Blumenthal’s involvement adds another layer. Team Clinton wasn’t just paying Steele to dig up dirt, it was providing dirt to Steele, via Hillary’s friend Blumenthal and, if I read the Grassley-Graham referral correctly, an unnamed official in the Obama State Department.The Clintons ... endlessly entertaining in a horrifying way. The drip, drip, drip of revelations is truly reminiscent of Watergate, for those old enough to remember.
I’m interested in knowing who Blumenthal’s “foreign source” was. A Russian, perhaps? Regardless, it now appears that Team Clinton didn’t just pay for the dossier, it helped manufacture it.
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
And Yet Another Shoe
Paul Mirengoff of Power Line reports an additional wrinkle in the Steele dossier’s provenance. He notes the role of long-time Clinton crony Sid Blumenthal (aka “Sid Vicious”).