(This would explain a lot): Gowdy implies Clinton friend Blumenthal fed information to Steele

A lot of pieces begin to fall into place if this is true!

Gowdy implies Clinton friend Blumenthal fed information to Steele

Rep. Trey Gowdy implied Tuesday that information provided by longtime Clinton friend Sidney Blumenthal was used by former British spy Christopher Steele.

During an interview on Fox News' "The Story," host Martha MacCallum asked Gowdy (R-S.C.) whether "weeks before the election, somebody in the Obama State Department was feeding information from a foreign source to Christopher Steele." MacCallum had previously asked whether Gowdy knew anything about "a source who gave information to an unnamed associate of Hillary and Bill Clinton who then gave information to an unnamed official in the Obama State Department who then gave the information to Steele."

When you hear who the source, one of the sources of that information is, you're going to think, 'Oh, my gosh, I've heard that name somewhere before. Where could it possibly have been?'" Gowdy replied.

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"I'm trying to think of how Secretary Clinton defined him. I think she said he was an old friend who emailed her from time to time," Gowdy said.

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Everything that there is to know about it, and I have known about it for over a month," he said. "If you go and read the documents at the Department of Justice, you see it. I am troubled by it."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.com/amp/story/2018/02/06/gowdy...

Gowdy hints Sidney Blumenthal leaked info to dossier author Steele

https://www.google.com/amp/www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/02/06/gowdy-hin...

(Threw in Faux for shits and giggles)

I hate Howdy Gowdy being in the mix. He made a fool out of himself during the Benghazi hearngs. Not that there weren’t any shenanigans going on there, because there were. It’s because he was so damn inept. But I know he can read. If documents have been uncovered that show Sid’s complicity, the ‘friend of the Clinton’s’ person involved probably is him. He was advising Her Heinous all the while she was SOS.

Libyan Oil, Gold, and Qaddafi: The Strange Email Sidney Blumenthal Sent Hillary Clinton In 2011

https://news.vice.com/article/libyan-oil-gold-and-qaddafi-the-strange-em...

Clinton Friend’s Memos on Libya Draw Scrutiny to Politics and Business

Mr. Gowdy’s chief interest, according to people briefed on the inquiry, is a series of memos that Mr. Blumenthal — who was not an employee of the State Department — wrote to Mrs. Clinton about events unfolding in Libya before and after the death of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. According to emails obtained by The New York Times, Mrs. Clinton, who was secretary of state at the time, took Mr. Blumenthal’s advice seriously, forwarding his memos to senior diplomatic officials in Libya and Washington and at times asking them to respond. Mrs. Clinton continued to pass around his memos even after other senior diplomats concluded that Mr. Blumenthal’s assessments were often unreliable.

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Much of the Libya intelligence that Mr. Blumenthal passed on to Mrs. Clinton appears to have come from a group of business associates he was advising as they sought to win contracts from the Libyan transitional government. The venture, which was ultimately unsuccessful, involved other Clinton friends, a private military contractor and one former C.I.A. spy seeking to get in on the ground floor of the new Libyan economy.

The projects — creating floating hospitals to treat Libya’s war wounded and temporary housing for displaced people, and building schools — would have required State Department permits, but foundered before the business partners could seek official approval.

It is not clear whether Mrs. Clinton or the State Department knew of Mr. Blumenthal’s interest in pursuing business in Libya; a State Department spokesman declined to say. Many aspects of Mr. Blumenthal’s involvement in the planned Libyan venture remain unclear. He declined repeated requests to discuss it.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/05/19/us/politics/clinton-friends-libya-...

Blumenthal was/is close to both Clintons and TCC went against Obama’s order not to allow him to have any part of her tenure as SOS. (When did she ever follow the rules?)

Sidney Blumenthal paid by Clinton Foundation while advising on Libya

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Politico reported on Thursday that Blumenthal was being paid $10,000 a month by the Clinton Foundation from 2009 to 2013, after top Obama aides blocked him from a job at the State Department. At the time, Blumenthal was also on the payroll of two pro-Clinton groups, American Bridge and Media Matters. Both organisations are run by Clinton ally David Brock.

Questions have been raised about how Blumenthal received the intelligence he used for his reports to Clinton. The former writer for the New Republic and the New Yorker is not a foreign policy expert but had connections to investors pursuing business opportunities in Libya in the aftermath of the collapse of the Gaddafi regime.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/28/sid...

So many things are starting to make sense. And the ‘friend of the Clintons’ probably should have been obvious. Blumenthal has a proven track record when it comes to dirty dealings to benefit Hillbillary. He was meddling during her term as SOS. TCC was willing to defy her boss over Blumenthal so it makes sense. But the problem here is that there are just so many sleazy individuals to select from because the Clintons seem to draw the type of people that wouldn’t balk at a little lying, cheating, and election rigging. That became a demonstrable fact when she hijacked the DNC back in 2015.

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But the problem here is that there are just so many sleazy individuals to select from because the Clintons seem to draw the type of people that wouldn’t balk at a little lying, cheating, and election rigging.

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I hate Howdy Gowdy being in the mix. He made a fool out of himself during the Benghazi hearngs. Not that there weren’t any shenanigans going on there, because there were. It’s because he was so damn inept

You almost have to laugh. Everywhere you look it's sleezebags and partisan hacks. Makes it a little hard to believe anyone in Washington gives a damn about truth, doesn't it?

Edit to add: Of course it was Blumenthal. Who didn't see that coming miles away? Sigh.

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Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.

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@Dr. John Carpenter A very good friend sent me this incredibly appropriate noun with an old, interesting history. I won’t spoil the fun of discovering it’s meaning. Enjoy.

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"Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now..."

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@vtcc73
[video:www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf8zep5BADs]

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@CB
Considering busy lives:

snollygoster

PRONUNCIATION:
(SNOL-ee gos-tuhr) https://wordsmith.org/words/images/sound-icon.png

MEANING:
noun: A shrewd, unprincipled person.

ETYMOLOGY:
Of uncertain origin, perhaps an alteration of snallygaster, a mythical creature said to prey on poultry and children, possibly from Pennsylvania Dutch schnelle geeschter, from German schnell (quick) + Geist (spirit). Earliest documented use: 1846.

NOTES:
According to a Georgia editor, “A snollygoster is a fellow who wants office, regardless of party, platform, or principles, and who, whenever he wins, gets there by the sheer force of monumental talknophical assumnacy.”

USAGE:
“Where do you find lawyers like this snollygoster?”
Malcolm Berko; Dunkin’ Donuts May Be Full of Holes; Herald Sun with Chapel Hill Herald (Durham, North Carolina); Jun 10, 2012.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. -Adlai Stevenson, statesman (5 Feb 1900-1965)

From wordsmith.org

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"Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now..."

@vtcc73 One nation, ruled snollygosters, cynically divided, with liberty and justice for the 1%.

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Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.

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@Dr. John Carpenter Now you’ve done it. That’s far better than anything I thought up! If I may? How about “One nation, under Snollygosters, with liberty and justice for all....one percenters.”

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"Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now..."

@vtcc73 Smile

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Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.

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The Judical Watch revelations of the secret server were not available during the hearings.

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@Alligator Ed
doesn't it?

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Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work for the benefit of all."
- John Maynard Keynes

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@ovals49

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@Alligator Ed
Stealing!

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@Sirena

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@Alligator Ed

Next to the Nancy Phew series?

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austerity for the people but profits and nation
building for our punching bags

The projects — creating floating hospitals to treat Libya’s war wounded and temporary housing for displaced people, and building schools — would have required State Department permits, but foundered before the business partners could seek official approval.

On another note, had a minor medical procedure done yesterday and the
nurse was a chatterbox going on and on as to why is it that there are so
many dead people that have links to her, I just shrugged my shoulders and
said yes, why.

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I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish

"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"

Heard from Margaret Kimberley

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@ggersh

and not herself, right?

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Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.

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@earthling1

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I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish

"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"

Heard from Margaret Kimberley

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@ggersh

as to why is it that there are so many dead people that have links to her HER

Afterall SHE was supposed to become Madame President, wasn't SHE? Wink

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Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy

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@gulfgal98

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I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish

"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"

Heard from Margaret Kimberley

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Orwell: Where's the omelette?

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@jim p

This is Amanda's creation which is an apt description IMO

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Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.

Ever since she got exposed for rigging the primary, I bet there are a lot of democrats who wouldn't put anything past Hillary.
It now looks like Hillary (through Fusion GPS and the State Dept) basically bought a FISA warrant.
Fixing the primary was enough for me to say "lock her up", but if they can catch her in more wrongdoing I won't be disappointed.

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