The Russian news outlet RT has published four emails that it says were sent to it by hacker Guccifer; supposedly, these are email from a former White House aide Sidney Blumenthal to then Secretary of State Clinton last fall. I just wonder if they are real.
The first email is dated September 12, 2012, the day after the attacks on the embassy in Benghazi Libya. According to the email, the new president of Libya met on the afternoon of September 11th in private with senior advisers to discuss the attacks by demonstrators on the U.S. missions in Benghazi and Tripoli. The email goes on to describe the content of that meeting and all sorts of other information in great detail. The problem, of course, is that the attacks on the Benghazi mission did not start until nightfall on September 11th, so there is no way that meetings could be held about the attack on the afternoon of the 11th unless the Libyan president had prior warning that the attacks were coming. The email does not indicate anything even close to a prior warning. So the email must be wrong.
What does it mean when the email gets the date wrong. Supposedly, Blumenthal wrote all of this on September 12th. There is no way that misunderstood the dates. Maybe he just had a typo in his email. Or, maybe someone else wrote this many months later and overlooked this detail. There is no way to know.
The strange thing here, of course, is why it is that only RT has released any of these emails. We have been told that all of the major US media has received copies of these documents. Why is it that only the Russians have released them? Are the American media companies just protecting their political favorites? Has the government stopped the release somehow? Is there something that indicates that the email are forgeries?
There is much more to this story than we now know. Hopefully, someone will have the courage to write the entire story.
The first email is dated September 12, 2012, the day after the attacks on the embassy in Benghazi Libya. According to the email, the new president of Libya met on the afternoon of September 11th in private with senior advisers to discuss the attacks by demonstrators on the U.S. missions in Benghazi and Tripoli. The email goes on to describe the content of that meeting and all sorts of other information in great detail. The problem, of course, is that the attacks on the Benghazi mission did not start until nightfall on September 11th, so there is no way that meetings could be held about the attack on the afternoon of the 11th unless the Libyan president had prior warning that the attacks were coming. The email does not indicate anything even close to a prior warning. So the email must be wrong.
What does it mean when the email gets the date wrong. Supposedly, Blumenthal wrote all of this on September 12th. There is no way that misunderstood the dates. Maybe he just had a typo in his email. Or, maybe someone else wrote this many months later and overlooked this detail. There is no way to know.
The strange thing here, of course, is why it is that only RT has released any of these emails. We have been told that all of the major US media has received copies of these documents. Why is it that only the Russians have released them? Are the American media companies just protecting their political favorites? Has the government stopped the release somehow? Is there something that indicates that the email are forgeries?
There is much more to this story than we now know. Hopefully, someone will have the courage to write the entire story.
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