Regarding Libya, one point I've been pondering recently is the fact that a major terrorist financier who had donated to Clinton's 2000 campaign, Abdurahman Alamoudi, was convicted of involvement in a September 2003 Al Qaeda plot to assassinate Qaddafi. (Put this in the strategic context of the War on Terror and Iraq War and Bush's efforts to elicit cooperation from Qaddafi on preventing WMD proliferation during that time period.) Joseph Wilson's former officemate Mohammed Alamoudi later started raising $20 million for the Clinton Foundation over what was intended to be a 10-year period--I think he got between $5 and $10 million actually raised before the Clinton Foundation got exposed, not sure if he's still donating. In October 2011, while Obama is President and Hillary is Secretary of State, Qaddafi is overthrown, effectively accomplishing what the 2003 plot had failed to do. I'm curious what light Hillary's emails may shed on how these dots connect. For example:
New Hillary Emails Reveal Propaganda, Executions, Coveting Libyan Oil and Gold
The same intelligence email from Sydney Blumenthal also confirms what has become a well known theme of Western supported insurgencies in the Middle East: the contradiction of special forces training militias that are simultaneously suspected of links to Al Qaeda. . .Though the French-proposed U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973 claimed the no-fly zone implemented over Libya was to protect civilians, an April 2011 email sent to Hillary with the subject line “France’s client and Qaddafi’s gold” tells of less noble ambitions. The email identifies French President Nicholas Sarkozy as leading the attack on Libya with five specific purposes in mind: to obtain Libyan oil, ensure French influence in the region, increase Sarkozy’s reputation domestically, assert French military power, and to prevent Gaddafi’s influence in what is considered “Francophone Africa.” . . .Early in the Libyan conflict Secretary of State Clinton formally accused Gaddafi and his army of using mass rape as a tool of war. Though numerous international organizations, like Amnesty International, quickly debunked these claims, the charges were uncritically echoed by Western politicians and major media. . .What this new email confirms is that not only was the State Department aware of the spurious nature of what Blumenthal calls “rumors” originating solely with the rebels, but did nothing to stop false information from rising to top officials who then gave them “credence.” . . .It appears, furthermore, that the Viagra mass rape hoax likely originated with Sidney Blumenthal himself.
Why Sanders Supporters Won't Back Clinton: The Gaddafi Emails
No one really knows the fate of all of Gaddafi’s — or the Libyan bank’s — assets, but some have been located in U.S. banks. The Daily Beast reports those that were found in American banks were frozen. But, what happened to the rest of the Libyan dictator’s estimated $90 billion fortune? To this day, it remains a mystery. . .The Benghazi investigation may not have been completely fruitless after all. The course of the investigation resulted in uncovering the emails that show the real reason why Hillary Clinton helped to overthrow Gaddafi.
On the French angle, recall Joseph's Wilson's close ties to French African issues during the Clinton administration and French business interests both then and later.
Within weeks of the revolution there were two valid cease-fire opportunities, one presented to the Department of Defense and Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), and a second opportunity presented to U.S. Africa Command for direct military commander negotiations to effect Gaddafi’s abdication, in which I was personally involved. Both opportunities were rejected and shut down by Secretary Clinton. . .on March 14, 2011 Secretary Clinton had already met with rebel leaders in Paris, including Mahmoud Jibril, number two in the Libyan Muslim Brotherhood, and had committed to support their revolution. . .Despite valid ceasefire opportunities to prevent “bloodshed in Benghazi” at the onset of hostilities, Secretary Clinton intervened and quickly pushed her foreign policy in support of a revolution led by the Muslim Brotherhood and known terrorists in the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group. One of the Libyan Rebel Brigade commanders, Ahmed Abu Khattala, would later be involved in the terrorist attack in Benghazi on September 11, 2012.
Libyan Oil, Gold, and Qaddafi: The Strange Email Sidney Blumenthal Sent Hillary Clinton In 2011
It appears that Clinton's office too was awash in Libya rumors. Nearly a third of all the emails she received on the security and political situation in Libya during her tenure as Secretary of State came from Blumenthal, a longtime Clinton associate who was not formally employed by the State Department. He was on the payroll of the Clinton Foundation, bringing in $10,000 a month as a consultant, while pursuing his own business interests in Libya. Blumenthal's emails to Clinton now have been made public in response to a FOIA lawsuit filed by VICE News. These briefs were prepared by Blumenthal's business partner and former CIA operative Tyler Drumheller, a consultant with plans to take advantage of economic opportunities in a post-war Libya. Both Drumheller and Blumenthal worked with a Libyan company called Osprey, a start-up that hoped to profit off medical and military contracts in the chaos after the war.
Remember Drumheller from Nigergate?
Plamegate: 25 Lingering Questions
None of the four CIA representatives who attended the meeting recall picking up copies, but a later internal inspection found copies in the vault of the Counterproliferation Division, where Valerie Plame worked. CIA spokesman Bill Harlow told Seymour Hersh in March 2003 that the CIA did not obtain an actual copy of the forgeries until after the President’s January 2003 State of the Union address. Contradicting this, Vince Cannistraro later told Hersh that the State Department’s Italian embassy had passed the forgeries to the CIA’s Italian station, headed by Jeffrey Castelli, and that the CIA’s Italian station had passed them on to CIA headquarters. Isikoff and Corn obtained additional information on this subject from former CIA European Division chief Tyler Drumheller, who in 2002-2003 was involved in a conflict with other CIA personnel over a controversial informant codenamed Curveball. Drumheller stated that Castelli’s CIA station was advised of the State Department’s meeting with Burba and did receive a copy of her documents, but Castelli was already aware that a phony Niger story was being peddled and he did not take the documents seriously, so they sat in the station’s files and were not passed on to CIA analysts for vetting. If this information is accurate it may shed some light on the forgeries’ circulation at CIA, but it still fails to illuminate how the forgeries got into CPD’s vault.
I see you're already on this last thread at Post #6 :-) You linked to this:
Ex-Clinton aide didn't write Benghazi memos [but one who did is known to Hillary]
Tyler Drumheller, a former CIA officer, was identified as an author of some of the memos Blumenthal forwarded in reports by Politico and Bloomberg.