Posted on 05/19/2015 12:50:06 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
When the Clintons last occupied the White House, Sidney Blumenthal cast himself in varied roles: speechwriter, in-house intellectual and press corps whisperer. Republicans added another, accusing Mr. Blumenthal of spreading gossip to discredit Republican investigators, and forced him to testify during President Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial.
Now, as Hillary Rodham Clinton embarks on her second presidential bid, Mr. Blumenthal’s service to the Clintons is again under the spotlight. Representative Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, a Republican who is leading the congressional committee investigating the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, plans to subpoena Mr. Blumenthal, 66, for a private transcribed interview.
Mr. Gowdy’s chief interest, according to people briefed on the inquiry, is a series of memos that Mr. Blumenthal — who was not an employee of the State Department — wrote to Mrs. Clinton about events unfolding in Libya before and after the death of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. According to emails obtained by The New York Times, Mrs. Clinton, who was secretary of state at the time, took Mr. Blumenthal’s advice seriously, forwarding his memos to senior diplomatic officials in Libya and Washington and at times asking them to respond. Mrs. Clinton continued to pass around his memos even after other senior diplomats concluded that Mr. Blumenthal’s assessments were often unreliable.
But an examination by The Times suggests that Mr. Blumenthal’s involvement was more wide-ranging and more complicated than previously known, embodying the blurry lines between business, politics and philanthropy that have enriched and vexed the Clintons and their inner circle for years. . .
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Always the same thing, follow the money.
Correct
The Clinton Legacy Grows...and grows..and grows
What is happening when the NYT openly makes Hillary look creepy to democrats, who thrive on the milk produced by the NYT propaganda machine?
They are actually printing stuff that is cannon fire against her, and overcoming the ever increasing pile of it is making a rocky road for her to travel, when she ever decides to begin her campaign.
Podesta took over her campaign and was sounding so macho early on— of how they were going to come out hard against these stupid Republican generated revelations, full of false assumptions. By now, he must surely have heartburn, seeing their own campaign bed partners in the media adding more fuel to the storm.
Will Democrats ever care? What tools they have been for the Clinton Crime Familly.
Hillery is not Micheal Obama.
Hillery is not an Obama third term.
There is no love lost between the Obamas and the Clintons.
Obamas election strategy has always been to take out the most effective (or only) opposition through leaks of scandals long before the actual campaign.
I hope you’re right. I hope Hillary gets knocked out. She is treacherous to all sides. Let Obama knock her out. She has it coming, frankly.
If she even makes it to the convention, I would like to see her lose the nomination outright, AGAIN, and be rid of her. The Democrat bench is about as deep as a piece of paper. They have to have Independents to win anything. After eight of Obama, they don’t have them.
Benghazi ping.
Let Republicanprofessor know if you want on or off this ping list.
Does transfer of gold and diamonds fall under “business “
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