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Anonymous ID: 3024f6 Feb. 13, 2021, 11:47 a.m. No.12915243   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5311 >>5528 >>5655 >>5733 >>5848 >>5891

KRISTINA WONG 29 Jul 2020

 

House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-OH) on Wednesday, during a contentious exchange at a hearing, asked fellow committee member Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) why his wife, a former Treasury Department official, unmasked Michael Flynn.

 

Jordan had just finished questioning Google CEO Sundar Pichai over the search engine’s bias against conservatives and whether he would commit to not interfering in the upcoming election to help Joe Biden.

 

After Jordan finished his questioning, Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA) called his concerns “fringe conspiracy theories.”

 

Jordan responded, “We have the email, there is no fringe conspiracy,” in reference to an email by a Google employee discussing steps they had taken to boost Latino voter turnout in “key states” in 2016.

 

Subcommittee Chairman David Cicilline (D-RI) then began scolding Jordan for interrupting during Scanlon’s time to speak. Raskin then yelled to Jordan, “Put your mask on.”

 

Jordan fired back: “Mr. Raskin, you want to talk about masks? Why would the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury unmask Michael Flynn’s name?”

 

Jordan was referring to Raskin’s wife, Sarah Bloom Raskin, who was one of the Obama appointees who requested the unmasking of Flynn, who was the incoming national security adviser at the time.

 

WATCH:

 

Jordan to Raskin:

 

"Mr. Raskin, you want to talk about masks? Why would the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury unmask Michael Flynn's name?"

 

The Deputy Secretary of the Treasury who unmasked Flynn was Raskin's wife, Sarah Raskin…pic.twitter.com/ncvjGHU4Ha

 

— Henry Rodgers (@henryrodgersdc) July 29, 2020

 

Raskin’s wife’s name was on a list of people released by Republicans in May who had requested the unmasking of Flynn dozens of times between the 2016 election and Trump’s inauguration.

 

Also on the list of unmaskers: 2020 Democrat presidential nominee former Vice President Joe Biden, former FBI Director James Comey, former CIA Director John Brennan, former DNI James Clapper, former U.N. ambassador Samantha Power, former Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, and former White House chief of staff Denis McDonough.

 

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/29/jim-jordan-asks-rep-jamie-raskin-why-his-wife-unmasked-michael-flynn/

Anonymous ID: 3024f6 Feb. 13, 2021, 12:41 p.m. No.12915889   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5913

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Max Blumenthal

Sidney Blumenthal's son

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Blumenthal#Personal_life

 

Promotion of Obama "birtherism" conspiracy theories

 

Further information: Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories

During the 2008 presidential primaries, Blumenthal, then informally working for Hillary Clinton, promulgated rumors and encouraged news organizations to investigate conspiracy theories that Barack Obama was born in Kenya, not the United States, and thus was not constitutionally eligible to serve as President per the natural-born-citizen clause. This conspiracy theory was more widely known as birtherism. A former Washington bureau chief for McClatchy Newspapers, James Asher, said in a formal statement in the fall of 2016 that Blumenthal had strongly encouraged him "to investigate the exact place of President Obama's birth, which he suggested was in Kenya. We assigned a reporter to go to Kenya, and that reporter determined that the allegation was false". Blumenthal denied the allegations and claimed, without evidence, that Asher favored Donald Trump's candidacy. The Clinton campaign denied knowledge that Blumenthal or any other campaign aides promoted birtherism conspiracy theories. No evidence has since surfaced contradicting the campaign's denials that it knew anything as to what Blumenthal had been doing.[29][30]

 

Clinton Foundation work

Blumenthal was a full-time employee of the Clinton Foundation from 2009 until 2013 and then served as a consultant for the foundation from 2013 until 2015, earning for him about $10,000 per month, or more than a half million dollars total. Blumenthal's foundation job, which "focused" on burnishing "the legacy of Clinton's presidency" was viewed by some "officials at the charity [who] questioned his value and grumbled that his hiring was a favor from the Clintons," Politico reported. During much of the same time was consulting for the foundation, Blumenthal also wrote for numerous magazines and online publications, sometimes about both of the Clintons, without disclosing his financial relationship with the foundation.[31][32] Critics charge that Blumenthal's work at the foundation was inappropriately politically motivated and that during his time at the foundation, he blurred the lines between the foundation and Secretary Clinton's role as Secretary of State.[33][34]

 

During the 2011 uprising in Libya against Muammar Gaddafi, Blumenthal prepared, from public and other sources, about 25 memos which he sent as emails to Clinton in 2011 and 2012, which she shared through her aide, Jake Sullivan, with senior State Department personnel. In the form of intelligence briefings, the memos sometimes touted his business associates and, at times contained inaccurate information.[35][36]

 

The United States House Select Committee on Benghazi, chaired by Representative Trey Gowdy, Republican of South Carolina, subpoenaed Blumenthal in May 2015.[37][38] Blumenthal gave testimony in a closed-door session the following month.[39]

 

Blumenthal's name came up numerous times during the October 22, 2015 full committee public questioning of Hillary Clinton regarding the Benghazi incident, as one of the alleged sources of Clinton's intelligence. During this hearing Democratic members asked that Blumenthal's deposition transcript be made public so that comments regarding his involvement could be placed in context. The motion was defeated by a party-line vote.[40]

 

Blumenthal later[when?] served as a consultant to the left-leaning watchdog group Media Matters for America, the pro-Democratic Super PAC American Bridge 21st Century and the pro-Clinton Super PAC Correct the Record, for which he is reportedly paid $200,000 per year, for part-time work.[41]