Gawker and Pro Publica have been all over this story from the outset, as has Ed here at Hot Air.
Today, Kansas Congressman Mike Pompeo, who serves on the House Select Committee on Benghazi, tipped his hand a bit in acknowledging the troubling developments in Hillary’s evolving narrative, or deleting narrative, depending on your perspective, regarding the not-secured email server in Hillary’s Chappaqua breakfast nook. Never mind the fact that on any normal planet this action would be an obvious case of obstruction of justice. The fascinating development has been the resurfacing of Sidney Blumenthal, who has apparently graduated from being a domestic political thug assigned to break legs of anyone who crosses the Clintons, to at best running his own cut-out intel operation dealing with Benghazi and Tunisia leading up to the terror attack on September 12, 2012. At worst, Blumenthal has become a witting lobbyist on behalf of foreign governments to lobby the Secretary of State off the books, or unwittingly, a tool of misinformation to use his proximity of the Secretary of State’s ear to meddle in U.S. foreign affairs.
Rep. Pompeo declared that the Benghazi Committee will indeed be sitting down for a chat with Mr. Blumenthal. Personally, I can’t wait. I hope Trey Gowdy supervises that questioning. Mr. Blumenthal is loyal. He will never sell out Hillary or Bill Clinton. That much is certain. But when it comes to smarts, I’ll put my money on Chairman Gowdy. He could trip Blumenthal up and fray more threads to pull.
The full interview with Congressman Pompeo is available here, but here’s just a taste.
HH: Okay, okay. So Mike Pompeo, let’s get serious. I know you guys can’t talk a lot about this, but the former Secretary of State wiping the data clean and not giving you the servers, geez, back in my day, we called that obstruction of justice. What do you guys call it?
MP: So it’s very disturbing. We’ve got lots of questions, frankly. And every time we ask a question, we end up describing ten more. Now, we still don’t know the timing of exactly when it was that she wiped her server clean, what was motivating that, what requests were outstanding for documents, so the list is pretty long. And I always try and keep at the forefront in everyone’s mind this is important, because we’ve got four dead Americans who died in Benghazi that night. And we need to understand the full scope of what was going on with the Libya policy, and then the security situation that evening. Lots of questions.
HH: There’s more than Benghazi. And believe, me, I know the widow of one of the four men who were killed that night, so I’m concerned about them. But I’m also concerned about the national security of the United States. If Sidney Blumenthal is sending private emails to her, that makes him an agent of influence who could be easily manipulated. You know this stuff from the Intelligence Committee. I know it from my time at the Department of Justice and the White House. If you are sending in classified information, you are a target for being turned, not even knowingly, into an agent of disinformation. I mean, how do we get to the bottom of this?
MP: We’ve got to ask a lot of folks a lot of questions. The Committee will also speak with Mr. Blumenthal. And we’ve got lots of other folks who we’re still pursuing, who may well have also had personal email accounts. And your point, Hugh, is very well taken. It’s not just classified information. It is, there’s sensitive information that was sent along these communications lines that weren’t secured sufficiently, we all know the Chinese, the Iranians, pick a terror group with all of that enormous instance in that, we can’t be sure of exactly where these emails are. We just know at this point we don’t have them.
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