Will Hillary Clinton Get Favored Treatment?

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From: H hrod17@clintonemail.com [one of two email accounts that Clinton used]

To: sbwhoeop

Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 10:14 AM [replying to Blumenthal less than an hour later]

Subject: Re: "H: FYI, an unfortunate incident."

"Sid I appreciate your sending thgis (sic) to me. Neither State nor my staff had anything to do w this. The man stood up just as I was starting and GW -- which claims their quick actions were part of their standard operating procedures to remove anyone who stands up and starts speaking while an invited guest is talking -- moved to remove him. GW claims he was not in any way injured. We have no other info but I will see what else can be done."

In this brief email, Secretary Clinton takes two misleading tacks. Though she had first-hand knowledge that I had not been "speaking" -- since she was there -- she suggests otherwise while not actually saying so. She just strongly implies that I was "speaking."

Not only was she an eyewitness, numerous videos on the Internet in the days prior showed that I did not say a word until the security people had me in a headlock and almost out the door and into the street. Lawyers like Hillary Clinton apparently parse words -- even on minor matters, and even in emails that they hope will never see the light of day. (And what, by the way, is the meaning of "is?")

Similarly, Secretary Clinton attributes to GWU the claim that I "was not in any way injured." Case closed. ... except for the photos sent around on the Web a few days earlier.

So, as you might guess, there was no apology from the Secretary of State or a statement that perhaps the "unfortunate incident" with McGovern had unfortunately stepped on her passionate and surely heartfelt denunciation of Iran for not respecting the right of dissidents to protest their government's policies.

Targeting Gaddafi

But the incident with me was minor compared to what Secretary Clinton was then cooking up for Libya, where she was outraged that Col. Muammar Gaddafi was citing the need to root out Islamic terrorists operating around Benghazi. Dismissing Gaddafi's claims, Clinton and her State Department preferred to denounce Gaddafi's domestic "war on terror" as a "genocidal" attack on innocent dissenters in eastern Libya.

Again, Clinton was communicating with her outside adviser Blumenthal about how to rile the world up enough against Gaddafi to push a "no-fly zone" through the United Nations Security Council.

Secretary Clinton's private emails also contradict her testimony before the House Benghazi Committee that Blumenthal "was not at all my adviser on Libya," although I guess it depends on what your definition of "adviser" is. The emails show that she actually took immediate proactive steps to follow up on his advice, as can be seen in the following:

From: sbwhoeop [Sidney Blumenthal]

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