Hillary’s email bombshell: Saudi’s financed the Benghazi attack

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Bernie Sanders may have been chivalrous when he told a beleaguered Hillary Clinton, “The American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails.” But when it comes to actually reading some of Clinton’s confidential exchanges, that’s another matter.
In December 2014, Hillary Rodham Clinton began providing the State Department with personal emails sent or received during her tenure as Secretary of State. The final batch was released on February 29, 2016. The entire collection is now posted on the State Department’s Public Reading Room and is searchable via this link.
But the collection is not complete. Clinton admits to having deleted 32,000 emails“deemed private.” Among the missing are a number of politically charged emails sent to Secretary Clinton by a trusted colleague named Sidney Blumenthal. Blumenthal’s emails were allegedly captured and copied by Marcel Lazar Lehel, an unemployed Romanian taxi driver better known as “Guccifer” and “Small Fume.” In April of this year, Lehel became an instant celebrity after he was identified as the cyber-savvy interloper who had hacked into Clinton’s official email account during her time as Secretary of State. (Lehel was recently awarded an all-expenses-paid trip from a Romanian prison to the US where he will spend his days in an American jail cell under 18-month extradition order.)
Guccifer’s sudden celebrity may seem a bit odd, given the fact that he initially released Clinton’s compromised communiqués some time ago—back in 2013, to be precise.
Before Guccifer became tabloid-fodder in the West, he had already popped a number of eyes by sharing his disclosures with the Russian media organization RT (“Hillary Clinton’s ‘hacked’ Benghazi emails: FULL RELEASE“) on March 20, 2013. (A second bundle of Guccifer’s Blumenthal-Clinton emails was released on March 22, 2013.)
Given the current frenzy over Guccifer and his revelations, it is remarkable that his headline-grabbing “leaks” went virtually unreported when he first twisted the spigot back in 2013. At the time, the mainstream media took little notice. The only “news outlets” to pick up on Guccifer’s cyber-pranks were a few conspiracy sites like The Smoking Gun and Cryptome. [Note: You may experience trouble trying to access the Cryptome website.]
The tranche of Clinton’s “damn emails” subsequently posted by RT included some pretty damning revelations. Perhaps none was more shocking than the disclosure that the deadly attack on the American consulate in Benghazi on September 11, 2012—which took the life of US ambassador John Christopher “Chris” Stevens—was secretly financed by powerful figures in Saudi Arabia.
This information was contained within the text of four messages Secretary Clinton received from Blumenthal. It should be noted that Blumenthal was not an employee of the US State Department. He was an employee of the Clinton Foundation, earning salary of $10,000 a month as a consultant providing memo-worthy Intel to Secretary Clinton. On the side, Blumenthal also was serving an entrepreneurial role inside a Libyan company called Osprey that was hoping to reap lucrative medical and military contracts under the new post-Qadaffi government. (Since such business deals could require State Department approval, Hillary Clinton might be asked someday whether this relationship with Blumenthal posed a “conflict of interest.”)
One confidential memo dispatched to Clinton on February 16, 2013 bore the warning: “The following information comes from extremely sensitive sources and it should be handled with care.” In this memo, Blumenthal included a lengthy report from an “individual with sensitive access” who, “speaking on condition of absolute secrecy” described the role of the Mokhtar Belmokhtar (a former Al-Qaeda fighter from Algeria who became the leader of the Al-Murabitoun militia) in a January 16, 2013 hostage-taking incident at an Algerian gas facility. (A four-day battle eventually freed 685 Algerian workers and 107 foreigners and left 39 foreign hostages dead).
Blumenthal’s source then turned to the attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi which was mounted by Ansar al Sharia, another radical militia. “This individual adds that this information provided by the French [intelligence] service indicates that the funding for both attacks originated with wealthy Sunni Islamists in Saudi Arabia. During July and August 2012, these financiers provided funds to Al Qaeda in the Islamic Mahgreb (AQIM) contacts in southern Europe, who in turn passed the money onto AQIM operatives in Mauritania. The money was used to recruit operatives and purchase ammunition and supplies.”
“In a separate conversation,” Blumenthal’s memo continues, “Algerian DGSE [the state intelligence agency] officers note in private that Libyan intelligence officers tell them that the Benghazi attacks were funded by these financiers in Saudi Arabia.”
Alleged Saudi funding of the attack in Benghazi is particularly troubling in light of the mounting suspicions that the 28 censored pages of Washington’s official 911 report spell out the role that powerful officials in Saudi Arabia played in supporting the hijackers who brought down the World Trade Center towers in 2011. It is disturbing to discover that Hillary Clinton was informed of Saudi involvement in the death of Ambassador Stevens in 2013 and has opted to remain silent.
The Blumenthal memos make many references to the complex role of foreign intelligence—most prominently the CIA and Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (SIS)—both during Qaddafi’s reign and after the unraveling of Libya’s government.
One of Blumenthal’s sources refers to the “heightened public interest in the liaison relationships conducted by the CIA and the SIS with Qaddafi’s intelligence and security services” and mentions the international organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) and its “efforts to tie Western governments to human rights violations committed under Qaddafi.” According to one of Blumenthal’s sources, Mohammed Yousef el-Magariaf, a Libyan politician who served as the president of the General National Congress and “interim head-of-state,” was concerned that his “enemies are working to take advantage of his suspected links to the CIA” and predicted “this situation will only grow more complex as Qaddafi’s son, Saif al Islam Qaddafi and al Senousi are brought before Libyan courts” since It was believed “both men will be linked to Western intelligence during their trials.”
Compounding the problem, Blumenthal warned Clinton, were “messages to Libya from the CIA and SIS [that] were found among the Tripoli Documents published by HRW indicating that the United States and Britain were eager to help Libya capture several senior LIFG [Libyan Islamic Fighting Group] figures.”

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'Easily & Repeatedly’: Romanian hacker on gaining access to Hillary Clinton’s server

Published time: 5 May, 2016 04:27Edited time: 5 May, 2016 04:29

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U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton © Jim Young / Reuters

The Romanian hacker, “Guccifer” said breaching former secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s personal server in early 2013 was easy and repeatable. Separately, a federal Judge said he may call on Clinton to testify in a records case. 

 Gruccifer says he has 2 gigabytes of Hillary data hidden. "Too hot" & deals w/ national security

“For me, it was easy…easy for me, for everybody,” Marcel Lehel Lazar, who goes by the moniker “Guccifer,” told Fox News in an exclusive interview from a Virginia jail where he is being held.
Lazar, 44, is the hacker who first exposed Hillary Clinton’s private email address. Her server held nearly 2,200 emails containing information now deemed classified, and another 22 designated as “Top Secret.”
Lazar was extradited from Romania to the United States last month to face charges for hacking the email accounts of political elites, including General Colin Powell, a member of the Bush family, and former Clinton advisor Sidney Blumenthal. It was Clinton’s friendship with Blumenthal and her “completely unsecured” server that gave Lazar access to the secretary of state’s email.
“It was like an open orchid on the Internet,” Lazar told NBC News in an interview earlier this year when he was in prison in Bucharest. “There were hundreds of folders.”
Lazar alleges he compromised Blumental’s AOL account in March of 2013 and then used that as a stepping stone to Clinton’s server, which he said he accessed “like twice,” though he described the contents as “not interest[ing] to him at the time.”
“I was not paying attention. For me, it was not like the Hillary Clinton Server, it was like an email server she and others were using with political voting stuff,” Lazar told Fox.
Lazar gave Fox and NBC News no proof to back his claims and would not provide copies of the emails that he says he downloaded.
Lazar told Fox that he guessed Blumenthal’s security question after doing extensive research on the web. Once inside Blumenthal’s account, he saw dozens of messages from Clinton’s email address.
“For examples, when Sidney Blumenthal got an email, I checked the email pattern from Hillary Clinton, from Colin Powell, from anyone else to find out the originating IP. …When they send a letter, the email header is the originating IP usually,” Lazar explained.
“Then I scanned with an IP scanner,” he added.
An IP, or Internet Protocol address, is a unique numerical label assigned to each device (e.g., computer, printer) that serves two functions – as identification for host or network interface, as well as for location addressing. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, said “a name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how to get there.”
Lazar alleges that he came across evidence indicating others were on the Clinton server as well.
“As far as I remember, yes, there were …up to 10, like, IPs from other parts of the world,” he told Fox.
Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton has maintained that her server was not compromised, telling Andrew Mitchell of MSNBC on Tuesday that she had no indication that her server had been breached by foreign hackers.
Her campaign office issued a statement responding to Lazar’s account
“There is absolutely no basis to believe the claims made by this criminal from his prison cell. In addition to the fact he offers no proof to support his claims, his descriptions of Secretary Clinton’s server are inaccurate,” said the Clinton campaign. “It is unfathomable that he would have gained access to her emails and not leaked them the way he did to his other victims.”
A source with knowledge of the probe into the email setup told NBC News that investigators fully intend to question Lazar about Clinton’s server now that he is in US custody.
Lazar faces trial on September 12 in the Eastern District of Virginia. He has pleaded not guilty to a nine-count federal indictment for alleged hacking crimes in the US.
He told Fox that he wants to cooperate with the US government and alleges he has hidden two gigabytes of data that is “too hot” and “it is a matter of national security.”
A federal judge told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he may order Clinton to testify under oath about whether she used the private email server to evade public records disclosures.
US District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan signed an order granting a request from the conservative legal advocacy group Judicial Watch to question six current and former State Department staffers about the creation and purpose of the private email system. Those on the list include former chief of staff Cheryl Mills, deputy chief of staff Huma Abedin, and Undersecretary Patrick Kennedy.
Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act request in 2013 seeking records related to Abedin’s outside work as a paid consultant for Clinton’s charitable foundation, and a financial firm with ties to the Clintons. The question at hand is whether a State Department search, which failed to find thousands of emails Clinton exchanged with her aids, including Abedin, using private email addresses, was thorough enough. The State Department says those emails were unavailable at the time of the request.
Also to testify is former State Department IT staffer Bryan Pagliano, who installed and maintained Clinton’s server. Pagliano has been granted immunity by the Department of Justice for cooperating with the FBI in its ongoing criminal investigation.
Depending on what might be learned from those depositions over the next eight weeks, Judge Sullivan in his order said a sworn deposition from Hillary Clinton “may be necessary.”
More than three dozen civil lawsuits have been filed over public records requests related to Clinton’s time as secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, including one filed by the AP.