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• Hillary Clinton’s longtime adviser Sidney Blumenthal testified behind closed doors Tuesday before the House special Benghazi committee that dozens of memos he sent her when she was SecState were written by longtime high-ranking CIA official Tyler Drumheller, according to a person with knowledge of his testimony
• Drumheller was part of a group of former American intel and military officials seeking to do business in Libya as the govt of Col Muammar Qaddafi fell in 2911 and was replaced by a coalition of rebel forces (which has since fallen apart)
• Committee chair Rep Trey Gowdy (R-SC) on Tuesday cast doubt on the reliability of the info in the memos, saying it hadn’t been vetted. The memos, which Clinton circulated widely, stand in stark contrast to the intel reports prepared for senior American officials through a rigorous interagency process
• Drumheller, a career clandestine CIA officer, gained notice for his public accusations that the Bush admin ignored warnings from spies that the WH was overstating claims about Iraq’s chemical and biological weapons program before the Iraq invasion in 2003 (hmmm – got that one right)
• In particular, Drumheller said that he’d tried unsuccessfully to get assertions that Saddam Hussein had developed mobile biological weapons labs removed from SecState Colin Powell’s speech to the UN in Jan 2003. The claims about the biological labs were shown to be lies from an Iraqi defector, code named Curveball (right again, Tyler)
Issa Crashed Benghazi Hearing (NYT, Politico, me)
• In high drama Tuesday, Gowdy argued with Rep Darrell Issa (R-Calif) ,who crashed the hearing, telling Issa he couldn’t come into the room because he wasn’t a member of the committee. Issa then stormed off (Vine!) and threw a soda can. Issa used to chair the House Oversight Committee and was totally Benghazi-obsessed (we miss the arson-friendly, car alarm mogul)
• Reading from a script after huddling with his lawyer following the deposition, Blumenthal blasted the committee for hauling him in: “It seems obvious that my appearance before this committee was for one reason and one reason only … politics,” he said, accusing the panel of “spen
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