See #32
Also pinged you to more on today’s daily djt thread.
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-benghazi-democrats-20160627-snap-story.html
House Democrats mistakenly release transcript confirming big payout to Clinton friend Sidney Blumenthal
Below is the full transcript excerpt that Democrats intended not to publish. It is unclear who the questioner is in the first section.
Q: Did you ever receive any payment from an organization called Media Matters?
A: Oh, yes. I did — I did receive payment in that period from Media Matters.
Q: Okay. And what was your relationship with Media Matters at that time period?
A: I was a consultant to Media Matters. I’m sorry I—
Q: That’s okay.
A: I overlooked that.
Q: When did you become a consultant for Media Matters?
A: I would say the very end of 2012.
Q: Okay. And how did that come about, that you became a consultant for Media Matters?
A: I have had a very long friendship with the chairman of Media Matters, whose name is David Brock, from before he founded this organization, and I have sustained that friendship. And he asked me to help provide ideas and advice to him and his organizations.
Q: So you began your relationship, your paid relationship, with Media Matters at the end of 2012.
A: Right.
Q: Does that continue to this day?
A: It does.
Q: Okay. And what is your salary or your contract with Media Matters? How much money are you earning from them?
A: I’d say it’s about $200,000 a year.
Q: And has that been roughly consistent from when you began receiving payment from Media Matters?
*[redacted due to Chairman Gowdy’s refusal to allow release of transcript].
A: I would say it’s — I’d have to check. I think it’s increased a little bit. It’s increased some.
Q: Okay. Are you familiar with the organization American Bridge?
A: Yes.
Q: Have you received any compensation from American Bridge over the last five years?
A: Yes.
Q: Okay. And how much compensation have you received from American Bridge?
A: Well, when I talk about that amount of money, I mean all of those organizations.
Q: So all of David Brock’s entities —
A: Right.
Q: — combined are 200,000?
A: About.
Q: Okay.
A: Something like that.
Q: Okay. So there’s American Bridge.
A: Yes.
Q: There’s Media Matters.
A: Right.
Q: Are there any other organizations on which you have done work for Mr. Brock?
A: Correct the Record
Q: Okay.
A: — is another organization.
Q: Okay.
A: And then there’s the American Independent Institute, which is a journalistic foundation.
Q: So, when you receive your paycheck, who signs the paycheck? Where does that come from?
A: It’s deposited directly. I imagine it comes from David Brock.
Q: Okay. Not David Brock personally but one of his —
A: Whoever — whoever is responsible for that payment.
Blumenthal and Republican Select Committee Member Mike Pompeo had the following exchange about Correct the Record:
Q: Fair enough. I’m going to jump around a little bit. You said I think earlier this morning that you still are working for Correct the Record?
A: I am.
Q: And tell me what the mission of Correct the Record is.
A: Correct the Record is pretty much what it says, to correct — it’s a nonprofit organization to correct the record about public misstatements about prominent Democrats.