Posted on 09/09/2019 9:47:48 PM PDT by george76
Records recently posted online by the FBI indicate that it did little to investigate allegations from private sources connected to Republicans about a scheme in which associates of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tried to exploit their connection to her to profit from the turmoil in Libya in 2011.
The FBI received the documents in June 2016, around the same time it launched an exhaustive, three-year investigation of the Trump campaigns ties to Russia based, in part, on information from private sources connected to Democrats that in the main would prove to be false the Steele dossier.
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Why did Sidney Blumenthal, the former journalist and Bill Clinton White House aide, send her a series of detailed memos and reports about Libya beginning in 2011?
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Blumenthal sent the emails as a "quid pro quo" to free up classified State Department financial intelligence to help Libya recover as much as $66 billion spirited offshore by slain strongman Moammar Gadhafi.
Out of that, Blumenthal and associates stood to gain a brokers' cut of perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars.
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While claiming to possess evidence that Blumenthal and his associates had contracts and offshore accounts to repatriate the money, the documents say "no concrete evidence" was found suggesting Clinton acted to support the effort.
Yet if verified, the files might shed light on why Clinton kept her emails, tens of thousands of which have gone missing, out of normal government communication channels.
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Blumenthal worked on Libya with Cody Shearer, another longtime Clinton operative.
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ouster of Gadhafi, and Secretary Clintons awkwardly triumphal comment afterward, We came, we saw, he died.
During that period, Clinton heard often from Blumenthal a controversial infighter, dubbed Sid Vicious
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearinvestigations.com ...
2011 is also when Qatar [see Brookings Institute, China] was actively fighting in Libya...
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