“If you need additional security at your post in Libya you will have to work through proper channels for that. If you need advice on how to make money for me, here’s my email address. And if anyone questions this arrangement, they are simply on a partisan witch hunt.”
FACTOID: How many emails did Hillary
chose not to give the State Department?
31,830
FACTOID: How many emails from the Ambassador pleading
for security did Hillary ignore, claiming she
never received?
More than 600.
BS. Her official email address is known to every executive in the State Dept.
Are these the emails she admitted to asking staff to remove the name of the sender?
In Clintonworld the buck stops here has a different meaning and relates only to their endless efforts to collect money on behalf of the Clinton Foundation.Never to taking responsibilty.The core of Mrs Clinton’s testimony before the committee is she emptily says she takes reponsibility while at the same time blaming everyone else for her abject failure.According to her the buck stopped somewhere between the State Department janitorial staff and “other professionals”.
She may have opened up a new can of worms bringing the Sid into the mix. Leftists throw their own under the bus. Her testimony was more of a confession as she digs her hole deeper and deeper and deeper.
Best to keep in mind the money-driven nature of Blumenthal and Hillary's govt relationship:
Hillary wanted the Clintons' dirty tricks consigliere, Sidney Blumenthal, for a top position in the State Department, but vengeful Obama nixed the guy who played him dirty in the election.
In 2009, the Clintons duped the public, and its wealthy donors, and announced Blumenthal, had been hired......(wait for it)...... "to work on a Foundation project to promote Bill Clinton’s presidential legacy. "
(waiting for hysterical laughter to die down
HILLARY'S SECRET ADVISOR---AND TRIPLE DIPPER:
Blumenthal was officially at the Clinton Foundation but the greedy Sid was cashing in bigtime b/c, through Hillary, he had unlimited access to valuable US intel which brought big bucks in the global marketplace.
Sid's secret emails show that, in 2009, while on the Clinton Foundation payroll, ostensibly promoting Bill's legacy, Blumenthal spoon-fed Hillary reports on Libya that Hillary sent to senior officials without attribution......to manipulate US policy by which Sid could profit.
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The NYT reports extensively on Blumenthal's secret emails to Hillary (emails she did not want revealed):
<><> in 2009 the Clintons announced Blumenthal was hired by the Clinton Foundation to "promote Bill's presidential legacy",
<><> at the same time Blumenthal was tight w/ American Bridge and Media Matters — two Democratic groups aiding 2016 Clinton's effort,
<><> Blumenthal was also a paid advisor to businesses seeking Libyan contracts (compromising US ntl interests, by marketing his influence at the State Dept);
<><> Blumenthal was secretly advising Secy of State Clinton about Libya @ $320,000 per year;
<><> Sid also pocketed $200,000 a year from Clinton political fixer, David Brock's, media operations.
REALITY CHECK Blumenthal was engaged in a massive conflict of interest since he was simultaneously being paid by (a) The Clinton Foundation, (b) Hillary's 2016 organizers, and, (3) businessmen w/ interests in Libya.
If Clinton knew, her actions in circulating memos precipitated by Blumenthal was egregious. If she did not know, her recklessness is subject to US laws.
Keep in mind that---to its donors and to the world beyond---all they knew was that the Clinton Foundation hired Sid Blumenthal to..... (wait for it)..... "promote Bill's presidential legacy." That's what Sid was supposed to be doing for his $325,000 foundation salary.
Now if the Clinton Foundation Board of Trustees signed off on the Blumenthal hire without being appraised of the full scope of his duties....that would violate state laws and place the trustees in legal jeopardy.
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REFERENCES The implications of this Blumenthal revelation are huge, as the Washington Free Beacon points out:
<><> Among the newly revealed (Benghazi) e-mails were a pair of messages from July 2011 in which Blumenthal described efforts to secure Libyan government contracts for Osprey Global Solutions, a company in which Blumenthal has admitted to having a financial interest.
<><>Blumenthal warned Clinton that French companies were looking to scoop up security contracts from the Transitional National Council, the revolutionary government of the Libyan resistance, and plugged Osprey’s ability to be an American counterweight.
<><> “It puts Americans in a central role without being direct battle combatants,” Blumenthal wrote of Osprey’s TNC contract. He described his efforts in “putting this arrangement together through a series of connections, linking the Libyans to Osprey and keeping it moving.”
<><> Clinton forwarded that message to Jake Sullivan, her deputy chief of staff, and asked to discuss it later.
Largely overlooked is Hillary’s ability to be C&C. Look how she treated embassy staff and ambassadors. Think the military isn’t going to notice that she’ll throw them under the bus in no time flat.
It came ouot of Fox and Friends this AM that Amb. Stevens and his team made 600 (SIX HUNDRED) requests for added security. All fell on deaf ears. Obviously Hillary’s “system” for handling such mundane matters as added security did not work.
If she’d been in the military she would have been court martialed by now for such inattention and sent down (or jailed) in disgrace.
Just my humble opinion, but I am sure that Stevens DID have Hillary!s e-mail and used it all the time. I suspect those are among the e-mails that have not been recovered. That is the only way she can lie about not getting any of the urgent requests for more security. Mr Gowdy, find those e-mails and nail her to the wall!
How well is her lying to the FBI going to work out.
They has to ask for help using Hillary’s email address?
Chris Stevens DID NOT HAVE ONE DIRECT METHOD OF COMMUNICATION WITH HIS BOSS.......NOT ONE as per her testimony.
The panel clicked off vaious methods:
Your address? "NO"
Your home phone number? "NO".
Your Cell phone number? "NO".
Your Email (meaning private email)? "NO"
She simply said he could always call the State Dept. Well seems they tried to no avail either.
Then the zinger question (IMO) Did you EVER speak or in any manner communicate with Ambassador Stevens after you appointed him as Ambassador? "NO" (out of sight out of mind)
REALLY? Then you were not in the least concerned about the danger of him going into Benghazi. Guess she thought and conceded he was expendable, being gay.
I need to go take my BP meds now..GOD please rid us of this scourge called Clintons.
Thank God for YouTube as well; there are a lot of clips telling the truth about he laughing during questions of the four men who were murdered, her victory dance after the questioning, etc. I suggest going to the ones on YouTube telling the truth and liking them as much as you can.
I have distant relatives who think the sun rises and sets on the Clintons.
I don’t know how it is possible to admire them like that unless they are really really LIV.
So, who cares if our ambassador is screeching for help. They had bigger fish to fry.
Republicans had 3 years to prepare and 11 hours yesterday to nail her lying ass to the wall.
Yet they failed in spite of having all the evidence and facts they could possibly want.
Granted, Hillary is as slippery and slimy and hard to get a hold on as anyone in the world, but republicans yesterday appeared to have no plan.
That’s a cardiac cough right? High in the thorax and almost like grunting.