@on the cusp @on the cusp I think if you format to fit the redactions, you are likely to find individual and agency names that might fit were published in this 2015 NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/19/us/politics/clinton-friends-libya-rol...

Here's a relevant portion from that article with names and helpful context:

Mr. Gowdy’s committee on the attacks in Benghazi hopes to ask Mr. Blumenthal who, if anyone, was paying him to prepare the memos for Mrs. Clinton and whether they were among his responsibilities at the Clinton Foundation. The committee’s investigators are also interested in whether the planned business venture in Libya posed any potential conflicts for Mr. Blumenthal or Mrs. Clinton, whose aides the business partners sought meetings with in early 2012.

The Libya venture came together in 2011 when David L. Grange, a retired Army major general, joined with a newly formed New York firm, Constellations Group, to pursue business leads in Libya. Constellations Group, led by a professional fund-raiser and philanthropist named Bill White, was to provide the leads. Mr. Grange’s company, Osprey Global Solutions, based in North Carolina, would put “boots on the ground to see if there was an opportunity to do business,” Mr. Grange said in an interview.

The men had little experience in Libya. Exactly how Mr. White was to procure leads in Libya is unclear. He spent much of his career as an executive at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, and had raised money for politicians, businesses and charities. His biography also describes Mr. White as a consultant for Aquahydrate, a bottled-water company whose backers include Ron Burkle, the billionaire investor who had been a close friend of the Clintons.

“We were thinking, ‘O.K., Qaddafi is dead, or about to be, and there’s opportunities,’ ” Mr. White said in a brief telephone interview. He added, “We thought, ‘Let’s try to see who we know there.’ ”

Mr. White declined to answer follow-up questions about what role Mr. Blumenthal was playing in the business venture. But Mr. Grange described Mr. Blumenthal as an adviser to Mr. White’s company, along with two other associates: Tyler Drumheller, a colorful former Central Intelligence Agency official, and Cody Shearer, a longtime Clinton friend.

“I just know that he was working with the team to work on business development,” Mr. Grange said of Mr. Blumenthal.

In the spring of 2011, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Drumheller and Mr. Shearer were helping plan what was to be Mr. Grange’s first trip to Libya, according to emails stolen by a Romanian hacker and published by Gawker and ProPublica in March. Mr. Blumenthal said he had been advised not to comment on the correspondence because the theft remained under investigation by the F.B.I.

In August, Mr. Grange signed a memorandum of understanding with two senior officials in the Libyan transitional government to provide “humanitarian assistance, medical services and disaster mitigation,” along with helping to train a new national police force.

Here's a hint as to who the redacted individual with a "controversial history with the U.S. intelligence community" might be. The redaction is a name with 14-16 spaces, including the space between surname and family name. We know it's not Sidney Blumenthal or Tyler Drumheller (deceased). So, count 'em up and line 'em up, kiddos.

Cody Shearer - 12 spaces, so not quite, as is.
William (Bill) White - Again, too short.
Ron Burkle - Nope, not without a middle initial.
David L. Grange - 15 spaces. Maybe

Now, try let's try for the 17-19 space IC entity with which "redacted" was associated and where his reputation is particularly controversial:
Central Intelligence Agency (27 spaces) Nope
National Security Agency (24 spaces) Nope
Department of State (19 spaces) Maybe

Osprey was listed as a State Dept. contractor, according to https://www.propublica.org/article/private-emails-reveal-ex-clinton-aide...

“The general” and “Grange” appear to refer to David L. Grange, a major general in the Army who ran a secret Pentagon special operations unit before retiring in 1999. Grange subsequently founded Osprey Global Solutions, a consulting firm and government contractor that offers logistics, intelligence, security training, armament sales, and other services. The Osprey Foundation, which is a nonprofit arm of Osprey Global Solutions, is listed as one of the State Department’s “global partners” in a 2014 report from the Office of Global Partnerships.’

Among the documents in the cache [of Blumenthal emails] released by [Guccifer] Lazar is an August 24, 2011, memorandum of understanding between Osprey Global Solutions and the Libyan National Transition Council—the entity that took control in the wake of Qadaffi’s execution—agreeing that Osprey will contract with the NTC to “assist in the resumption of access to its assets and operations in country” and train Libyan forces in intelligence, weaponry, and “rule-of-land warfare.” The document refers to meetings held in Amman, Jordan between representatives of Osprey and a Mohammad Kikhia, who represented the National Transition Council.

Note the phrase, "resumption of access to assets." Gold is an asset, isn't it, and Ghadaffi had billions of the stuff. Hmmm . . . Hillary was indeed helping her old friend Blumenthal in the treasure hunt for Libyan assets. Given that she had prompted the regime change that put these "assets" into play as recoverable booty, that might amount to just a wee bit of "conflict of interest", to be diplomatic about it. Shades of Cheney and Halliburton.

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