Posted on 03/23/2013 8:08:39 AM PDT by darkwing104
The latest target of the hacker known as “Guccifer” was former President Clinton aide Sidney Blumenthal. Guccifer has targeted former President Bush and Colin Powell and now we are led to believe he is targeting democrats.
In the last few months Americans have seen that current and former government officials made frequent use of non-government email sites to conduct business outside of official channels. Though these email accounts are used to hide communications from Congress and the American people, they are principally used to hide correspondence from Freedom of Information Act scrutiny. Hillary was most likely communicating with Blumenthal in this way to create “talking points” to mislead the American public about the September 11 murders of the American Ambassador and three other Americans in Benghazi.
Guccifer allegedly hacked into Blumenthal’s AOL email account last week. The hacked emails that were published in the Russian Times appear to be analyst summaries, opinions base on facts but which should nevertheless not be taken as gospel. They do however give the idea that the planned Benghazi attack was triggered by a YouTube video. The actual sources of this conclusion are unknown but were most likely from human source interviews, though they could be the opinions of the original author. Though the emails were sanitized versions of the original summaries, Hillary should have known better than to send even sanitized confidential reports by way of a public email account. Either Hillary or Sid were extremely sloppy or they intended this correspondent to become public. If she decides to run in 2016 she can use these hacked emails to deflect public criticism of her actions regarding Benghazi. Of course, she could also claim they were fraudulent.
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I think Hillary is orchestrating this phoney hack for publicity. It keeps her in the news and makes her look like a victim.
I agree. This is a disinformation campaign pure and simple.
Sidney Blumenthals expertise is in smearing political rivals of the Clintons. Blumenthal is not a Geo Political analyst nor does he have these connections in the Middle East and North Africa.
This is an attempt to clean up Hillary's image. This is pure “Bravo Sierra.”
If ol’ Reince were worth the preciousness of his name, his RNC would have either done the digging or got someone to do the digging to feed up into the MSM (anyone remember Mark Fabiani’s report during the Clinton administration?) the exposure of this amateur leak/hoax.
But no, instead he’s busy looking for public praise for his plotting to cut the tea party (the GOP’s base) out of the GOP.
or to provide “evidence” to support the stupid “video did it” meme.
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