2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumCNBC Grills Sidney Blumenthal: "How Would We Know" Donations To Foundation Didn't Affect Policy
Posted on May 12, 2016
In a Thursday morning interview on CNBC, Clinton backer Sidney Blumenthal faced questions about his relationship with the Clinton Foundation's operations in Libya during the time Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State.
Backstory: Sidney Blumenthal was a longtime Clinton friend, Clinton Foundation employee, and supposed "fixer" who Hillary wanted to hire at the State Department, but President Obama refused to allow him to serve in his administration. That didnt stop her from using her private email server to communicate with him about how things were going in Libya as the war spiraled out of control. His correspondences with Clinton are probably a part of any investigation into what happened in that country, and he testified at the House Benghazi Committee last year. In 2011, the U.S. and several European countries overthrew the government of Libya, leaving the country in a state of anarchy which continues today.
"I testified for nine-and-a-half hours," Blumenthal said about the Benghazi Committee Thursday morning. "I answered all their questions... On the question of so-called "clients" [in Libya], I had no contracts with anybody. I didn't invest in anybody, no one made a nickel. No one spent a penny. I had a real job at the Clinton Foundation working on educational projects, that was a separate matter."
"You weren't getting paid by Libya?" the host asked. "Should we ever think that there was influence in State Department Affairs that were influenced by donations to the Clinton Foundation? I don't know whether we've totally vetted that -- there is perhaps the aura of something going on, certain people think that certainly."
"Reports show that there were not donations to the Clinton Foundation that had any influence on State Dept. policy," he said. "And about the Benghazi committee -- I have urged for the release of my testimony, I have always urged it."
"How would we know donations wouldn't affect policy?" asked a CNBC host."
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/05/12/cnbc_grills_sidney_blumenthal_how_would_we_know_donations_to_clinton_foundation_didnt_affect_policy.html
This story is moving more and more into the mainstream.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)KoKo
(84,711 posts)Syria..that Blood Bath there!
yourpaljoey
(2,166 posts)The truth is bubbling up... here and there and in between.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)yourpaljoey
(2,166 posts)grasswire
(50,130 posts)....from a vicious hatchet man into a mild-mannered writer.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)He's promoting his new book on Lincoln and he needs the money in profits from the book to pay legal bills along with trying to repair his reputation by acting as if nothing he did was wrong. He's totally loyal to Hillary so it's possible he's trying to make light of the Private Server situation knowing he would be asked questions but his cover is to promote the book in the interview and stops the interviewer from digging too deep.
BTW...just watched the interview and surprisingly CNBC really grilled him compared to Sid's other appearances. He was doing his "Nothing to see here...move along" ....but, something is definitely up with him showing up everywhere.
msongs
(67,193 posts)grasswire
(50,130 posts)...that you support this man.
There will be plenty of time to review evidence when he is charged.
mooseprime
(474 posts)if there is anything, ANYTHING AT ALL that will pierce the cloud of clinton-worship. can anyone think of a single thing clinton could do that would put a dent in the lemming effect?
grasswire
(50,130 posts)any time one of her schemes goes awry, it's always someone else's fault.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)Since when has Sid been involved in traditional Education? So, what kind of "Education" could Sid have been providing to the Clinton Foundation?
Sid also, for the first time, called it an "Investigation" and not a "Security Review" as he has said in every other interview up to now. So Comey's statement yesterday made him have to change his tune. Makes me wonder if Comey knew Sid (and others) have been mis-characterizing what the FBI is doing and he wanted to smack down fast that it was just a "Security Review."
JSup
(740 posts)..."How would we know?"
How would we know the President isn't inhabited by an alien symbiotic creature being passed between human hosts after elections ?
How would we know vaccines don't cause mutation?
How would we know liberals haven't been infiltrated by the Soviet Union?
How would we know Obama voters didn't vote multiple times in 2012?
It's gross and it should be required that all for-profit 'news' be required to call itself 'gossip'.