2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumNot to hijack my own Benghazi thread...
If you like Sidney Blumenthal he's a street fighter...If you dislike him he's a douche!!!
But what the Hell does he have to do with Benghazi?
portlander23
(2,078 posts)Nothing. At. All.
gateley
(62,683 posts)I HATE them!
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)But he has nothing to do with Benghazi.
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)Sidney Blumenthal came up repeatedly during Hillary Clinton's testimony before the House Benghazi Committee today. The reason: emails he sent to Clinton while she was Secretary of State, which were released to the public a few months ago.
While he never served as a formal aide for Hillary Clinton during her time as secretary of state, the release confirmed what's been clear since the first batch of emails: Blumenthal stayed in close contact with Clinton, and she took his advice seriously. Blumenthal was constantly sending advice on everything from European politics to climate change, as well as private intelligence from Libya including memos related to the attack of September 11, 2012, when Islamist militants killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya , including Ambassador Christopher Stevens.
And while Clinton has insisted the missives were "unsolicited," the emails show she regularly sought Blumenthal's counsel. In a reply to a missive from Blumenthal about the 2010 coalition negotiations in the United Kingdom, she wrote, "I shared your emails w Bill who thought they were brilliant! Keep em coming when you can."
Blumenthal's emails to Clinton described then-House Minority Leader John Boehner as "louche, alcoholic, lazy, and without any commitment to any principle"; attacked the Tea Party for wanting to "divide the nation" until "it won't look or feel like America"; assailed his former employer, the New Republic, as a "preferred outlet for the highest level Likud/neocon propaganda"; forwarded a piece on the Koch Brothers by the New Yorker's Jane Mayer with the subject line "Yes, there is a vast right wing conspiracy"; sent Clinton a number of articles by his son, the anti-Israel journalist Max Blumenthal; and passed along a memo from his close friend and prominent Clinton ally David Brock describing a plan to impeach Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)If you like Sidney Blumenthal he's a street fighter...If you dislike him he's a douche!!!
But what does he have to do with Benghazi?
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)still_one
(92,138 posts)poll numbers
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)I am only watching the hearing in bits and pieces because I am busy gardening, but I walked in during that line of questioning and was completely confused.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)Tipperary
(6,930 posts)What has really been annoying me is how they start their speechifying and do not even allow her to answer. They try and talk over her and I think even people who do not support Hillary should be able to see how ridiculous they are.
This is going to rebound in her favor in the long run I think. They are doing her a favor and they do not even see it.