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.