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Report: Hacker Distributes Confidential Memos Sent to Hillary Clinton on Benghazi Attack, Libya

Mar. 18, 2013 10:30pm Jason Howerton

WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 23: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testifies before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill January 23, 2013 in Washington, DC. Lawmakers questioned Clinton about the security failures during the September 11 attacks against the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, that led to the death of four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens. Credit: Getty Images

A hacker, known only as “Guccifer,” has reportedly distributed confidential memos that were sent to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and dealt with various developments in Libya, including the Benghazi terrorist attack. The hacker has apparently sent four of the recent memos to congressional aides, politicians and journalists across the globe, the Smoking Gun reports.

It was over the weekend that the hacker reportedly distributed the memos, which were sent to Clinton by one of her longtime confidants and former White House aide, Sidney Blumenthal. His AOL email account was hacked last week. One memo, sent to Clinton on Sept. 12, was labeled “Confidential.”

The Smoking Gun has more details:

The hacker’s e-mails went to hundreds of recipients, though the distribution lists were dotted with addresses for aides to Senate and House members who are no longer in office. But many of the addresses to which the Blumenthal memos were sent are good (though it is unclear whether karl@rove.com is a solid address for the Republican mastermind).

Most of the e-mail recipients were sent four separate memos that were e-mailed to Clinton by Blumenthal during the past five months. Each memo dealt with assorted developments in Libya, including the September 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi. One memo marked “Confidential” was sent to Clinton on September 12.

As TSG reported last week, after Blumenthal’s e-mail account was compromised, the hacker searched it for e-mails sent to Clinton, and further sorted the mail to segregate any attachment–like Word files–that were included in Blumenthal’s correspondence to Clinton. Many of these pilfered documents were memos to Clinton on foreign policy and intelligence matters.

In another stunning twist, the emails disseminated by “Guccifer” over the weekend appear to have been sent from the hacked AOL account of an unidentified Hollywood actor’s wife. The hacker has apparently has used similar tactics in the past to shield his or her identity.

What exactly is revealed in the confidential memos remains a mystery. The Smoking Gun did not divulge any of the information included in the correspondence, however, the site did provide a screengrab of one of the hacked emails:

(The Smoking Gun)

Additionally, authorities don’t know where “Guccifer” is currently located. While several of the IP addresses associated with the hacker have reportedly been traced to the Russian Federation, it could be a dead end as hackers regularly hide their tracks using proxies, IP spoofing and various identity-concealing software.

The hacker “did show some familiarity with the Russian media in Saturday’s e-mail blast. While the majority of the journalists to whom he sent the Blumenthal memos are based in the U.S., ‘Guccifer’ also sent the documents (in a separate e-mail) to about two dozen reporters working for Russian outlets like Pravda, the Moscow Times, The St. Petersburg Times, and the RT news channel,” according to the Smoking Gun.

(H/T: Drudge)

Featured image via AFP/Getty

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Comments (329)

Frederick_Douglass_Republican
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 7:12am
SHOW US THE EMAILS OR SHUT UP.
I couldn’t care less about the details of how they came out or which email accounts were used to distribute them.
The truth is the emails could show that the the old Red Hag planned the g-d attack herself because the ambassador turned down a bj at a cocktail party and the thoroughly corrupt news media would bury the story…….oh, and the Oweblamer voters wouldn’t care either. Worshiping their black wealth redistributing savior is all that matters to them. He could nuke Israel himself and the pos would still be voted back in for a third term. And he will be regardless.

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Whatmeworry-never
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 6:58am
Lets see the memos and see how they lie to us. I want to see the videos too, I thought BO was gonna be transparent. Seems more like he is a transgender instead.

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critterbait
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 6:53am
Sometimes if your looking for truth and trying to find out what’s comming down the pike next,you will have to get in the ditch with the one trying to put you there…It’s not pretty, it get’s messy and yes you may even get hurt.But if you go with God and keep him by your side,you have something to hold you fast and kept’s your faith unshakable.
Starting anything without God YOUR DONE BEFORE YOU START …

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Noah_fing-whey
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 6:45am
I wonder if she’s shrieking, “What difference does it make?”

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tcon67
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 6:32am
The timing of this is a more than just a little questionable, just a day after survivors starts speaking up about what happens. I will bet the emails reveal how Hillary done all she could to save the people in Bengahzi. This all stinks of inside job.

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- BehindBlueEyes
  Posted on March 19, 2013 at 7:01am
  @TCON67
  It could very well be a ruse. I wouldn’t surprise me in the least. We are dealing with commies.
  
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BehindBlueEyes
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 6:23am
This will give the anointed one ammo for pulling the internet switch.

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RecoveringRepublican
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 6:20am
Hackers are the new Journalist. You’re Welcome.

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JTX
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 5:54am
OK so what the hell did the EMAIL say?????????????????

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joel g
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 5:51am
That was a real waste of time to read.

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TrustRandPaul.com
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 4:30am
If these “hacked” emails absolve Clinton from any wrongdoing, I can’t say I’ll be surprised. I smell a staged leak and a Brian Williams special.

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ihasa
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 4:27am
Hurray for hackers and Bradley Manning!

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betterpart
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 3:23am
Wonder if one of those memos concerned the Clinton woman’s long-time homosexual affair during college. No wonder she’s so pro-perversion, as stated recently. That little tidbit will self-expose if the hag runs for the presidency.

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Kiba
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 2:45am
Add your comments

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Kiba
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 2:44am
I doubt they say anything real secret or important, if they did it would be a little more hidden than just “To Hillary from Me” But she need not worry because if there is something incriminating in them ‘what does it matter now’ right Hill..?

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eramthgin
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 2:21am
Anyone notice something in the pic? Don’t think that is her wedding ring. Just saying.

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eramthgin
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 2:17am
Nothing is as fleeting as a secret. Three people can keep a secret if you kill two of them.

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- Kiba
  Posted on March 19, 2013 at 2:44am
  Good one.
  
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NUTN2SAY
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 1:43am
Protons are always at the central nucleus of an atomic structure. Thus protons are at the center of all life. Electricity is about opposing forces. That’s the life of a man and wife! It takes a man and wife to produce new life! Man and wife dependently create the ideal independent new life!! It’ a heterosexual life!

It’s long past due that mature positive thinking human We The People adults demand the much needed and long over due investigation to all public display of human sex acts to America’s Posterity! Everybody is out of whack and it’s time for the remaining We The People of today to demand a reality check! It’s We The People’s United States of America Constitutional Right! America is in much need of a reality check!

We The People …We Need To Talk!

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- eramthgin
  Posted on March 19, 2013 at 2:19am
  yes yes yes protons big whoop even huge protons are made of pieces.
  
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BookMDanno
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 1:41am
I know it’s beneath us, but the Right should adopt the Left’s strategies: offer, say, a $500,000 bonus for survivors or operatives to come forward with the truth. Also, get some movie guy–our version of Michael Moore–to create a wild-eyed conspiracy movie putting Obama in a horrible light. Whether anything in the movie is true would be immaterial, of course.

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KOseekingtruth
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 1:36am
So does anyone know what was said in the emails?

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TRILO
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 1:27am
Too bad we have to rely on law breakers to find out about criminals and corruption. Once again, proof our world is turned inside out.

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SilentReader
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 1:23am
So, where’s the content of the emails?!

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Case_Logic
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 1:20am
No substance yet! What good is the threat if the e-mails are only sent to her liberal left wing friends who could care less and cover for her just the same.

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therapist
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 1:10am
It would be nice to be able to read the article if the STUPID TEA ADVERTISEMENT wasn’t covering half of the text!!!

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Chancellor
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 12:58am
So if these e-mail {which we have yet to see or hear from} rat her out as being totally in the wrong.

Do the families of those killed there have the right to have her arrested? Sue? Bash her brains out in the middle of the night/day on national TV so we all can watch………and grade?

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GADSDENFOREVER
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 12:57am
whoever thought she would be better than obummer, better exhale!

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