Posted on 04/01/2015 8:25:03 AM PDT by doug from upland
The Hillary Clinton confidant who was caught running a clandestine intelligence service for her may have also illegally lobbied for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ally in the nation of Georgia.
According to a Gawker report, Sidney Blumenthal, the top Clinton confidant, and “another former official from Bill Clinton’s administration were secretly lobbying the secretary of state on behalf of a billionaire in the former Soviet state of Georgia who was seeking closer ties with Putin’s Russia—seemingly in violation of a federal law designed to prevent foreign powers from covertly wielding influence within the United States.”
Blumenthal “passed along a note from John Kornblum, an international lawyer who had served as ambassador to Germany under Bill Clinton,” to Clinton that lobbied on behalf of Oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili, a Georgian billionaire who “led the opposition Georgian Dream party, which called for closer relations with Russia.” At the time, Ivanishvili “was opposing the incumbent President Mikheil Saakashvili, who had enjoyed U.S. support.” Two years ago, a hacker named Guccifer released some of Blumenthal’s emails, which Gawker has been reviewing.
The memo makes clear that Kornblum was “working with the political party in Georgia opposing Saakashvili”and, according to Gawker, “was a full-throated plea for Clinton to warn Saakashvili not to crack down on Georgian Dream before the elections.” Kornblum also reportedly “passed along a personal letter to Clinton from Ivanishvili himself, in which Ivanishvili accused Saakashvili of undemocratically attacking his party and asking for Clinton’s support: ‘The Georgian people are waiting for a clear signal that America understands and supports their dreams for democracy.'”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Get this Doug you get the feeling that MSN media won’t pick up this story that reason their ratings are in the toilet
Sid “Vicious” Blumenthal. A more nasty, vile rabid liberal troll never existed. He sweats evil.
There is no repercussions. Just a daily soap opera
what about the president illegally lobbying for opponent of Benjamin netenyahu?
Get Blumenthal before a committee and under oath. He’ll cooperate and turn if given immunity. He another one who looks out for his own interest at the cost of everyone else
Pretty sure that Sid had SECRET INFO given to him by Hillary or Huma or others.
Wrong.....Blumenthal drinks Hillary’s Bathwater....just like all their other SICKO-phants.
No! No! Hillary is for the working man! She lives to serve the American worker!
Hahahahahahahaha!
That one always cracks me up.
Lord, this lady (ahem) is sounding more and more like a Vince Flynn/Brad Thor fictional villain...cartoonish, if it weren’t so dangerous.
Former U.S. envoy Kornblum is now head of investment bank Lazard in Germany——http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1147756/posts
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