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I don’t think a novelist could have come up with anything more bizarre than what was going on with Sid. You also would think Obama/ValJar would be furious about him .... Hilly was specifically told she could not hire him & she used him as if she had (paying him from Clinton Foundation) as her own private intelligence department. I don’t know if the NSA will ever come clean on how Sid was getting that info - somebody was giving it to him. I also saw something from Sid the other day (he’s been really quiet since his testimony to the Benghazi committee) saying (of course) that there was nothing ‘there’ with what Hilly did with her emails. This, from a guy who is up to the top of his head (or should be) in trouble for what info he was exposing & the NSA source he was exploiting. The ‘truth’ of the matter, should it ever come out, is going to be fascinating & probably a little horrifying at the same time due to the level of compromise that has happened with Hilly herself & this NSA ‘mole’/Sid.
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Hillary’s Sidney Blumenthal Problem
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/hillarys-sidney-blumenthal-problem/

Blumenthal was a Clinton confidante long before Hillary Clinton went to work at Foggy Bottom. She appealed to the Obama administration to allow Blumenthal to join her staff as a speechwriter, but the request was declined. Blumenthal had developed a reputation as a partisan flamethrower – a fixer, of sorts, who was not above getting his hands dirty in order to protect the Clintons. Nevertheless, as Hillary Clinton’s secretive emails revealed, Blumenthal continued to work closely with Hillary Clinton, sent her numerous communications related to the sensitive ongoing workings of the American government, and was compensated for his performance.

Moreover, as it was alleged in this hearing and confirmed by Hillary Clinton, there were emails she received from Blumenthal related to intelligence matters that she forwarded to the president’s team for review, but they were stripped of the identifiers that would let the White House know that the information was coming from Blumenthal. Clinton contended that she did this merely in order to ensure that the intelligence was evaluated on its merits and not its source, but the more likely explanation is that it would have enraged the White House, which had blocked Blumenthal from serving on Clinton’s staff. In a sentence, Hillary Clinton misled the President of the United States on a matter related to the conduct of American foreign affairs and national security.

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Clinton Foundation paid Blumenthal $10K per month while he advised on Libya
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/clinton-foundation-sidney-blumenthal-salary-libya-118359

Sidney Blumenthal, a longtime confidant of Bill and Hillary Clinton, earned about $10,000 a month as a full-time employee of the Clinton Foundation while he was providing unsolicited intelligence on Libya to then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, according to multiple sources familiar with the arrangement.

Clinton, whose efforts to hire Blumenthal as an adviser at the State Department were rebuffed by top aides to President Barack Obama, last week defended her relationship with her old ally but also minimized his influence. Describing him as “a friend of mine for a long time,” Clinton, who also plans to testify before the committee, said “he sent me unsolicited emails which I passed on in some instances, and I say that that’s just part of the give and take.”

In his own statement last week, Blumenthal suggested that he did not write the memos on behalf of the foundation or any other entities with which he may have been associated, but rather as “a private citizen and friend” of Clinton’s.