The unbelievable stupidity of the House Benghazi probe rolls on. Look upon it with weariness and disgust, all ye who can bear to even read one more blog post about it: Benghazi Committee Chair Trey Gowdy
plans to subpoena former Clinton aide and longtime Clinton friend Sidney Blumenthal for a private interview on memos about Libya he sent to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Blumenthal, not having gotten a job at the State Department, was consulting for various organizations including the Clinton Foundation, Media Matters, and American Bridge, and also for some people who hoped to get contracts with the Libyan government. He sent Hillary Clinton memos with his thoughts on Libya, she sent them along to others in the State Department who, according to the New York Times, mostly dismissed them as flawed and unreliable, and this is being added to the potential scandal list because:
Mr. Gowdy’s committee on the attacks in Benghazi hopes to ask Mr. Blumenthal who, if anyone, was paying him to prepare the memos for Mrs. Clinton and whether they were among his responsibilities at the Clinton Foundation. The committee’s investigators are also interested in whether the planned business venture in Libya posed any potential conflicts for Mr. Blumenthal or Mrs. Clinton, whose aides the business partners sought meetings with in early 2012.
In other words, the hope is to whip up talk about how Blumenthal was doing work for the Clinton Foundation and some businessmen during the same general time period and create confusion about those things, while implying that there's something wrong with the people Blumenthal was working with on Libya having sought—but not necessarily gotten—meetings with State Department staff. Because every maybe-might-have-could-it-be of the Clintons' lives is Serious News Worthy of Investigation as long as Republicans have the House.