Posted on 02/12/2018 8:01:55 PM PST by Innovative
A name long associated with the Clinton machine has surfaced as a behind-the-scenes figure in the Trump-Russia collusion story, prompting some to speculate that the investigation began at least partly as a dirty tricks operation.
Sidney Blumenthal, a Clinton loyalist from the days of Bill Clinton’s presidency up through Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaigns, was identified by Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., as a source of anti-Trump information passed to the FBI through the State Department. The information is believed to have played a role in the FBI’s launching of the collusion probe that is now in the hands of Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
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Blumenthal was feeding info to Steele.
F Yeah?
I...am...so...damn...tired...of...reading...and...hearing...about...this...Russia...shit...I...could...scream.
Dems, do something about it, or shut the hell up.
Like “Jack” eluded to “Rose” on the fantail of the Titanic...”you wouldn’t have jumped...” (paraphrase) IT THAT WAS YOUR TRUE INTENTION YOU WOULD HAVE DONE IT BY NOW.
iT’S a milkdown to 2018 midterms to try and keep Trump off balance until the elections.
Something at this level, with both the exposure if caught, and the amount of money involved, Bluemthal, Podesta, and Hillary all had to Green Light it.
they thought they would have tons of dirt by now and Hillary would be crowned President by the FBI
Cody Shearer was giving info to Blumenthal. Remember that Shearer’s brother demanded an ambassadorship from the Clintons, and received one. The Shearers are well-known for dirty politics.
Wonder if its at least possible that Mueller will indict the Democrats who actually colluded with Russians and Steele to create the phony dossier and violate the civil rights of people with fraudulently obtained FIOS warrants.
Hillary is a micro-manager.
She signed off on every word in that dossier.
Sid is the nefarious attack dog sworn to secrecy to the Clinton Crime Syndicate. Cheryl Mills, Huma and a few other close associates know everything, all the lies, where the bodies are buried, everything. When he goes down along with any other of the syndicate, the entire house falls upon itself. Just a matter of time.......
That’s a great point. I was reading it again and it reads like the first draft was “Russia and Putin disliked Hillary” and was edited to read “Russian and Putin despised Hillary and relentlessly plotted her downfall”. Trump was just a useful idiot in the beginning having tried and failed to do business in Russia. By the end Trump is colluding, etc. She wordsnithed that part as well.
That’s like asking if the Clinton’s have a dog.
I give the odds of that at ).001%
Exactly
I said 6 months ago this whole thing smells like Sid Viscious. The guy got his nickname for a reason.
>> The information is believed to have played a role in the FBI’s launching of the collusion probe <<
It wasn’t a “collusion” probe. It was a counter-intelligence investigation conducted by Hussein and Clinton using Carter Page as the target in order to launch surveillance against the entire Trump campaign team.
Brooke Shearer, Strobe Talbots wife and Cody Shearer were famous DUMPSTER DIVERS getting any dirt they could find in Clintons foes garbage cans!
The Russians wanted HILLAIRY to win!! They had ALL the dope on her and she was easily blackmailed.....why in the HELL would they have wanted Trump to win...they DIDN’T!!
J/W has tracked this unpleasant man – “Sid Vicious” — over the years: (A) How Hillary Clinton relied on him in defiance of President Obama; (B) how he and Hillary kept in touch during her tenure; (C) how she originally wanted him to be a high-ranking adviser.
AND THERE’S MORE-—MUCH MORE-—ABOUT THIS INDIVIDUAL’S MARAUDING ACTIVITIES
ITEM—From link: http://observer.com/2016/03/hillary-has-an-nsa-problem/
........one of the most controversial of Ms. Clinton’s emails released by the State Department under judicial order was one sent on June 8, 2011, to the Secretary of State by Sidney Blumenthal, Ms. Clinton’s unsavory friend and confidant who was running a private intelligence service for Ms. Clinton.
This email contains an amazingly detailed assessment of events in Sudan, specifically a coup being plotted by top generals in that war-torn country. Mr. Blumenthal’s information came from a top-ranking source with direct access to Sudan’s top military and intelligence officials, and recounted a high-level meeting that had taken place only 24 hours before.
To anybody familiar with intelligence reporting, this unmistakably signals intelligence, termed SIGINT in the trade. In other words, Mr. Blumenthal, a private citizen who had enjoyed no access to U.S. intelligence for over a decade when he sent that email, somehow got hold of SIGINT about the Sudanese leadership and managed to send it, via open, unclassified email, to his friend Ms. Clinton only one day later.
NSA officials were appalled by the State Department’s release of this email, since it bore all the hallmarks of Agency reporting. Back in early January when I reported this, I was confident that Mr. Blumenthal’s information came from highly classified NSA sources, based on my years of reading and writing such reports myself, and one veteran agency official told me it was NSA information with “at least 90 percent confidence.”
We can confirm that the contents of Sid Blumenthal’s June 8, 2011, email to Hillary Clinton, sent to her personal, unclassified account, were indeed based on highly sensitive NSA information. The agency investigated this compromise and determined that Mr. Blumenthal’s highly detailed account of Sudanese goings-on, including the retelling of high-level conversations in that country, was indeed derived from NSA intelligence.
Specifically, this information was illegally lifted from four different NSA reports, all of them classified “Top Secret / Special Intelligence.” Worse, at least one of those reports was issued under the GAMMA compartment, which is an NSA handling caveat that is applied to extraordinarily sensitive information (for instance, decrypted conversations between top foreign leadership, as this was). GAMMA is properly viewed as a SIGINT Special Access Program, or SAP, several of which from the CIA Ms. Clinton compromised in another series of her “unclassified” emails.
Currently serving NSA officials have told me they have no doubt that Mr. Blumenthal’s information came from their reports. “It’s word-for-word, verbatim copying,” one of them explained. “In one case, an entire paragraph was lifted from an NSA report” that was classified Top Secret / Special Intelligence.
How Mr. Blumenthal got his hands on this information is the key question, and there’s no firm answer yet. The fact that he was able to take four separate highly classified NSA reports—none of which he was supposed to have any access to—and pass the details of them to Hillary Clinton via email only hours after NSA released them in Top Secret / Special Intelligence channels indicates something highly unusual, as well as illegal, was going on.
Suspicion naturally falls on Tyler Drumheller, the former CIA senior official who was Mr. Blumenthal’s intelligence fixer, his supplier of juicy spy gossip, who conveniently died last August before email-gate became front-page news. However, he, too, had left federal service years before and should not have had any access to current NSA reports. There are many questions here about what Hillary Clinton and her staff at Foggy Bottom were up to, including Sidney Blumenthal, an integral member of the Clinton organization, despite his lack of any government position.
How Mr. Blumenthal got hold of this Top Secret-plus reporting is only the first question. Why he chose to email it to Ms. Clinton in open channels is another question. So is: How did nobody on Secretary Clinton’s staff notice that this highly detailed reporting looked exactly like SIGINT from the NSA?
Last, why did the State Department see fit to release this email, unredacted, to the public?
HOW DID HE GET IT? One theory making the rounds is that Obama and Rham “pretended” to bar Sid from govt employment. The better to utilize scurvy Sid in these machinations.
ITEM-— Let’s see the execution and timing of Obama’s PDB’s. That might be a “tell.”
ITEM—— Let’s capture Sid’s emails to his employer-—The Clinton Foundation-—for another “tell.”
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