the 90s, and continues to slither around, cashing checks from the Clinton Foundation and assorted US govt entities. An expose of this guy is long overdue.Think Obama is a carefully-crafted zero? Take a gander at Blumenthal.
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ITEM--Sid was banned from govt employment by Obama, but at the same time Blumenthal was pushing Secy of State Clinton to all-out war in Libya, suck-up Sid was privately pushing his business interests WRT contracts with the "new" Libyan government — a government that would exist only after US military intervention in Libya that deposed Qaddafi.
ITEM--Blumenthal was engaged in massive conflicts of interest since he was simultaneously (a) being paid by The Clinton Foundation, (b) paid by Hillary's 2016 PAC organizers, and, (3) paid by businesses w/ interests in Libya.
If Secy Clinton knew all that, then her actions in circulating memos composed by Blumenthal were egregious. If she did not know, her recklessness is subject to US laws.
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ITEM---to its donors---and to the world beyond---the Clinton Foundation hired Sid Blumenthal to..... (wait for it)..... "promote Bill's presidential legacy." That's what Sid was supposed to be doing for his hefty $325,000 foundation salary.
ITEM---so if the Clinton Foundation Board of Trustees signed off on the Blumenthal hire without being appraised of the full scope of his duties....that would violate state laws and place the trustees in legal jeopardy.
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REFERENCES--- The implications of these Blumenthal revelations are huge, as the Washington Free Beacon points out:
<><> Among the newly revealed Benghazi e-mails were a pair of messages from July 2011 in which Blumenthal described efforts to secure Libyan government contracts for Osprey Global Solutions, a company in which Blumenthal has admitted to having a financial interest.
<><>Blumenthal warned Clinton that French companies were looking to scoop up security contracts from the Transitional National Council, the revolutionary government of the Libyan resistance, and plugged Osprey’s ability to be an American counterweight.
<><> “It puts Americans in a central role without being direct battle combatants,” Blumenthal wrote of Osprey’s TNC contract. He described his efforts in “putting this arrangement together through a series of connections, linking the Libyans to Osprey and keeping it moving.”
<><> Clinton forwarded that message to Jake Sullivan, her deputy chief of staff, and asked to discuss it later.
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SHOCKER Clinton Foundation employee Sid Blumenthal (banned from govt employ) had inside govt info and was constantly in touch w/ Secy Hillary.
<><> For public consumption, Sid was beng touted as a Clinton Foundation hire---the factotum hired to preserve Bill's pesidential legacy (cue laugh machine).
<><> Shockingly, Sid's emails show he had classified State Dept info almost verbatim (as confirmed by the NSA).
<><> How did classified info get into Sid's possession? Did he pass it on to anyone else? Did he sell it to anyone else?
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Blumenthal kept urging Hillary to bomb Libya b/c he had profit-making business interests predicated on a post-Khadaffi Libyan govt.
<><> Sid cunningly used scare tactics----telling Hillary that Obama would lose reelection if the US didn't bomb Libya.
Amazingly, the obedient Hillary passed on this information to Obama.....did O know it came from a person he banned from govt employment?
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Remember, the real Libyan scandal is how we wound up bombing the troops of another United Nation's recognized government without a ‘by your leave’ from Congress.