Sleaze: So Hillary confidante Sid Blumenthal tried to cash in on post-war Libyan spoils while advising the then-secretary of state on Libyan policy. Such foreign influence-peddling is nothing new for the Clintons. It dates back to the '90s.
The New York Times reports that Blumenthal, who previously worked in the White House as chief attack dog for the Clintons, fed some two dozen "intelligence" memos on Libya to Hillary in 2011 and 2012, even though he didn't work at State. She, in turn, circulated them among top diplomats in Libya, including the ambassador, Chris Stevens, who was killed in the 2012 Benghazi attacks.
The memos had little to do with diplomacy and almost everything to do with steering U.S. and Libyan policy in favor of lucrative reconstruction projects proposed by Blumenthal's New York employer, Constellations Group. The projects required State Department permits as well as local OKs.
Blumenthal's back-channel lobbying, which Hillary supported in staff emails, was conducted while he worked for Hillary's family charity, the Clinton Foundation. It adds to pay-to-play revelations already reported by Peter Schweizer in his book "Clinton Cash."
Schweizer documents how several foreign entities who made payments to the foundation, and to Bill Clinton through exorbitant speaking fees, received in return favors from Hillary's State Department.Read the rest of the IBD editorial HERE.
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