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The Clinton Foundation Paid Sidney Blumenthal $10K/Month As He Gave Horrible Libya Advice To State Dept
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
Mr. Gowdy’s chief interest, according to people briefed on the inquiry, is a series of memos that Mr. Blumenthal — who was not an employee of the State Department — wrote to Mrs. Clinton about events unfolding in Libya before and after the death of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. According to emails obtained by The New York Times, Mrs. Clinton, who was secretary of state at the time, took Mr. Blumenthal’s advice seriously, forwarding his memos to senior diplomatic officials in Libya and Washington and at times asking them to respond. Mrs. Clinton continued to pass around his memos even after other senior diplomats concluded that Mr. Blumenthal’s assessments were often unreliable.
But an examination by The Times suggests that Mr. Blumenthal’s involvement was more wide-ranging and more complicated than previously known, embodying the blurry lines between business, politics and philanthropy that have enriched and vexed the Clintons and their inner circle for years.
While advising Mrs. Clinton on Libya, Mr. Blumenthal, who had been barred from a State Department job by aides to President Obama, was also employed by her family’s philanthropy, the Clinton Foundation, to help with research, “message guidance” and the planning of commemorative events, according to foundation officials.
Much of the Libya intelligence that Mr. Blumenthal passed on to Mrs. Clinton appears to have come from a group of business associates he was advising as they sought to win contracts from the Libyan transitional government. The venture, which was ultimately unsuccessful, involved other Clinton friends, a private military contractor and one former C.I.A. spy seeking to get in on the ground floor of the new Libyan economy.
– From the New York Times article: Clinton Friend’s Memos on Libya Draw Scrutiny to Politics and Business
Keeping tabs on the shadiness, cronyism and ineptitude of Hillary Clinton while she was Secretary of State alone is a full time job. I’m not even kidding, it feels like every day I wake up to another story that in itself should be enough to disqualify her as a Presidential candidate. Yet she remains the front runner to win in 2016, which proves without a shadow of a doubt that America is not a functioning democracy, but a clownish oligarch-owned Banana Republic.
Before I get into the many disturbing and dangerous angles to the Sidney Blumenthal story, it’s important to highlight what a complete and total disaster U.S. foreign policy in Libya has been during the Obama Administration. Rather than helping the situation, NATO destroyed the nation and left it far worse than it ever was under Qaddafi. I highlighted this fact in detail earlier this year in the post, The Forgotten War – Understanding the Incredible Debacle Left Behind by NATO in Libya. Here’s an excerpt:
In retrospect, Obama’s intervention in Libya was an abject failure, judged even by its own standards. Libya has not only failed to evolve into a democracy; it has devolved into a failed state. Violent deaths and other human rights abuses have increased severalfold. Rather than helping the United States combat terrorism, as Qaddafi did during his last decade in power, Libya now serves as a safe haven for militias affiliated with both al Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). The Libya intervention has harmed other U.S. interests as well: undermining nuclear nonproliferation, chilling Russian cooperation at the UN, and fueling Syria’s civil war.?
As bad as Libya’s human rights situation was under Qaddafi, it has gotten worse since NATO ousted him. Immediately after taking power, the rebels perpetrated scores of reprisal killings, in addition to torturing, beating, and arbitrarily detaining thousands of suspected Qaddafi supporters. The rebels also expelled 30,000 mostly black residents from the town of Tawergha and burned or looted their homes and shops, on the grounds that some of them supposedly had been mercenaries. Six months after the war, Human Rights Watch declared that the abuses “appear to be so widespread and systematic that they may amount to crimes against humanity.”?
As a consequence of such pervasive violence, the UN estimates that roughly 400,000 Libyans have fled their homes, a quarter of whom have left the country altogether. ?
You wonder how American “leaders” can be so inept, and then you realize that they have no idea what they are doing. Rather than making informed policy decisions, U.S. leaders and their “advisors” are mainly thinking about how they can make millions in the wake of death and destruction they created. Don’t believe me? Read the following excerpts from the New York Times:
Mr. Gowdy’s chief interest, according to people briefed on the inquiry, is a series of memos that Mr. Blumenthal — who was not an employee of the State Department — wrote to Mrs. Clinton about events unfolding in Libya before and after the death of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. According to emails obtained by The New York Times, Mrs. Clinton, who was secretary of state at the time, took Mr. Blumenthal’s advice seriously, forwarding his memos to senior diplomatic officials in Libya and Washington and at times asking them to respond. Mrs. Clinton continued to pass around his memos even after other senior diplomats concluded that Mr. Blumenthal’s assessments were often unreliable.
But an examination by The Times suggests that Mr. Blumenthal’s involvement was more wide-ranging and more complicated than previously known, embodying the blurry lines between business, politics and philanthropy that have enriched and vexed the Clintons and their inner circle for years.
While advising Mrs. Clinton on Libya, Mr. Blumenthal, who had been barred from a State Department job by aides to President Obama, was also employed by her family’s philanthropy, the Clinton Foundation, to help with research, “message guidance” and the planning of commemorative events, according to foundation officials.
Much of the Libya intelligence that Mr. Blumenthal passed on to Mrs. Clinton appears to have come from a group of business associates he was advising as they sought to win contracts from the Libyan transitional government. The venture, which was ultimately unsuccessful, involved other Clinton friends, a private military contractor and one former C.I.A. spy seeking to get in on the ground floor of the new Libyan economy.
A free market economy this is not.
The projects — creating floating hospitals to treat Libya’s war wounded and temporary housing for displaced people, and building schools — would have required State Department permits, but foundered before the business partners could seek official approval.
Quite the business model. Bomb countries into oblivion, then make money building hospitals and temporary housing for displaced people. You can’t make this up.
It is not clear whether Mrs. Clinton or the State Department knew of Mr. Blumenthal’s interest in pursuing business in Libya; a State Department spokesman declined to say. Many aspects of Mr. Blumenthal’s involvement in the planned Libyan venture remain unclear. He declined repeated requests to discuss it.
Of course he did.
“We were thinking, ‘O.K., Qaddafi is dead, or about to be, and there’s opportunities,’ ” Mr. White said in a brief telephone interview. He added, “We thought, ‘Let’s try to see who we know there.’ ”
Mr. White declined to answer follow-up questions about what role Mr. Blumenthal was playing in the business venture. But Mr. Grange described Mr. Blumenthal as an adviser to Mr. White’s company, along with two other associates: Tyler Drumheller, a colorful former Central Intelligence Agency official, and Cody Shearer, a longtime Clinton friend.
Even as their plans sputtered, Mr. Blumenthal continued to draw on the business associates for information about Libya as he shaped his memos to Mrs. Clinton. Sometimes the two realms became blurred.
In January 2012, for example, Mr. Blumenthal sent Mrs. Clinton a memo describing efforts by the new Libyan prime minister to stabilize his fragile government by bringing in advisers with experience dealing with Western companies and governments.
Among “the most influential of this group,” Mr. Blumenthal wrote, was a man named Najib Obeida, who worked at the fledgling Libyan stock exchange. Mrs. Clinton had the memo forwarded to her senior State Department staff.
What Mr. Blumenthal did not mention was that Mr. Obeida was one of the Libyan officials Mr. Grange and his partners hoped would finance the humanitarian projects. The day before Mr. Blumenthal emailed Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Grange wrote to a senior Clinton aide at the State Department to introduce the venture with Mr. Obeida in Libya and seek an audience with the United States ambassador there. Mr. Grange said he had not received a reply.
Can you believe this? This clown Blumenthal was pretending to be passing on real intelligence to Hillary (and she repeatedly passed on his nonsense), all the while working to further business interests.
Mr. Blumenthal sent Mrs. Clinton at least 25 memos about Libya in 2011 and 2012, many describing elaborate intrigues among various foreign governments and rebel factions.
Mrs. Clinton circulated them, frequently forwarding them to Jake Sullivan, her well-regarded deputy chief of staff, and requesting that he distribute them to other State Department officials. Mr. Sullivan often sent the memos to senior officials in Libya, including the ambassador, J. Christopher Stevens, who was killed in the 2012 attacks in Benghazi.
In many cases, Mr. Sullivan would paste the text from the memos into an email and tell the other State Department officials that they had come from an anonymous “contact” of Mrs. Clinton.
He didn’t even have the decency to admit where the information was coming from, since Mr. Blumenthal was specifically banned by the Obama Administration from serving under Hillary in an official capacity. And you wonder why the American political system is circling the toilet bowl.
But the skepticism did not seem to sour Mrs. Clinton on Mr. Blumenthal. She continued to forward Mr. Blumenthal’s memos, often appending a note: “Useful insight” or “We should get this around asap.”
The emails suggest that Mr. Blumenthal’s direct line to Mrs. Clinton circumvented the elaborate procedures established by the federal government to ensure that high-level officials are provided with vetted assessments of available intelligence.
The above certainly explains why American foreign policy is such a dangerous joke, but it gets even worse. It appears the entire time Blumenthal was providing the State Department with inaccurate, crony and clownish “intelligence” on Libya, he was earning $10,000 per month from the Clinton Foundation. We learn from Politico that:
Sidney Blumenthal, a longtime confidant of Bill and Hillary Clinton, earned about $10,000 a month as a full-time employee of the Clinton Foundation while he was providing unsolicited intelligence on Libya to then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, according to multiple sources familiar with the arrangement.
Blumenthal was added to the payroll of the Clintons’ global philanthropy in 2009 — not long after advising Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign — at the behest of former president Bill Clinton, for whom he had worked in the White House, say the sources.
Blumenthal has been subpoenaed by the U.S. House committee investigating the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and Clinton’s handling of it. He is expected to testify next week about a series of memos containing sometimes specious intelligence on the situation in Libya, which he sent to Hillary Clinton’s personal email account.
Clinton, whose efforts to hire Blumenthal as an adviser at the State Department were rebuffed by top aides to President Barack Obama, last week defended her relationship with her old ally but also minimized his influence.
To summarize, I think Ben Mathis-Lilley at Slate put it best:
To recap the whole situation: In 2011 and 2012, Hillary Clinton, as secretary of state, used an off-books email account to discuss national policy with a private citizen who might have been violating the law by participating in the conversation, who had a related business interest (though not a “financial interest”?) in the subject of his advice that he may or may not have disclosed to the government, and who was simultaneously employed in a questionable “full-time” capacity at significant expense to a nonprofit that has been accused of acting as the bag man for a Clintonian influence-peddling operation.
Must be nice.
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The Clinton Foundation sucks
As I have stated before, corruption oozes from every Hillary orifice. Blumenthal is just a leech trying to ingest whatever sustenance he can from the Clinton host body.
It is instructive to note that the NYT is publishing many anti-Hillary stories lately. Either they have turned against her-- which is doubtful-- or, much more likely, they are getting these stories out there in order to "inoculate" the voting public so that this will all be "old news" and "water over the dam" by the time we get to the summer of 2016 and the election is getting into full swing.
Frankly, I don't know why they bother. I think that the NYT could publish eyewitness accounts of Hillary raping and murdering children, backed with video from five different angles, and a full confession by Hillary on Oprah, and she'd still get "elected" President.
Battle prep to boost a contender because the PTB suspect she can't close the deal without giving up the whole vote fraud thing.
They can get here in but they would rather it look like our idea.
The PTB don't care - they have a stable full of programmed chimps to follow her.
The Clinton Crime Family Foundation will obfuscate, destroy records, threaten those involved, & deny, deny, deny, to the max...
And they will be aided in their illegal surrepticious efforts to remain above the law by the complicit Obozo Admin & their DOJ, FBI, IRS, DHS, etc.
Normally I'd agree with you, but you have to make special exception for members of the Bush or Clinton families. These families have amassed incredible fortunes from their criminal activities (mainly drug-related, but also international graft which is a Clinton specialty) which makes them forces to be reckoned with above and beyond your run-of-the-mill politician, who is simply a tool for hire.
I'm beginning to think Hitlary is becoming toast.
Gay Jewy here.
What's wrong with being a Jewish cock sucking soddomite? Are you some kind of bigot?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfSfZeOvDX0
Same with the Bushwhacker, Buckaroo. He could have raped a boyscout on the 50-yard line during halftime of the Monday Night game in '04 and, at best, it would have been a 'minor misunderestimation.'
Sorry to say...
This guy is certifiably gay.
certifiably TRIBE............prolly killed Hitchens........
Ha, Gay!
When I saw the picture I thought the same thing ...
Here we call fagot.
hehe.
That's nothing. I followed an ad on ZH comments recently that told me I could make 5k a month working from home. I tried it out and I made 11k a month! Suck it Blumenthal!!
Rasputin with a butt plug
Ok, is this guy gay? That photo, that finger in the air, that smirk. Really?
These fucking people.
protocol #22 - Give bad advice to governments and everyone else
not much interest in this news, but well the real news is so often pap that our modern "my phone is smarter than me " generation would not understand real news if it hit them square in the face.
this thread is one of the most important one's I have seen recently on the hedge..so of course it will be little noticed.
That guy is such a douchebag. What an intellectual wasteland his mind is.
I wonder what he would have gotten if he had given good advice.
what motivates?
oh, the money, the money the money
oh, the money, the money the money
the money, the money the money
oh, the money, the money the money.
morons
"We came, we saw, we cheated, we lied, we obstructed justice, we circumvented the law, we defied the commander in chief, we enriched ourselves....and we did so knowing that in the end we'd be elected president with not a single consequence for our actions. Oh yeah, and he died by the way but that is beside the point."
WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE, AT THIS POINT!
Wadaya know, another jew on the take with the Clittons.
...and this vile cunt is going to be our next president.
Fuck me sideways
Someone with a hint of conscience and empathy for others would not involve himself in such sordid affairs. Evidently this is not an issue for Blumenthal. The fact that thousands are dead and hundreds of thousands displaced never enters into the mind of this self-absorbed sociopath.
Worse yet, the monumental blunders of the Libyan debacle were summarily ignored as the foreign policy establishment seamlessly moved onto its disastrous Syrian adventure. Fomenting chaos and profiting from it has become a cottage industry for the power-mad morons in Washington. No thought is given to lives affected, wealth squandered, or loss of liberties to the rubes in America.
As for Hillary, this wench is a cancerous tumor. America desperately needs to undergo the political equivalent of chemotherapy.
The more corrupt a society the more numerous its laws. Although Hildebeast blatantly violates law after law after law, she is never called on it because all 3 branches of the federal government are corrupt to the core.
...and the American people are too (distracted? stupid? lazy?) to care.
Sad times.
No fan of the entire political process, but lets get real here: If the other team could so much as manage to attract a candidate who is less worse it would mean billary looses the election.
Think Mary Matalin / James Carlin - they are a methaphore for the charade. Each loved and honored by their supposed opposition. Truth is, they work for the same objective. Different paths, thats all.
Sid Blumenthal is just a lefty version of Karl Rove. Add up the testosterone between them and you'd still have a girl.
Another Tranny who swipes hand over his/her face and state's oops. That picture will be used for quite sometime.
ass-hat government. if you want to call it that, real governance got bought out generations ago
Hillary gave Barry the middle finger.
He wasn't going to tell her jack shit.
HAHAHAHA
I expect some damming emails to accidentally be released.
That, ladies and gentlemen, is a massive conflict of interest, and should be career-limiting at the least.
Our nation's foreign policy was purchased by rebels trying to overthrow an internationally recognized government.
Blumenthal, nice Irish name there.
The surname is German /Jewish. The same issue we have with Ukraine. Take out the immigrant Jews, problem solved.
/s
Vermin... take out the vermin, problem solved. Vermin don't belong especially the crypto-kind.
True, but he doesn't always adhere to the Tribal objectives. Unless that's part of some plan....
This cunt is easy to find. When you find him. Watch his empire of deception go south. He will be heading for Mexico instead of Obama's illegal aliens heading over border.
Sidney Blumenthalhttp://www.muckety.com/Sidney-Blumenthal/164480.muckety
Theives empire can head to Cuba."Quite the business model. Bomb countries into oblivion, then make money building hospitals and temporary housing for displaced people. You can’t make this up."
What do you think the business model has been ever since Yugoslavia, Iraq and Afghanistan and even way before that? Haliburton and KBR ring a bell? War is a racket. Tax payers' money put to work to bomb countries back into the stone age while military and civilian contractors make 'a killing'. All under the banner of humanitary intervention of course. And freedom and democracy and all that stuff.
Got a pal who did three or four stints in Iraq and Afganistan.
He reports, we ate MREs when out in the field, but back at base there was a fine chow hall. Run by Haliburton. The Army doesn't feed itself anymore, apparently.
He said, they charge the government by the plate. And it was some silly to us mere mortals of planet earth fiqure, like $25 a plate. It was a " war zone" and all that. Here is the fun part. Average GI gets a plate of chow. He gets another plate for his desert. ( eat great boys and girls, that's not what this is about. ) . Then, they took their meals back to their hooch to eat, so they grabbed two more plates as covers, keep the sand out.
He said that they always seemed to have plenty of plates.
Centuries ago, they used to burn these types of women at the stake, now they let them run governments. What the heck happened?
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Sidney Blumenthal, a longtime confidant of Bill and Hillary Clinton, earned about $10,000 a month as a full-time employee of the Clinton Foundation while he was providing unsolicited intelligence on Libya to then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, according to multiple sources familiar with the arrangement.
Blumenthal was added to the payroll of the Clintons’ global philanthropy in 2009 — not long after advising Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign — at the behest of former president Bill Clinton, for whom he had worked in the White House, say the sources.
Blumenthal has been subpoenaed by the U.S. House committee investigating the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and Clinton’s handling of it. He is expected to testify next week about a series of memos containing sometimes specious intelligence on the situation in Libya, which he sent to Hillary Clinton’s personal email account. "
This rodent Blumenthal was deep inside camp Clinton and knows the inner workings of the enterprise.
First: the Libyan escapade wasn't his first assignment.
Second: he might have been on the Foundation Payroll; -but, what I read from above implies that passing info to Billary Inc. was NOT his primary/steady gig. Many have posited that Presidents are just figure-heads installed by the real masters.. This guy might have been a message boy or courier..
Bill and Hill probably don't want him blabbing too much, -and they might not be the only ones...
-He might end up Fosterized in short order.
Hillary tipped murdered ambassador's movements in emails Secretary of state was using her unsecured private serverRead more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/05/hillary-tipped-murdered-ambassadors-movements...
This guy is a left wing Drudge, who works for an obvious power hungry crook.
But perhaps half of the American people are going to vote for Hillary either because she's a woman, or because they won't vote for any Republican {which, alas, is pretty understandable - a bunch of obtuse frauds who will let foreign policy decisions be determined by AIPAC even more swiftly than Hillary will}.
Here's the thing - nothing really matters until about 3 months before the elections, and obviously most of all the weeks before.
Point is let's hope that anyone with dirt on Hillary doesn't blow their load too long before the election.
You know, if Hillary drops out after surviving her various scandals, we're gonna end up with Biden or one of the more odious Republicans.
It's enough to almost make you wish for a chinese/russian invasion.
The short and simple explanation: Clinton was paying Blumenthal to concoct excuses for what she wanted to do anyway (wreck Libya), using money the project's sponsors (rival M.E. regimes, including all the usual Gulf monarchy suspects) "donated" to the Clinton Foundation.
At the very least this is seditious conspiracy (and a High Crime, given the position she held).
dennis "denny" hastert ex speaker of house, a fat corrupt pol. who held power over the house for years..
indicted..all of washington is corrupt gop or dem..that is why we have laws passed that nobody except k street knows what's in them or in ACA they just pass a front page and add details later.
if anyone in our legals system is doing their jobs, it is the job of protecting our biggest criminals in .gov and wall street..
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/05/28/former-hous...
I wonder if the author stopped to consider whether or not destabilization of Libya was actually the goal?
Another corrupt zio. Shocked.
USG first destabilized ME, which then destabilized USA [9/11]
Welcome to the Clinton’s shadow government, financed by shadow banking, and run by shady people.
Sadly, the toadies at the State Department keep defending Hillary, even though these revelations basically prove she didn’t think their advice was worth a damn.
USrael, the shining city on the hill.
The main reason Quadaffi was ousted was because of his plans to opt out of the petro-dollar and the absence of a Rothschild Central Bank