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Benghazi Committee: New Emails Show Clinton Promoted Blumenthal Interests in Libya
weeklystandard.com ^ | 10/8/15 | STEPHEN F. HAYES

Posted on 10/09/2015 3:35:11 AM PDT by Liz

Trey Gowdy's House Select Committee on Benghazi will be making public new documents demonstrating Clinton crony, Sidney Blumenthal (blackballed from US govt employment) was seeking business in Libya at the same time he was advising then-SoS Hillary Clinton on US policy in Libya.

Chairman Trey Gowdy's lengthy letter to Cong Elijah Cummings, ranking Committee Democrat, said that, on at least one occasion, Clinton sought to aid Blumenthal's business interests in Libya.

Gowdy's 13-page letter to Cummings also details new concerns about compromised security on Clinton's email, noting that in one unsecured email Blumenthal appears to name a top CIA source in Libya -- a revelation that could compromise the safety of that source if it became known publicly.

In a statement accompanying the letter, Chairman Gowdy makes some of his strongest accusations to date about the Obama administration's obstruction of the committee's work.

“These messages should have been made public when the State Department released Secretary Clinton’s other self-selected records on Libya and Benghazi." Gowdy underlined that "there was a clear decision at the time to withhold this information from the American people and the Committee. The State Department has now made these messages available, and the Committee intends to question Secretary Clinton about them during her appearance.”

Gowdy did not identify the individuals responsible for the "clear decision" to withhold information.

The new documents add to a long list of materials withheld by the Obama administration, and Clinton and her lawyers, and raise further questions about what other documents have not yet been turned over to the Benghazi committee.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: benghazi; benghazicoverup; drumheller; gowdybsc; sidneyblumenthal
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1 posted on 10/09/2015 3:35:11 AM PDT by Liz
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To: GOPJ; Jane Long; SgtBob; Grampa Dave; justiceseeker93; notted; Tennessee Nana; sickoflibs; ...

PING


2 posted on 10/09/2015 3:44:53 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Liz

Gowdy’s letter to Cummings can be read in it’s entirety here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3346420/posts


3 posted on 10/09/2015 3:50:29 AM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: Liz

Tyler Drumheller, CIA officer who exposed U.S. reliance on discredited Iraq source ‘Curveball,’
WaPo ^ | 8/6/15 | Greg Miller


4 posted on 10/09/2015 3:51:17 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Liz

Tyler Drumheller, CIA officer who exposed U.S. reliance on discredited Iraq source ‘Curveball,’
WaPo ^ | 8/6/15 | Greg Miller

Tyler’s conveniently dead, as of August 2015, after he and Hillary and Blumenthal were apparently involved in leaking the name of a CIA asset via emails to one another; how they came to know the name is not yet clear..


5 posted on 10/09/2015 3:53:09 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Liz

Clear proof of some of the biggest official corruption we have ever seen, but no one gives a crap and “justice” department will not act.


6 posted on 10/09/2015 3:54:12 AM PDT by shalom aleichem
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To: shalom aleichem
IT AIN'T OVER TIL IT'S OVER. WE WILL NEVER, EVER GIVE UP.

Steve Hayes later elaborated on Fox that Blumenthal had deals w/ contractors wanting business in Libya.....and that Hillary manipulated US foreign policy for Blumenthal's business interests (as long as the Clintons got a cut?).

Remember, students of govt corruption, $6 billion tax dollars went
missing from the State Dept contractor's budget when Hillary exited.

Obama's "I Know Nothing Act" is stupid....like the ding-a-ling never
figured out the Clintons were jerking around US foreign policy?

The dork musta got a bundle...to act that dumb.

more below

7 posted on 10/09/2015 4:07:36 AM PDT by Liz
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The Clinton con artists hijacked the State Dept...they and their cronies---Blumenthal, Abedin, Mills and countless others---- were romping all over the State Dept like it was their personal ATM. It's a wonder the Clintons can keep track of their numerous offshore accounts.

Hillary's emails---which she fought tooth and nail to keep secret---reveal that her crony, Sidney Blumenthal, was actually an employee of the nefarious Clinton Foundation. Blumenthal and Hillary's govt relationship was based largely on profit:

INCONVENIENT FACTOIDS:

Hillary wanted Blumenthal for a top position in the State Department,
but vengeful Rahm Emanuel and Obama nixed the dirty tricks Blumenthal.

In 2009, the Clintons duped the public, and its wealthy donors, announcing that Blumenthal, had been hired......(wait for it)...... "to work on a Foundation project to promote Bill Clinton’s presidential legacy. "

(waiting for hysterical laughter to die down

Blumenthal was officially at the Clinton Foundation but the greedy Sid was cashing in bigtime b/c through Hillary, he had unlimited access to valuable US intel which brought big bucks in the global marketplace.

Sid's secret emails show that, in 2009, while on the Clinton Foundation payroll, ostensibly promoting Bill's legacy, Blumenthal spoon-fed Hillary reports on Libya that Hillary sent to senior officials without attribution......to manipulate US policy by which Sid could profit.

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The NYT reports extensively on Blumenthal's secret emails to Hillary (emails she did not want revealed):

<><> in 2009 the Clintons announced Blumenthal was hired by the Clinton Foundation to "promote Bill's presidential legacy",

<><> at the same time Blumenthal was tight w/ American Bridge and Media Matters — two Democratic groups aiding 2016 Clinton's effort,

<><> Blumenthal was also a paid advisor to businesses seeking Libyan contracts (compromising US ntl interests, by marketing his influence at the State Dept);

<><> Blumenthal was secretly advising Secy of State Clinton about Libya @ $320,000 per year;

<><> Sid also pocketed $200,000 a year from David Brock's media operations for 2016 Hillary.

8 posted on 10/09/2015 4:18:36 AM PDT by Liz
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To: shalom aleichem
Actually, this is what makes someone like Hillary Clinton such a strong candidate for public office.

Here on FreeRepublic we think in politically partisan terms, and we see everything in terms of Democrat vs. Republican, liberal vs. conservative, and even corrupt vs. honest in an abstract sense. But government runs entirely differently. We see a U.S. Secretary of State using a private e-mail server to facilitate huge favors for donors who contribute enormous sums of money to her family's foundation, and we recognize it as evidence of criminality and corruption.

The people and corporate interests behind the scenes who actually run this country see something like that, and they recognize it as an unprincipled political hack and fifth-rate mediocrity who will do anything she's paid to do.

This is why if the 2016 presidential election came down to a contest between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, you can be sure that a lot of Beltway Republicans will be supporting Clinton.

9 posted on 10/09/2015 4:26:22 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
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FREEPER ACTION PROJECT---CONTACT CONGRESS HERE:
http://www.contactingthecongress.org/
DEMAND CONGRESS SECURE THIS INFORMATION AT ONCE:

DEMAND TO KNOW IF CLINTON STAFF INCLUDING BLUMENTHAL, MILLS AND ABEDIN ARE STILL COLLECTING US GOVT PAYCHECKS (an old bureacratic trick)

Demand to see all vouchers submitted by Clinton staff for govt reimbursement including:

<><> expense accounts,

<><> credit cards,

<><> office supplies (overbilling for stamps is a classic),

<><> travel, food, clothing, housing allowances,

<><> all cell phone, land line, wire-transfer charges.

<><> demand to know if the Clinton retinue returned all tax-paid govt-issue electronics.

DO THIS NOW---CONTACT CONGRESS HERE:
http://www.contactingthecongress.org/

10 posted on 10/09/2015 4:31:04 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Liz

it would be OK with Elijah if Hillary killed a baby in front of cameras. He would find an excuse for her.


11 posted on 10/09/2015 4:39:01 AM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Liz

If Obama & Co. have no interest in finding(or even attempting to find) the missing $6 Billion, then why would anyone expect them to investigate other problems.


12 posted on 10/09/2015 4:50:06 AM PDT by DrDude (Does anyone have a set of balls anymore?)
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To: shalom aleichem

Exactly.. Hillary will never face justice for this. In America, the Clintons are immune from the laws that govern the rest of us. They act with absolute impunity.


13 posted on 10/09/2015 4:51:13 AM PDT by ScottinVA (If you're not enraged...why?)
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To: Liz

Is this why Hillary wanted Qadaffi dead, not surrendered and exiled??


14 posted on 10/09/2015 4:51:17 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Ann Archy
Just look at how these Democrats in Washington are falling all over themselves making excuses for Clinton over her pathetic flip-flop on the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement. She had made at least 45 public comments on the record in support of the deal when she was Secretary of State ... but now that she's a presidential candidate seeking the nomination of a political party that relies on organized labor for support, she has suddenly decided that it's a bad deal.

Nobody has anything to fear, though. The same foreign governments and corporations that previously bought her support for it through donations to the Clinton Foundation know damn well that if this dirtbag in a pantsuit wins the 2016 election, she would swim across the Pacific Ocean to Korea to sign this trade deal herself.

15 posted on 10/09/2015 4:52:38 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
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To: Ann Archy

“it would be OK with Elijah if Hillary killed a baby in front of cameras. He would find an excuse for her.”

So would half the country.


16 posted on 10/09/2015 4:52:47 AM PDT by ScottinVA (If you're not enraged...why?)
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To: Liz

“Chairman Trey Gowdy’s lengthy letter to Cong Elijah Cummings, ranking Committee Democrat, said that, on at least one occasion, Clinton sought to aid Blumenthal’s business interests in Libya.”

Under federal law, former Gov. Bob McDonnell was sentenced to a prison term for an offense of far less magnitude.


17 posted on 10/09/2015 4:57:01 AM PDT by ScottinVA (If you're not enraged...why?)
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To: Liz

Bkmrk.


18 posted on 10/09/2015 5:09:07 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I'm fed up.)
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To: annieokie; penelopesire; maggief; Protect the Bill of Rights; thouworm; SE Mom; Nachum; onyx; ...

Benghazi ping, with thanks to Liz.

Let Republicanprofessor know if you want on or off this ping list.


19 posted on 10/09/2015 5:17:47 AM PDT by Republicanprofessor
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To: Liz

to understand one must write an equation, a very simple equation

Sid Vicious = Hillary

restated, Sid vicious is hillary. Sid vicious via some devious corporate smoke screen is now and always has been a Clinton employee paid with funds God only knows how, were laundered through the shadow government in waiting called formally The Clinton Foundation

Sid Vicious is but the visible. there are certain to be many, many others hanging out at obscure corporate entities that are funded by the Clinton Foundation waiting for the day the masked ball charade ends and they once again occupy their desks in the White House or Executive Office building

I feel certain the perceptive Steve Hayes knows this but is not ready yet to unmask the whole gigantic ball (of worms) that has been quietly engaged out of sight


20 posted on 10/09/2015 5:23:45 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trump)
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