Unlikeable by Edward Klein Page B

[email protected] , and didn’t tell Gowdy about it.
    She had kept this e-mail address secret because it had been used in subterranean exchanges with Sidney Blumenthal, who was acting as her secret back channel on Libya.
    There were several problems with this cozy arrangement. At the same time that he was advising Hillary, Blumenthal was on the payrolls of the rabid left-wing website Media Matters and the liberal super PAC American Bridge. What’s more, he was being paid $10,000 a month by the Clinton Foundation.
    In addition,Blumenthal worked for two companies seeking contracts in Libya. As the New York Times noted: “Blumenthal said that Libya’s prime minister was bringing in new economic advisers, and that a businessman, Najib Obeida, was among ‘the most influential of this group.’ At the time, Mr. Obeida was a potential business partner of a group of contractors whom Mr. Blumenthal was advising.”
    â€œThe New York Times story on Sidney Blumenthal perfectlyencapsulates everything wrong with the Clinton operation,” wrote Rich Lowry, the editor of National Review . “Blumenthal is banned from the State Department by discerning Obama aides,so he works for the Clinton Foundation—on nebulous ‘message guidance,’ among other things—while whispering in Hillary’s ear about Libya, at the same time he’s working with business interests hoping to make money in Libya on projects that would have required State Department permits. This is how a charity is supposed to work?”

    If you could pan an imaginary iPhone camera across the trajectory of Hillary’s long career—from Little Rock to the White House to the Senate to her first race for the White House to the State Department to her second race for the White House—you would detect a clear pattern of behavior: she repeated the same transgressions over and over again. For her, the drive for power, success, and money always overrode standards of honor and decency.
    As a result, she stained her record as secretary of state with so many scandals that it was hard to keep them straight.
    Here are some of her most egregious offenses.
    THE BENGHAZI CONNECTION
    Hillary lied when she said that officials “at the assistant secretary level or below” had failed to keep her informed about requests for beefed-up security at the U.S. outpost in Benghazi. In Blood Feud: The Clintons vs. the Obamas , I reported that in the months leading up to the attack on the U.S. mission, Cheryl Mills and Jake Sullivan, among others, made Hillary aware thatthe mission was highly vulnerable to assault from bands of heavily armed Islamic militiamen roaming the streets of Benghazi.
    I also wrote in Blood Feud that Hillary knowingly lied when she said that the attack on America’s diplomatic compound in Benghazi was in response to an inflammatory video posted on the Internet. Hillary’s false statement about the video was proof she was willing to go to any length to prevent Benghazi from becoming a political embarrassment to the White House and the State Department.
    Confirmation of what I reported came in May 2015—a year after Blood Feud was published—when the State Department released nearly nine hundred pages of Hillary’s e-mails.
    Among other things, the e-mails proved that Hillary’s top aides had in fact warned her about the dangerous security conditions in Benghazi. A year and a half before the attack, Huma Abedin sent Hillary an e-mail noting that Ambassador Christopher Stevens, who would lose his life in the attack, was scheduled to meet the Libyan foreign minister to make “a written request for better security at the hotel [in Benghazi] and for better security-related coordination.” And Elizabeth Dibble, the deputy secretary in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, e-mailed Hillary that “State of Embassy Tripoli facility: . . . the facility is not salvageable—the