However, the foundation teems w/ key members of Hillary’s political team and has been disparagingly referred to as Hillary's 2016 Super-Pac.
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In 2009, the Clintons duped the public, and its wealthy donors (and contravened tax-exempt laws) by announcing Sidney Blumenthal, a long-time adviser to both Clintons, had been hired...... (wait for it) "to work on a project to promote Bill Clinton’s presidential legacy. "
(waiting for hysterical laughter to die down)
But Sid's secret emails show that, while on the foundation payroll, ostensibly promoting Bill's legacy, Blumenthal fed back-channel, usually unreliable, intelligence reports on Libya to then-Secretary of State Clinton.
Hillary sent Sid's reports on to senior State official without attribution......as if they were her analyses.
Hillary Clinton's reliance on Sidney Blumethal whom she called an "old friend" sparked controversy when her published emails revealed him to be her main source of intel in the run-up to Benghazi.
(NOTE: Blumenthal's brutal campaign against then-Sen. Barack Obama in the 2008 Democratic primary made him an enemy of the administration even after Hillary Clinton was selected to join Obama's cabinet. Her attempts to hire Blumenthal were reportedly nixed by Obama's staff).
Blumenthal was raking it in---pocketing money from several sources: first surfacing as a Clinton hire to supposedly work on "Bill's legacy," Blumenthal also had financial ties to a group of businessmen who were attempting to drum up contracts in Libya — with the help of Hillary's State Department. Thus raising questions about his motives behind the intel memos he sent Hillary Clinton (that she circulated at State).
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Few people have heard of Cody Shearer, the Clinton flunky whose name surfaced in connection with intel reports Sidney Blumenthal was channeling to then-Secy of State Hillary.
Shearer....a shadowy fixture of the Clinton machine was everywhere in the 1990s — including war-torn Bosnia, where he became the subject of a State Department investigation after he represented himself as an agent of the U.S. government and took cash from a genocidal warlord.
Now evidence suggests Shearer, working with his partner, Sid Blumenthal, was up to something similar during the 2011 revolution in Libya.
And as in the 1990s, the Clintons were lurking on the margins.
Much of the intelligence contained in the Blumenthal memos fed to Hillary Clinton were not just self-serving — the intel was provided by someone with a history of misleading foreign sources, misrepresenting himself as an agent of the U.S. government, and creating trouble for both himself and the United States abroad.
Though often described as a journalist, Shearer hasn’t written much since the 1980s. His work included a series of muckraking columns wrote on the sexual proclivities of former Texas senator John Tower which sank his nomination for defense secretary in 1989.
Shearer’s entrée into the Clinton White House in 1992 was facilitated by Strobe Talbott, Shearer’s brother-in-law, Bill Clinton's friend at Oxford. Talbott served as a deputy secretary in Bill Clinton’s State Department. Shearer allegedly worked with Clinton enforcer Terry Lenzner to investigate and, at times, intimidate women who accused Bill Clinton of sexual harassment. --snip--