Say It Ain't So

The NY Times had this headline, since edited:

Libya Emails Seem To Contradict Clinton On Adviser's Role

Currently they offer a bit of a headscratcher:

Benghazi Emails Put Focus on Hillary Clinton’s Encouragement of Adviser

WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton told reporters last month that the memos about Libya she received while secretary of state from Sidney Blumenthal, a longtime adviser whom the Obama administration had barred her from hiring, had been “unsolicited.”

But according to officials briefed on the matter, email records that Mrs. Clinton apparently failed to turn over to the State Department last fall show that she repeatedly encouraged Mr. Blumenthal to “keep ’em coming,” as she said in an August 2012 reply to a memo from him, which she called “another keeper.”

All or part of 15 Libya-related emails she sent to Mr. Blumenthal were missing from the trove of 30,000 that Mrs. Clinton provided to the State Department last year, as well as from the 847 that the department in turn provided in February to the House committee investigating the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya. The emails were reviewed by a reporter.

So she lied, sorry misremembered about her relationship with Sidney Blumenthal (who was trying to hustle Libya business for some contacts) and lied, what's with me, misremembered about the completeness of her email dump.

So, business as usual. This is only news for anyone who does not yet grasp Hillary's true nature. Nixon in a pantsuit.

Comments

[George]

A video showing Hillary drowning a litter of puppies would be ambiguous to the NYT so that even the first headline only talked about a "seeming" contradiction

[henry]

How did truth leak out?

[maryrose]

Contradiction my--se
Congenital liar
Safire was so right about her
It will be her ultimate undoing
I will vote for the first Repub candidate who asks her why she lied about Benghazi and her emails and and they must use the word LIE

[Publius]

Can we trust Greta to have Oliver North's take on the latest Benghazi e-mails?

[narciso]

more on the point:

http://www.foxbusiness.com/economy-policy/2015/06/27/exclusive-arming-benghazi/?intcmp=bigtopmarketfeaturesside

[Cispigmented Heteronormative Microagressive Ignatz]

It's more likely there'd be a video of Hillary giving birth to a litter of puppies.

[George]

I believe that my post may be the first post not to use "First!"

[Dave (in MA)]

Come on, Ig.

Young hyenas are called "cubs", not "puppies".

[Steve]

BREAKING: Texas Attorney General Issues Major Order to Fight Back Against Supreme Court

http://commoncts.blogspot.com/2015/06/breaking-texas-attorney-general-issues.html

[Steve]

BREAKING: Texas Attorney General Issues Major Order to Fight Back Against Supreme Court

http://commoncts.blogspot.com/2015/06/breaking-texas-attorney-general-issues.html

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Those puppies or cubs would be a damn sight cuter than what Slick knocked her with.

[DublinDave]

What's great about Emailghazi is that America just isn't paying attention.

This won't hurt us in the polls.

[narciso]

another lurch special:

[maryrose]

Delusional Dems actually think Hillarity is their ticket to the WH
We soon will have even money on Sanders and he doesn't have a compromising relationship with the truth
Every situation has a tipping point
IRS has reached theirs with talk of Kostinen impeachment and Judge Sullivan loaded for bear
It would be different if Hil were popular but Dems are forced to demoD their polls to even get Sanders 8points behind her in NH
Tears won't work this time and Shaheen won't be a ble to carry her sorry rear end over the finish line
Hubby doesn't even support her

[Cispigmented Heteronormative Microagressive Ignatz]

I was obliquely making reference to Hill's status as a hound of the female variety. : )

[Jack is Back!]

CH,

After the last few days, I am all in for an article V convention as long as we can amend Article III and make it easier to replace those dunces.

[derwill]

I love how Hillary Clinton led us into a war for oil, for real, but the Dems are all okay with that.

Just like they're all okay with her being a member of the .01 per cent, and all okay that she turned a charity that is supposed to provide food and health care for poor children into her own personal slush fun, and okay with her enabling her serial sex abuser and rapist husband.

Hell, as late as 2013, she was against gay marriage. The horror!

[Threadkiller]

Michael Mobyved has a plan to save the miserable GOP.

http://www.michaelmedved.com/column/how-rice-as-running-mate-could-power-victory/

He's punking someone.

[MarkO]

Jerry Zeifman, a lifelong Democrat, supervised the work of 27-year-old Hillary Rodham on the committee. Hillary got a job working on the investigation at the behest of her former law professor, Burke Marshall, who was also Sen. Ted Kennedy’s chief counsel in the Chappaquiddick affair. When the investigation was over, Zeifman fired Hillary from the committee staff and refused to give her a letter of recommendation – one of only three people who earned that dubious distinction in Zeifman’s 17-year career.

Why?

“Because she was a liar,” Zeifman said in an interview last week. “She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality.”

[Eric in Boise]

I believe that my post may be the first post not to use "First!"

Sorry, George. I snuck one in a month or two ago with no F word :)

[Cecil Turner]

This is the bit that bites:

The department had asked Mrs. Clinton last year for copies of all of the work-related emails she sent or received on the personal email account she exclusively used when she was secretary of state [ . . .]

In sifting through and producing such a large number of emails, it stands to reason that some would be missed.

Nice soft-pedal: they asked her, but of course some would be missed. Just three months ago, the Times had a better handle on the issue:

WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton exclusively used a personal email account to conduct government business as secretary of state, State Department officials said, and may have violated federal requirements that officials’ correspondence be retained as part of the agency’s record. [emphasis added]

The problem with the 15 missing emails isn't what's in 'em, it's what else isn't there. And remember that FOIA from Freedom Watch that wanted Hillary found in contempt? Here's part of the government response:

Plaintiff provides no basis, beyond sheer speculation, to believe that former Secretary Clinton withheld any work-related emails from those provided to the Department of State.

I think they can do better than that now.

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Welcome to the party, JiB; I'd imagine that would be one of the first things to be addressed.

[narciso]

that reset really worked out, didn't it,

https://twitter.com/20committee/status/615588227186081792

Radiant Angel was darker then some of DeMille's other work, but it had it's amusing touches,

[Jack is Back!]

narciso,
v
Reading it right now and its funny, it takes place no more than 400 yards from me in Southampton. Every place is within shouting distance and part of my normal repitoire of places and things to do on an average day here.

Weird.

[Old Lurker]

TM, that is just not fair to Nixon!

[narciso]

yes, Nixon waz a piker compared to Hillary,

[narciso]

So. it appears there is video of Donta Allen's interview, which corroborates the Post's original stories, re Negyn,

[Richard Aubrey]

It was Billy Dale and the Travel Office.Than, samesame.
Bigger, smaller. Lies, corruption, greed, lust for power, screw anybody who's in the way, or just for grins.
Perfect dem candidate.