By William Reynolds via Medium.com .
Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 03/09/2016 :
INTRODUCTION
Two weeks after her
job as Secretary of State ends, she receives an e-mail from Sidney Blumenthal claiming Saudi
Arabia financed the assassination of an American ambassador and apparently did
nothing with this information. .. And why didn’t the
Republicans who were supposedly so concerned about the Benghazi attacks ask any
questions about Saudi involvement?
Did
Secretary Clinton not tell anyone what she knew about alleged Saudi involvement in the
attacks because she didn’t want to endanger the millions
of dollars of Saudi donations coming in to the
Clinton Foundation?
This scandal has the potential to completely derail
the Clinton campaign in the general election. If Hillary Clinton really
cares about the future of this country and the Democratic party, she will step
down now while there is still time to nominate another candidate.
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Something that has gone unnoticed in all the talk about
the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s e-mails is the content of the original
leak that started the entire investigation to begin with. In March of 2013, a Romanian hacker calling
himself Guccifer hacked into the AOL account of Sidney Blumenthal and leaked to
Russia Today four
e-mails containing intelligence on Libya that Blumenthal sent to Hillary
Clinton.
For those who haven’t
been following this story, Sidney
Blumenthal is a long time friend and adviser of the Clinton family who in an
unofficial capacity sent many “intelligence memos” to Hillary Clinton during
her tenure as Secretary of State. Originally displayed on RT.com in
Comic Sans font on a pink background with the letter “G” clumsily drawn as a
watermark, no one took these leaked e-mails particularly seriously when they
came out in 2013. Now, however, we can
cross reference this leak with the e-mails the State
Department released to the public.
The first three e-mails in the Russia Today leak from
Blumenthal to Clinton all appear word for word in the State Department release.
The first
e-mail Clinton asks
to have printed and she also forwards
it to her deputy chief of staff, Jake Sullivan. The second
e-mail Clinton describes as “useful insight” and forwards
it to Jake Sullivan asking him to circulate it. The third
e-mail is also forwarded
to Jake Sullivan. The fourth e-mail is missing from the State Department
record completely.
This missing
e-mail from February 16, 2013 only exists in the original
leak and states that French and Libyan intelligence agencies had evidence
that the In
Amenas and Benghazi
attacks were funded by “Sunni Islamists in Saudi Arabia.” This seems like a rather outlandish claim
on the surface, and as such was only reported by conspiracy types and fringe
media outlets. Now, however, we have proof that the other three e-mails in the
leak were real correspondence from Blumenthal to Clinton that she not only
read, but thought highly enough of to send around to others in the State
Department. Guccifer speaks English as a second language and most of his
writing consists of rambling conspiracies, it’s unlikely he would be able to
craft such a convincing fake intelligence briefing. This means we have an e-mail from a trusted Clinton adviser that claims
the Saudis funded the Benghazi attack, and not only was this not followed up
on, but there is not any record of this e-mail ever existing except for the
Russia Today leak.
WHY IS THIS E-MAIL MISSING?
At first I assumed it
must be due to some sort of cover up, but it’s much simpler than that. The
e-mail in question was sent after February 1st, 2013, when John Kerry took over
as Secretary of State, so it was not part of the time period being
investigated. No one is trying to find a copy of this e-mail. Since Clinton
wasn’t Secretary of State on February 16th, it wasn’t her job to follow up on
it.
So let’s forget for a
minute about the larger legal implications of the e-mail investigation. How can it be that such a revelation about
Saudi Arabia was made public in a leak that turned out to be real and no one
looked into it? Clearly Sidney Blumenthal was someone that
Hillary Clinton trusted. Two months earlier, Secretary Clinton found his
insights valuable enough to share with the entire State Department. But two
weeks after her job as Secretary of State ends, she receives an e-mail from him
claiming Saudi Arabia financed the assassination of an American ambassador and
apparently did nothing with this information. Even if she didn’t have to turn
over this e-mail to the commission investigating the Benghazi attacks, wouldn’t
it be relevant? Shouldn’t this be information she volunteers? And why didn’t
the Republicans who were supposedly so concerned about the Benghazi attacks ask
any questions about Saudi involvement?
Did
Secretary Clinton not tell anyone what she knew about alleged Saudi involvement
in the attacks because she didn’t want to endanger the millions
of dollars of Saudi donations coming in to the
Clinton Foundation? These are exactly the kind of conflicts that ethical
standards are designed to prevent.
ANOTHER E-MAIL TURNS UP
MISSING
..
Guccifer uncovered
something else in his hack that could not be verified until the last of the
e-mails were released by the State Department last week. In addition to the
four full e-mails he released, he also leaked
a screenshot of Sidney Blumenthal’s AOL inbox. If we cross reference this
screenshot with the Blumenthal e-mails in the State Department release, we can see that the e-mail with the subject
“H: Libya security latest. Sid” is missing from the State Department e-mails.
This missing e-mail is certainly
something that would have been requested as part of the investigation as it was
sent before February 1st and clearly relates to Libya. The fact that it is missing suggests one of
two possibilities:
- The State Department does have a copy of this e-mail but deemed it top secret and too sensitive to release, even in redacted form. This would indicate that Sidney Blumenthal was sending highly classified information from his AOL account to Secretary Clinton’s private e-mail server despite the fact that he never even had a security clearance to deal with such sensitive information in the first place. If this scenario explains why the e-mail is missing, classified materials were mishandled.
- The State Department does not have a copy, and this e-mail was deleted by both Clinton and Blumenthal before turning over their subpoenaed e-mails to investigators, which would be considered destruction of evidence and lying to federal officials. This also speaks to the reason why the private clintonemail.com server may have been established in the first place. If Blumenthal were to regularly send highly sensitive yet technically “unclassified” information from his AOL account to Clinton’s official government e-mail account, it could have been revealed with a FOIA request. It has already been established that Hillary Clinton deleted 15 of Sidney Blumenthal’s e-mails to her, this discrepancy was discovered when Blumenthal’s e-mails were subpoenaed, although a State Department official claims that none of these 15 e-mails have any information about the Benghazi attack. It would seem from the subject line that this e-mail does. And it is missing from the public record.
In either of these scenarios,
Clinton and her close associates are in violation of federal law. In the most generous interpretation where
this e-mail is simply a collection of rumors that Blumenthal heard and forwarded
unsolicited to Clinton, it would make no sense for it to be missing. It would
not be classified if it was a bunch of hot air, and it certainly wouldn’t be
deleted by both Blumenthal and Clinton at the risk of committing a felony. In the least generous interpretation of
these facts, Sidney Blumenthal and Hillary Clinton
conspired to cover up an ally of the United States funding the assassination of
one of our diplomats in Libya.
WHY A GRAND JURY IS LIKELY
ALREADY CONVENED
..
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After the final
e-mails were released by the State Department on February 29th, it has been
reported in the last week that:
- Clinton’s IT staff member who managed the e-mail server, Bryan Pagliano, has been given immunity by a federal judge which suggests that he will be giving testimony to a grand jury about evidence that relates to this investigation and implicates himself in a crime. Until now, Pagliano has been pleading the fifth and refusing to cooperate with the investigation.
- The hacker Guccifer (Marcel Lazar Lehel) just had an 18-month temporary extradition order to the United States granted by a Romanian court, despite being indicted by the US back in 2014. Is Guccifer being extradited now in order to testify to the grand jury that the screengrab with the missing e-mail is real?
- Attorney General Loretta Lynch was interviewed by Bret Baier and she would not answer whether or not a grand jury has been convened in this case. If there was no grand jury she could have said so, but if a grand jury is meeting to discuss evidence she would not legally be allowed to comment on it.
This scandal has the potential to completely derail
the Clinton campaign in the general election. If Hillary Clinton really cares about the future of this country and
the Democratic party, she will step down now while there is still time to
nominate another candidate. This is not a right wing conspiracy, it is a
failure by one of our highest government officials to uphold the laws that
preserve government transparency and national security. It’s time for us to ask
Secretary Clinton to tell us the truth and do the right thing. If the United States government is
really preparing a case against Hillary Clinton, we can’t wait until it’s too
late.
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