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.