<><> For public consumption, Sid was beng touted as a $325,000 Clinton Foundation hire---the factotum hired to preserve Bill's pesidential legacy (cue laugh machine).
<><> Sid's emails show he had classified info almost verbatim (as confirmed by the NSA).
<><> Blumenthal was urging Hillary to bomb Libya b/c he had profit-making business interests predicated on a new Libyan govt.
<><> Sid also used scare tactics----that Obama would lose reelection if they didn't bomb Libya.
<><> Hillary passed on this information to Obama.....did he know it came from a person he banned from govt employment?
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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.
<><> Sid's emails show he had classified info almost verbatim (as confirmed by the NSA).
<><> Blumenthal was urging Hillary to bomb Libya b/c he had profit-making business interests predicated on a new Libyan govt.
<><> Sid also used scare tactics——that Obama would lose reelection if they didn't bomb Libya.
<><> Hillary passed on this information to Obama.....did he know it came from a person he banned from govt employment?
In a crisis type of emergency there is a lot of confusion and people are under stress. Because of this, sometime they make very candid comments that, in retrospect, become very interesting and revealing .
One such comment was made by a high level woman working for Hillary Clinton in the State Department when she was being interviewed about potential security breaches live on the air a few hours after the start of the Benghazi attack.
The comment was that Amb Stevens visit to Benghazi that day was related to a meeting with undisclosed parties regarding very sensitive Libyan oil contracts and that Stevens was personally carrying a brief case filled with a large number of important and highly sensitive and very secret oil related contracts and documents . She said that the brief case could not be located and this was cause for grave concern by many in the State Dept.
That was the first and last time that was reported. Given what we now know about Clinton's mixing of personal business and official Sec of State job functions combined with what we know about her dealings with Sidney, makes for some interesting speculation