Exclusive: House Benghazi panel subpoenas former Clinton White House aide

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional investigators have issued a subpoena demanding that former Clinton White House adviser Sidney Blumenthal testify next month before the House of Representatives committee investigating the 2012 attack on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya.

The subpoena, a copy of which was made available to Reuters, demands that Blumenthal appear before the House committee on June 3 to give a deposition. The subpoena is dated Monday but carries a notation indicating an unnamed deputy U.S. marshal served it on Blumenthal's wife on Tuesday.

The copy of the subpoena contains no further details about the subject matter of the deposition.

"I can confirm Mr. Blumenthal has been called for a deposition by the committee," Jamal Ware, a spokesman for Republican Representative Trey Gowdy, the Benghazi committee chairman, said in response to a Reuters query.

More than two years ago, a set of emails sent by Blumenthal to Hillary Clinton while she served as secretary of state were posted on the Internet by a hacker who called himself Guccifer. Blumenthal did not work for Clinton when she was secretary of state and sent those emails as a private individual.

The emails included detailed private intelligence reports on events in Libya sent to Blumenthal by Tyler Drumheller, a former senior CIA officer. Some of the emails were sent around the time of the Benghazi attacks on and discussed information Drumheller's sources gave him about the attack.

On Tuesday, The New York Times published a handful of emails showing that Clinton had passed on some of the private intelligence reports to aides and other State Department personnel.

The messages show that at least one of the private intelligence reports made its way to a recipient who appears to have been Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya who was killed by militants during the Sept. 11, 2012, Benghazi attacks.

The emails, part of a batch of around 300 messages related to Libya that the State Department turned over to Gowdy's Benghazi committee earlier this year, show Clinton herself tersely expressing interest in some of the private intelligence reports and skepticism about others.

In one email to an aide, Clinton, referring to one of the reports supplied by Blumenthal, wrote: "This strains credulity. What do you think?"

People familiar with the set of Clinton emails turned over by the State Department to Gowdy's committee said that the emails leaked to The New York Times were not a complete set of messages related to what Blumenthal sent Clinton.

Blumenthal is a former journalist who served in the Clinton White House as one of the most loyal defenders of both Hillary Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton.

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He was well paid for it...

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New dimensions to the Hillary email server story?

Paul Mirengoff

June 4, 2015

 

Chuck Ross of the Daily Caller reports that the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has obtained information that could deepen the Hillary Clinton private email server scandal. The information is contained in notes of a meeting between two State Department whistleblowers and Oversight Committee staff.

 

During the meeting, the whistleblowers said that a State Department inspector told them he discovered Hillary’s private email server while investigating the work that Huma Abedin, a top Clinton aide, was performing for Teneo Holdings, a consulting firm. According to the notes, the inspector said the investigation into Abedin was shut down by Harold Geisel, the former acting inspector general for the State Department, whose tenure was marked by accusations of political favoritism.

 

The whistleblowers say the inspector, who still works for the State Department, has become a whistleblower himself. According to notes of the meeting, he is willing to share his information if subpoenaed by Congress. We’ll see.

 

What are the dimensions that this information potentially adds to email servergate? First, there’s the Huma Abedin angle. Abedin apparently was granted special permission to work at Teneo even as she worked as an aide to Clinton, and she may not have reported the Teneo income. The investigation the whistleblower worked on is said to involve allegations of criminal conduct.

 

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