Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumWhat Chuck Todd had to say about Sidney Blumenthal.
Marc h 27 2015
Very interesting insight into Todd and Blumenthal, from a radio conversation with Hugh Hewitt (spit).
HH: It is a rumbling drum in the background. Now the Blumenthal story is different. I thought until today, actually earlier this week when I began to get wind of this, that Blumenthal would send her emails and she would write him back, and it was the kind of thing where you had a former aide, a hanger-on, and you stay in touch with everyone. No. Hes running a private intelligence operation on the Libyan-Tunisian border through former CIA operatives. Chuck Todd, if W. had done that, or actually, Condi Rice or Colin Powell would be the appropriate analogy
CT: Yeah.
HH:
people would be tearing their hair out.
CT: And yet I have to say nothing involving Sid Blumenthal surprises me. Zero. And I agree. I think this, I saw this Gawker stuff. You know, youve got, its Gawker and all this stuff, but Ive learned over the years, nothing involving Sid Blumenthal is surprising. And you know, for some reason, theyve had, hes blindly loyal to them, and I think the Clintons have always had a blind spot with him, because he skirts the rules.
HH: Yeah, this is going to
CT: Hes, you know, he likes to leak stuff. He likes being described, I think, as a practice of the dark arts in politics.
HH: Well, Murray Chotiner
CT: And this goes right into his pattern of practicing dark arts. And in this case, instead of politics, its world diplomacy.
HH: Yeah.
CT: I agree its, if proven, and I think more of us are looking into this, I think it just, it only, all it does is no one thing will take her down. Its the accumulation of bits like this that then feed the narrative of oh, do you want ten more years of what you didnt like about the Clintons.
HH: You know, Richard Nixon had Murray Chotiner. Reagan had Lyn Nofziger. Lee Atwater was George Herbert Walker Bushs guy.
CT: Yeah.
HH: But Sid Blumenthal is known as Sid Vicious for a reason, and none of those people, to my knowledge, ran a foreign private intelligence operation, because it raises, Chuck Todd, and this would go
CT: Well, I dont know about Nixon. Dont forget ol G. Gordon. But when he was around
HH: Well, he was domestically, domestically. But heres what it raises. If theyve got a private server and a private citizen collecting private intel, it is highly likely its compromised going into the Secretary of States server. I mean, its just going to raise all sorts of fun. If there was on the right someone with the chops of some of the famous investigative reporters for the New Yorker, this would be keeping them up all night.
CT: I think, and look, I think all things Sid are going to become a big part of our, I think this is going to get a lot of attention. And I dont think its a right, left, right, center. And you know, this is going to be, I think, the more explosive part of the first time she testifies on Benghazi. I mean, I think the Blumenthal stuff is going to be the stickiest wicket for her.
HH: Wait until he gets subpoenaed....
Babel_17
(5,400 posts)Asserting his right not to talk wouldn't look good for other people. Reminding people that he's an outsider, but somehow caught up in State Department affairs, and Secretary Clinton's activities, is the cherry on top.
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)highprincipleswork
(3,111 posts)grasswire
(50,130 posts)We are in for a bumpy summer, no matter which way this investigation goes.
hopemountain
(3,919 posts)wow. so much we do not know and may never know all of it - but knowing enough because it smells like burning rotten garbage.
Peace Patriot
(24,010 posts)I didn't follow those proceedings.
And what was the result? Do you know?
Also, was Clinton questioned about Blumenthal?
grasswire
(50,130 posts)..to keep his testimony private.
I do not know why.
And I don't know if she was questioned about Blumenthal. I did not watch the hearings.
Jennylynn
(696 posts)This was back in October. Or November. I can't quite remember what questioning was about but I think it was regarding emails sent back and forth. At the time, I had no idea why they were questioning her about Blumenthal when the hearings were supposed to be on Benghazi so I didn't pay much attention. Doh!
in_cog_ni_to
(41,600 posts)Very interesting discussion! Hugh Hewitt -
Blumenthal was running a private intelligence operation on the Libyan-Tunisian border through former CIA operatives.
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EdwardBernays
(3,343 posts)That Clinton had a legal responsibility to report him for possessing and sending classified data - which he had no legal right to possess - to her. Not sure why no one discusses that.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)It's like they are trying to rebrand him from filthy political opportunist to milquetoast journalist.