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NWCorona

(8,541 posts)
Thu May 12, 2016, 01:26 PM May 2016

CNBC 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 didn’t 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.
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CNBC Grills Sidney Blumenthal: "How Would We Know" Donations To Foundation Didn't Affect Policy (Original Post) NWCorona May 2016 OP
"so, once you got America into Libya and profited from it, who was next?" MisterP May 2016 #1
well...we know the answer to that one..... KoKo May 2016 #12
Blumethal needs to take a vacation, far away from the spotlight yourpaljoey May 2016 #2
I don't even know why he is giving interviews. nt NWCorona May 2016 #3
Yep, makes no sense. People will find out soon enough. yourpaljoey May 2016 #4
I think they are trying to reframe him.. grasswire May 2016 #6
Possibly... KoKo May 2016 #9
charges of corruption need to be supported by evidence. CNBC presents no evidence here nt msongs May 2016 #5
how disgusting.. grasswire May 2016 #7
i've been starting to wonder mooseprime May 2016 #8
she's so good at assuming the victim posture grasswire May 2016 #10
In the Video he says he worked for the Clinton Foundation on "Education." KoKo May 2016 #11
I <3 rhetorical news... JSup May 2016 #13

yourpaljoey

(2,166 posts)
2. Blumethal needs to take a vacation, far away from the spotlight
Thu May 12, 2016, 01:41 PM
May 2016

The truth is bubbling up... here and there and in between.

grasswire

(50,130 posts)
6. I think they are trying to reframe him..
Thu May 12, 2016, 02:36 PM
May 2016

....from a vicious hatchet man into a mild-mannered writer.

KoKo

(84,711 posts)
9. Possibly...
Thu May 12, 2016, 02:44 PM
May 2016

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.

grasswire

(50,130 posts)
7. how disgusting..
Thu May 12, 2016, 02:37 PM
May 2016

...that you support this man.

There will be plenty of time to review evidence when he is charged.

mooseprime

(474 posts)
8. i've been starting to wonder
Thu May 12, 2016, 02:40 PM
May 2016

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)
10. she's so good at assuming the victim posture
Thu May 12, 2016, 02:46 PM
May 2016

any time one of her schemes goes awry, it's always someone else's fault.

KoKo

(84,711 posts)
11. In the Video he says he worked for the Clinton Foundation on "Education."
Thu May 12, 2016, 03:32 PM
May 2016

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)
13. I <3 rhetorical news...
Thu May 12, 2016, 09:21 PM
May 2016

..."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'.

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