I know there are bigger concerns in the FBI document dump (as Andy ably chronicles below), but as some of you may recall, I have a particular fixation on the awfulness of Sidney Blumenthal. So this caught my eye, from this morning’s (excellent) WSJ editorial:
Mrs. Clinton also kept up a clandestine correspondence with her political Svengali and Clinton Foundation retainer Sidney Blumenthal, whose AOL account was hacked by the Romanian known as Guccifer in 2013. Though President Obama had barred Mr. Blumenthal from government, Mr. Blumenthal sent Mrs. Clinton at least 179 memos, some of which she then forwarded through the bureaucracy after having his name excised. Twenty-four of these dispatches were so sensitive that State later classified them.
In other words, Mrs. Clinton kept a man banned by her boss on the family foundation payroll, then used Mr. Blumenthal as an off-the-official-books counselor whose memos she spread around State after disguising their provenance. She conned Mr. Obama too.
Last year, in Iowa, when Hillary Clinton was asked about her emails with Sidney Blumenthal she replied, “When in the public eye and public position, you have to make sure you don’t hear from a small group of people. I’m going to keep talking to my old friends whoever they are.”
We’ve known for a long time this was a lie. But it’s good to remember how big a lie it was.