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NYT: Banned from State Dep’t, Clinton Foundation crony advised Hillary on Libya anyway
Hotair ^ | 05/19/2015 | AllahPundit

Posted on 05/19/2015 9:35:24 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

The crony in question is Sid Blumenthal, former White House advisor to Bill and longtime hatchet man for the pair. We already knew Blumenthal was running his own off-the-books intelligence operation for the Secretary of State. We also knew that he’d put a friend representing a pro-Putin pol in Georgia in touch with Hillary to lobby her on behalf of the Georgian opposition. And the reason we knew those things isn’t because Hillary Clinton voluntarily turned over Blumenthal’s communications to State as part of routine recordkeeping protocols. We know it because a hacker infiltrated Blumenthal’s e-mail account a few years ago and lifted his copy of his chats with Hillary. If not for that, the Clinton/Blumenthal communiques might be a secret to this day, sent into the ether after Hillary mass-deleted “personal” e-mails from her time in office that were stored on her private server. Unless those deleted e-mails are retrieved, we may never know the extent of their exchanges.

But the Georgia connection is the least of it. As Tim Carney puts it after reading this NYT bombshell, “Hillary Clinton helped push us into an illegal war in Libya, and her advisor was making money off regime change.” Well, he was trying, if the Times is to be believed. And he was doing it as — ta da — an employee of the Clinton Foundation.

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 planning of commemorative events, according to foundation officials. During the same period, he also worked on and off as a paid consultant to Media Matters and American Bridge,


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: clinton; clintonfoundation; crony; hillary; hillaryclinton; libya; statedepartment

1 posted on 05/19/2015 9:35:24 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

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.

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The emails suggest that Mr. Blumenthal’s direct line to Mrs. Clinton circumvented the elaborate procedures established by the federal government to ensure that high-level officials are provided with vetted assessments of available intelligence.

So the Smartest Woman in the World, the most powerful diplomat on Earth, was not only consuming half-baked intel assessments being fed to a Clinton Foundation crony by business associates with a financial interest in ousting Qaddafi (and who themselves had little experience in Libya, the Times emphasizes), she was circulating it among her staff — sometimes without naming Blumenthal as the source — for maximum impact. And she did this knowing that Obama’s own team loathed Blumenthal so deeply for his tactics against them during campaign 2008 that they refused to let Hillary hire him at the State Department. They didn’t want him influencing U.S. foreign policy. Hillary let him do it anyway.


2 posted on 05/19/2015 9:37:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Rules are for you little people, peasant!


3 posted on 05/19/2015 9:40:25 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bump


4 posted on 05/19/2015 9:41:29 AM PDT by lowbridge
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Clinton Foundation crony advised Hillary on Libya anyway

And the advise went something like this....

Let's assassinate Ghaddafi, turn Libya on its head, loot the Libyan Central bank of its gold, seize its overseas investment funds run by Goldman Sachs, split the country apart with civil war and rival factions, and turn the country into a Jihadi playground. If any Americans are killed, we can use the asisine excuse that a youtube video caused it all. Don't worry, the MSM will say anything we tell them to.

5 posted on 05/19/2015 9:41:58 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: SeekAndFind

I suppose if we really delve into Sidney Blumenthal we’ll find the leak of arms trading in Libya to rebels in Syria — which resulted in Ambassadors Steven’s death, and we’ll also find where the idea for the CIA to spy on Congress came from.


6 posted on 05/19/2015 9:42:38 AM PDT by Usagi_yo (Abuse rolls down hill.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Hillary lied Libyans died.

And they continue to die in the wreck she left behind in Libya.

And when the hundreds of shoulder launched anti-aircraft missiles that went missing in the chaos she unleashed make their way to an airport near you, the Libyans won’t be the only ones dying for her greed.


7 posted on 05/19/2015 9:47:07 AM PDT by edwinland
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There is no way she will be elected to the WH, my hope is that she keeps sticking it out so we can run against Lincoln Chafee or Bernie Sanders or some other non-entity.


8 posted on 05/19/2015 9:47:22 AM PDT by cookcounty ("I was a Democrat until I learned to count" --Maine Gov. Paul LePage)
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To: Usagi_yo

You know, when the history books are written, I believe that they will paint a breathtaking picture of the sheer scope of worldwide economic, political, and human destruction/misery caused by Bamm-Bamm and company.


9 posted on 05/19/2015 9:49:13 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day".)
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To: SeekAndFind

She says they will be released, let’s see if this full conversation, that we already know about, gets released.


10 posted on 05/19/2015 9:49:28 AM PDT by cookcounty ("I was a Democrat until I learned to count" --Maine Gov. Paul LePage)
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To: SeekAndFind

Why was Sid banned from the Obama White House & Obama Administration?


11 posted on 05/19/2015 10:33:35 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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