Hacked Hillary Emails Punch Holes in Benghazi Story -Longtime Adviser Blumenthal Presented Evidence of Terrorism

Aaron Klein / WND

Two days after the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack in Benghazi, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton received an email from confidante and former Bill Clinton White House staffer Sidney Blumenthal punching holes in the administration narrative that blamed the attack on an anti-Islam YouTube video.

One day earlier, Blumenthal presented Clinton with information from a “sensitive source” supporting the video narrative. But he followed up that correspondence with a contrary report that the attack was carried out by a jihadist group that had planned it at least one month in advance.

Yet Clinton and the Obama administration persisted for weeks in blaming the obscure anti-Islam video as the primary motivation. In her memoir, “Hard Choices,” published last June, Clinton continued to defend the Youtube-video storyline, claiming it was a reflection of what the U.S. intelligence community believed at the time.

The latest information comes as Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., chairman of the House committee investigating the Benghazi attack, on Tuesday asked Clinton to appear for a private interview regarding her controversial use of a private email account during her tenure as secretary of state.

Gowdy sent a letter to Clinton’s attorney characterizing the former secretary’s “email arrangement with herself” as “highly unusual, if not unprecedented.” He added Clinton’s disclosure that she deleted all emails from her private server “only exacerbates our need to better understand what the secretary did, when she did it and why she did it.”

In an article jointly published last week by Gawker and ProPublica, the websites disclose Blumenthal prepared detailed intelligence briefs that were sent regularly to Clinton’s private email address.

They report that the dispatches, sent under Blumenthal’s name, were actually based on information gathered and prepared by Tyler Drumheller, a former chief of the CIA’s clandestine service in Europe who left the agency in 2005 and now serves as a private contractor.

The leaked emails were posted on the Internet by Gawker in 2013. The website says it was forwarded the emails from Blumenthal’s AOL account by the hacker using the alias “Guccifer.”

“Guccifer” reportedly hacked Blumenthal’s email in March 2013. Guccifer has since been identified as Marcel Lazar Lehel, a Romanian hacker serving a seven-year sentence for hacking into the accounts of Romanian government officials.

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